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WCDT December 15-19, 2014 (2855-2859)
osaka:
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Dec 2014, 00:08 ---
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 14 Dec 2014, 23:39 ---Maybe really did encounter a Great Old One that day.
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It would explain a lot. She climbed the Mountains of Madness.
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She stared at Cthulhu. And he only wanted some milk and cookies.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Dec 2014, 23:57 ---She is one of those powerful but vulnerable minds that could be misused by the unscrupulous. I think, eventually, she'll be imprisoned on the space-station to protect her from misuse.
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Yeah, a lot of people in straitjackets think they are geniuses.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 15 Dec 2014, 00:59 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Dec 2014, 23:57 ---She is one of those powerful but vulnerable minds that could be misused by the unscrupulous. I think, eventually, she'll be imprisoned on the space-station to protect her from misuse.
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Yeah, a lot of people in straitjackets think they are geniuses.
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That's the point, I think: Emily doesn't think she's a genius. She knows that she doesn't really fit into most people's definitions of 'normal'. However, writing computer programs that casually shred the most advanced security systems on Earth so that spy satellites can be on Facebook is just something that comes to her intuitively. It's no more noteworthy to her than talking or writing is to someone else.
brown paper bag:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Dec 2014, 01:02 ---Emily doesn't think she's a genius. She knows that she doesn't really fit into most people's definitions of 'normal'. However, writing computer programs that casually shred the most advanced security systems on Earth so that spy satellites can be on Facebook is just something that comes to her intuitively. It's no more noteworthy to her than talking or writing is to someone else.
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Or, if we go about this by applying the standards of reality rather than fiction to Emily, she might be out of her goddamn mind and hallucinating that she wrote that program and not a text file full of nonsense.
If her behavior is fleshed out as a manifestation of a real mental imbalance, that would be good character development. If it's just quirky old Emily who can smell music and write world-destroying software with no real emotional depth or reality attached to what she does, then it's flanderization.
Natswash:
If she hallucinated it and wrote a text file of nonsense, why did the Govt. EMP her computer from orbit?
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