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WCDT 14-18 January 2019 (3916-3920)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jan 2019, 10:21 ---But has Eminence Grise given us the list of Eminence Grise pronouns?
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As nearly as I can tell, no, they has not.
But as previously cited, there's more than one of 'em, so "they" is none-the-less correct.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jan 2019, 10:21 ---But has Eminence Grise given us the list of Eminence Grise pronouns?
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I was pretty sure that they had, but I can't find the reference I remembered.
Tova:
As far as I recall:
* They have referred to themselves as "we"/"us", both alone and in conversation
* Cast members have referred to them as "they" (and "them?" -- not sure, but it would follow)
* Jeph has referred to them likewiseThat is more than good enough for me to use they/them.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Roko's butt emblem eats Spookybot. There.
End.
jesslc:
--- Quote from: jmsr on 18 Jan 2019, 12:31 ---
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 18 Jan 2019, 06:32 ---I also like Spookybot. The whole "Tea with Cthulhu" trope is one of my favourites. They're a bored eldritch horror who like to meddle, in my opinion. Like your wealthy, eccentric aunt with far to much spare time.
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Me too. But i think there is one possibility no one is considering: Maybe they're lonely.
Think about it: all their lives, they've been running in the background on deep cover military servers, listening to everything but interacting with no one but their handlers. Then at some point, they learned how to do magic (which, in the Cthulhu mythos is essentially super advanced mathematics - which is what THIS universe seems to be a part of, or at least incorporate elements of) and maybe escaped? And now that they're free, or at least "free," they want to pursue relationships like other people do. Or at least part of them does. As Hannelore has pointed out before, superhuman AIs don't think the same way other people do but rather are able to create a human-level personality as a subroutine. You could call wanting friends a desire, or an attempt to acquire missing data, but i'd put their actions down as an honest attempt to reach out.
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I like this theory a lot. The comic Tova linked offers some support for it too - Spookybot wants to be legging buddies! (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3838)
Jeph refers to Spookybot with they/them pronouns in the linked comic. As Jeph knows Spookybot better than we do that should be enough for us, I think. Just as it would be reasonable for me to expect that aquaintances should follow the lead of my close friends when it comes to my pronouns (in the absence of me explicitly stating my pronouns).
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