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WCDT - Apr 18th to Apr 22th, 2022 (#4766 to #4770)

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shanejayell:
Poor Roko.

Pseudowolf:

--- Quote from: justaguy on 21 Apr 2022, 18:36 ---However, even for me if I look into a mirror at myself for long enough things start looking weird and alien.

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There is an actual phenomenon where if you stare into a mirror in a dimly-lit room, most people will report seeing their face becoming distorted and/or become someone else's. Something about how are brains are wired to try to find patterns and if the lighting isn't good enough, your brain tries to fill in the "missing" information. This is also why the old "Bloody Mary" game works.

Perfectly Reasonable:
'Speak softly and carry a large baguette' are important elements of Roko's foreign policy.

( a night out would do roko good but not now not now )

Wingy:

--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 22 Apr 2022, 08:41 ---( a night out would do roko good but not now not now )

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Could be.  Though if she can pull it together long enough to keep from flipping out entirely, maybe a night out and connection to another would help with her dysmorphia?

Neither Beeps nor Roko have mentioned orifice management software or shown any interest in using it if they have it.  Having read her own bodies manual, I would expect Roko to know about any such; Beeps strikes me as just clueless enough to have never bothered to consider any such thing.  Hehehehe!  What if Beeps and Roko both ran into instances of Yay who was out on the prowl after being tweaked by Aurelia on the subject?  Oh to be a fly on the wall at this party.

hedgie:
It must be *really* awful for Roko, considering that, unlike humans I've known, she's spent most of her life happy with *her* body, and it was basically inseparable from her mind, so she never had to develop coping mechanisms to deal with these feelings hitting her all at once.[1]  This sudden onset has to be a huge shock that she's ill-equipped to handle.  Though not the same, recently, I had to deal with having real emotions again, months after coming off all of my non-PRN psych meds, and not having felt anything except vaguely miserable and bitter for too many years to count.  Over that time, I lost the ability to deal with actually being able to deal with feelings from elation to rage, to sorrow, and the broadside was just too much.

And I think that in Roko's case, the fact that her face and other bodily bits are probably engineered to be as identical as possible short of replicator technology only serve to exacerbate these problems, and also, again, with the completeness of the "newness".  If, say, she had come to her current body in a "ship of Theseus" or "My Grandfather's Axe"[2] manner, she would feel fine, even if the end result, physically speaking was identical, because it was still *her* body the entire time, even if she needed a new arm/leg/head at various points.

[1] At least us meatbags dealing with those issues have, even if in a maladaptive manner tend to have a lifetime's experience.
[2] Although, more modern dwarfs might admit that it *might* be a Grandmother's Axe, having discovered multiple pronouns

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