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[cactusy]

Where I'm from it's all fiction, remember?

[ichoosefight]

Where I'm from it's all widely accepted fact. It's hard for me to figure out what's strange for you.

[ ... ]

It's also weird that you don't seem to think hyper-realistic simulation technology is strange. Like, I know how that works, and I still think it's strange.

[cactusy]

I thought it was impossible too until I experienced it. No, wait, I guess--

[She pauses again, for a much shorter period this time, and when she speaks again the frown is audible in her voice.]

I knew about computers running situational simulations in theory. I didn't know people could have their consciousnesses put into them.

[ichoosefight]

See? That's weird. By normal-rando-living-in-Oklahoma standards, that's weirder than cryostasis. Cryostasis is much closer to being available to the general public.

[cactusy]

"Cryostasis" as a concept exists to part gullible rich idiots from their money.

[ichoosefight]

You don't need government clearance to freeze your wife. If you have just the basic equipment you'd need to even think about a full immersion simulation, I guarantee you you're on a dozen watch-lists.

[cactusy]

-- Okay, you know the idea of cryogenics is more than just sticking someone in a walk-in freezer, right?

[ichoosefight]

I'll be really impressed if that's stopped people in your world from trying anyway.

[cactusy]

Sure, maybe a loony with an industrial meat locker and too much time on his hands who ends up on national news when the cops raid his place, but--

-- This is getting off-topic, too.

[ichoosefight]

I'm not sure what "on-topic" is at this point, you asking the questions.

[cactusy]

If the multiverse is real and we're -- somewhere else, how do you suggest we handle it.

[ichoosefight]

Carefully.

Account for every possibility, no matter how remote. Leave no openings. Plan for your enemy to be better than you, stronger than you, smarter than you. Most importantly, no loss of life is acceptable.

It's what a hero would say.

[ She really doesn't want to have the "Batman is a stupid name" conversation. ]

[cactusy]

So... nothing that's incompatible with anything I've actually said, 'cause you made up the "everybody go kill themselves" thing in your head.

[ichoosefight]

Just gonna ignore the 10,000 possibilities you wrote off out of hand, huh.

[cactusy]

Seven thousand.

I said I died seven thousand times - and change - and it stopped meaning anything after a while. That's not the same thing.

[ichoosefight]

I said "possibilities". You can't account for every possibility if you've decided you already know what's going on.

[cactusy]

You're writing off the possibility that I'm right, aren't you?

[ichoosefight]

Not at all. It's entirely possible we're inside a simulation. From what you've said it seems very unlikely that it's the same people who kidnapped you before, but it's not impossible.

[cactusy]

Are you willing to keep the possibility in mind going forward, especially given the fact that we come back to life after we die, something that isn't explained by the whole multiverse thing?

Or any of the other possibilities that I've heard so far.

[ichoosefight]

I'm not sure what made you think I wasn't.

I mean, the thing I made up about trapdoors and drugs that wipe your memory isn't impossible either. And there's still the clones thing. Robots is an option too, but it's pretty far out there.

But yeah, simulation is more likely than honest-to-goodness resurrection.

[cactusy]

Clones aren't far out there to you?

[ichoosefight]

Cloning's even easier than cryogenics, and I know it's been accomplished by human scientists.

[cactusy]

Not in the "popping a fully-grown human with the original's memories out of a vat" kinda way.

[ichoosefight]

I don't know about memories or popping, but I might know a guy.

[cactusy]

[Shaw makes an unhappy, pissed-off sound in the back of her throat.]

I can't believe I'm even entertaining this.