[I don't even remember what I did I think it was like "heat" and "city." Hilarious. WHY DOES APPLE + OCEAN MAKE APPLE PIE.]
It looks like it, though there's probably a way to access the algorithm. [And see the whole database, but where's the fun in that!] ...Why is it so hard to get to "ice"?
[ the same reason penguin + apple makes pineapple. ]
But even so it sounds like the chain can go on for a while so long as you can create the right combination. [ would he also be fine seeing the algorithm for himself to understand the rhyme and reason? sure! is he going to pick it apart? eh, maybe later. instead, he's squinting at the screen and trying a combination of water and cloud but only getting rain. ] Maybe it needs to be combined with something else cold? Like if you could make ice cream and pair it with rain.
[ the worst thing in the world is that this is now going to be a new source of fixation. ]
Hmm... I think I'd need ice to get ice cream, but maybe one of these space choices? They're the coldest things I've got on here, since I got distracted with a chain of volcano words.
[They're never going to solve any murders at this rate]
True...maybe if you get something like the moon? Or Pluto, since it's the furthest planet. [ you say that but i would believe in britt making us solve and infinite craft puzzle for her murder. ]
[ squinting...he moves to match tides with tuxedo because it makes zero sense and gets poseidon instead. ]
...we are getting further and further from ice and instead myths are real. [ what is this game. ] Think they put this on the I.R.I.S. because they knew it'd keep us busy?
[ honest to god me. anyway i hate to say this but he sees the marriage + marriage = divorce and he just. frowns and immediately tries to match it with something else to make it go away. ]
Which part, the work? Or the obvious distractions to make sure we're going to work? [ good question. ] ...if feels weird to think that they needed this many people just for some deliveries.
[ which is to say he does not believe any of this in the slightest. ]
At least Luke picks up on it; he taps the bottom of the screen to sweep away the current list, starting over with pigeon and bottle to get message, for some reason.]
Some corporations are big enough that it would make sense... Pax has about eight hundred different branches, for instance. But an organization that big wouldn't make a "mixup" like this.
[Conveniently recruiting a bunch of people who just so happen to react to cryosleep badly enough for collective amnesia? Yeah, no.]
Oh no, I get that. Earth has a lot of big corporations and stuff, too. But...yeah. I could understand recruiting that many people but not doing it and nobody remembering how this happened. That's a lot of convenient memory loss. Even more concerning is the argument that it shouldn't be a concern.
It's pretty suspicious that they can't contact the people in charge. I'm not an astronaut, but I'm pretty sure manned voyages always maintain contact with people off-ship.
[Even if this wasn't hella suspicious, it's super incompetent? Like. Bro.]
It'd be incredibly stupid not to because it's too easy for something to go wrong. [ he just. says this. ] How is anyone supposed to monitor the mission if there's no connection? It sort of makes you wonder if it's more that they just don't want to. Or they're being told they can't.
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It looks like it, though there's probably a way to access the algorithm. [And see the whole database, but where's the fun in that!] ...Why is it so hard to get to "ice"?
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But even so it sounds like the chain can go on for a while so long as you can create the right combination. [ would he also be fine seeing the algorithm for himself to understand the rhyme and reason? sure! is he going to pick it apart? eh, maybe later. instead, he's squinting at the screen and trying a combination of water and cloud but only getting rain. ] Maybe it needs to be combined with something else cold? Like if you could make ice cream and pair it with rain.
[ the worst thing in the world is that this is now going to be a new source of fixation. ]
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Hmm... I think I'd need ice to get ice cream, but maybe one of these space choices? They're the coldest things I've got on here, since I got distracted with a chain of volcano words.
[They're never going to solve any murders at this rate]
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True...maybe if you get something like the moon? Or Pluto, since it's the furthest planet. [ you say that but i would believe in britt making us solve and infinite craft puzzle for her murder. ]
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He matches moon with water and gets... tides.]
...I don't know what I expected.
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...we are getting further and further from ice and instead myths are real. [ what is this game. ] Think they put this on the I.R.I.S. because they knew it'd keep us busy?
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Probably. At least until they put us to work. [Nyeh... he pauses, glancing over at Shoma.] How do you feel about it?
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Which part, the work? Or the obvious distractions to make sure we're going to work? [ good question. ] ...if feels weird to think that they needed this many people just for some deliveries.
[ which is to say he does not believe any of this in the slightest. ]
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At least Luke picks up on it; he taps the bottom of the screen to sweep away the current list, starting over with pigeon and bottle to get message, for some reason.]
Some corporations are big enough that it would make sense... Pax has about eight hundred different branches, for instance. But an organization that big wouldn't make a "mixup" like this.
[Conveniently recruiting a bunch of people who just so happen to react to cryosleep badly enough for collective amnesia? Yeah, no.]
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carrier pigeon... ]
Oh no, I get that. Earth has a lot of big corporations and stuff, too. But...yeah. I could understand recruiting that many people but not doing it and nobody remembering how this happened. That's a lot of convenient memory loss. Even more concerning is the argument that it shouldn't be a concern.
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It's pretty suspicious that they can't contact the people in charge. I'm not an astronaut, but I'm pretty sure manned voyages always maintain contact with people off-ship.
[Even if this wasn't hella suspicious, it's super incompetent? Like. Bro.]
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[ for...some reason. ]