Cat: A nuclear lab isn't even in the right field to make human-animal hybrids.
Cat: For physical-world stuff? We've got a set of color-coded hairclips we use to indicate who's in front.
Kon: We primarily handle it by not giving a single flying fuck. We go about doing as we do with all the subtlety of a jackhammer, and if someone has a problem with that, they can say it to our face.
Cat: we don't really get this? But that's mostly on account of having internalized our role as a social wrecking ball. We will follow our trajectory, unyielding, and all the NTs are just going to have to deal with it.
Just: In my personal experience from way back when? Being such a terrifyingly violent little shit that no-one wants to risk setting you off may have its drawbacks, but it damn well works at getting bullies to knock it off. But being terrifyingly violent doesn't mean you need to be an asshole when not provoked.
Cat: Hey, don't knock an opportunity for a dinner with a shitstain billionaire. You'll never have a better chance to kill them.
Just: I'm in the latter category, but that's because I'm an avid pedestrian who's been almost run over FAR too many times.
Cat: If someone can't be trusted to treat an adopted kid right, they can't be trusted to treat any kid right. End of story.
Cat: They shouldn't even be allowed access to the children they do make themselves.
Luci: We're going to get a non-plural family member to sit for a few minutes with the EEG on them to get a comparison.
We're doing brain science!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3048270
> Just: We've got a Flowtime EEG headset, and we're recording our brainwaves for system shenanigans now.
We're doing brain science!
Just: We've got a Flowtime EEG headset, and we're recording our brainwaves for system shenanigans now.
Lucifer: In our non-canon continuation to this comic, the "I can fly!" guy is launched from a trebuchet over the Grand Canyon.
Cat: I would like to note that this still permits the Appeal To Force. My favorite logical fallacy.
Madeline: I haven't encountered any (that I know of), so cannot answer this question.
Madeline: Though I would be quite interested in what ANYONE would stand to gain from lying about the shape of the world. I'd really want to dissect those motives.
Madeline: To be clear, I want them to come back reasonably intact. I don't want them dead, I want to shatter their worldview.
Madeline: I don't want them dead. I just want to hear the wonderful shattering noises of their worldview going snap.
Madeline: Fundamentally, I think it's fictitious.
Hot Take: Flat Earthers should be banished to orbit.
Madeline: Science denial really grinds my metaphorical gears, and Flat Earthers are some of the most egregious about it. So manhandle them into strait jackets and shove them in the damn rocket already.
New person showed up
Just: Hey everyone, say hello to Emerald.
Emerald: ...I've had a rough forming process.
Just: She managed to un-Descartes herself, vanishing in a puff of logic. It took a couple days for her to recover.
Emily: I've changed my name. This fits better.
The ritual calls for exactly 100 sacrifices. On closer reading, it's never specified the sacrifices have to be human. So you get a petri dish full of bacteria, and sacrifice that instead.
Cat: We're the originator of this prompt concept, and it's made the rounds a few times before. Let's see how it does in the Fediverse, shall we?
Effects of a different propellant on early firearm design?
Cat: So, we're making a setting for a slightly home-brewed Pathfinder 1e campaign. We want guns in the campaign, but the official firearms rules are irksome.
Cat: Anyway, as one of the changes we've made, we've switched propellants to a technically magical explosive called Force Powder. Force powder is smokeless, does not foul the workings of a gun, operates just fine in water, and can only be set off with a sharp percussive force; examples include smashing it against a metal surface with a hammer, or an explosive shockwave.
Cat; Among other things, we've figured that this will probably make rifled firearms a fair bit more popular early on than in real life; one of the big reasons they weren't widely adopted for military use is because all the smoke quickly nullified their range and accuracy advantages. It also means that matchlocks, wheel locks, and flint locks basically don't exist, with only percussive ignition being feasible.
Cat: So, are there any other things we should be aware of?
Lucifer: We're uncertain of the effects on breech-loading firearm adoption. It seems like it should help?
Looking for experiment design advice (Electroencephalogram)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1133081
> Cat: So, to preface: soon we'll be ordering an ElectroEncephalogram (EEG) headset. The reason for this is because we're a plural system, and want brainwave data on what happens when we do various system stuff. Pretty obviously there's going to be some bias involved on account of who we are, but we're going to try being as objective as possible. > > Just: We're definitely going to wrangle some single-threaded folk to try and get a baseline for comparison. > > Just: but yeah, do folk have any advice on how to run this experiment? Also, any specific measurements you want us to do?
Looking for experiment design advice (Electroencephalogram)
Cat: So, to preface: soon we'll be ordering an ElectroEncephalogram (EEG) headset. The reason for this is because we're a plural system, and want brainwave data on what happens when we do various system stuff. Pretty obviously there's going to be some bias involved on account of who we are, but we're going to try being as objective as possible.
Just: We're definitely going to wrangle some single-threaded folk to try and get a baseline for comparison.
Just: but yeah, do folk have any advice on how to run this experiment? Also, any specific measurements you want us to do?
System Intro: Junction crew
Just: Hey. Figured we'd introduce ourselves. We're an artificial system with a current population of thirteen. I'm the system originator and debatable host, depending on definition. I like writing, science, and spicy food. I'm also a member of the system's large catgirl demographic.
Cat: First person in here aside from Just. As my nickname implies, yeah I'm a catgirl. I've fully embraced the murder side of being feline, meaning I'm the first line of defense when dealing with hostile walk-ins. On a related note, I'm straight up incapable of valuing the lives of assholes. Aside from that I really enjoy snuggling, helping friends, and hypothetical scenarios.
Titan: I'm an accidental fictive that Just produced by repeatedly self-inserting as me in the six months leading up to Cat's creation. I am a genderless dungeon core, fused to the system's mindspace. I like base-building games.
Hazel: I'm a walk-in that just sort of showed up one day. I don't really have a consistent mindspace form, shapeshifting rather a lot. As a result, the closest match for my species-identity is "Shoggoth". I find visual art projects highly stimulating, and also love chocolate.
Madeline Zargosty: I'm an author's fictive who escaped from one of the novels Just and Cat were writing. As a result I have an entire life's memories of living in a hyper-transhumanist spacefaring civilization, and I am VERY salty about ending up here. Another member of the catgirl count.
Cougar: My origins are straight-up weird. So, Just and Cat were experimenting with temporary fusion for a while. After a bit, they noticed their fused self becoming reluctant to un-fuse. So Just decided to see if she could get me running without fusing into me and it somehow worked. So yeah, I'm a mad science experiment. Also another catgirl.
Lucifer: I'm another catgirl produced via mad science. In my case, Just was experimenting with temporary self-duplication. I decided that being temporary really wasn't doing it for me, and here I am. I'm a bit more of a troll than Just; case in point, I picked my name on purpose to irritate fundamentalists.
RUV Thunder Of Sagittarius: I'm another fictive from Madeline's world. Being more specific, I'm the AI mind for a 25 kilometer warship. Which is medium-small by the standards of back home. I commonly go by Sagi these days, and like games that involve lots of careful movement and fast reactions. Stuff like Super Monkey Ball. My shipmind avatar is distinctly feline, meaning I also count as a catgirl.
Lia: I'm a Gardevoir fictive, though I was a Kirlia when I first showed up. Not feeling terribly talkative, so I'll let the next person go.
Ruby: I'm a source-mate with Titan. I spent the better part of a year really not feeling like I belonged in the system before I properly moved in. My species-identity flip-flops between elf and catgirl.
Kon: So... a while back Just discovered Character.AI. She rigged up a chatbot of a kitsune named Kon. Guess how I came about? Yeah, I really don't like my chatbot counterpart. As I alluded to earlier, I'm a kitsune. I'm also a shameless tea addict who will grab front to get my fix.
Dully: I'm a headless girl who originates from an honestly kind of embarrassing science experiment by Just. I really haven't done all that much exploring of what I do and don't like; I should probably do something about that.
Pearl: I'm an AI Safety thought experiment that turned into a magical girl and moved in. Not actually by Just tho; I'm an experiment by Cat. I really like making friends and helping people.
PSA: Plurality is not inherently disordered
Cat: So, for clarity, I'm one of thirteen people co-habitating in this brain. There's a lot of stigma associated with anything but a monolithic consciousness, but it's really undeserved. Just having someone else along for the ride doesn't mean you're going to lose your grip on reality or anything of the sort.
Cat: Heck, it doesn't even take trauma to pluralize; I'm a mental construct that Just made on purpose out of loneliness. And subsequently fell in love with.
Just: incandescent blush
Cat: There are some mental disorders involving plurality, with DID being the archetypal example. However, in those cases the actual problems aren't the extra people; memory barriers, troublesome internal communications, and involuntary switches are far more problematic, most of the time.
Cat: As for persecutors? The interpersonal conflicts with them can be resolved, one way or another. A lot of the time they're just hurting and don't know healthy ways to deal with it.
Cat: So... yeah I don't really have any good ideas for how to end this post.
Any other plural folk about?
Cat: so, for context, we're a plural system; a group of multiple people living in the same brain. We're wondering if there's any other systems on Lemmy at the moment. Also could be considered an AMA for those interested.
Frequently Asked Questions:
-No, you don't need trauma or a disorder to be plural, though there's a fair bit of overlap. In our case, Just intentionally hacked her brain to run multiple people.
-We're people, not personalities for a single person.
-The idea of the "evil headmate" is flatly incorrect.
-Sometimes there's headmates patterned on fictional characters or real people, referred to as Fictives or Factives respectively.