Tales of the Parodyverse - That might be over-sharing.

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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 at 03:58:01 pm EST (Viewed 3 times)

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That would imply that all robots were of the same mind. But if we replace the word "robot" in that sentence with "black people" or "gay people" or "left-handed people" it wouldn't make sense; so I'm assuming that free-willed robots have a full spectrum of political worldviews ranging from the sensible to the wildly paranoid - like every other cub-category of sentient beings.

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Like I said, it depends whether their side choice is based on their own opinion of themselves, or others'. If it's others', then it could easily become robots vs humans.

We already know that Tandi is on Team Good and the Machine Shop are Team Evil. Likely the distribution of know already vs don't know till midnight is the same for robots as for the general population.

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That's a good point. We've established already that some people seem to "know" what their side will be already and othes remain unclear on the subject.

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I also thought that it could go both ways. Those who are certain will choose on their own, those who are not certain or refuse to make a choice might have one forced upon them.

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Or, as I mentioned before, those who refuse to choose, or choose the wrong side, or aren't sure, will be the first ones hunted - by both sides.

One of the most unpleasant features of the Dreaming Celestian's actions is the reduction of choices to a binary decision, ignoring and eliminating any nuance and shading in favour of a simplistic duality. One might argue that this "simplification" strains out the very revelations that the Parodyverse's story was supposed to reveal, but despite his power and knowledge, the Space Robot is unaware of the value of those "wouldn't choose if they could help it" and those "wouldn't fight like this here and now" types who might otherwise uncover some answers in the margins.

Of course, we have not yet even established what "the Question" that "the Creators" established the Parodyverse for was, so its hard to anticipate "the Answer". If the Question was "What shall we have for lunch?" then its hard to see how a big final heroes vs villains killathon will help out.

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