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[holmesice]

Make it quick.

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[cahooted]

I know.

[He exhales. Hubris, Will calls it. High horsing. Is it? Maybe. Maybe it's naive or short-sighted or even hindering in getting them out of here but Flynn can't bring himself to believe that.]

Which is why... why I think it's important to fight against it.

[holmesice]

And in the event, we cannot? What if all of this is an experiment in order to turn us all into figurative monsters?

[cahooted]

Then I'll do everything to make it as hard as humanly possible for them.

[Whoever 'they' will ultimately turn out to be.]

[holmesice]

Would there be a point, if we cannot escape it in the end? Especially if it is nothing but an AI or botched program doing this to us?

[Admittedly this has given him food for thought, Mr. Carsen.]

[cahooted]

Of course. There's always another way, there's always another trick. There's always something left to learn.

Giving up is setting the inevitable in stone, it takes away any chance of finding out if it really, truly is inevitable.

[holmesice]

[Giving up is setting the inevitable in stone, it takes away any chance of finding out if it really, truly is inevitable.

Ah. Well.]

Other than a lot of wasted energy. But what else is that energy being put to use for?

[So he's not disagreeing with you on this part, at least.]

[cahooted]

That's really up to us.

Me, I'd like to say for good.

[Look, this is the guy who managed to pull Excalibur out of the stone, it doesn't get more goody-two-shoes than that.]