text | un: finch | subject: wikipedia addition

[ornithologist]

I've taken the liberty of using some points to request a static copy of Wikipedia be added to the network. For those unfamiliar, Wikipedia is an exhaustive collection of factual information compiled and verified by volunteers worldwide. You might consider it a digital version of the library.

For further information, I recommend the Wikipedia article on Wikipedia.

Notable features include:
    (1) It is uneditable to maintain the integrity of the source information.
    (2) You may, however, leave comments and participate in resulting forum-like conversations.
    (3) All pages with information possibly pertaining to a resident's personal history have been removed to ensure privacy.
    (4) This is a representative snapshot of Wikipedia from our collective source worlds where that is an internet-capable Earth. I'm told it's circa 2025 CE.

I do not intend to offer assistance in utilizing this resource, but the companion bots have a digital literacy module and should be able to serve in that capacity if anyone has a need.

Comments are left open for you to discuss amongst yourselves as desired. I will not be responding.

[ ooc: Feel free to start threads here about this development, or link to a Wikipedia page and indicate what your character would leave as a comment on it! Reply to one another! Do this any time, not just in this post! Snidely link others to Wiki articles instead of answering them sometimes! Note #3 is meant to indicate that fourth-walling is impossible from this.

Also, Harold wanted to disable comments, but Aurora disabled the disabling comments feature he tried to add. :( Anyway: Merry Christmas, Etraya! ]

Comments

un: jaycetalis

[hexcope]

Wow.

There's really an article for everything.

text, un:emberflit;

[sweetmilk]

Let us start here and perhaps we can discern how this discovery of yours will affect the advancement of our mission.

Assuming you are able to understand the basics of quantum relativity.

[hexcope]

Versed enough to know that much like the Schrödinger equation, the events simultaneously taking place right now is that you're goading me and making irrelevant statements. If you really want to talk to me in depth about subatomic particles, then I'll see you Thursday.

In the meanwhile, here's an article for you to study.

[sweetmilk]

Perhaps. Regardless, I still fail to see how your discovery relates to our present circumstances.

A personal invitation. How kind of you.

As for your suggestion.

text » un: samil

[rowd]

damn dude
just say you hate bread and move on

un: Accelerator; text

[levelshift]

[Accelerator is going to go ahead and stick a few links in a comment.

Internet slang
Text messaging
Instant messaging
Texting etiquette
Etiquette in technology
Glossary of 2020s slang
Trolling
"Don't trust anyone over 30"
Shitposting
OK boomer
Baby boomers]

Some of you need to read these. It was a fucking pain finding the Western equivalents for some of them, so be grateful.

un: superman2

[newsbeat]

Gavle goat.
Well this explains a lot. While actually bringing up new questions.
Are the bots Swedish now?

un: vigilante

[taxevasion]

Obviously they are? You can see the Aurora Borealis really easily in Scandinavia, and Aurora runs the Companion Bots, so, ergo, all of them all Swedish.

[newsbeat]

That actually almost makes sense.

[taxevasion]

A little presumptuous to think she'd be American or something.

Un: Batgirl

[her_own_rules]

Touches of Icelandic in choice, too.

[newsbeat]

Looks like we're on to a regional theme.

un: vigilante | cw: VERY NSFW CONTENT IM SO SERIOUS

[taxevasion]

Thanks, finch! I kept trying to remember what this was for weeks and there was no way to look this up until now. Happy holidays!!

text | un: UptownGuy

[consensually]

I'm sorry, why would you need to look that up?

[taxevasion]

This is going to sound so stupid, but I just couldn't remember the name for it. I kept thinking it was called a moist cracker. Imagine if I went around, calling that a moist cracker!

[How did he manage to avoid not making the right point at all.]

[consensually]

That's 2 more instances of the term "moist cracker" than I needed to read today, so I guess it's a good thing you learned the proper term for...
That.
But that still doesn't explain why you needed to figure it out in the first place. What did that biscuit ever do to you?

text » un: samil

[rowd]

what about those of us who can't read?
and what's with all the pictures of old guys?

( says the guy using voice to text just to be a shit to the guy who says he's not going to help, but. )

un: vigilante

[taxevasion]

Shut up, you can read.

[rowd]

shit really?
wish someone would have told me that sooner

[taxevasion]

You're reading right now!

un: 102802; private

[nottheboss]

I have a present for you. Don't know if you celebrate anything, I don't really but I decided fuck it.

private

[ornithologist]

That really wasn't necessary, but thank you.

Would you mind messaging me privately, or just stopping by? I'm afraid I might get mood whiplash carrying on this conversation on this post.

UN: tsundoku

[welcome_summer]

Time for the initial round of "hey the AI and people behind the scenes so far are named/have taken names after mythological figures" collection while I wait for year-end cookies to bake

Aurora (mythology),--half-nude painting as the entry illustration, view with caution
Boreas (mythology)
Aurora borealis (aka the Northern Lights)
Echo (mythology), partial nude artwork throughout, but at least it's not the first picture, orz
Scylla (mythology), one painting with mostly nudes, the rest not detailed nudity?
Castor and Pollux nude sculpture as the entry illustration, view with caution

Please feel free to add to the list as needed! I'm pretty sure I'm missing entities....

text | un: strife

[nimbuster]

Why's there so much nudity in your world's mythology?

[He's not offended, just curious!]

[welcome_summer]

Because

well

artists, they do want to display the beauty of the human form, right? But in some cultures and past time periods, nudity was taboo and if someone painted or sculpted a nude of a contemporary person, that could be a capital-s Scandal.

BUT if the subject was a "mythological figure"? A goddess, a hero. That got a pass. Especially since reading and translating classical literature was part of education, so the well-read knew the characters. They also got away with it if the nude was meant to symbolize something--"Love", "Beauty", etc.