[he can go along with the banter, even if it's not making him feel much better. she sees this as them potentially nurturing a creature, just by existing -- he sees it as, at worst, being fed on by something, and at best, being a bad case of fleas that the entity they're riding on the back of eventually shakes off. he didn't come here to trade one death for another. (he didn't really have any say in coming here, period, but that's beside the point.) he can only hope that's not the case]
[he shakes his head a little, either way, trying to clear it] I'm in the simulation theory camp, though. [it's not the only one he's heard that he thinks might hold weight, but] There are a dozen different films, where I'm from, that work on the basis of that very idea. They're fiction, of course, but ... [even a broken clock is right, twice a day. who's to say that one of the movies back home didn't get it right? add in the fact that he's a hacker, beyond his more respectable day job, and well -- yeah, simulation is the idea he reaches for first]
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[he can go along with the banter, even if it's not making him feel much better. she sees this as them potentially nurturing a creature, just by existing -- he sees it as, at worst, being fed on by something, and at best, being a bad case of fleas that the entity they're riding on the back of eventually shakes off. he didn't come here to trade one death for another. (he didn't really have any say in coming here, period, but that's beside the point.) he can only hope that's not the case]
[he shakes his head a little, either way, trying to clear it] I'm in the simulation theory camp, though. [it's not the only one he's heard that he thinks might hold weight, but] There are a dozen different films, where I'm from, that work on the basis of that very idea. They're fiction, of course, but ... [even a broken clock is right, twice a day. who's to say that one of the movies back home didn't get it right? add in the fact that he's a hacker, beyond his more respectable day job, and well -- yeah, simulation is the idea he reaches for first]