I’m sick of stuff that should be ~2 paragraphs of text being a video. I do not want to watch a person or hear a narrator, I interpret written information much more effectively, and being text I can retain significant portions of the document as necessary.
Attention electron developers: under no circumstances do I want your entire app in .config.
Simon is definitely ‘out of his depth’, and while the player is generally smarter than he is there are a couple ways I rationalized his reactions. Spoilers below contain all major plot points and I strongly recommend anyone reading this play the game.
Simon repeatedly demonstrates he has no idea how he ‘came to be’ on PATHOS-II; he doesn’t understand the mechanisms involved in his arrival.
When/if the player discovers the recordings in Catherine’s lab, it’s up to the player to realize that Simon 1.0 lived on after his brain scan; If my memory serves correctly Simon does not comment on the events that happen after his scan. Just that there’s a recording of him.
Even all the transcripts about ‘continuity’ showed that the real people in PATHOS-II had trouble understanding the process; the person who sits in the chair is never the one that carries over. Admittedly this is the core debate of the story; people who look at it mechanically vs people who believe in a higher consciousness. I’m a mechanical guy.
In regards to his emotional outbursts on the lift; All of WAU’s creations seem to have problem regulating emotion. Speculated to be due to physical limitations of the hardware they’re trapped in. Even though Simon is the most stable, it’s still reasonable to think that there are either logical processing limitations due to his “flat scan”, or processing limitations of the cortex chip when presented with something as complicated as a human intelligence.
Even if we’re going to presume he is as Catherine described; “a sound mind in a sound body”, this could just be his breaking point. The underwater facility. WAU’s creations. The physical trauma of the train crash. The terror of being hunted by the psychotic helper robots. Maybe that’s just his limit.
That’s all in defense of Simon 3.0’s reaction about the events surrounding the powersuit.
I have no defense for his reaction at the end. From a narrative experience it makes sense that we wouldn’t immediately wake up on the ark; but he’s been through this before. Limitations aside, he’s got no excuse.
Though, this actually leads me to a side-theory about Catherine’s ultimate fate; that she seemed ‘uniquely suited’ to being trapped in an omnitool because of her lack of strong emotion - but what if she recognized the limitations of her environment? The one time she becomes truely emotional is when the omnitool dies.
Didn’t the disbarring of Jack Thompson teach them anything?
When I first saw the news I was thinking “there’s no way atoms vibrate differently on the moon” but you’re right it’s about perspective and I’ve realized there’s no way I’m smart enough to handle timezones on an interplanetary scale. I can only hope that the difference between earth seconds and moon seconds can be expressed as a consistent ratio.
I will gladly use some programming library invented in the basement of a university powered by coffee, and rage.
It and I might just be at odds about some fundamental aspects of note taking. One of the major problems I have is shared with Protonmail: Folders as a second class feature.
I may be old and tired, but structure is information. Folders are a premium feature, which on its face is laughable - I’m not opposed to paying for software, I pay for the note taking software I use now, but c’mon. For me tags are not a suitable substitution, they are good metadata for sure; particularly for searching but it’s a very flat organization system. It could be so much richer.
Missing free-form note metadata. We’ve got created date and modified date which is good, and an archived flag which is OK. An example I have from my notes is: I take notes during a meeting, sometimes on paper when I’m not in a situation where I have a computer in front of me. When I digitize these notes I assign an attribute to them that is the date the meeting took place, since digitization may not happen until the next day or longer depending on how long it sits on my desk.
Missing templates. I have spent some time putting together rough outline structures for different kinds of notes; release notes, change logs, general meetings, and daily task notes.
Missing note links. I am a big fan of not repeating information in a bunch of places. Doubly so in notes. My first impressions of a thing may be wrong, incomplete, missing context… and if I can create a note about a thing, and then link back to the thing when I refer to it in other notes it adds a great deal of context and allows for extremely simple revisions.
None of this stuff is mandatory for note taking for sure, but so much value can be derived not just from the content of your notes but the metadata surrounding your notes. When you open the door to this, and you add something like “smart lists” which are more or less just saved search critera… it helps.
I wish they had gone with something a little more robust than standard notes.
It’s nice that you’re so ready to delegate to my natural authority, but unnecessary.