@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

[ marcos hadn't really expected to be back on this network so soon but he'd said he'd do something and while it was a little later than expected, he was going to follow through with that. ]

Not too long ago, I was here with questions about a different version of me being here before. Seems like there's a few people that's happened to now so our club's growing. I'm not here for that today.

During that conversation, I told someone that I'd ask a question to all the Displaced because she was curious and honestly, I am too.

Question is why do you stick around? Why haven't more of you 'fucked off into oblivion' to quote the last conversation I had about this? Is it because there's nowhere else better to go? Or something else?

[ it'd be interesting to see if there was genuine thought in some of the answers, if people didn't know there was anywhere else to go, or just didn't want to make the effort. ]

To be clear, I'm not advocating one way or another. Just posing the question.

[ OOC: this isn't an official mod requested communication and isn't part of some bigger plot. it's just curiosity born of a conversation marcos had with gaby here that he said he'd ask about so he's asking. feel free to talk to each other, of course, and i'll answer as i can. ]

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[strove]

No.

And as we've discussed here, it might be easily achieved.

[heliophilous]

So, is there a way to stop it?

[strove]

Without uniting around a same cause or code when we're desperately disparate by necessity?

No, not without forcing someone out.

If you see someone doing that? Do what you can to stop them.

[heliophilous]

I will.

[ but god, he knows it's not always possible to stop something like that. ]

It's something to prepare for. If it happens, it could fracture what's already here.

[strove]

It's nearly happened once. And we don't know what happens where we can't see it.

[heliophilous]

And it sounds like, barring sending out a group of people to establish an outpost or something, we might never know what happens elsewhere.

[strove]

That's thinking very literally. I was thinking private conversations, which would involve us hacking into everyone's head.

Not fun.

[heliophilous]

[ he winces. ]

Neither way is attractive or probably plausible. So, is there a solution to this? Probably not.

[strove]

"Don't be a dick and try to cut someone off from resources"?

[heliophilous]

We'd be putting a lot of trust in what's basically the honor system but there might not be any other way.

[strove]

Barring some kind of GPS tracking software installed when someone accesses this network, I don't think we have much of a say in the matter.

And I'm not even sure that that's viable.

[heliophilous]

Guess we just have to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Not exactly a comfort, I know.

[strove]

No, but here we are.

I think it helps to talk about it either way.

[heliophilous]

Glad people have found this helpful, then. If it gets some issues out there, that's never a bad thing.