It's like someone coming over to your home, and you dramatically present your enormous collection of Amiibos. It just exists to be consumed, and that's the end of that conversation. No exploration of how it may thematically tie into the main character or Halliday. No interest in why something matters or has cultural resonance. No qualitative analysis, no critique, no commentary, no thematic purpose. Not even that it's wrong to consume media or pop culture, but RPO's relationship to it (meaning Cline's relationship to it) boils down to the bare acknowledgement of its existence. Not with any intentionality, but it's a horror-show of pop culture being the entirety of one's personality. He also offered to try to make it up to me.”Ĭlick to shrink.The entire thing is a pretty grotesque cultural indictment. It gave him something he’d always been lacking-empathy. He told me that seeing the world-and himself-through my eyes was what finally made him understand how broken he was inside. But strangely enough, that was what finally allowed Jim to understand me, and to see me as a person, instead of some trophy he was never able to win. But then he started using the ONI to play back my memories.

“It was always hard to get through to Jim with words. Even if I could never be with him again.” “What did Halliday say when you told him that?” Art3mis asked. “Which meant that I was madly in love with Og, too, and I always would be. “Eventually, I got Jim to understand that I was exactly the same person that Kira Morrow had been at the moment he copied her mind,” she said. I was furious with Jim for copying my mind-Kira’s mind-without her knowledge.” She shook her head. “But after Jim woke me up inside a standalone simulation so that he could talk to me, it didn’t take me long to figure out where I was and what I was. And I guess I still am.” She cast her eyes downward and bit her lower lip. “I was actually the world’s first stable artificial intelligence.

“That’s how I was created,” Leucosia said. “And what did James Halliday do with this incredible invention?” “He immediately used it to make a bootleg copy of his best friend’s wife,” Art3mis said.

But it did have the capability to scan the wearer’s brain and create a digital copy of their consciousness.

Halliday was finally able to perfect his consciousness-scanning technology, and he used it to build an early ONI prototype headset, which had very limited functionality.

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