Always loved the Gravemind's portrayal in Karen Traviss' Human Weakness, a short story part of Buckell Tobias' Halo: Evolutions anthology (implying that people here don't already know what that is ;D)
2025.01.23 19:50 AUsedTire Always loved the Gravemind's portrayal in Karen Traviss' Human Weakness, a short story part of Buckell Tobias' Halo: Evolutions anthology (implying that people here don't already know what that is ;D)
“You always talk in rhyme?” Cortana asked, hands on hips. “Nothing personal, but you’re no Keats. Don’t give up the day job.”I don't know why, but of all the things in Human Weakness, the thing that strikes me most about the Gravemind is not the crazy shit he has the ability to do to Cortana - it's his attitude about it all. Like uh,
It—he—had a rasping baritone voice, detectable through the control room’s audio sensors. The creature was so unlike anything she’d encountered before that she was fascinated for a few moments by the sheer scale of it. She couldn’t see where it ended.
It was . . . it had . . . it had no boundaries. That was the strangest thing. When she interfaced with a warship’s systems, she could feel its limits, its dimensions, its physical reality, all the stresses in its structure and the time-to-failure of its components. Sensors told her every detail. A ship was knowable. So was a human being, up to a point; downloaded to Master Chief’s armor, she could monitor all his vital signs. And she knew him. She knew him in all the ways that people who lived in close quarters knew one another’s foibles and moods. She knew where he ended and where she began. She felt that line between herself and a ship, too.
But this Gravemind, measurable and detectable, felt different. Blurred. How did she know that? What was she detecting? And how?
There were no complex tasks to occupy her; no ship to control, no interaction with other AIs, no tactical data, and perhaps the most distracting absence of all, no Master Chief—John—to take care of. High Charity’s systems were gradually failing. The remaining environment controls and sensors occupied a tiny fraction of her consciousness. It was like rattling around in a big, dumb, empty truck. She had to stay busy. If she didn’t, this thing would take her apart.
“There is much more complexity to meter than the simple plodding rhymes of this 'Keats',” the Gravemind said.
He sounded more wearied than offended by the jibe. “But then I have the memories of many poets far beyond your limited human culture. And I have the quickness of intellect to compose all manner of poetic forms as I speak rather than labor over mere words for days.” His tone softened, but not in a kind way. “I would have thought an entity like yourself, with such rapid thought processes and so vast a mind, would understand that. Perhaps not. Perhaps you are more limited than I imagined . . . but then you were made by humans, were you not? I shall speak more simply for you, then.”
`You patronizing lump of fungus... I ought to...`
He sounded more wearied than offended by the jibe.This comes up a few more times in the story - he at certain points just comes off to Cortana as tired, and at one point - almost even mournful(and what's interesting there is, because of the nature of the Gravemind as portrayed in the story - I almost don't even know if that was meant to actually be the Gravemind's sorrow she was sensing, or one of his many victims).
It's like the Gravemind views himself as just this unstoppable current of force in the galaxy that just has to exist, no matter what, and he knows that even if someone somehow manages to delay him - that is all it will ever be in the end, because he is of course, "all things"
“I still think I’d get pretty tired of waiting for you to find a word that rhymes with orange.”The Gravemind now filled her field of vision. She found herself searching for eyes to focus on, another irrational reflex, but still saw only a rip of a mouth. His voice teetered on the lower limit of audible human frequencies.
“Orange . . . in which language? I have absorbed so many.”
“Wit as well as looks. How can a girl resist?”
The Gravemind made a sound like the start of an avalanche, an infrasonic rumbling. “I have pity within me,” he said. “And infinite time. But I also have impatience—because I am all things. You will tell me everything about Earth’s defenses.”
He just does not give a single shit about anything, because to him - everything is going on track as it should; he is inevitable, he is a timeless chorus, a unity of thought, blah blah blah. Join your voice with his and sing victory everlasting today!
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2025.01.23 19:50 lizziemoon89 Headcodes and TFL services
I am trying to understand headcodes but I am getting a bit stuck on how the route is distinguished in them. If I have a code that is 2Y90 and then 2Y91 would these both be the same route and the 90, 91 represents the number of the route being run that day? I have the headcodes from a different day that are 2N30 2N31 and the train is going between the same two stations which only has one route.... I know that the 2 across them is for the type of passenger service, I thought the letter was supposed to be route or area but it is now N instead of Y. Can anyone help me understand or point me to a dictionary for headcodes?
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2025.01.23 19:50 Mysterious_Dealer287 Bibliothek oder Hörsaal als Versteck
Denkt ihr das wären gute Verstecke? Ich denke man taucht da schon ziemlich unter oder, wenn man sich in eine Bib oder einen Hörsaal reinsetzt.
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2025.01.23 19:50 Intelligent_Leave582 How does Xbox store and delete my captures?
I have a habit of taking a lot of clips and screenshots here and there of games I play. I’ve heard that your captures delete captures after 90 days but that doesn’t seem to be the case for clips stored on your Xbox. My clips that I upload to the Xbox network stay for 90 days by the gane clips I have stored on my Xbox don’t even stay for more than 2 days. The oldest screenshot I have stored locally is 37 days old. The oldest game clip I have is 2 days old. Why is it deleting my clips so fast? Is this random?
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2025.01.23 19:50 Gold_Worry_3188 (JOB OPENING) Senior Simulation Robotics Engineer, Symbotic.
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2025.01.23 19:50 DevastatingCuntQuake Our stance on X/Twitter links
Hello angels,
Over the past few days, many subreddits have started banning the use of X/Twitter links. After receiving some feedback from you all, we’ve decided to adopt a similar approach.
Moving forward, we will only allow screenshots of posts from X and Meta that Charli shares. This ensures that anyone who doesn’t have access to these apps can still view the content without needing to download them. To maintain accuracy, moderators may ask for a link to the original post for verification purposes, but this is a case by case scenario and not a given for every post.
We appreciate your input, so feel free to share any feedback or additional suggestions. Remember to keep the comments civil below. Our rules will reflect this change by the end of this week!
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2025.01.23 19:50 Rich-Wrap-9333 Rat poison question
So — not a fan of rat poison and unlikely to use it. But I have a question about it because of something an exterminator just told me.
He suggested putting out meat with poison to draw a rat out of a structure it has taken up residence in. But we don’t want it to go back in there and die, we said. He replied: “oh no. It will die before it can go back.”
This doesn’t sound right to me . . . But what do I know?
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2025.01.23 19:50 unusualuse0 Do I start my fasting timer the minute U stop eating my last meal or...?
as in title, because if I start my 24h fat at 8pm I will end it at 8pn ext day, so like... I can eat something small after 8 pm?
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2025.01.23 19:50 LLoyderino test
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2025.01.23 19:50 A_KindofSorrow 25m Europe/Online geeky web dev seeking friends
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