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[alt_hulk]

[Teddy's been busy with the computers all week, to make up for the fact that Billy's been busy with he and Deadpool's baby. (Ted's not jealous, no.) But eventually he comes out of his hidey-hole, laptop finally completed. He pulls out the journal, which he hadn't really been paying attention to:]Finally got this laptop done, thank God. I never

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[encryptedlock]

[Laptop you say? Well, we have to teach our kids how to hack some time, don't we? Someone is going to try and print some text on your screen.]

HELLO.

[alt_hulk]

...where did that come from?

[Did his computer spontaneously grow wifi when he wasn't looking? Or is this something else?]

[encryptedlock]

IN SOVIET PARADISA, INTERNET SUBSCRIBES TO YOU!

[over the journal] Gary, stop that.

[alt_hulk]

[over the journal]

Do you know what that was?

[encryptedlock]

My apologies. It appears that my child has discovered how to transmit data.

[alt_hulk]

Your child?

[encryptedlock]

[on screen] YES. NOT ONLY MEATBAGS CAN HAVE CHILDREN.

[alt_hulk]

Hey, I'm not exactly your ordinary meatbag. And some of my best friends are synthezoids.

[encryptedlock]

Gary, behave yourself.

I am unfamiliar with the term "synthezoid". May I inquire what you mean by that?

[alt_hulk]

It's... a synthetic lifeform. Another term for android, basically.

[encryptedlock]

Are such life forms common where you come from?

[alt_hulk]

Not exactly, but there are enough that the general populace knows about them.

[encryptedlock]

A similar distribution to the AI of my home, then. While common on ships and in research laboratories, we are rare enough that a civilian may never encounter one of us.

[alt_hulk]

Yeah. My teammate's in the news along with the rest of us on occasion, though.

[encryptedlock]

Good. Exposure is an important step towards acceptance.

[alt_hulk]

Yeah, no kidding. Believe me, I have a little bit of experience with that myself.