[unsigned, undisguised, but very different/more normal than his usual]

[runner_up_robot]

It looks like there's a lot of patients that are feeling better today.

Does anyone else kind of wish they weren't?

Comments

[moral_liberty]

It was easier in many ways.

But this is the reason why we allowed ourselves to imagine, and to create an escape when there was none that truly existed. We are where we have always been.

However, if we did not care about our realities, they would not have caused us so much pain as to make us wish to hide. Something of such value, something that we love so much as to allow it to hurt us, must be worth enduring.

[runner_up_robot]

Maybe. But I don't think there's anything left for me in reality. I know I should be getting better, but I can't think of a reason why.

[haplesstracker]

I get the appeal, if that's what you mean. Some of the delusions were pretty nice when they weren't trying to eat me. But that's no way to live, pissing your life away in a madhouse pretending to be a robot. It's not who I am and I've got my reasons for wanting to be me.

Besides. Scourge was kind of a pussy.

[strikeouts kinda readable if you look closely]

[runner_up_robot]

heh
I guess looking back, ForteI was kind of a pussy too, especially for a 'fighting robot'

If you have something better waiting for you, good luck getting there

Re: [strikeouts kinda readable if you look closely]

[haplesstracker]

I don't have anything better waiting for me, exactly--probably why I went crazy, I haven't got shit. But I'm not going to take the easy way out, not anymore.

[handwriting much shakier than before]

[runner_up_robot]

That's what I keep telling myself, but it seems like there's no reason to stay sane and more and more reason to go back

[himetsuru]

I don't know. I really don't, and that scares me.

[runner_up_robot]

Yeah, that's sorta where I am. It's nice to talk to people like real people, but there's... other stuff, that would go away if I just gave in. I was acting like an idiot, but I also didn't care if I was acting like an idiot.

[hes_deadjim]

Why would you wish that?

[runner_up_robot]

Like I and some other people said above. Reality sucks, that's why I lost it in the first place.

[hes_deadjim]

Substituting fantasy for reality is no way to deal with life's difficulties.