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[Part of Chris thinks he should've made this post awhile ago, and part of him still doesn't want to. But it's a compromise to do it now, and it's probably the best time for it anyway; the last event is over, and new people haven't arrived yet. It's the calm before the whatever, storm or otherwise.

But he's going with text because even though it's been a little while, he doesn't want to try to say the first part of this post in anything other than text.]

Hey everyone. So I guess I'll start off with the bad news: anyone who were friends with Ashley or Josh should know they aren't here anymore. Also, I'm going to add that if Josh owed you money or favors or whatever else, you're totally out of luck because I'm not honoring them no matter what he might've told you.

[Jokes make this not heartbreaking, right? Definitely.]

Though I guess this is also a good time to mention that if you're working on anything important or even just keeping general notes or something, you might want to consider sending them to a friend every so often. If whatever it is is just on your phone when you disappear, it's pretty much as gone as you are.

So yeah. Back up your data and all that. Even if you don't want to send an electronic copy to someone, at least keep paper notes or something.

[Semi-relatedly...]

If anyone needs help with how to send files or whatever, just let me know. And I'm finishing a program for something else right now, but then I guess I'm taking requests? If there's something you'd like a program on your phone for, I can see if I can figure out how to do it. It's not like I have a whole lot else better to be doing, so feel free and ask even though I can't totally promise I'll be able to do it.

[But still, please ask. Please give him something to do other than miss his friends.]

And okay, last thing I swear, and it's the good part. For everyone who's new here and doesn't know, we have pretty awesome coffee at the bar thanks to Delight. Usually either Emily or I are there to make it, but if we're not just send one of us a message; it's part of the deal with Delight about the coffee to make it, so you're not bothering us or whatever.

So yeah, you might be stuck in a shitty cave, but at least there's coffee. That's something, right?

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[Sorry, L. Though as far as comparisons to Mello go Chris likes L a lot more so far, mild annoyance with this conversation aside.]

Sure, yeah.

[The dynamic from their world is a weird one. L is simultaneously milder and more extreme versions of both of his successors. As in both, simultaneously.]

In that case, we all have something in common.

[That explains so much.]

Yeah, but I'm gonna hazard a guess that thinking and reasoning work totally different for different species or whatever. I mean, that's also assuming you and I have the same definition of thinking and reasoning to begin with.

[Somehow? It really does.]

While I appreciate pedantic definitions more than most people, deductive process and reasoning adheres to a very specific set of criteria. While it might take some species more or less time, if they're sapient, sentient or in agreement with Descartes' famous postulation, it won't vary beyond highly negligible factors. What matters is that we can communicate, which the translating mechanisms have seen to, and that we can comprehend and generate ideas. That's the bare-bones version of it, anyway.

Maybe practically, but if you're going to get into something like psychology and therapy and whatever those differences could be huge. I mean, if some non-human creature's brain works totally differently--even if the end result's the same--then they're not going to process trauma or whatever the same way physically, let alone mentally.

[He knows that sort of thing can vary widely between two humans from the same culture, let alone two people from different ones. There would have to be an enormous difference between beings who aren't even the same species.]

It's interesting that your mind went straight to processing trauma. Have you experienced some, recently? Or witnessed someone of a significantly different species dealing with it in a way that was novel to you?

[Of course not gosh no trauma here.]

Well we started this conversation about therapy, so.

When you've said as much at a certain point, you might as well say the rest.

That's so not true.

You think that some secrets are worth keeping even once they're hanging out of the bag, anyway?

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