That’s Lieserl, in his Xeelee Sequence, though technically she was born human, and uploaded into the probe. 

I watched it in the 90s when it was Cleopatra 2525. It was shit then. I’m guessing not much has changed.

Wow, does she also work with a bunch of commoners from diverse backgrounds to overthrow an evil galactic empire?

It is, indeed, the second book, and it’s ongoing proof that Baxter writes AIs more human than he writes humans. Still a damned fine novel.

They may not have Half-Life in the title, but we’re all thinking about Portal right now, two games explicitly sharing the universe.

The original company, Charter, also lacked data caps.

Eh, I’m calling it as “Racist whites use time travel to bring back slavery.”

Yeah. I guess, worst case, hang on to it and come back to it after. The old truism between chefs seems to count for writing: change three ingredients and the recipe is yours. I’ll see what they do and make it my own.

I’ve been writing exactly this kind of scenario. Late 1800s, old west horror with a Lovecraftian vibe influence featuring a Pinkteron.

Well, I’m tossing a half-finished novel in the trash.

Hey, round of applause for picking a retarded hill to die on.

IIRC, the UNIT name change was a polite response to a request by the actual UN. Use of existing government organizations, or similar branches, is ubiquitous.

If you’re comparing rape, a crime against another person, with swearing, which in no way harms anyone, that’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve read ever. No exaggeration. That blows any tweet from Trump out of the water.

Let’s also face a little reality: Star Trek has been mostly a cable TV show where they couldn’t, but it features people who are either very intelligent, in the military, or both. Both groups are known for using colorful language pretty freely. It’s more unrealistic that Scotty never dropped an f-bomb while trying to…

The whole “sexist nerds hate it” is the go-to argument even after it blew up in the faces of people using it in advance of the shitty Ghostbusters reboot. Turns out people want something that doesn’t look like a garbage fire, gender doesn’t matter one bit to mass audiences.

It’s almost like EA is a shit company.

Her story aside, who the hell still googles themselves? That’s so very late 90s and early 00s, I thought we’d moved beyond it.

Well, let me take this to and beyond insults, then.

Oh, good, we can celebrate a pointlessly stupid character decision from a pointlessly stupid movie. This is the part where I, an avid reader of everything, recommend we bring back book burning.

Just showing them how to save the species.