Eh, I didn't like it. I maybe would have bought the premise more if they'd gone through thousands of years, but a few decades? They basically didn't like being satellites/having machine bodies and regretted it. Nothing to do with "eternal" whatever crap. It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

I'm confused...

Eh, I didn't like it. I maybe would have bought the premise more if they'd gone through thousands of years, but a few decades? They basically didn't like being satellites/having machine bodies and regretted it. Nothing to do with "eternal" whatever crap. It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

they were absorbing knowledge of everything. learning everything. that's billions of people worth of knowledge, it was almost like living an eternity and then some. That'd be a lot to take on for anyone.

was that the couple from The Heir of the Curse? in the middle part

I think the best part of this was that reference to Eiko and Leeza on the last page. That made me laugh. The rest just made me feel kinda ... woogly -- butterflies, discomfort, and dread all rolled together.

Two references to previous works in this. Though its a bit sad one of them dies from the heir of the curse story.

Eh, I didn't like it. I maybe would have bought the premise more if they'd gone through thousands of years, but a few decades? They basically didn't like being satellites/having machine bodies and regretted it. Nothing to do with "eternal" whatever crap. It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

they were absorbing knowledge of everything. learning everything. that's billions of people worth of knowledge, it was almost like living an eternity and then some. That'd be a lot to take on for anyone.

Well they have human brains and the brain can't do that. It didn't look to me like they were experiencing everything, but being used in the process, you see them metaphorically reading tapes, like they can pick out information to look at--not that they were actually experiencing everything. Their personalities would have been instantly obliterated if they experienced everything even for a second, lol.

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this reminds me a story from black mirror netflix series ( Season 3 Episode 4, San Junipero)

The brains are touching

The brains are touching

LEWD

what a sad take

• reads tags *
• gets a bad feeling* comes to comment section Yeaah.. I think I will pass on this one

I originally thought it'd be about a similar story as the romance in Adam-Troy Castro's Andrea Cort, where it's about lovers literally becoming one, and whether that's "the ultimate expression of love or the ultimate failure of love".

As it actually was ... nice enough, but nothing I'll remember long, I think. Just kinda "OK, fair enough ... moving on then".

Ah,this is kind of beautiful,in its own way.

this reminds me a story from black mirror netflix series ( Season 3 Episode 4, San Junipero)

I cried when I watched that episode. So beautiful. An exception to other episodes with rather bad endings.
Black Mirror is very good and doesn't take too much time to go through all 4 seasons,definitely recommend to watch it to anyone who hasn't.

Eh, I didn't like it. I maybe would have bought the premise more if they'd gone through thousands of years, but a few decades? They basically didn't like being satellites/having machine bodies and regretted it. Nothing to do with "eternal" whatever crap. It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

they were absorbing knowledge of everything. learning everything. that's billions of people worth of knowledge, it was almost like living an eternity and then some. That'd be a lot to take on for anyone.

Well they have human brains and the brain can't do that. It didn't look to me like they were experiencing everything, but being used in the process, you see them metaphorically reading tapes, like they can pick out information to look at--not that they were actually experiencing everything. Their personalities would have been instantly obliterated if they experienced everything even for a second, lol.

The human brain seems like a lousy choice, for that kind of work. The brain just could not handle that much data flow. A regular computer, with massive storage, would be perfect that purpose. Come to think of it. Why the heck would they put something like that in space, where it's vulnerable to space hazards? Shouldn't stuff like that be built in underground bunkers.

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It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

That was the whole point of the story; in the end, their "eternity" together didn't last any longer than a normal human lifetime. They had to give up something very important to achieve their immortality, and probably would have been happier by just living a normal life together.

Becoming immortal, and existing for eternity among the stars. Destind to be together, with the one you love, for ever, but just out of each other's reach. That sounds like a divine punishment from the gods. Honestly, who would choose an existence like that. To me that's a fate worse than death.

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The Heir of The Curse refference was good but the rest was meh. At least author tried to make something different. And did they only observe gay couples?

Horrendous.

At first I though they were tricked onto doing it.. but then.. what a crazy story.

was that the couple from The Heir of the Curse? in the middle part

Yeah.. I wonder why she died.. the curse didn't shorten the life span or anything...

The Heir of The Curse refference was good but the rest was meh. At least author tried to make something different. And did they only observe gay couples?

Lmao I imagine the face of the scientists reading lots of data about gay couples thinking "wtf more than 10 billion dollars spent in this project just for this information?"

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As always, this author is an acid trip

Eh, I didn't like it. I maybe would have bought the premise more if they'd gone through thousands of years, but a few decades? They basically didn't like being satellites/having machine bodies and regretted it. Nothing to do with "eternal" whatever crap. It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

they were absorbing knowledge of everything. learning everything. that's billions of people worth of knowledge, it was almost like living an eternity and then some. That'd be a lot to take on for anyone.

Well they have human brains and the brain can't do that. It didn't look to me like they were experiencing everything, but being used in the process, you see them metaphorically reading tapes, like they can pick out information to look at--not that they were actually experiencing everything. Their personalities would have been instantly obliterated if they experienced everything even for a second, lol.

The human brain seems like a lousy choice, for that kind of work. The brain just could not handle that much data flow. A regular computer, with massive storage, would be perfect that purpose. Come to think of it. Why the heck would they put something like that in space, where it's vulnerable to space hazards? Shouldn't stuff like that be built in underground bunkers.

The human brain, currently, is actually much better at parallel processing than a computer.
One might imagine that aspect was why a human brain was incorporated.

was that the couple from The Heir of the Curse? in the middle part

Yeah.. I wonder why she died.. the curse didn't shorten the life span or anything...

Given that it's more of a cameo than a straight-up continuation, there's probably no real connection to the curse thing (assuming that these even are the same characters). Just the message that even though their time together was short (the exact time being pretty vague), every moment was worth it.

What the....

Eh, I didn't like it. I maybe would have bought the premise more if they'd gone through thousands of years, but a few decades? They basically didn't like being satellites/having machine bodies and regretted it. Nothing to do with "eternal" whatever crap. It was a few decades, and they wasted their mission whatever it may have been. Lame.

they were absorbing knowledge of everything. learning everything. that's billions of people worth of knowledge, it was almost like living an eternity and then some. That'd be a lot to take on for anyone.

Well they have human brains and the brain can't do that. It didn't look to me like they were experiencing everything, but being used in the process, you see them metaphorically reading tapes, like they can pick out information to look at--not that they were actually experiencing everything. Their personalities would have been instantly obliterated if they experienced everything even for a second, lol.

The human brain seems like a lousy choice, for that kind of work. The brain just could not handle that much data flow. A regular computer, with massive storage, would be perfect that purpose. Come to think of it. Why the heck would they put something like that in space, where it's vulnerable to space hazards? Shouldn't stuff like that be built in underground bunkers.

The human brain, currently, is actually much better at parallel processing than a computer.
One might imagine that aspect was why a human brain was incorporated.

True, the human brain is better at parallel processing, but I don't think it could handle the trillions of bits of data flooding in every second. Processing huge amounts of data fast, is why we invented the computer, in the first place.