Voice testing; On decisions between future games

[perfectringofscars]

Now, now. Don't flake out on me, huh? You promised that when the others got settled, and you got this break, it'd be my turn.

Hey, you're the one that said it. And I'm not picky on places to end up, don't get me wrong. But uh...not sure about this user city you're thinking about. Too many problems, and I'm just one program.
But this glitched out other-Grid? Now that's just ridiculous. I'd go nuts in under a microcycle, just looking around at all that work undone.

You can do better. Come on, just let me do the choosing, and we'll get along just fine.
Now get me that list, and be quiet for a little bit.

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[perfectringofscars]

[ More face!twins. This one is just getting a bemused shake of the head. ]

I didn't decide. That's what I was written for, what I was supposed to exist for. Learning software, though, that wasn't enough. Actually there's a lot of things that weren't 'enough', but that's something else entirely.

And the User world was always going to be an adjustment. I'm cool with that.

[coadminclu]

We were written to create the perfect system. Perfect for Flynn, and for everyone who lived there as far as possible within our resources.

Not just a place where no one ever says no to you. And even that didn't work as well as you hoped, did it.

Your system's a mess, if you hadn't noticed. I'd be surprised if Flynn could stand looking at it.

I can't blame you for thinking too small, I suppose. But you don't seem very good at learning from your mistakes.

[He grimaces, the humorless quirk of a bad joke.]

We probably get that from Flynn.

[perfectringofscars]

"Perfect for Flynn", huh? Let me ask you something; when, if ever, did you get the parameters for 'perfect' from Flynn?

[ Yeah, he's not impressed with all this critique going on. It shows. ]

When did you hear anything about what he wanted? Or did he change those parameters around on the fly? Did you ever stop, and consider that without parameters, the system would have dissolved into chaos, and imploded into nothing but stray code, and bits? Or how about the fact that Flynn sure didn't "stand to look at it" when there were real instabilities threatening to cascade into Grid-wide deresolution?

What Flynn wanted was to leave someone else to clean up his mess. Well I did that. And I did it with the tools I had at hand. The system I created was far more sustainable than it's previous, bug-infected, glitch-riddled, half-thought-out "dream" ever was.

And while we're at it, give me the parameters for "dream". Or any of the other nebulous User words he so loved to throw around, hmm?

[coadminclu]

[The answer is, not until Jalen and Tron and Yori helped pin Flynn down long enough to take a proper look at what the Isos were doing to the Grid. Clu forms a soundless breath of tired understanding.]

You didn't tell him you needed better-defined parameters, measurable benchmarks.

And Flynn never gave you the resources to work without him.

[Blast all their pride. He hadn't really wanted to understand this well.]

Dream, for Flynn, is usually a goal worth working toward even if achieving it in full is not possible and never has been.