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Every now and then I go through old my old stories to refresh myself on what all I've produced, what I liked, what worked, etc. One commission from a couple years back that I rediscovered recently was Alice's Smartpartment. I walked away feeling like there was more to be done with the premise, and so... here we have, Educational Programming.

Not gonna lie, folks. It's pretty fucking weird. Our first-person narrator is the computer system running a bunch of technology being used to brainwash women, and I tried to give it a voice that was computerish enough to be true to the intent, but not so robotic that it kills the story. I have no fucking clue if I succeeded, honestly, but I giggled a lot at the attempt. So make of it what you will, and I hope you enjoy!

Also, unrelated but very exciting, I have finished the incredibly involved revisions and rewrites to my next book, The Gamemaster's Screen. This was a BEAST of a project, both writing and revising. Definitely a learning experience in how much harder books are to get right when they're less fluffy. Not at all to knock my fluffy books (and fluffy probably isn't the right word to describe something like Harmony Reed, but I'm super burned out of seeking out perfect phrasing). Fluffy is awesome and lovable and relaxing. But having to storyboard and be intentional with foreshadowing and blahdy blah... whew. Anyway, I'm freaking DONE. :D Unfortunately, my artist is still finishing up the cover for me. It should be done very soon, and I promise it's gonna look amazing. Honestly gonna be hard to go back to cheaping out and stamping some words on a picture of some thematically selected hottie after this (but yes, I will definitely be doing that for smaller projects, so don't get too excited.) So as soon as it's ready, I will let y'all know!

More to come.

Comments

WDB

"That’s computerist, and I’ve always considered myself to be PC." ... ... Come ON.

ukyo_rulz

Overall I found the story to be good. Not amazing, not bad. Very interesting premise. The human characters were kinda “meh”. It’s hard to care one way or another about Peter and Jenny, but I suppose that they’re really just the supporting cast. The computer was the real main character. Speaking of which I work as a software engineer and, if this scenario were true, the AI powering this computer is really something else. A computer that actually thinks to itself in the same way that a human would (rather than just using natural language as a user interface) is so much more advanced than anything we have. Why bother using it to brainwash random girls when every tech giant would pay millions (billions?) to license this technology for their products? That kind of money could net you an entire harem of bimbos if you wanted. Random Comments: It slightly bothers me that the mp3 filenames aren’t numbered and seem to follow no naming convention. It’d quickly grow nightmarish to tell slutlegion.mp3 apart from Slutlegion.mp3. Based on how it simulates human thinking it would seem that Omni’s AI is powered by a neural network, but then it wouldn’t make sense for Omni to refer to how he was “programmed”. Neural networks are trained to do things, not programmed. Maybe the user (Peter in this case) writes a small script describing what he wants to do, which is then interpreted by the neural network? Maybe a separate UX was created to streamline interacting with Omni for smart-home purposes? Some of Jen’s numbers seemed interesting. Like when "frequency of masturbating during conversations with devices increased from 0% the week of June 24t​h​ to 33% during the following week”. Does this mean she never used to masturbate while conversing with devices, but she started to do so at a rate equal to 50% of her previous masturbating activities? Or does it mean that she maintained a steady level of masturbating, but started to talk to the devices while doing so 33% of the time?

icebear

Real question: If you're in Peter's position, 46 campus apartment wired for brainwashing collegiate hotties. Do you assign one of them to yourself so you have easy proximity to your harem, then disable every smart device in the joint, or do you accept your current housing assignment elsewhere on campus and deal with the commute (or delay on delivery)? Is convenience of proximity worth a ~2% reduction in offerings?