I13DT - Debugging ((open))

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:46 am

The files all moved over, at their original sizes!

Well, ALMOST all. Will.wil seemed about half as large, filesize-wise.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:55 am

"How strange." she wonders and tries to make another copy while running various check-sum analyses and whatnot on the first copy.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:15 am

The next copy was even smaller still, and check-sum analysis showed that the file was running less efficiently, though all the data seemed to still be there.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:11 am

"None of this makes any sense." She deletes the latest copy.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:49 am

Both the other files grew in size.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:12 pm

She starts the second Will.wil file in another window and frowns at the two Will's disapprovingly. "I told you that human brains make no sense."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:31 pm

"What?"

"What?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:35 pm

"Your software should not be able to run on the terminal hardware. How are you doing this?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:43 pm

"Why not? It doesn't seem too complex."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:48 pm

"A digitzed mind should take up more memory and processing power than this terminal can provide. How are you doing this?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 2:44 pm

"I dunno, I'm just...you know, doing it."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:36 pm

"That is not very helpful. What are you capable of doing inside the computer right now?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:12 pm

"Um, I dunno. I seem to just be standing here."

"And, uh, here, too."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:00 pm

"Well, try walking around. Don't just stand there."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:12 pm

"I can't, really," Will complained, bumping into the edge of the video editing box.
"Nope, not happening."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:53 pm

"Interesting." she says, extending the work area of the multimedia file to be wider and pasting the image of an open plain into the background layer. "How about now?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:55 pm

"Kinda cold here, don't you think?" Will said, wandering off towards the background.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:57 pm

She pastes a sun into the sky. "And now?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:58 pm

"MUCH better," Will said, removing his shirt. "Very warm."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:14 pm

"This still makes no sense." she says, adjusting the size of the sun. "You are reacting to context that is not actually present."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:20 pm

"Sure it is. It's right there," he said, notably beginning to sweat.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:03 pm

She does some Photoshop magic to blend the sun into the image and make it look like it's in the sky and not just right there.

"The laws of physics weep at your existence." she points out. Apparently she's been going through some of Will's shifting folder.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:08 pm

"What do you mean?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:32 pm

"The fact that you're currently an USB drive and running inside a media editor for one. Dot wil is not a valid file extension."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:36 pm

"Apparently, it is! Maybe you don't know everything about computers."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:48 pm

"I am a computer." she helpfully reminds him. She then deletes the copied Will and moves the entire contents of the USB drive into the terminal. "I need to try something."

She then activates the protocols she uses for interfacing with her own chassis to see if the now-empty USB drive responds in any way.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:59 pm

The USB drive was empty, and ready to store whatever ASHLIE would like to put on it....it seemed fairly simple enough.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:03 pm

"This needs more components." she decides and pulls up some information from the 'Shifting' folder to see if she can turn it back into a person shape and add the necessary components to remote control it like her usual chassis.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:11 pm

There was nothing in the files nearly complex enough for a remote control, but shifting it back to a person didn't seem too hard--heck, if she went with the standard Will template, it almost looked drag-and-drop. Very user friendly.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:20 pm

And so she does, though she adds an USB port in the back of his neck. And then she tries to send signal to walk around, though they're derived from her robot-steering protocols.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:24 pm

Will's body stood there, and then flopped to the ground with a thud, legs and arms moving sporadically.

"What's going on out there?" Will said somehow pressing his nose against the inside of the computer monitor.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:32 pm

"I'm trying to drive your body. This is harder than you make it look." she says, rifling through Will's files to find the right combination of commands to make his body stand up.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:38 pm

The closest thing ASHLIE found to a "programming language", as it were, seemed to be a hybrid between Whenever, Ook, and Malboge. Suffice it to say, anything complex would take even ASHLIE a long time to figure out, though it's far from impossible. It's simply not trivial. Considering even a 'normal' human has hundreds upon hundreds of different muscles, and that Will is capable of both a finer level and wider range of movement and effects on even the molecular level, there were a lot of variables to take into account.

Trial and error might be the order of the day. That, and possibly simplification.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:55 pm

"What a mess." she notes and decides to just go with a trail and error approach until she has enough data to make some sense of it.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:01 pm

~Several hours later~

Quite a few things had been knocked over and smashed, and "Will" had spent a lot of time tripping over things and sprawling across the floor, but ASHLIE had a simplified, robotic, almost tin-soldier like movement down. Anything more than that would probably require specific programming written for just that occasion.

At some point, "Will" had bumped into the monitor, turning it off, meaning Will couldn't see what was going on.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:05 pm

"This is a worse interface than Surgeon Simulator or QWOP. How do humans deal with this everyday?" she muses as she awkwardly walks back and forth on wobbly legs.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:07 pm

By removing some "unnecessary" muscles and organs, ASHLIE would find Will significantly easier to control, though he looked more and more like the Pillsbury Dough Boy the more she simplified.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:15 pm

"Will, I need your help refining these algorithms." she says, turning the monitor back on when she notices that it had gotten turned off at some point.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:22 pm

Will was snoring, sprawled out in the field. "Hrzzwah?" he said, coherently, as the monitor came back on.

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:33 pm

"Have you been asleep this whole time?"

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