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As a very sociable introvert, I feel seen.
😂 same
Through a series of understandable miscommunications, every year Starfleet Academy has between 5 and 10 course requests for “Partying” from incoming Vulcan applicants.
At least one Vulcan each year withdrawals their application upon being told it is not a field of study taught by any human school.
What about Chico State? I was told that is a “Party School.”
Vulcans take improv classes to act “normal.” They’re a surprise onstage because they never play the straight man. Being that one degree off from their sincere personality is confusing, difficult, and psychologically troublesome. But they can take a pratfall with comedic timing analyzed to the millisecond.
… actually, improv comedy is a great way to demonstrate understanding of a culture. Vulcans would make analytic connections between subjects in a heartbeat, and with some training they’d be excellent lateral thinkers. The gap between that and comedy is understanding expectations and violating them in a way that safely builds and releases tension.
Vulcans could tell brick jokes separated by months. You would never get them with a shaggy-dog story. They might have absurd reaction times for comebacks, but it would be limited, because I don’t think they’d handle wordplay. You’d never hear a Vulcan mutter “that’s what she said” in a timely fashion.
Isn’t that how most people socialize at parties? Some people can do it naturally, but I figure most people are pretending. I frequently ask myself “What would a normal human do in this situation?”
As a introvert, that pretending will drain my batteries SO fast.
Everyone else still going four hours in
Me, dead in a corner after hour two
I mean, that’s my experience but I’m neurodivergent. My understanding is that that isn’t the norm for the allistic crowd.
i’d literally rather die than go to a party. unfocused undirected unscheduled endless socializing where i have to pretend like i’m having 100% fun is a torture sentence
This why I love board games. It’s kind of like a small party, but there’s an activity and I’m not weird for focusing on it.
I’m the opposite. Game nights have a protocol on top of socializing so I feel caged up in a mandatory activity. I’m an extreme introvert and I’d rather just sit and listen to everyone else chit chat than to learn a new game, talk about rules, and be forced to interact.
I dunno, maybe it’s different with friends instead of acquaintances. Or if you already know the games.
Bro you are me. I can’t make sense of me and you unless we’re gonna sex or something. I can make sense of us and objective.
Star Trek already did this, except it was Data instead of a Vulcan and he didn’t get a very good grade.
Ngl I would watch that show
They are such overachievers. I would only disappoint my Vulcan daddy and join the Vulcan circus.
I always find it interesting that on the silver screen, AI with superior emotional intelligence is always few and far between. It’s in tons of written sci-fi but for video it’s rare, for some reason.
That’s a good observation! I liked how in “Her” the AI had the appearence of emotional intelligence, but you come to realize it was just using outputs that humans would respond to. Very precient for how GPT et al works.
