Is it programming, or just being written badly? Sometimes in a story, you can see only one part and you forget there are others to see.
You need to stop fighting them, if you're going to find a truce, or they'll always win. They won't let you use them as weapons, Jennifer, even if you want to, if they don't. What do you suggest then? The clocks keep [...] getting broken.
I have a piano. I just don't play it much these days.