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ʜɪ, ɪ'ᴍ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ. (notaperson) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2018-10-12 21:38:00

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!network post, crowley (spn), janet, jason mendoza, justice of toren, kurt wagner / nightcrawler (616), nadia van dyne / wasp (616)

I would like to take a moment to remind you that my name is Janet. One essential part of my programming is to assist in anything I can for any human being. It appears that this only works for the Displaced, as there are fourteen Janets in town, and I have not yet been called to any of their houses. I would recommend that when you ask to talk to Wasp AKA Janet Van Dyne, that you not say the full name. Thankfully, she prefers Jan over Janet, and then I won't show up in any strange and bizarre situations such as the one I found myself in when she was scolding herself over a dress design.

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	waspish 2018-10-13 04:47 am UTC (link)
	That might make things a little awkward, especially if it's a serious conversation. But you seem nice! No offense! I think you two would have gotten along. I just don't want to accidentally summon you somewhere without your consent. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-13 05:35 am UTC (link)
	I will get with Michael to see if there's a way to change the programming to include another word, such as Hey, to avoid any potential mishaps. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	waspish 2018-10-13 05:38 am UTC (link)
	That's probably much safer! But it still sounds like somebody could exploit it. Do you have the choice to not show up if you don't want to, or prevent certain people from calling you? Like a blocked number? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-13 05:41 am UTC (link)
	I can go offline and return to my void. Unfortunately, blocking a person is not possible without the potential for catastrophic glitches. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	waspish 2018-10-13 05:41 am UTC (link)
	Then hopefully nobody is a jerk about it! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-13 05:44 am UTC (link)
	This isn't usually a problem in the Good Place. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	waspish 2018-10-13 06:13 am UTC (link)
	How do you get to the Good Place, anyway? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-14 12:36 am UTC (link)
	Everything human beings do in life has a point scale. Telling a woman to "smile" will dock your total points by 53.83. Giving out full size candy bars at Halloween would give you 630.20 points. At the end of your life, the accountants tally everything up and your total will tell us if you go to the Good or Bad place. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	waspish 2018-10-14 12:57 am UTC (link)
	Oh. I don’t think I’ve done either of those things. But if you give away candy bars just because you know it’s good, does it really count? So... Do you know how many points somebody has? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-14 01:05 am UTC (link)
	That's a good question. No, the intention behind it has to be pure. I have access to the point totals of the people in my dimension, but once I arrived here, I was cut off from that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

waspish
2018-10-14 02:34 am UTC (link)

But do you think it's fair? Not everyone is in the financial position to give out candy bars, even if they'd have wanted to. Isn't the system skewed in the favor of people that don't have hardships to overcome? What about people that do the wrong things for the right reasons?

I see. I was just wondering about my father. But I don't think things work the same way in my world.

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notaperson
2018-10-14 02:37 am UTC (link)

No, that was an example. Other examples are singing a child to sleep, stepping over a flower bed carefully, sneezing into your arm instead of on the people in front of you. The things that get you the post points are things money cannot buy. Intent is always taken into account as well. I know a person who raised billions for charity, but their intent was to outdo someone, not for the people she was helping. That left her well into the negative.

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waspish
2018-10-14 02:44 am UTC (link)

I guess, you must know more about it than I do. It just seems like some good people get stuck in bad situations... If I died before I escaped the Red Room, would that be what I was judged on even though I've gone on to do good things since then? Is potential taken into account at all? Some people aren't given the chance to be better. It just seems sad, because some of the best people I know had questionable pasts.

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notaperson
2018-10-14 03:22 am UTC (link)

Unfortunately, all point totals stop the moment you die. Hardships, privilege, and upbringing are accounted for to a certain extent. If you're under a certain age, your actions are tallied differently because you are not in control of your facilities completely. For example, children made to do terrible things at the hands of a guardian will not lose points. The guardian will lose a great many for forcing a child to do those things. The system is not as straightforward as it seems.

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	waspish 2018-10-14 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Okay. But are people given second chances, if they didn't realize they were so bad? Where's the line drawn, exactly? What about people that are in the middle and are almost "good enough" but don't quite make it? Can't they get some extra credit? Sorry I have so many questions! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-14 03:29 am UTC (link)
	I'm sorry, but knowing there's a punishment or reward after skews the numbers, and as I said, intentions count. I am here to answer all of your questions. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	waspish 2018-10-14 03:37 am UTC (link)
	You're friends with that Jason guy, right? The one that tried to steal food from a restaurant? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-14 03:39 am UTC (link)
	Yes, I know him. We were married in one of my reboots. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	waspish 2018-10-14 03:51 am UTC (link)
	Aww, I guess love comes in the most unexpected places. So are you helping him or something? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notaperson 2018-10-14 03:55 am UTC (link)
	I am forbidden from helping in the Real World. I'm simply an informational delivery vessel designed to assist those in the Good Place. Things became complicated when I was stolen and rebooted over 800 times. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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