[The T-800 would rather not use valuable resources to dwell on whether or not he has a personality. It will lead into wondering if he's a person, and it's already hard enough realizing the topic isn't as black and white as his programming had initially permitted it to be. Ever since the limitations SkyNet had placed on CPU as read-only had been disabled, he has felt — 'off', as the humans would say. Vaguely, in a way that he cannot determine to be positive or not.
But also. Stop laughing like that.
It's unsettling and weird when it's not humans. Especially when it's not obnoxious ten-year-olds; he at least was used to the obnoxious 10-year-olds. The adult human resistance, not so much. They didn't have anything to laugh about. Truth be told, he is far more experienced at handling the sounds of humans screaming before they die.
Anyway, he doesn't give the needling any outward mind.
Instead, he offers a response to the latter commentary.]
Correct. Humanity has been temporarily saved from the brink of extinction.
[Because the apocalypse has been evaded. Temporarily, at the minimum. The T-800 does not have the sort of blind human optimism that tells him there will be peace, or that the timeline will not be tangled into a grim future again thanks to the desperation of SkyNet. But for now, he has completed his mission. With his destruction, there is no current threat to the Connors, nor to humanity. In that regard, he feels a strange sense of 'ease' that he is not sure he can properly extrapolate on.
His head turns stiffly.]
What are your directives.
[It's technically a question. In a. Commanding sort of way.]
no subject
But also. Stop laughing like that.
It's unsettling and weird when it's not humans. Especially when it's not obnoxious ten-year-olds; he at least was used to the obnoxious 10-year-olds. The adult human resistance, not so much. They didn't have anything to laugh about. Truth be told, he is far more experienced at handling the sounds of humans screaming before they die.
Anyway, he doesn't give the needling any outward mind.
Instead, he offers a response to the latter commentary.]
Correct. Humanity has been temporarily saved from the brink of extinction.
[Because the apocalypse has been evaded. Temporarily, at the minimum. The T-800 does not have the sort of blind human optimism that tells him there will be peace, or that the timeline will not be tangled into a grim future again thanks to the desperation of SkyNet. But for now, he has completed his mission. With his destruction, there is no current threat to the Connors, nor to humanity. In that regard, he feels a strange sense of 'ease' that he is not sure he can properly extrapolate on.
His head turns stiffly.]
What are your directives.
[It's technically a question. In a. Commanding sort of way.]