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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
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#48176: Mar 20th 2017 at 9:57:24 AM

So less Steven Universe, more fucking Teen Titans Go?

Marvelous.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
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#48178: Mar 20th 2017 at 11:41:15 AM

[up][up] We kinda already had that discussion, mate.

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#48179: Mar 20th 2017 at 12:02:42 PM

Bully for you.

Mate.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#48180: Mar 20th 2017 at 12:13:16 PM

I don't think gems would go to the trouble of having artificial wombs just so the zoomens have pain free births,that seems like a lot of effort and caring on their part for amounts to them as zoo animals

edited 20th Mar '17 12:20:46 PM by Ultimatum

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Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#48181: Mar 20th 2017 at 12:52:45 PM

...Why did I say mate?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#48182: Mar 20th 2017 at 1:02:09 PM

Why wouldn't you say mate?

[up][up]The idea of the zoo humans not knowing that type of pleasure is...IMPOSSIBLE.

edited 20th Mar '17 1:04:40 PM by randomness4

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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Think of the mooks!
#48183: Mar 20th 2017 at 1:02:53 PM

For the topic of why they would even bother with Choosening if they were to plan on external mating in the first place... well, if you're going that route, why bother Choosening instead of doing a Free-Love Future? You're just as likely to continue generations that way, and given that the zoomans are a family unit basically anyhow, it's not like that will result in abandoned children anymore than the actual arrangement.

Honestly, if you think of it, it's kind of strange that a civilization like that of the gems would encourage any sort of romantic pair bonding at all, regardless of whether they let zoomans reproduce naturally or not.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48184: Mar 20th 2017 at 1:07:03 PM

To the gems zoomens are a curiosity,an amusement,allowing to them bond is part that of amusing thing(to the gems) they do.

edited 20th Mar '17 1:07:39 PM by Ultimatum

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#48185: Mar 20th 2017 at 1:24:34 PM

And they're tasty, too!

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48186: Mar 20th 2017 at 2:08:43 PM

Get your free tasty human with every happy meal!

edited 20th Mar '17 2:09:10 PM by Ultimatum

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#48187: Mar 20th 2017 at 2:13:09 PM

Gems aim To Serve Man.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#48188: Mar 20th 2017 at 3:45:04 PM

and more important, the zoomans are not allow to chose or bond, they can feel but barely, in a way is a reflexion of gems: they are form most part very child like in their emocional devoptment.

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thatother1dude from Land of the Ill, Annoyin' Since: Jan, 2001
#48189: Mar 20th 2017 at 11:07:13 PM

why bother Choosening instead of doing a Free-Love Future?
The same reason they're told how to do everything else: to make sure they're always happy. Choosing partners leads to rejection, and we saw how that went.

You're just as likely to continue generations that way,
The mates may be chosen for the sake of maintaining genetic variety—if the starting population was much less than a thousand unrelated people, there'd be a serious threat of everyone becoming too inbred to sustain themselves.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#48190: Mar 21st 2017 at 4:22:00 AM

The same reason they're told how to do everything else: to make sure they're always happy. Choosing partners leads to rejection, and we saw how that went.

The Choosening Algorithm done fucked up there, honestly. It should have picked up on Greg not being open to that.

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JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#48191: Mar 21st 2017 at 6:51:26 AM

Well, Greg's new. And it's not like Gems are any good at understanding humans.

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#48192: Mar 21st 2017 at 7:02:27 AM

He's also the first new tenant in ages.

Long enough perhaps to forget how to deal with people that haven't already been indoctrinated into the system. And even so he followed along pretty well up until the point of Choosening. Greg is a mellow guy.

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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#48193: Mar 21st 2017 at 7:08:14 AM

Well, a dystopian Free-Love Future (certainly what the gems would have built - nobody's under any utopian illusions here) eliminates the concept of rejection on a societal level - you wouldn't have to worry about rejection because nobody would even think to reject anyone else. And it's not like the gems didn't have time or the inclination to socially engineer the zoomans that much - it's clear that they already have.

Regardless of the actual method chosen for reproduction, though, I suspect that the computer responsible for Choosening was deliberately trying to match up people for reproduction to minimize genetic defects and/or bottlenecks. If so, that means that Greg's selection in Choosening was inevitable - he was a fresh influx of genetic material, and thus necessary for the zoo's operation. If that sounds disturbing... well, yeah, that's the point.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#48194: Mar 21st 2017 at 8:09:44 AM

I just wonder what they're going to do about the Zoomans. They don't have a ship anymore.

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
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#48195: Mar 21st 2017 at 10:33:47 AM

Space 'em

It'll be the ultimate adventure.

For about thirty seconds.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48196: Mar 21st 2017 at 12:15:48 PM

> I just wonder what they're going to do about the Zoomans. They don't have a ship anymore.

What about finding a working warp pad that takes them there?The planet has them all over,they even had one linking them to Homeworld before it was busted up

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#48197: Mar 21st 2017 at 12:35:25 PM

It didn't seem like they had a warp at the space station. And it seems like the kind of place where they wouldn't give normal gems that kind of access.

They have the giant hand's wreckage in Amethyst's room IIRC. So I think they could maybe get Peridot and Pearl to build their own ship with that?

edited 21st Mar '17 12:36:18 PM by xanderiskander

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48198: Mar 21st 2017 at 1:03:23 PM

Sure,but I think for reassembling a spaceship you need someone alongside Pearl and Peridot,someone who's speciality is building things,someone like Bismuth fits the part

edited 21st Mar '17 1:03:56 PM by Ultimatum

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012
#48199: Mar 21st 2017 at 1:05:58 PM

Pearl and Peridot have no problem building things. The show makes it a point that their "roles" don't really matter all that much. Pretty sure Bismuth acknowledges that too.

The other thing is if there were a warp to the zoo wouldn't they have just figured out how to use that in the first place?

edited 21st Mar '17 1:07:32 PM by xanderiskander

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#48200: Mar 21st 2017 at 1:07:13 PM

Only if were actively searching for one,since they already had the ruby ship they had no reason to

edit:but yeah roles don't necessarily matter,and those two gems can build stuff because we've seen it them build fighting robots before,but making a spacecraft from the handship's wreckage would be tall order even for them

You've also got Centi's ship,maybe they could get that working again?

Really there are actually now more interesting possibilities now they no longer have the ruby ship

edited 21st Mar '17 1:33:52 PM by Ultimatum

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