Who is Waddley Hasselhoff?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:31 pm

It says right here in The Abject Laws of Alter-Ego Posting

Alter-Egos are not allowed to vote in speculation polls alluding to the validity of a suspected Alter-Ego being a real person

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:32 pm

I have done some extensive studying (and clicking) and have come to the conclusion that Waddley is a computer program created by Paul Allen in 1989. It became self-aware around 1993, began collecting bits of culture, slowly forming an identity over the years. Very recently, it registered at Kevin's Watch.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:34 pm

LOL.....the fact is, if I were indeed Waddley, I'd never leave my room. But hey, don't let me dissuade you from this most excellent theory! With my background, I can certainly see why you think this!

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:34 pm

Waddley is VGER?

is she going to shave her head too?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:35 pm

I definately agree with you dAN that's why I choose option 6

So, Ez, you're infering that Dawngreeter is really Waddley? hmmmm

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:45 pm

The Enterprise intercepts the alien cloud, survives its initial assault, and journeys inside the cloud, finding a vast alien vessel, which draws the starship inside. An alien probe appears on the bridge and abducts navigator Lieutenant Ilia, who is replaced by a robotic probe that reveals that she/it has been sent to study the "carbon units" (humans) by something called V'ger. Decker is distraught over the loss of Ilia, with whom he had a romantic history, and is troubled to be assigned to get information from the mechnical doppelganger, which he discovers has Ilia's memories and feelings buried within. Meanwhile, Spock takes a spacewalk into the alien vessel, and attempts to telepathically mind meld with it. In doing so, he learns that the vessel is V'ger itself; a living machine. He also comes to terms with his emotions, realizing that the pure logic V'ger represents is "barren...cold."[1]

The ship gradually journeys to the center of V'ger, where V'ger is revealed to be the unmanned scientific probe Voyager 6, which was part of the Voyager program, and (fictitiously) launched in the "twentieth century". The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines that interpreted its programming as instructions from God to "learn all that is learnable" and return that information to its creator. These machines made V'ger into something capable of fulfilling that mission, and "on its journey back it gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness itself!" However, Spock realizes that what V'ger lacks is the ability to give itself a purpose other than its original mission. Having learned all that is learnable on its journey home, which took V'ger across the Universe, V'ger finds itself empty and without a purpose. Only through the creator can V’ger begin to explore illogical things, such as God, other dimensions, or higher planes of being. In the climax of the film, V'ger (in the person of the Ilia probe) merges with Commander Decker and then vanishes into a higher realm of being, and thus Earth is saved by the crew of the Enterprise.

Post by **Waddley** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:46 pm

So... I have to learn everything there is to be learned, eh?

Can't I just read some books and eat good food?

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:49 pm

it relates to Lord Foul's post I do believe....

Post by **Waddley** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:51 pm

Yeah, I picked that up... I'm a little slow. Thank you

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:51 pm

Yes I understand all that, but Dawngreeter's really a MAN!

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:54 pm

yea, heh, I also found out the hard way that so is taraswizard....heh...

still confused on the dreamcatcher reference?

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:55 pm

Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:So... I have to learn everything there is to be learned, eh?

Can't I just read some books and eat good food?

At this point you're so aware of your awareness that you have no idea you're just a sequence of numbers that simulate the chemical synapses for reading/taste/etc. Heck, you're lucky--getting to live forever inside someone's supercomputer.

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:57 pm

Sorry, edited. Ready to run away if DAWNGREETER sees this thread!

Spoiler

my dreamcatcher's not working today, starts sweating profusely

So, what's the dirt? Did you make an innuendo toward taras'?

If you ever went to Ahira's Hangar you'd know that my best moderator was, indeed, a man (I think). Ready to run away if taraswizard sees this thread!

Post by **Esmer** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:15 pm

no, it was in the chatbane, and since I had an old GF named Tara, and I had never spoken to him before, I just made the wrong assumption, heh

....he was definitely gracious about it, tho....

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:29 pm

So, how did your ex-gf take it?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:34 pm

That's a little too personal, isn't it (check the final option

)

Post by **Waddley** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:34 pm

dANdeLION wrote:So, how did your ex-gf take it?

Same way most women do, lots of noise and flashy lights?

Post by **Esmer** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:35 pm

I'm sure you already know the best answer to that question, dAN, and I will dignify it with a smile and a chuckle......

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:35 pm

Whoa, I think I'm in love...

(dAN? Really?

)

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:36 pm

You know, something about Reverend's avatar puzzles me......

Who is Waddley Hasselhoff?

Who is Waddely Hasselhoff?