[ shakes his head ]

It's not like a protest vote would help anyone — aside from in this one particular instance, apparently. At worst we could end up on some random person who had nothing to do with it.

[ like him, lmao. he kind of wishes he'd done that this time, though. ]

...I know some AIs, and they, like... even if it's supposedly all algorithms, it can get weird. But this kind of feels more like a deliberate human thing, I think. Especially since the company could just stop insisting on this trial shit even if they couldn't stop the actual murders.

That's what I mean though. If people had issues voting for Sheba or Shouxue, they'd have thrown the vote elsewhere, which means tying the vote might've come down to say, four people'c choices. I get it? But if it ends up with someone innocent being thrown into the holding cells, that doesn't help anyone.

[ blunt, but not incorrect. ]

Dunno. The algorithm might've decided that this was a logical course of action, and it's just acting based on that. In which case, we need to figure out how to fix it.

...Yeah. I think we're on the same page there.

[ he's so out of his genre here that it might not seem like it, but he is considered to be the calculating and pragmatic one in his own world. ]

It'd help if we had any idea where to start looking for what needs to be fixed in the first place.

... It also made it easier to tie their vote too. [ which, hoo boy. looks at today. ]

Yeah, we're just drawing a blank there. Unless we figure something out, we're just going to be repeating this pattern.