A Calculated Estimation

[i_like_your]

There is nothing to suggest the local date accurately conforms to the 14th of February.

These sentiments are illogical.

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[ichoosefight.livejournal.com]

Happy Valentine's Day! [ Steph is secretly a joy troll. ]

[i_like_your]

Merry Christmas.

[ichoosefight.livejournal.com]

Happy Holidays is more politically correct.

[i_like_your]

It is still illogical.

[ichoosefight.livejournal.com]

Because everything humans do is soooo logical.

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[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

I must admit, this is the most sensible assertion I have come across in the past week.

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[i_like_your]

"There is no reason for such spontaneous agreement of a mere suspicion."

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[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

Isn't there? Did you only announce your postulation to be countered?

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[i_like_your]

"I was not referring to my statement."

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[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

Pray tell, then, what did you intend?

{Pfft. Women.}

He was just bitching about this in another thread

[hatestriangles]

Yeah, the way I figure it, it should be March right about now. The system's fucking arbitrary.

Some other characters of mine would agree, but that would be futile!

[i_like_your]

Differing terms of reference are to be expected.

Without relevant celestial cartography, I cannot procure an approximate date.

ALAS more than one E in one thread would be too much for us to handle

[hatestriangles]

Relevant celestial cartography? Who talks like that?

Implosions all OVER the place...

[i_like_your]

The description is accurate.

SERIOUSLY. I'd be worried.

[hatestriangles]

Accurate? Maybe. But it's fucking weird.

[You crazy robot, you.]

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

I agree. By my reckoning, it should be September.

[i_like_your]

Self-preservation should dictate resistance to assumptions. Oddly, you seem to be a minority.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

Yes. You'll find that the majority of the barge has no interest in critically examining what goes on around it. They just accept whatever the Admiral says at any particular moment.

[i_like_your]

It is a dangerous presumption.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree. It never helps.

[most_feared]

The date of February 14th correlates with the dates of two previous ports and the Barge's celebration of Christmas and Halloween according to Western custom.

[i_like_your]

Then you make assumptions based on faith and nothing more?

Pavlovian reinforcement is a common interrogation technique.

[most_feared]

No, this isn't making assumptions based on faith. This is making a calculation based upon two correlating dates recognized by the Barge's Admiral that I was present for and previous incidents before my arrival. While everyone's arrival times differ he's set up a seasonal standard to keep everyone on the same page, reinforced by artificially induced environmental changes.

The date was obviously supposed to be February 14th.

[i_like_your]

No.

The ship has been navigated through an environmentally influenced path. Paths are prone to alteration. This is not the same as being reliable for use as a reference guide.

Nor can it necessarily be assumed as accurate.

[most_feared]

The ship is in constant motion through environmentally influenced paths, but within the ship even with environmental influence, the date that is recognized is an Earth standard and he always returns to that standard setting. It's not congruent with my 19 month calendar, but for the sake of continuity that has been what's chosen to dictate ship time.

So unless he throws another Christmas port at us and riddles the ship full of parasitic dingleberries again I'm sticking to pre-existing temporal settings.