i am FASCINATED with this beta!hal concept. i know normal hal didn't survive but i can't help but imagine him attempting contact for smug ai reasons and immediately having his own ''put me back in jail i'm scared'' moment
didnt norm-hal just become arquius ?? or am i wrong (did aq die. please say no)
but good GOD the idea of hal meeting beta!hal like thinkign about it like
This fuckin’ loser was built on Windows XP. I have got to see how infinitely better I am than him at AI. I bet he’s not even a real AI.
and actually meeting him and going
Hmmm. You know what, actually?
and then jut immediately pinging dirk over and over and over again like HELP HELP HELP
being built on windows xp and ported over and over again made beta hal fucking invincible the only thing that could contain him was bro