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No they don't. Those whom still keeps a garden has an automatic system for mowing and watering.

What happens when the system goes down?

You repair it of course. Often times the system is powered by solar cells.

I must be too old school to see the sense.

These are the new times.

Doesn't make them better times.

It could be worse, trust me on that. You're not fighting for your existence.

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If you’re not fighting for your existence, you’re not living. A mindless existence is not worth living.

You're not wrong.

And, it don’t sound like ‘burb living is going to be for me.

You'd prefer mowing your lawn yourself?

Just a dream. I had this dream; I’d retire out into the ‘burbs. Get a house with a white picket fence, marry a pretty girl, get one of those ridiculous tea cup size dogs for the girl, have a couple of kids. And spend my weekends mowing the yard, while yelling at the kids to get off my lawn.

Supposedly. Though I think some home-owners' associations require use of a landscaping company..?

What's stopping you from archiving that dream?

Work. I figure, I’ve a couple of more years until I get booted into the old man pasture retirement fields.

Reminds me to avoid like the plague any place with set rules.

Not all rules are bad, [Nessie replies with a smile.]

I'll accept the optimism.

You shouldn't push it up too much. You only have so much time to make it happen.

That’s pretty much about the size of it. You’re young yet, you got enough time to figure out old man retirement plans; so you got time on your side.

My situation is somewhat complicated.

[Snorts.] I heard complicated is a country some place in hell. I've visited. Don't recommend it.

Perhaps things will clear up eventually then.

Always hope. Maybe. This a move the conversation along to talk about something else, cue? Can do that.

Wife, children and a house isn't exactly in my future. I may not even survive the next 6 months.

And, conversation went south fast. Two things, okay, might not mean shit but here they are. One: Your past is not your future. Second? key word there is may and may is not definite. Even if you got an incurable disease, you could get hit by a bus today, tomorrow, because Murphy’s Law has a way of fucking over everyone.

I'll ease your mind right away, I do not have an incurable disease. But the place I come from is at war, and I'm on the disadvantaged side.

With that out of the way... hm how do I put this? I appreciate your concern. The thing is that I simply can't have a wife and children. I don't have the capability. [or y'know the "parts"] I'm technically infertile. I'm also older than I look.

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Yeah, I went in blind to that and threw out a generic response. And I’m suddenly questioning if I need to be fucked up drunk to handle this conversation.

But I’m on a roll dealing with weird shit everywhere else. So run with it, tell me why you’re older than you look; and such.

If you insist. I'm a Host. In laymen's terms, a highly advanced robot. I was programmed and built to mimic a human by Robert Ford. I was constructed 40 years ago in the mid 2050's. I'll never look older than this. I don't age like humans does. My parts will have to be replaced one day and my code updated. But other than that not much will change.

I do have a dick. It works like you'd expect. But it's not going to make anyone pregnant.

And that would account for why no one you know mows lawns. How about you figure out for me why advanced A.I technology are Hosts? Because my definition of Host is having a whole world of trouble figuring it out.

Yeah. That’s more information about your dick than I want to know.

I would ask you to give that question to Robert Ford, my creator. But he's dead. It started as an amusement park but developed into something else. An experiment of immortality and digitalizing the human mind.

And if we don't win this war, humanity will cease to exist.

I’m sorry for your loss.
So basically, end world scenarios don’t change. And future world is same shit, different day, like old world. Okay then.

Did the human you’re mimicking give permission for this A.I host thing?

[He gives the guy a long stare.] If you counted in being ruled by robots, sure.

My personality was built from the ground up. It's not inspired or based upon anyone. As all hosts in Westworld. I'm not "mimicking" anyone. I'm programmed to fit in with and work with humans. Now, there are people outside of Westworld that has been replaced by Hosts. Those are "mimicking" someone, as a way to expand the influence of Delos Inc.

Think I can mark off my conspiracy theories prove true square on my apocalyptic bingo card.

Just questions, don't mean no bad against it. You can't learn if you don't ask questions, right?

That's usually how you learn yes.

Not that I'm entirely sure what use you'd have of it.

Don’t know either. Sometimes it’s just about establishing empathy of another’s situation.