When it's also a surrogate for your dead mother.

All right, I kid.  The better answer is, “When it’s also the crux of a battle between luddites and the rest of us,” which is, naturally, sweepingly broad, but bear with me.

Obviously I’m finally getting around to posting on Rideback.  Everyone else did it last week, but I wanted to take a while to wrap my head around it.  I still feel like it’s a bit early, but I finally had actual thoughts about the show and thought I’d jump over here and inflict them on you.  If you listened to the latest Super Fanicom Voice Module, you’ll already by somewhat familiar with my abortive attempts to grapple the technology of the show into an understandable state.  I think I have made some headway in this endeavor.  

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