loserofandraste:

I was browsing Castor’s wiki page for reasons and happened upon a tidbit that made me do a double, then a triple, then a quadruple take:

“Unconfirmed conflicting reports describe his origin as a ‘low-priority actuarial algorithm illegally co-opted identity of the obsolete protocol. More investigation required for verification.’”

And idk about everyone else but I’m reading this as “He was a completely different program that took on the identity of Zuse/Castor” and I’m living for that interpretation. Pours gallons of fuel on the question of whether or not a program could gain an entirely new identity with the right amount of time and resources (i.e. a misplaced disk that still harbors a different program’s memory and data)

…. ACTUARIAL?????