## [NSFW] [RT] Steam Engine Time

* Author: u/DataPacRat  *Amateur Immortalist**
* URL: http://www.mcstories.com/SteamEngineTime/index.html
* Score: 8

* Created: 2015-10-24T04:18:57

### Post:

[Link to content](http://www.mcstories.com/SteamEngineTime/index.html)

### Comments:

> **u/xamueljones** [+3]  *My arch-enemy is entropy* (11 hours later)
> 
> Can you briefly give our reasons for posting this story? I just wanted to know what you found rational about this before I start reading it. Thanks. ;)

>> **u/DataPacRat** [+4]  *Amateur Immortalist* (11 hours later)
>> 
>> The end of the story shows two different rational choices I've rarely see elsewhere. In one, [first spoiler](#s "the protagonist does what she feels best for her love interest, even though her love interest would disagree"), and in the other, [second spoiler](#s "the other protagonist has been making at least somewhat rational decisions about how to deal with god-level power for some time.") For the time it was written, the story was even a decent deconstruction of the whole 'Master PC' micro-genre, whose protagonists tended to resemble 'Steam Engine Time''s antagonist.
>> 
>> I will admit that, from the perspective of an LW reader, there's a lack of any interest in exploring Friendly/Unfriendly AI; which can probably be explained by being written before those concepts were much more than "Don't build SkyNet".

> **u/DataPacRat** [+3]  *Amateur Immortalist* (a minute later)
> 
> Very NSFW. One of many stories sharing the conceit of the 'Master PC', and IMO, one of the best of them.
> 
> This story has a prequel, '[Meeting the Master](http://www.mcstories.com/MasterPCMeeting/index.html)'.

>> **u/Transfuturist** [+4]  *Carthago delenda est.* (3 hours later)
>> 
>> I'm reading the original story for context, and I have to say, it is the pinnacle of 90s high school erotica, much like the majority of ASSTR. The setting archive had a story about a nerd named 'Myron.' These people had a body image complex or something...

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