"Mmhm. Would your dad buy that it was a squinting test even with these weird things happening, though?"

"What weird things?"

"Like, you tell him to expect a thing, something completely different happens, etc."

"I could tell him it's a test of your control at range on low feedback."

"Yeah, guess that could work."

"Windflower's not busy, should I get Dad?"

"Yeah, sure!"

So Lorica calls her dad over and Transit plays Go Fish with Windflower and expects as told and Lorica runs all the tests again in a different order.

And it takes longer and the conclusion seems to be: diminishing returns.

"Okay, so having a vast crowd believing in you won't help that much except in the sense that it's much better than a vast crowd being skeptical at you."

"Yeah, and I mean, the vast crowd is still skeptical by default, so."

"Yeah. But a few skeptics will cancel out a lot of positive expectation. So you need to be very careful about Internet haters getting any traction."

"Mmhm. Need to be very likeable and charming and such. But I was kinda expecting that, so."

Glam blinks, and laughs. "That is amazing and adorable."

"Yeah. But I mean, I still don't think it's that worrisome, most heroes aren't fakes and unless I give people specific reason to expect I am they shouldn't."

"Contradictory links?"

"Somebody says, 'Glam can't do X', bot is there to demonstrate that you have done X on camera."

"Oh! Yes, good. Good bot. Although I mean, people know you know me, so they might think it's being partisan?"

"We know each other, but I don't have a history of defending anybody else via bot, including my dad, and it's also in the bot's profile that I'm not directing it in detail."

"Yeah, fair enough. And part of the reason I like you is that you wouldn't defend me if I didn't deserve it, soooo." Grin.

"Deserve it and need it. Plenty of perfectly decent people don't need the boost."

"Right, yes, what I meant."