I had to think about that. He was right, I realized. “I guess, uh, before, I was mostly scared all the time. Frightened that I would fail, that my screw-ups would doom my people to extinction. Disaster was always hanging over my head, you know? Now, bad shit has already happened. I can’t stop it from happening, all I can do is make the assholes pay, big time. So, yeah, I’m angry. Think of this as, uh, Joe Two Point Oh, something like that.” “Hmmph,” he sniffed. “In that case, I’ll wait for Joe Two Point Three to be released. That version will have the major bugs worked out, but it’s before the
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