"I get it. Being this handsome goes to my head all the time, too."
Wade nodded. When he saw Hoggoth looking at him in disgust, he snorted. "These are the troubles of a handsome man. An ugly guy like you could never understand, Hoggoth."
"Wade, would you like to try being lost in time forever, repeating the same thing over and over and over...?"
Hoggoth asked with a smile. Wade's eyes lit up. "Like Groundhog Day or Triangle? I'm up for that. Please, you have to let me try."
Hoggoth rolled his eyes. He felt that switching to a robot body must have damaged his brain. Why else would he try threatening a lunatic?
"Wade, stop babbling," The Kung Fu Master said irritably. "Sorry, Mister Lyle. Please continue."
"It's all right. Honestly, I'd love to study this Terminator gentleman. How does a robot develop a mental illness? It's completely beyond anything I could imagine."
Lyle sighed. Everyone looked at Wade, equally curious. Wade shrugged and said, "It's part of my character. Nobody likes a normal Wade. Audiences and readers alike only like crazy Wade.
"So I have to be crazy. I have to crack jokes every day and keep changing women to keep things fresh. It's actually very painful for me, you know?"
"I don't know about the rest, but changing women definitely isn't painful for you."
Galacta delivered that retort, and The Kung Fu Master said helplessly, "Could we please stop going off topic?"
Lyle smiled and continued, "All that success went to my head. Besides, at the time, I thought Skynet was no longer a threat. So although I continued suppressing artificial intelligence, I stopped giving it everything I had.
"At the same time, my control over the company began to slip. I couldn't help it. I'd gotten