We have a tacit understanding that I won't listen to him any more than he'll listen to me (or reason,) so I don't need to call his rationale anything to any appreciable effect, though "bot behavior" is quite apropos. We stick to movies, video games and sports; pretty much all else is argument territory. I'm one call away to CPS from getting his daughter (my goddaughter) into my custody if only for her sanity (thank God her mother isn't an idiot.) She's autistic, by the way, and my friend is convinced it was vaccines that caused it because of course it was; couldn't possibly be anything else... Christ, I love the guy, but... Christ.