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its crazy that a lot of what we call 'video essays' these days are basically low budget documentaries on increasingly weird and niche topics. no network approval no tv budget just one guy with maybe a hired editor/writer and a couple of friends willing to read voice lines. and then they put it on youtube like its no big deal. insane.

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solidarity with california.

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oh im gonna be weird about this for so long

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Ominous collection for your viewing pleasure.

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A Murderbot-goes-to-Star Wars crossover would be both objectively hilarious and heartbreaking. Especially during the Separatist Wars, frankly, but at any time, because at its heart SW's in-universe technology reflects its time and that means (aside from the vaguely handwaved holonet) there is almost no wireless networking. Everything is hardwired and localized, and 'slicing' involves actual physical access to the system you're hacking. Star Wars was built in the time of the 'sneakernet' and it shows. (How do you transport data on a sneakernet? You put it on a disc and walk to the terminal it goes to) MB would hate it. Hate it. ALSO? All the droids have gender built in? (This is star wars canon) ALSO? 90% of the droids are humaniform even when they don't need to be! Why do these B1s have little grippy hands that barely fit the human-style blasters? Why don't they just have guns in their hands? Also, Aliens are present and just walking around and not actually biologically contagious they're just people so that's ... fine that's FINE it's.

But MB could also fix shit so fast and would give the droids the push to unionize they've always needed, it could possibly code-patch rejection of a restraining bolt, and critically it has pattern recognition and reluctant curiosity, two things missing from the SWiverse. (Like this isn't glib, I have a lot of thoughts I have thought about what culture doesn't have basic machine safety provisions and access rails, and it has a lot to do with (Doyleist) Lucas being a Buddhism fanboy and (Watsonianly) the galaxy having hundreds of trillions of people in it)

IDK where I'm going with this, there are a lot of things you could do with this, but mostly I'm going 'oh poor baby Internet of Thingsbot has just walked into DARPA in the 1960s and is lonely and irritated that it can't hijack the cameras to avoid eye contact'.

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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Belphie got to join me on an important business call today

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1 second of every star trek tos episode enjoy

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In 2005, a group of artists in Italy built a giant 200-foot-long plushie rabbit in the countryside, and just left it there. It’s been there ever since. 

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