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How about a combination abomination of Sanford and the sun from episode 3?

Day 120: Sunford (again)

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Today, right after my mom was taken into surgery, I donated blood for her. Two minutes later, I fainted and stayed unconscious for half an hour.

Why? Severe malnutrition. This is what hunger does to us.

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my new madcom oc. yellow.

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Could you (theoretically) take Magalors hand and just walk away with it? Would it hurt? Is there a gravitational pull? When you let go does it just fling back to him?

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my abridged thoughts on how these four doofuses feel about each other, i will elaborate if asked (please ask)

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gotta love roller coaster tycoon

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grunts are made of code (theory)

hi. i've been trying to figure out how to word this, but basically this is my theory/headcanon for how grunts work, what they're made of. of course, grunts bleed and seem to be made of organic matter, but what about their S-3LFS? how they operate? well, basically, in my mind grunts are made of code. i'll go into this and explain why i think this.

also obvious disclaimer this i just for fun! this isn't matpat game theory where im trying to prove this is actually canon, just my own thought. :) (thank you also to my friend @/fluffydeoxys for the idea, i was inspired by their posts)

TLDR: grunts are made of code and i think that because of several instances in the series, and also a second part about them potentially sharing code.

so for this theory, in my mind basically the code is embedded directly into a grunts' S-3LF, the culmination of their being, what they're made of, etc. throughout the whole series(but more specifically in later entries), there's a present aesthetic of code/glitching, and i think (IN MY OPINION) that it shouldn't be ignored as just an aesthetic choice, so in this theory it's a lot more literal.

i'll go ahead and show the biggest and most obvious example of grunts dna being made of code; scrapeface/an experiment 1.

we see this guys, scrapeface, code being tampered with by their hands being separated from their body, causing a literal glitch. just like a program being corrupted, it starts bugging out and being unstable until an actual crash (in the form of scrapeface blowing up) indeed, all parts of a grunt, their hands and feet, are all important to their metadata.

now you might think, 'ok but an experiment's whole thing is that it's a glitchy horror, scrapeface is just an outlier' good news i have many more examples of this happening!

as you can see, both times sanford (and hank/deimos) are referred to as subjects, and this dialogue is being written as code. auditor trying to obtain sanford is basically like auditor trying to rewrite sanford's code, to locate his file. as we know, auditor is very capable of changing the programming of grunts and corrupting them.

i feel like it wouldn't be unfair to say that doc's recovery of others is reliant on him knowing code, he is a hacker after all. and it just so happens that another character to help revive another happens to also be a hacker.

i mean how else would you explain this

and again here, in mc8, auditor literately coding jeb to infect him with a virus. like how would he be able to do that if he couldn't literately edit and tamper with jeb's metadata?

and apparently you can just easily edit a grunt's data with cmd and some hightech computers so uh. stay safe, grunts.

tricky being generally corrupted is often depicted with gibberish nonsensical code, or straight up errors, which makes sense because that damn clown's code got fucked up by dissonance reality long ago.

also: this isn't a secret to them either, grunts are fully aware of what they're made of.

i think here is an example of them knowing, phobos talks about a 'combat boost' like that's just a normal thing you can give to yourself, but to me that reads as him speaking literately about hofnarr changing his own internal stats. like how in the game you can see your own stats and it's all numbered.

there's many more examples of this code-talk in the series, and i wish i had better explanations as to what they mean but admittedly i am blind when it comes to coding lingo.(but i've also been told a lot of the code actually doesn't make any sense) so now i want to get to my second part of the theory where it gets more meta.

code sharing

OK ILL BE REAL a lot of this part is just because i really like the idea, i'm aware it's very meta-y and literal. but just hear me out!

basically, two grunts are able to share code with each other. now, how this is possible isn't fully clear, but basically it's a process where you can literately share (copying and pasting sort of) code into another person.

my example of this is very meta, but within the game's actual code itself, many characters and enemies/ncps share animations. and this includes doc, who shares many of hank's animations and attacks.

(compiled using the MPNDossier) but doc isn't the only person who happens to share code with another character.

(compiled using the MPNDossier) ......YEAH!

but my problem with this idea is that the question becomes 'okay...why are they sharing code? what does that do?' because i feel like the answer kind of varies.

the first idea that i think is most plausible is that it serves as a sort of business contract. 'you work for me', or maybe 'we work together'. i feel like we can rule out the idea that it's to share the same strength/power, doc is the weakest link in S.Q, so there's no way he's as powerful as hank. (THAT'S NOT SLANDER THAT'S JUST A FACT)

now what the extent of the code sharing does, i'm not sure. i have some ideas for how they actually manage to do it, but considering in both instances it involves two characters who have a lot to do with hacking and coding, i feel like you need to be knowledgeable in that to be able to share code.

my other proof: during the phobos fight in mpn, when phobos strikes this pose when summoning his little demon guys, jeb does the exact same pose and doesn't move.

which means... something. i'm sure it means something for sure.

so yeah, i think that's about it from me, thank you for reading if you did. and again i'm not trying to say this is 1000% canon, it's just more for fun and a kind of neat idea.

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I'm trying to transfer everything from google docs to other stuff because of everything they're doing, but realized that my only solid collection of refs for one of my ocs is on Google Slides. Is there a genuinely good alternatively for that that's not powerpoint?

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don’t mind my cooky thought but

What if we have been looking at Deimos’s death wrongly all these years?

Specifically I mean, in what it meant to Sanford. Lots of talk ever since Aggregation that, were he not in the active throes of battle, he would have broke down and mourned. That he should be grieving inside on top of all of the pain and fear he suffered in a Clown-then-Auditor run hell. That he should be just about tired of it and so alone and hopeless and teetering on the brink of truly nothing left to lose.

It’s a great narrative. It’s gripping and it makes sense knowing how much these two genuinely care about each other in a world otherwise so heartless, how much they’ve been through together…

But the thing that really bugs me about that idea in hindsight, is that out of everyone, Sanford is the character that fights and pulls through the most like someone who still has something to put up a hell of a fight for. Out of everything he’s done, I just can’t make rhyme or reason out of despair. Frustration? Incredible rage? Yes. A very old art piece of San by Krink himself still on NG is straight up titled “For Deimos”, and as inconsequential that may be, it just sticks in my head a lot for the implication. Could that be what this much stubbornness to survive is about, then? Bitter vengeance, and no rest short of seeing that through to the end?

I don’t think so either. I just don’t. Sanford and Deimos have both seen the cheapness of death in a Nevada where Nexus rose, fell, rose again, and fell again. A Nevada where Hank Wimbleton has died many times, where they killed Hank Wimbleton, and he always came back one way or another. A Nevada where for years they have worked under the Dissenter, who’s more involved than almost any other being alive with researching the nature and very limits of life and death and beyond, and yielded inarguable results. They had literally been sent to bring Hank back from beyond the veil again right before the agency had gotten Deimos.

They definitely knew. Sanford knew Doc would have had plans in advance for less than the best case scenario. Seeing that bullet-ridden corpse was a biting, infuriating sting, but it would NOT be a goodbye,

If and only if his team did not lose the battle they were still engaged in.

That’s the missing piece that finally clicked in my head. That’s the fodder, I hold, for the really interesting questions, like “What if there was one hope left in his mind that carried him through, unbreakable, unkillable even in the face of cosmic horrors and the overwhelming odds against him alone?” or “Do you ever think he ironically expected he was going to be the one who was offering, instead of taking a hand that pulled another out from a literal hell?”

But I’m just wondering myself, really.

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everytime something has a mostly female cast theres a million people who are like Ok but what if there are boys 😊 because i like boys 🩷 and it makes me sad when there arent any 😢 and we need to start treating this as plainly misogynistic because it is

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Any man who's thin is a twink and any man who isn't thin is a bear unless he's fat then he's an incel because I think he's gross which makes him dangerous and bad

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sometimes i think about the 2b plush ad and it just makes me so giddy. this man goes on monologues while doing something as simple as playing a crane game. he interrupts said monologues to get mad at the machine not working. he's irritated that such a smart man like himself is bested by a claw machine. it's so funny..

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...... oh, but at least he's cute with it?

(based on the auditor plushie. it's so. SO fucking cute. i cannot deal.)

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yayyyy more dooble

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friendly reminder that some pride flags have a lot of meaning behind their symbols and to do research before making pride merch/designs. The intersex flag has a circle to show that we are whole, not broken, and breaking up the circle/leaving it incomplete is considered improper since it undermines the meaning of the circle in the first place 👍

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You need to move off of Google Docs!

I know some people have seen the news recently and may be doubtful of it. To the uninformed, Google Docs has started using AI to find "inappropriate" and "problematic" content, scraping your documents and deleting it. I know some people are unsure if this is real or think this is not going to affect them.

I regret to inform you that this is real.

As I was on a call with some writers and we were moving our documents as a precautionary measure, one person discovered entire pages missing that they did not delete themselves. This is happening to us, it's not a hoax or a rumor, it's happening right now. You need to move everything if you want to preserve it.

If you're a writer with writer mutuals, please reblog this so they know. I rarely write on Google Docs anymore, but I started my fanfics on there, and I would be devastated if I lost works more than ten years old because people decided marketing appeal is more important than creative freedom.