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Microwave Pizza

divorce themed restaurant menu

dessert: CUSTARDy Battle

yeah that's all i've got so far sorry

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Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."

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I'm always saying this

i’m sick and tired of people pretending that burger isn’t delicious just to clown on americans. america deserves the ridicule, but why’s burger catching strays? burger did nothing wrong

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There are only two jobs left in the world and it's making sandwiches or killing people

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There's something that bothers me a little about the complaints that the Preservation Alliance team aren't "professional" in the show compared to the books, and I think it's just... I have a different idea of what professional science looks like.

Even in the books, we don't actually see the team do that much science. They take some "samples", and SecUnit thinks of them as professionals, but other than SecUnit's internal monologue, they don't do that much more than in the show. They actually talk more about their work in the show than in the books!

I wonder if some of it is that the Preservation Alliance doesn't fit what people's idea of a competent scientist, particularly a competent scientist on TV, looks like. They're expecting the Big Bang Theory, or Gurathin bent over a computer terminal muttering "I'm in" as green code plays across his face, or Arada rattling off a bunch of jargon while dissecting an alien creature, or Bharadwaj IDing the alien remnant based on rocks or something. And that's not really how science actually... works.

Honestly, as a scientist, this is one of the more realistic depictions of actual science I could expect from a TV show, unless you wanted to watch several hours of people working quietly at their computers with expressions of various levels of exhaustion, annoyance, and stress on their faces, or sorting samples, or wandering around staring at the dirt, or sitting around debating the nature of "nature" and the ethical implications of terraforming or whatever (which would be cool, but also, not plot relevant, I'll just assume it's happening off-screen). I could sort half my coworkers by which character they're most like: the upbeat professor who's always trying to help (Bharadwaj), the hippy biologist who freaks out about disturbing 'natural processes' (Arada), the extra-friendly super outgoing possibly ADHD guy (Ratthi), and the overly cynical constantly complaining about capitalism and swearing over his grants analyst (Gurathin). I don't know who's got the open marriage because I prefer not to know about the sex lives of my coworkers, but I know some are in pretty messy relationships - that don't spill over into their work. Because they are professionals.

Basically, I look at this show and I see - my office. So when people say that they're not competent, that they're bumbling or not good scientists, honestly, it's kind of annoying. They're people, not just scientists, with stuff going on outside of their work, namely: someone's trying to kill them, something that absolutely none of them are prepared for. You don't learn how to handle that in grad school! Of course they're going to be messy and make mistakes - that's what people do. Scientists too.

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narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"

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Gurathin's backstory as the company spy explains his mistrust of Murderbot so much better than the general "been hurt by the company and don't trust it or anything that comes from it" we had until now. It's way more personal, because HE has been in Murderbot's position, and knows what he could have done, if he hadn't been somehow saved by Mensah. Owned and controlled by the company, intent on doing things he didn't want and knew were wrong. That's why unlike others he's not comforted by MB hacked governor module reveal - after all, he has no governor module and was still played like a puppet, because there are other means of control. (Like for example the company might catch a rogue SecUnit and instead of melting it down right away, threaten that they will, unless it agrees to work on some non-standard operations that need more flexibility than controlled SecUnits could provide; it's conceivable)

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Murderbot 1.07 Complementary Species

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Murderbot and Mensah "being calm"

All Systems Red // Exit Strategy // Martha Wells

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Headcanon - the reason tv!MB sometimes refers to Sanctuary Moon episodes like “episode 537” and other times like “the fourth episode of season sixteen” is because it torrented bootlegged files of them and the various torrent uploaders all used different file naming conventions.

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Murderbot: SecUnits don't have dopamine

Me: baby I'm pretty sure you're just depressed actually

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Why doesn’t Murderbot have gender?

Because gender is a social construct, and Murderbot is an anti-social construct.

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rly funny to me that SecUnit gets most of what it wants by going up to bots and asking nicely

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In a perfect world Trans Women would only need to be tucked one place: into bed

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the smut I'm reading: I shattered into a million pieces. I didn't care if I was ever put back together again.

me, a dumbass: hehe *I shat*

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The secunit

It destroyed it's governor module

Yes

YES

The secunit is out