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System Unit Acknowledge: Identify?

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Thinking about how, in All Systems Red, when Murderbot is going through the DeltFall habitat and realizes that rogue secunits killed all the humans, it thinks to itself something like: "It would be smarter to leave right now and save my humans but I don't want to leave. I want to kill them."

And on a first read, it seems like Murderbot is mad because all of those helpless humans got killed, and it wants to, like, take vengeance on those rogue secunits. That maybe it's also angry and offended that the secunits are doing something so horrible like killing the humans they're supposed to protect.

And then later you find out that Murderbot went rogue once and killed a bunch of helpless humans against its will. And when Murderbot is investigating the crime scene where it happened, it realizes that at least some of the bots were trying to protect the humans back then, and for a second it thinks that maybe not all of the secunits went rogue (turns out it was the sexbots, but that's another post). And then you look back on the DeltFall scene and realize that maybe Murderbot was trying to redo what happened at Ganaka Pit, making it so that it was the bot that didn't go rogue and hunted down all of the others and saved / avenged the humans.

And then even later there's the exchange between ART and Murderbot where ART asks if it would have been kinder to kill Murderbot back before it hacked its governor module and Murderbot says yes (and ART says "You know I'm not kind" but that's again another post). And then you look back again on the DeltFall scene and realize that when Murderbot thought about wanting to kill those rogue secunits, it was actually thinking about how it wanted to kill itself back when it went rogue.

And then you just sit in silence for a while. If you're me.

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reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

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before you write off the dramatized version of the murderbot diaries, listen to this and tell me its not the best way to experience mb 😏😌

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I'm reading The Murderbot Diaries (Network Effect, so, spoiler alert), and man, Murderbot's relationship with ART makes me insane. It's like, you're an insufferable asshole. You're my best friend. Saying that word makes me retch. You're the only person in the universe who could possibly understand what it's like to be me. I can't possibly understand what it's like to be you. I must look like an ant to you. I've put my unconscious body in your hands and let you alter it. We both love our humans to the point of destruction. You've killed people to protect me and my friends. You only did it because you were between two jobs and bored. We watch TV shows together. I saw you have an emotional breakdown about a historical drama. You could kill me in a hundred different ways. I've brutally murdered several people to avenge you. You were ready to kill all my friends to save yours. I've brought you back from the dead. You're keeping us prisoner. I'm your only chance of saving your friends. I've lived and traveled inside your body, and you've been a passenger in my brain. We don't even know each other's real names.

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Art-drone said, "I wouldn't recommend it. I lack a sense of proportional response. I don't advise engaging with me on any level."

Relatable.

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System Collapse - chapter seven, That Scene

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The Cracker Wrapper in the Sink Incident

From “Murderbot Impersonates an Augmented Human Security Consultant,” circa 3477

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They are watching media!!!!

(This is my gift for the 2025 Murderbot New Year’s Gift Exchange!)

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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hey guys i-

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charity stream huh

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Human Bill and his parents

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goodnight time goodnight space goodnight stars far from this place goodnight land of two dimensions set aflame with good intentions goodnight weight of all you've done goodnight nobody left but one

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think commander

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another dump from the screenshots folder

first one is a reference to a song i associate with wander crazy style. every day im like what if i reanimated the whole thing and then im like nay.... i shant