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old but gold

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I can picture Murderbot using the hell out of most of these for company mission reports (except when it says stuff like "high impedance air gap," it means "the stupid human forgot to plug it in"). And PresAux might occasionally get some use out of the last two, lol.

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If someone looks you in the eye and says "Thank you, SecUnit" what do you do and what do you say and what do you do with your hands and how much eye contact is appropriate?

Beats me. Running an analysis on my media wasn’t helpful, and there’s no way in hell I’m going to review my own past reactions. Enduring my own awkwardness once is bad enough. I don’t need reruns.

If you figure the answers, send me the operations doc about it.

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Secunit fully not noticing Tarik & Ratthi’s relationship until it’s ended </3

(for @miaoyincourt )

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This might be my new favorite thing I’ve drawn

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I dont have a good caption for this i just love Murderbot

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If Dr. Mensah has million number of fans i am one of them . if Dr. Mensah has ten fans i am one of them. if Dr. Mensah have only one fan and that is me . if Dr. Mensah has no fans, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against the Dr. Mensah, i am against the world. i love #Dr. Mensah till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of Dr. Mensah . Hit Like If you Think Dr. Mensah Best scientist & Smart In the world

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Just a fun random Murderbot moment: There's this comic on Webtoon called Eleceed that I read shortly after I reread The Murderbot Diaries a year ago. One of the main characters in it is a cat named Kayden (who is actually a human in cat form), and the cat's imperious attitude and smug expressions made me think of ART. So as I read the comic, Kayden the cat sort of became my mental image of ART (this happens to me a lot with partial aphantasia; my brain substitutes characters I've seen on TV or elsewhere as my mental images for book characters who I have trouble picturing in my head). Anyway, to this day, whenever I see a large satisfied-looking cat, it still tends to remind me of ART, despite the connection being entirely of my own making.

A couple fun images of Kayden from Eleceed (only the last two images are connected to each other):

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Okay so most of this tweet doesn't quite apply to Murderbot, but the part about "did not ask for skin" is just too perfect and is now living in my head rent-free. I'm picturing it like one of those TV news banners with an interviewee's name and a description of why they're relevant, like this:

SecUnit

Did not ask for skin

ID: A tweet by sio, @bestinsio, which says, So let me get this straight... I have to do tasks... every day... dozens of them... and then I have to wash my skin off (did not ask for skin)... and then lie unconscious for a while... and then do tasks again /end ID

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Have we done this one already?

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Gurathin is not only wrong, his argument is fundamentally irrational

Gurathin's argument in ASR:

We need to immobilize this SecUnit stat, because it's going to kill us.

I know it's going to kill us because its logs show that it's rogue. If there is no way to control it, then it is dangerous to us.

It is controlled by the Company to sabotage us. "The missing hazard report, the missing map sections. The SecUnit must be part of that." If it wasn't, that would be a coincidence, which is unbelievable.

This SecUnit has gone rogue and killed people in its charge before. It may do so again.

PresAux's counterargument:

It may be rogue, but that doesn't logically mean it will kill us. "The fact that the Unit has been acting to preserve our lives, to take care of us, while it was a free agent, gives us even more reason to trust it." (Volescu)

Someone may be sabotaging us, but that doesn't logically mean it's the Company or our SecUnit. "There were only three SecUnits for DeltFall in their specs, but there were five units in their habitat. Someone is sabotaging us, but I don’t think our SecUnit is part of it." (Ratthi)

If the SecUnit was trying to sabotage us, then why would it tell us about the combat module sabotage and shoot itself? (Bharadwaj, Overse)

The SecUnit believes it went rogue as a result of malfunction, and that hacking its governor module would prevent a repeat occurrence. Confirmation of its sincerity comes from the same logs that Gurathin accessed for his arguments. (Volescu)

Gurathin's counter-counterargument:

Well it gave itself an edgy nickname

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Gurathin: working nonstop for hours to save SecUnit's life SecUnit, barely conscious: ᶠYͧoͨᵏu ( ︶︿︶)_╭∩╮

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^ Murderbot

ughhh fine *experiences emotional growth*

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“Security Consultant Rin is my friend, Don Abene!”