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    It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.

    Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.

    I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.

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    24 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    If you had asked me before this whole thing started, I would have told you that companion fauna were a stupid human thing.

    or

    as the title says.

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    21 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 71

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    I may be a vast and immensely powerful MI, but even so (or perhaps, and especially so) I am not immune to finding artifacts in my functionality reports. Sometimes, something fails to get the grain of processing power it needs to complete the query in time and generates a jumble of recursive nonsense code as it stutters in place. I don't spare it another thought as I dismiss the error message and forward the report as reference for cleanup. It'll all be gone by the next cycle.

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    [in which i hand ART the bot equivalent of the hanahaki disease :) :)]

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    21 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 62

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    After a high-stress mission, Murderbot ends up having to take drastic measures to bring down its excessively high cortisol levels. While hesitant at first, it finds that the more extreme methods bear little resemblance to their human counterparts and are a useful tool for routine hormonal maintenance.

    And then ART finds out.

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    19 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    On a mission, Murderbot gets shot. When it finds out the comm it keeps under its ribs was also damaged, it has a completely normal and rational response.

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    19 Dec 2025