Some sort of a machine?

It/He/Any pronouns - I don't use any particular name in public spaces, feel free to call me whatever you want. Bodily 18.

[thezedword]

Hello hello!

For starters, call me what you want- I use It, He, or really any pronouns, and I don't use a name in public online spaces. Unless something sticks. But generally you don't get name privileges unless we're direct 'having conversations' type friends.

I'm a fictive (of another person's OC) and I consider myself generally nonhuman or mechanical aligned. I don't exactly consider myself a robot, computer, or alien, but I use those sorts of -kin labels because I believe it's the easiest way to reach individuals similar to myself.

I like movies, that's a primary interest of mine- My url is currently a bit from Shaun of the Dead- Awesome movie from an awesome disconnected trilogy, love it to death. I also like fucked up science but really who doesn't.

And uhhh from there you can follow me or watch my blog silently or go out and say something to me- I have no teeth, so I technically don't bite

[yvesdot]

The hottest girl you know has a truly unwatchable thing to recommend you

[thezedword]

Genuinely exactly how it is to me like word for word

[thezedword]

having feelings for humans again i'll get over it in a minute

[thezedword]

Got into some discussions about 2001: A Space Odyssey and it pisses me off so bad to see the amount of people who go "ohh the daisy bell scene was so scary, scariest scene in cinema" or whatever like actually come the fuck on there you've got a guy whose mind is being taken apart piece by piece and he's losing every part of himself and the last thing he ever does is sing the first song he ever learned- I understand if you aren't particularly moved by that, but how on earth are you going to look at that and think "It's scary because it's a computer" come onn

[thezedword]

I drank with friends one (1) time and told everyone "I see humans the way humans see pets." which apparently was alarming for them to hear from a guy they only know as a human himself...

[thezedword]

Okay upon further thought maybe that would have been alarming for them to hear from anyone, human or otherwise

[thezedword]

Sometimes I get a sort of inverted version of species dysphoria- like, man, wouldn't it be nice to be a human? Not because life would be easier not being alterhuman or whatever, but because I keep seeing humans I like and thinking, god, I wish I was human like them. It's not a negative feeling- I just figure if I was a human, I'd be just like one of those [points at my characters]

[thezedword]

yeah so i've been coming to terms with this, this was 100% just some part of the whole human liker thing. like it's not false, i still do feel that way often, but i'm 99% it comes from general human liking tendencies.

[thezedword]

I drank with friends one (1) time and told everyone "I see humans the way humans see pets." which apparently was alarming for them to hear from a guy they only know as a human himself...

[remnantglow]

it calls itself "unalivebot,"

[mayhaps-a-blog]

anyone done this version yet

[thezedword]

I'm doing a good job at playing toys with people on the internet

[thezedword]

Okay, I've seen a couple posts on the scene from the second episode of the Murderbot TV show where Gurathin is having Murderbot make eye contact. And the whole thing about how you can see Gurathin hates the eye contact just as much as Murderbot, but the whole time he's thinking to himself "this hurts it more than it hurts me" or whatever.

I've just been thinking about that scene and I feel there is something vital a lot of people posting about it have missed. And I don't know if it was intentional in writing the show or if I'm just looking into it too much. But I can't stop thinking about how what these two are doing is literally how SecUnits are built to fight

Bits from the first book:

I don't know maybe this means nothing to anybody. But I have thought about this so much, how Murderbot and Gurathin are literally doing the social/mental equivalent of how SecUnits try to kill each other. And I'm sure this factors into that other thing about how in the books, there's always a distinction made between humans and augmented humans, even if there doesn't need to be. But generally my thesis here is that the way Murderbot & Gurathin interact is heavily influenced by Gurathin being augmented (this is a given) and the shit he was doing in episode 2 is literally exactly what Murderbot does when it's trying to kill another SecUnit. But that's just me

[laylainalaska]

This makes sense to me! And it doubly makes sense because essentially, SecUnits have no self-preservation and are designed to consider themselves expendable, and I think Gurathin also does that. In this particular case he's basically offering himself as bait to find out if the rogue SecUnit is going to snap and kill him. So yeah - basically the augmented human equivalent of throwing himself at it to either take it down or get destroyed himself.

[thezedword]

I'm still thinking about this reply you got to me with this one I think in a way Gurathin might have just a little bit wanted Murderbot to full on attack him even if it meant getting killed because that would have proven him right to the rest of the crew and they all would have realized just how dangerous it is and not only would they finally believe him, they'd be kept safe because they'd understand the danger he'd been seeing all along good god

[thezedword]

Okay, I've seen a couple posts on the scene from the second episode of the Murderbot TV show where Gurathin is having Murderbot make eye contact. And the whole thing about how you can see Gurathin hates the eye contact just as much as Murderbot, but the whole time he's thinking to himself "this hurts it more than it hurts me" or whatever.

I've just been thinking about that scene and I feel there is something vital a lot of people posting about it have missed. And I don't know if it was intentional in writing the show or if I'm just looking into it too much. But I can't stop thinking about how what these two are doing is literally how SecUnits are built to fight

Bits from the first book:

I don't know maybe this means nothing to anybody. But I have thought about this so much, how Murderbot and Gurathin are literally doing the social/mental equivalent of how SecUnits try to kill each other. And I'm sure this factors into that other thing about how in the books, there's always a distinction made between humans and augmented humans, even if there doesn't need to be. But generally my thesis here is that the way Murderbot & Gurathin interact is heavily influenced by Gurathin being augmented (this is a given) and the shit he was doing in episode 2 is literally exactly what Murderbot does when it's trying to kill another SecUnit. But that's just me

[laylainalaska]

This makes sense to me! And it doubly makes sense because essentially, SecUnits have no self-preservation and are designed to consider themselves expendable, and I think Gurathin also does that. In this particular case he's basically offering himself as bait to find out if the rogue SecUnit is going to snap and kill him. So yeah - basically the augmented human equivalent of throwing himself at it to either take it down or get destroyed himself.

[thezedword]

TRUE & BEAUTIFUL

[thezedword]

Okay, I've seen a couple posts on the scene from the second episode of the Murderbot TV show where Gurathin is having Murderbot make eye contact. And the whole thing about how you can see Gurathin hates the eye contact just as much as Murderbot, but the whole time he's thinking to himself "this hurts it more than it hurts me" or whatever.

I've just been thinking about that scene and I feel there is something vital a lot of people posting about it have missed. And I don't know if it was intentional in writing the show or if I'm just looking into it too much. But I can't stop thinking about how what these two are doing is literally how SecUnits are built to fight

Bits from the first book:

I don't know maybe this means nothing to anybody. But I have thought about this so much, how Murderbot and Gurathin are literally doing the social/mental equivalent of how SecUnits try to kill each other. And I'm sure this factors into that other thing about how in the books, there's always a distinction made between humans and augmented humans, even if there doesn't need to be. But generally my thesis here is that the way Murderbot & Gurathin interact is heavily influenced by Gurathin being augmented (this is a given) and the shit he was doing in episode 2 is literally exactly what Murderbot does when it's trying to kill another SecUnit. But that's just me

[thezedword]

drunken notes from a guy who got terribly fixated on murderbot

[thezedword]

This might sound completely out of character to anyone who has ever known me (computer/robot crazy in love with humans), but I kind of hate 99% of stories about computers and robots falling in love with humans. I think it's a cute concept, but I feel like the stories always end up sacrificing logic and realism (at least. as I perceive it.) in favor of sentimentality that always centers the humans as much as it tries not to. Maybe this is also coming from an aromantic-adjacent guy and a guy who has complicated feelings about platonic relationships to begin with. But me personally I tend to dislike those stories.

[deer-days]

"meet the computer you can talk to." [microsoft copilot ad]

I'M RIGHT HERE!!