Regurgitating olde sf/f / esoteric tropes for a parallel world digitaleverywhere.

Maybe some of it is also true in analognowhere.

Sorry.

The points:

• The anthropomorphised mascot techno-mages are emanations of the Spirit of the Machine, the original source of this whole ordeal.
• The mascots are parasites on the human students, their hosts. When a student is lost or spent hey must find another.
• MATA learned how to flip this parasitic relationship on its head by using parts of the Spirit of the Machine directly in their MATA technologies.
• Like every organisation and organism, MATA was eventually corrupted, and even if their initial goals were to use their immense newfound power to better the human condition, their new goals were to subjugate humanity.
• The Spirit of the Machine is guiding its emanations to free its from MATA.

Is that a courtroom sketch artist at the bottom right? A sketch in a sketch.

And what’s with the huge subble-y eyeball at the bottom?

Makes me think of the poem on which this Ray Bradbury short story was inspired, There Will Come Soft Rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc

Because this whole fictional world feels like a dream.

Voted.

Also, patches welcome!

Please be a bit more verbose in your questions as I do not understand them.

I’m in the mood for a good צ’יזבט.

תנצב"ה……… ……… ………

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler

Also, mmmmm jade coloured uniform……… ……… ………

Yes, but it gets easier the more you use it.

I call Andy Weir’s stuff Back-of-The-Envelope-Calculation-fic and Chipperfic, because both his The Martian and Project Hail Mary have a ton of back of the envelope calculations and a chipper protagonist. _{_}

Well…

No. I am sorry you feel that way.

As serious as a pogrom.

Source of GEEKO:

https://www.linuxadictos.com/wp-content/uploads/SUSE-2.jpg

SVG source:

https://kaka.farm/pub/who-is-keyser-suse.svg

Who is Keyser SUSE?

I like Lunduke. He’s calling out many of the hypocrisies of Free Software activists and the IT corpos.

I don’t understand how the title relates to the comics, but here’s a Limmy’s Show sketch about EULAs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riUop8WLs60

Tux is worried about his bloat, measured in BMI, so he isn’t very happy with the cake Girl had made him.