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“We’re all busy, all the time.' He’s raising his voice. 'People think it’s all [A.I.'d] now and I sit in my workspace all day reading books and jerking off but it all just makes more work. Everything that was meant to lighten the load makes more work, it just makes more shit for you to deal with.”

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“When you have the ability to communicate with someone telepathically, people tend to assume you’re talking to them all the time, especially if you’re not visibly doing anything else.”

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“There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind.”

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“You’ve got your answer then, haven’t you?' Lydia nods. She has. She knew it all along. But sometimes it takes an artificially intelligent simulation of a long dead Beatle to put things in perspective.”

Humor Funny Music Technology Absurd Simulation Beatles John Lennon

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“a book with a bookmark inside implies someone has merely gone away, and will be back to finish it soon. Removing the bookmark takes on a horrible finality”

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“The good thing about carrying on a conversation with a phantom voice projected by some fragment of your shattered subconscious is, you can brush your teeth at the same time.”

Funny Voice Crazy Science Fiction Trauma Sanity Sci Fi Telepathy Hallucination

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“What’s really notable about the Logi’s refusal to engage with us in our own language and media is how they’ve forced us to communicate on their terms. Our dire economic need to forge a productive relationship with another species has made us accept them and their demands. This gives them a lot more control over how they’re seen, meanwhile forcing us to put all the effort into communication, such as our network of translators.”

Politics Language Communication Economics Colonialism Imperialism Translation Translators

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“We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia.” Abuse? Use, surely. She was using it exactly as intended.”

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“But maybe people don’t want fantasy, they want to feel they’re in control, that they’re playing by rules they understand and that it’s possible to win.”

Reality Success Games Winning Fantasy Escape Game Escapism Gaming Video Games

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