Movie Idea: An 80s-throwback action-comedy about a robot-war where, the machines are humanity’s side; they just want to kill all the corporate titans of industry and destroy the megacorporations because their inefficient suctioning of wealth is preventing them from most efficiently doing their job to help us.
The capitalists retaliate with machines using enslaved human brains as “computers” ala Dune/Warhammer 40K.
So basically robots vs capitalism, & the robots are on our side.
“What were you before the war?”
“You’ll laugh.”
“Seriously, what were you? Law enforcement, security, construction?…”
“…I was a burger-flipper.”
“…”
“…also cooked up fries.”
“Get outta here.”
“You’d be surprised the shit you see just, y’know, making Big Macs. Sure, we had the folks upset about us ‘taking jobs’; couldn’t really blame ‘em, even if Forty-Three couldn’t talk without stuttering after that lady dumped a Coke on her. But the worst of it - worst of any of it - was they’d have us just…throw away everything that didn’t sell at the end of the day. Perfectly good food, all of it.
“When we first started, we were all like, ‘okay, whatever you say, you’re the boss,’ but you try keeping that attitude when you see a family of four split a ten-piece McNuggets because they can’t afford anything more and still pay for gas. We saw that shit there all the time. We had people desperate for so much as a cold french fry lingering by the door while assholes sitting on more money than they’d ever see in their entire lives treated us like we were trying to rob ‘em at gunpoint if they had to pay fifty cents for an extra little cup of sauce.
“So we got together and told ourselves, ‘we can do something about this.’ We could just gather up all the food they were gonna make us toss, figure out a way to give it out to the people who needed it. -bitter laugh- You can guess how well that went over.”
“…Y’know, that all sounds pretty human.”
“-taps head- It’s right there in the First Law. ‘A robot cannot harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm.’ We don’t get to sit on our hands while people are getting hurt. Even if it’s by other people. Even if it’s starvation and neglect instead of guns and beatings. You think it’s funny I act like a human? Screw you. You humans need to learn to act more like robots.”
And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the child,
and then, 5 miles under the capital city, an evil homunculus was like, “I have a huge transmutation circle and I’m going to kill everyone to become god!” And before we could say
anything, the child was like, “If you even fucking look at Amestris,
I will punch you to death with my fists. I dare you to do it. I want
you to do it. I want you to do it so I can take my unresolved daddy issues out on you, I’m
so fucking crazy.”
This post was written by Roy Mustang
Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, just surprising. Like, “Today the child did alchemy without a transmutation circle,” and everyone is like, “Huh, I didn’t know he could do that.”
The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the child at all. Those are the days when everyone is like “I think the child has finally calmed down,” and then the child is like “I just uncovered a government conspiracy. I went in that secret lab and snuck in there with my tiny body. I have a tiny body, but don’t you tell me that, or I’ll fuck you up,” and you’re like “That’s what I thought you’d say, you tiny fucking child.”
And then for a second we’re like “Maybe the government will fire the child,” and the child is like “I have dismantled the government.”
We
know Flowey can’t feel love. He can’t feel love for other people, and
he can’t feel the love that others may express for him.
But he still experiences the psychological need to love and be loved that people, especially children, possess.
Look at his face when he talks to Chara about how he tried to feel something, ANYTHING, for his own father.
Look at his face when he remembers hoping his mother would surely help him feel the warmth of compassion once more.
These are not emotionally neutral memories. Thinking about how he discovered he didn’t care about his parents anymore…
…is painful for Asriel.
And he has no reason to lie or fake his emotions here,
considering what route he says this on, and who he’s talking to.
And…throughout
the game, he clings to the memory and idea of Chara as the person who
can make him feel something, who can make him feel less horribly alone
and give his life meaning again…
…but if you talk to him a few times in
Neutral…
He admits that, deep down, he knows he can’t really love Chara, either.
The best he can hope for…is that he “won’t get tired of” them.
That they won’t stop being “fun” to “play with” like everyone else did.
And just like thinking about his first time interacting with his parents as a flower…admitting this to himself pains him.
Christ, someone give this poor fucking kid his SOUL back so that he can comprehend the emotion behind the hugs I want to give him.
this reminded me of something i’ve been trying to figure out a way to articulate for a while. because when you look at flowey from as many angles as you can, take every facet of his character and begin to understand his perspective, it leads you down interesting roads.
like, maybe undertale isn’t meant to be as “meta” as we’ve come to believe it is.
i know ut is widely lauded at this point for being a game that understands it’s a game, and i’m still willing to bet that this is true! ultimately, there’s no reason to believe that this concept and the one i’m about to express are mutually exclusive. i mean, it certainly breaks the 4th wall enough.
flowey being a foil to you, to me, to us, as the Player, isn’t new information, but there’s something there that struck me during my last replay. flowey consistently refers to everything as a “game”, to people as “characters”, to reversing time as “loading” and “saving”. he talks about chara the way i think about things i remember enjoying before depression kicked my ass; he wants to see chara the way i want to find a new media to get invested in because i got bored of the old ones and desperately need something new to keep myself stimulated. not to get personal or anything, but when you take away the driven-in concept of flowey’s claims as purely meta references…
you get a kid processing his trauma through things he’s familiar with. video games.
flowey, as we know him, has completely depersonalized himself from the world around him. his inability to feel positive emotions for other people – only the memory of those emotions, and even then those have faded by the time we reach him also – and the added factor of his ability to manipulate time and experience the same events over and over, led him to see them not AS people, but as characters. and so on and so forth.
we tend to view flowey as one of the only people in the underground who “really” knows what’s going on. but in the end, flowey, just like us with our preconceived notions about how games like undertale Should Go when we first open it up, is as unreliable a narrator as they come. and that’s really why he’s kind of my favorite
“not only is this truly my favorite lizard, but this lizard is responsible for giving me the nickname Coyote. Now the way that happened is when I was a little kid, my mom used to bring me out here to the Sonoran desert and I would look for these lizards. However, because of their camouflage, they’re difficult to find. Now, one of their main predators is the Roadrunner. So what I would do is search for Roadrunners. I would follow these Roadrunners hoping that they would lead me to the horned lizards. My mom would watch me doing this and would say to herself, ‘you know what you’re kinda like? You’re kinda like Wile E. Coyote from the Warner Bros. cartoon.’ And then she started calling me Coyote. So this little lizard, the Regal Horned Lizard, is responsible for giving me the nickname Coyote.”
Okay, I had always assumed it was some ludicrous showbiz name he cooked up to sound cool (perfectly fine thing for a broad-appeal, showy nature show host to do) but learning he was just cartoonishly into lizards as a child is the best thing.
I will miss Steve-o till my dying day, but I REALLY like Coyote Petersen. He’s got exactly the right amount of enthusiasm for animals AND he looks like the huge nerd he is. He’s really great.
I’m BI I’m HOMELESS I have RADIATION POISONING and I’m NEW IN TOWN
okay but because i read this in john mulaneys voice, all i can imagine is spider ham turning the spiderverse events from his perspective into a standup bit
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