I spent way too long drawing all those spells.
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Is it too late to introduce a chaos-energy suppressor to make them all scream in abject misery as their souls (or what passes for one... ) are ripped to pieces so badly even their "lady" will never put them back together? While we're at it... launch it through the portal at her to rend HER to pieces?
Not these bugs again. How many times do they need to be genocided before they stop showing up to make everyone miserable?
(I'd say they are like the Daleks, except the Daleks are actually entertaining with their plans to eliminate all non-Dalek life. These bugs ... I don't hate them, I don't love-to-hate them like I do the Daleks, they don't rouse an emotion in me, they just tire me. I see one, and I sigh, feeling the urge to crack their exoskeleton open and smear their insides all over the floor and walls, in the same way one feels the 'urge' to wash a pile of dishes in the sink: "I don't WAN to do it, but they won't wash themselves, so I gotta get to it.")
(I'd say they are like the Daleks, except the Daleks are actually entertaining with their plans to eliminate all non-Dalek life. These bugs ... I don't hate them, I don't love-to-hate them like I do the Daleks, they don't rouse an emotion in me, they just tire me. I see one, and I sigh, feeling the urge to crack their exoskeleton open and smear their insides all over the floor and walls, in the same way one feels the 'urge' to wash a pile of dishes in the sink: "I don't WAN to do it, but they won't wash themselves, so I gotta get to it.")
It could be because of the sociopolitical environment I've been in for the past decade. I seem to be in a near constant state of 'outrage fatigue,' it's very hard for me to get upset at some things. It's not just politics: at my day job we have a 'preferred vendor' who consistently surprises us with ... 'quirks' in the machines they build for us. Either from them not understanding the instructions, from taking shortcuts, or from bizarre programming habits*, there is always something I have to re-work, to the point where I end up putting more man-hours into 'tweaking' the machine than the vendor spent making it. I used to get upset, making satiric parodies of the company name, or using an old standby line: "The more I learn about X, the less I like them." Now, when there is Yet Another Problem with the X Machines, I don't get upset, I don't get satiric, I just get ... tired. It's like I'm look ing at the acres and acres of farmland, where I grow all the fucks I have to give, but the fields are as barren as the lands surrounding the remains of Ozymandias's statue. ("Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains.)
*One of their odd programming practice is to use a 16-bit memory register to hold the status of the Auxiliary outputs (3 outputs, each either ON or OFF). Instead of copying the relative bit to the output bit, they would use a series of condition checks. Instead of using a single command, one of the simplest and most basic commands in the PLC, [ Copy Bit 00 of D30 to Output Q2 ] they use [ (IF D30 = 1) OR (IF D30 = 3) OR (IF D30 = 5) OR (IF D30 = 7) THEN Make Output Q2 ON, else, make Output Q2 OFF ]
*One of their odd programming practice is to use a 16-bit memory register to hold the status of the Auxiliary outputs (3 outputs, each either ON or OFF). Instead of copying the relative bit to the output bit, they would use a series of condition checks. Instead of using a single command, one of the simplest and most basic commands in the PLC, [ Copy Bit 00 of D30 to Output Q2 ] they use [ (IF D30 = 1) OR (IF D30 = 3) OR (IF D30 = 5) OR (IF D30 = 7) THEN Make Output Q2 ON, else, make Output Q2 OFF ]
Or, to make a long story short (too late), perhaps I've gained the worldview of the Grizzled Veteran who has Seen Too Much. Long experience has shown that getting angry never helps, and the constant mini-outrages throughout the day leave the glands deprived of the hormones required to sustain the emotion, so it feels like all that is left is Duty.
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