I have to recommend a certain Star Trek: The Next Generation episode analysis by Ross Scott of Accursed Farms.

It analyses Symbiosis, a sorta forgettable (on first inspection) humanoid-culture-of-the-week episode. Ross Scott has a knack for looking at fantastic things with a pair of very realistic and practical eyes that I find very amusing. It was made during the first months of our SARS-CoV-2 apocalypse, so keep that in mind (see spoiler).

SYMBIOSIS: A STAR TREK APOCALYPSE

Ptoo at Discord, but hail Discordia!

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.

Because this whole fictional world feels like a dream.

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. ~_~

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