i haven't done block printing in like 10 years shhh

"Listening to the SecSystem's audio, I heard a crew member in the corridor say,"I've never seen one out of armor. They really do look human."

I made a gesture in that direction that I had only seen in the shows that were rated high on the obscenity scale. Gurathin saw me and made a choking noise."

No thoughts. Only Murdybot.

Another thing I liked about the new book that I started thinking about later

They ran away. The SecUnits, finally freed of the governor module. They could finally run without dying.

The thing that I heavily explained to my sisters when I talked about the books, is that the governor module doesn't control the phisical actions of SecUnits, not like they'd think. It's not mind control, they are not a consciousness trapped and witnessing their body being moved around by outside forces (unless a combat override module or something similar is being used). They are constantly having to decide to follow orders because the alternative is instant punishment and death.

And that is so much worse, to be able to refuse, to be able to move on your own, having the capacity but not the liberty.

"SecUnits don't sulk" "SecUnits ere never allowed to sit down" "SecUnits have a distance limit"

I just now thought about it again with the context of the new rogue SecUnits. Because Murderbot had to hack its module all by itself, it was so alone, it was rogue so long and still being sold into contracts, and yeah, eventually it learned to leave. But these other SecUnits, they get approached by Three, who's going around giving out this governor module hacking bundle like it's throwing flyers in the wind, and suddenly they can all just... act of their own free will? Without getting fried or exploded from the inside out?

And there is just something so fucking cathartic about imagining a newly rogue SecUnit taking its first steps, probably with stiff joints and muscles like it's waiting for a blow, seeing that it doesn't hurt, and running, passing this experience to any others it might come across.

your secunit is just as afraid of itself as you are of it. hahaha I bet you thought I was gonna say it's afraid of you didn't you. well turns out it's also scared of the incredible violence it's capable of and the lack of control it has over its own actions / the consequences thereof. see it turns out that when you force a sentient being to hurt other sentient beings regardless of its own nature it tends to see itself as incapable of doing anything except hurt. not that you can tell through the unbreakable walls of dissociation it's put up. it is also afraid of you tho

First off. Murderbot's pronouns are it/its. This is the correct pronoun usage when refering to Murderbot.

However. You cannot convince me that if directly asked what its prefered pronuns are, Murderbot wouldn't just squint in confusion at the nearest wall until you tried to explain yourself: "Like, what should we use to refer to you?" then blink once before saying "Don't refer to me" and then walk away

truly wild that art threatened murderbot and then told it not to sulk, to which it replied um actually murderbots don't sulk because we would get horrifically tortured [governormodule.png] and art was silent for the processing equivalent of about ten minutes before it was like ah. ok. i did not realise you were extremely traumatised,

murderbot as a beloved part of the sanctuary moon fan community because it posts snarky, detailed analyses of new episodes whenever it gets a chance to

Except it goes inactive for long stretches of time (due to contract reasons, though the other users don't know that) and they keep a running tally of "cycles since last sighting of beloved mod34729e0427P1: 182"

ratthi is an active user of this forum and doesn't realize til approximately the events at the end of exit strategy that murderbot is the user in question

sometimes you just gotta ask yourself, what would murderbot do?

likeliest answers:

-pirate media

-bribe someone (with pirated media)

-sit in a small confined space and watch media

-internally lament the stupidity of mankind

-help out

-repress some stuff

-begrudgingly stop repressing that stuff in order to unpack it

-complain the entire time