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This Spanish, foot-pedalled communist utopia coral-harvesting, "fish boat" submarine:

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And this steam powered sub designed by an English clergyman/inventor. It had a whole ass furnace with a chimney that heated steam tanks for days before submerging. The machine was unbearably hot and a potential carbon monoxide death trap. A Swedish industrialist came along and funded the project, put his own name on the patent and every boat they built thereafter. He also put torpedoes on them and sold them to the Russians (who refused to pay).

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None of these inventors built their own machines. They had teams of designers and craftsmen to fulfil their visions. I truly hate the myth of the sole genius, it's a breeding ground for parasites like Elon Musk and I don't want to perpetuate it in fiction. Even Vegapunk split himself because he couldn't do everything alone. What I'm trying to say is that I disliked the idea of the Polar Tang being the product of one single man so much that I built a plot around it not being that way.

I ended up watching a video summary/analysis of the whole series over a lunch a few days ago and realized immediately that I had to keep reading. Partly because the story really intrigues me of course, but a large part of my sudden drive to finish it is because I don't trust any of the Dudes who analyzed in on youtube and I can't stand not being able to form my own opinion accurately. So I might have spoiled the whole story by watching a detailed summary of it but now I get the pleasure of reading it not from a YouTube-dude's perspective.. The dude saying "i didn't realize these sex scenes were non-consensual until someone pointed it out", set off the big kill bill sirens in my head and the sirens were right. The real psychological horror experience isn't reading Goodnight Punpun. It's listening to Dudes sort of realizing how consent works way too late in life and still struggling to understand.

Speaking about the events surrounding this scene specifically (for now):