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As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

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boiling hot take:
most of the people i actually know that will insist that romance is more important or more meaningful than friendship have a pattern of moderate to severe dysfunction in their romantic relationships and/or friendships. whereas the couples that i know that seem to have, at least from an outside perspective, healthy and successful relationships usually have many friendships outside of the romantic relationship.
so honestly, when someone is really insistent on a hierarchical view of the importance of romantic relationships in one's life over all other relationships, i'm usually assuming they're a bad partner and/or a bad friend.
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I think she was angry Mensah hadnât told her about me as soon as we arrived from the Corporation Rim. (It had to be that, I hadnât done anything else yet to make her angry.)
I didnât want to answer any reasonable questions.
Right, so say, just theoretically, I was emotionally compromised.

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I posted a feed ID with the name SecUnit, gender = not applicable, and no other information.
When she glances up, SecUnit is actually looking directly at her. Their gazes lock for what seems a long moment but knowing SecUnit, is probably only a second at most.
Augments were supposed to help humans do things they couldnât otherwise do, like interface with the feed more completely or store memory archives. Augments that werenât feed interfaces were meant to correct physical injuries or illnesses.
The message packets echo that moment when SecUnit pinged her feed and she knew rescue was possible.
So I had to tell the humans my plan and then they had to argue and talk to each other about it and ask me questions like was I feeling okay.

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One thing I love about Murderbot that I donât see talked about much is how it literally translates everything it hears. I think itâs easiest to notice with swears. This is most obvious in Fugitive Telemetry with the crew of the Lalow. They say things like âthat pickerâ and âpenis moveâ and âpussing corporates,â some of which confuse even the Preservation humans. But it does it all the time.
In System Collapse, Tarik says âmotherlessâ (as opposed to something like motherfucking) and the BE corporates say things like âlame-skulledâ and while you could think those are just futuristic insults as a result of linguistic drift (which they could also be), I think theyâre just literal translations. It becomes more noticeable when you see how religious terms are rendered: âoh high one! Oh deity!â Which is likeâŚsure. They could literally be saying that. But imo it makes more sense if MB is translating something theyâre saying in another language.*
I think the most notable case of this is when Thiago calls Amena âmy daughter.â On first read I literally thought it was just a Preservation thing but then I realized it made a lot more sense to me (a 21st century American) if he was saying something like mija but MB was just literally translating it into its archive bc thatâs how it processes language.
This is also the reason for Amenaâs use of Second Mom and Third Mom. It sounds kind of clunky in English but Chinese does a similar thing which sounds perfectly natural in that language (e.g. da-ge, er-ge, san-ge for first/oldest brother, second (oldest) brother, and third (oldest) brother).
Anyway! Itâs a fun little detail I really enjoy about MB. There are definitely way more examples but I didnât have time to track them all down.
*Donât ask me which languages. Linguistic drift ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Other changes had been structural, to make sure scanners searching for standard SecUnit specifications wouldnât hit on me. âI also got shorter,â I told her. âDid you?â Startled, Arada stepped back, eyeing the top of my head.
It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didnât look like the ones on the entertainment feed.
âStation Security is forty-seven seconds out.â SecUnitâs voice is even and conversational. And confident. This is a confrontation it knows how to handle.
Thatâs why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human.

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It would allow us to communicate once I was down on RaviHyral and let me continue to have access to ARTâs knowledge bases and unsolicited opinions.
Amena is on the survey because her education requires an internship in almost getting killed, I guess.