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This chapter, the last chapter in a blatantly Merv-bashing Mary Sue fic, set one of my Houseguests on the warpath and he's been tough to calm down ever since. I'd quote the text, but it has the effect on him that a billowing red cape has on a bull: it puts him in a frenzy and he honestly wants to strangle the Sue-thor with his own bare hands.
Face it, Suethors, if the Machines haven't managed to succeed in deleting the Merv, your little Sue isn't going to give him the short sharp end of the stick, either. According to Himself, the Merv is extremely hard to kill, but one of the previous Ones nearly succeeded in doing so. Operative word here is "nearly". That was part of what made him turn Macchiavellian, since gentler means only caused this painful effect.
And then there was the thread on the MxO message board (I think the offending message is on the third or fourth page of the thread:
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I think even having Mero in this game is kinda dumb, should be an Smith org. That would make more sense.
Mero is like an old file sharing program that can't be erased, nor harm your computer, just lags it out a bit. No more, no less.
Excuse me? The Merv and his organization represent the Exiles in this mock-up of their world. They have as much right to exist as the humans or the Machines do. Unfortunately, the Machines learned a little too well from their human creators, and they turned against their own, deleting those of their kind who had managed to find something outside their original purpose that held their interest and made their existence more meaningful. Exiles are, in that sense, more like redpill humans than like Machines, though given their nature, they are completely dependant on the Matrix for their survival. Not all the humans are going to choose to unplug, and there may be some humans who choose to go back. Sorry to disappoint any uber-Zionist hot-heads, but the Matrix ain't going anywhere, and if you take it down wholesale, there's going to be a mass slaughter of humans and artificial sentients. The point isn't to take anyone down, the point is to find a common ground where we can all work together.
...Though considering who I have in my headspace, I wouldn't mind seeing the Machines get theirs for what they did to my kind. Let us Exiles run the place for a change, we'll fix it up....
This chapter, the last chapter in a blatantly Merv-bashing Mary Sue fic, set one of my Houseguests on the warpath and he's been tough to calm down ever since. I'd quote the text, but it has the effect on him that a billowing red cape has on a bull: it puts him in a frenzy and he honestly wants to strangle the Sue-thor with his own bare hands.
Face it, Suethors, if the Machines haven't managed to succeed in deleting the Merv, your little Sue isn't going to give him the short sharp end of the stick, either. According to Himself, the Merv is extremely hard to kill, but one of the previous Ones nearly succeeded in doing so. Operative word here is "nearly". That was part of what made him turn Macchiavellian, since gentler means only caused this painful effect.
And then there was the thread on the MxO message board (I think the offending message is on the third or fourth page of the thread:
xLuSiDx
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Posts: 1861
Registered: 08-22-2005
Reply 37 of 88
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I think even having Mero in this game is kinda dumb, should be an Smith org. That would make more sense.
Mero is like an old file sharing program that can't be erased, nor harm your computer, just lags it out a bit. No more, no less.
Excuse me? The Merv and his organization represent the Exiles in this mock-up of their world. They have as much right to exist as the humans or the Machines do. Unfortunately, the Machines learned a little too well from their human creators, and they turned against their own, deleting those of their kind who had managed to find something outside their original purpose that held their interest and made their existence more meaningful. Exiles are, in that sense, more like redpill humans than like Machines, though given their nature, they are completely dependant on the Matrix for their survival. Not all the humans are going to choose to unplug, and there may be some humans who choose to go back. Sorry to disappoint any uber-Zionist hot-heads, but the Matrix ain't going anywhere, and if you take it down wholesale, there's going to be a mass slaughter of humans and artificial sentients. The point isn't to take anyone down, the point is to find a common ground where we can all work together.
...Though considering who I have in my headspace, I wouldn't mind seeing the Machines get theirs for what they did to my kind. Let us Exiles run the place for a change, we'll fix it up....
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Date: 2005-12-13 03:47 am (UTC)*cringe*
Jesus, I'm sorry.
That puts ME on the warpath.
Do you[and/or The Merv] have Yahoo?
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Date: 2005-12-13 03:47 am (UTC)Exactly.
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Date: 2005-12-14 05:57 am (UTC)OH SHIT! Tell me one thing, and humor me because I have the headache from Hell[almost literally] and keep transposing numbers/letters when I write today, my brain is melted -- the guy in your icon. Is that Flood?
Because if so, we need to talk. And I have never been more serious -- he was in my vision last night.
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Date: 2005-12-14 07:01 am (UTC)Gad, this sounds serious...
If you can, call me around 8.30 EST tomorrow night, or I'll catch you on Yahoo, later on.
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Date: 2005-12-14 07:04 am (UTC)Serious enough.
I can call either way, but if you're on when I'm on -- I'm working on something and trying to do bits of my coding job at the same time, and getting very little of either done -- I'll be here.