Coppermind Wiki: Warning Spoilers Ahead

coppermind wiki: ⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Spoilers ⚠️ Ahead ⚠️

me: yeah yeah, give me the page. you're obviously a generic warning that doesn't apply to where I'm going. *clicks through and scrolls down*

coppermind wiki: *hands out spoilers*

me: what?? really??? ... I should have seen that coming ...

I keep imagining Wax and Wayne bits that are of the form...

Wayne: <some wild idea like> We lost our horses, but there's some giraffes right there. I've always wanted to ride a giraffe.

Wax: Wayne, no.

And use Wax to contrast Wayne, and it's fun! But I feel their dynamic is more like...

Wayne: We lost our horses, but there's some giraffes right there. I've always wanted to ride a giraffe.

Wax: Yeah, giraffes, hmmmm... Yes! That's perfect! *pause* Wait, you haven't ridden a giraffe yet?

Like Wax usually can come up with a plan, but it has just one hole, and somehow he always manages to slot into it Wayne's seemingly infeasible ideas in the most reasonable sounding way.

Probably happens 'cause Wax just constantly lands in outlandish situations, which is exactly when thinking normally gets you nowhere and you need to pull out your handy dandy Wayne-level idea generator.

All to say, this is my apology post to Wax for making him seem like a boring man who doesn't appreciate chaos. He supports chaos so hard that chaos finds him for moral support.

I mean, he did name his extremely docile horse Destroyer and all.

Imagine like another couple hundred maybe thousand years into Teyvat. There's a field of magi-mech roboticists, Il Dottore having kinda pioneered it all. It's somewhat less messed up now. His name is still known for being kinda mad scientist. So when people make weird bots or mod or combine them in ways not really expected (putting a drill head on a mouse sized bot that was originally made to retrieve small objects lost under beds but the drill now makes it so you can make mouse sizes tunnels, made because someone wanted to run cables from one room to another), they'll call it "dottore'ing a bot" or a "dotorre-bot". Kinda like how we say things are franken-things.

I remember I heard them say “hell,” not “shell.” The house is a hell, I heard.

— Mariana Enríquez, excerpt of ‘Adela’s House’ Things We Lost in the Fire (trans. Megan McDowell) 

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Murderbot: Yeah, Preservation humans are really weird about making sure there's free access to food and medical care and living space and everything a human needs to survive without any expectation of getting anything in return. Just one of their quirks, I guess.

Preservation Humans, side-eying the SecUnit who's done nothing but make sure they stay alive with no expectation of getting anything in return since the day they met it: Yeah...weird...👀