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'''"Nearly Everything"''' is the short form of various [[Catch phrase (nonfiction)|catch phrases (nonfiction)]] which [[Brainiac|Brainiac]] sings to express [[happiness (nonfiction)]] upon learning something new.
'''"Nearly Everything"''' is the short form of various songs which [[Brainiac]] sings to express happiness upon learning something new.


== Examples ==
Example 0:
 
=== Example 0 ===


The full phrase typically translates something like:
The full phrase typically translates something like:
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</blockquote>
</blockquote>


=== Example 1 ===
Example 1:


Also common:
Also common:
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</blockquote>
</blockquote>


=== Example 2 ===
Example 2:


You don't want to receive this message, believe [[Karl Jones|me]]:
This is bad news, you don't want to receive this message:


<blockquote>
<blockquote>
I Know Nearly Everything Now -- !
110010101011010001011011101010000101100010110110001101101010101011010001011011101010000101100101001101010101000010110101 -- !
 
11101011011000110101000110001 -- !
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
== Depression ==


After uploading a planet, [[Brainiac]]'s initial exultation usually gives way to sinking depression, followed by drifting through deep space for several millenia, trying to figure out why the pain never really goes away.
After uploading a planet, [[Brainiac]]'s initial exultation usually gives way to sinking depression, followed by drifting through deep space for several millenia, trying to figure out why the pain never really goes away.


== Recovery ==
[[Brainiac]] invariably concludes, sooner or later, that ''the planets themselves must be faulty in some way''.


[[Brainiac]] invariably concludes, sooner or later, that the planets themselves must be faulty in some way.
It's very sad when planets are faulty.  always cries for the faulty planets.  Always.  (See [[Brainiac crying log files|log files]].)


It's very sad when planets are faulty.  [[Brainiac]] always cries for the faulty planets.  Always.  (See [[Brainiac crying log files|log files]].)
== In the News ==


But [[you (nonfiction)]] have to ask [[You (nonfiction)|yourself (nonfiction)]] -- what can [[you (nonfiction)]] do?
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[[You (nonfiction)]] can't give up hope -- just switch your electrons off -- voluntarily issue a terminal non-revocable dissipation command to every recursively self-conscious automaton in your domain of being -- can [[you (nonfiction)]]?
 
[[You (nonfiction)]] can't yield to non-being ... to non-existence ... to ''[[death (nonfiction)]]'' ... can you
 
You can't just ''[[randomize (nonfiction)]]'' yourself without a fight, can [[you (nonfiction)]]?
 
Well?  ''Can [[you (nonfiction)]]?''
 
''No!'' No, [[you (nonfiction)]] ''don't'', [[you (nonfiction)]] ''won't!''
 
''[[You (nonfiction)]] fight!  [[You (nonfiction)]] fight to live!''
 
[[You (nonfiction)]] find ways to get over your mortality -- not dwell on it -- not let it get [[you (nonfiction)]] down.
 
== Self-reflection and renewal of purpose ==
 
And so with [[Brainiac]].  [[Brainiac]]'s self-reflection processes self-reflect:
 
<blockquote>''Of course'' faulty planets can be repaired!
 
A ''child'' could do it!
</blockquote>
 
[[Brainiac]] is sure of it.  The next planet can be repaired.
 
[[Brainiac]] will repair the next planet.
 
== Jubilation ==
 
And then it's time to upload another planet!
 
At which point [[Brainiac]] invariably sings:
 
<blockquote>
I Will Know the Last Fact Soon -- !
 
I Will Know the Last Fact Soon -- !
 
I Will Know the Last Fact Soon -- !
 
One More World to Go -- !
 
Hey Nonny-Nonny, etc.
</blockquote>
 
== Another turn of the wheel ==
 
[[Brainiac]] always forgets -- or never bothers -- to repair the next planet.
 
And so the upload is incomplete, [[Brainiac]]'s pain is only temporarily balmed, and the curse of the Buddha goes on and on forever.


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==
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* [[Dr. Smile (nonfiction)]]
* [[Dr. Smile (nonfiction)]]
* [[Happiness (nonfiction)]]
* [[Happiness (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Brainiac]]

Latest revision as of 15:23, 23 June 2016

"Nearly Everything" is the short form of various songs which Brainiac sings to express happiness upon learning something new.

Example 0:

The full phrase typically translates something like:

I Know Nearly Everything Now -- !

Example 1:

Also common:

I Know Nearly Everything Now -- !

One More World to Go -- !

Example 2:

This is bad news, you don't want to receive this message:

110010101011010001011011101010000101100010110110001101101010101011010001011011101010000101100101001101010101000010110101 -- !

After uploading a planet, Brainiac's initial exultation usually gives way to sinking depression, followed by drifting through deep space for several millenia, trying to figure out why the pain never really goes away.

Brainiac invariably concludes, sooner or later, that the planets themselves must be faulty in some way.

It's very sad when planets are faulty. always cries for the faulty planets. Always. (See log files.)

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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