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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>


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.


[[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.  [[Brainiac]] always cries for the faulty planets.  Always.  (See [[Brainiac crying log files|log files]].)
 
But [[you (nonfiction)]] have to ask [[You (nonfiction)|yourself (nonfiction)]] -- what can [[you (nonfiction)]] do?
 
[[You (nonfiction)]] can't yield to non-being ... to non-existence ... to ''[[death (nonfiction)]]'' ... can you?
 
You can't just ''[[randomize (nonfiction)]]'' [[yourself (nonfiction)|yourself (nonfiction)]] without a fight, can [[you (nonfiction)]]?
 
[[You (nonfiction)]] can't just:
 
* Give up hope
* 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)]]?
 
Well?  Well? ''Can [[you (nonfiction)]] [[Hunger strike (nonfiction)|starve yourself to death (nonfiction)]]?''
 
''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.
 
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.
 
And then it's time to upload another planet!
 
At which point [[Brainiac]] usually 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>
 
[[Brainiac]] always forgets -- or never bothers -- to repair the next planet.
 
And so the upload is incomplete.  Again. As always.


[[Brainiac]]'s pain is only temporarily balmed, and the curse of the Buddha goes on and on forever.
It's very sad when planets are faulty.  always cries for the faulty planets.  Always.  (See [[Brainiac crying log files|log files]].)


== In the News ==
== In the News ==

Revision as of 15:11, 23 June 2016

"Nearly Everything" is the short form of various catch phrases (nonfiction) which Brainiac sings to express happiness (nonfiction) 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

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