I'm a little under the weather today

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I'm a little under the weather today

 Sorry to hear that, Fry.

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I'm a little under the weather today

 Sorry to hear that, Fry.

 Oh, it's okay. Thanks for your sympathy

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I'm a little under the weather today

 Sorry to hear that, Fry.

 Oh, it's okay. Thanks for your sympathy

 Anytime. Gettin' sick just kinda sucks.

It indeed do

STORY IDEA
This is a modern sci-fi story with horror elements about identity, what it means to be human, and a computer falling in love. It takes place mainly in a virtual world, but there are some scenes in the real world. Our main character, Velvet, is a computer program created by a corporation to help populate the virtual world. As the top-of-the-line, most realistic model the corporation's ever created, she has human levels of sentience, but she's still figuring out human emotions. She lives in the virtual world and ends up falling for a human who logs into the world. The human is still trying to figure out some very real, very human things, like gender identity and sexuality, for themself, and being in the virtual world helps them escape from reality. The world is more technologically advanced than ours, but has a vague 2000s aesthetic about it. Vaguely... frutiger aero? A lot of people work or hang out in the virtual world. But the story gets more complex as Velvet finds herself experiencing more and more human things, and she has no explanation for this. But echo's there to help her, cause they know more than anyone how scary being human can be. Slowly they figure out why this is happening. Velvet was created to be extremely lifelike, this she knows, but it turns out that the corporation that created her acheived that element of humanity by chopping up a real human's brain, removing all of the parts connected to individuality, and uploaded it, fusing it with their advanced ai models. And somehow, Velvet's love started filling out the empty parts of the brain she was modeled after. The corporation tries to destroy Velvet, and Echo's only choice is to find Velvet (or at least, the people who were trying to destroy her) in the real world. But echo only puts themself in more danger, and in her final act of humanity, velvet sacrifices herself to save them, shutting down the corporation's server.
And through this final act, Velvet becomes real. (just like her namesake and this story's inspiration, the velveteen rabbit. This is only an inspiration and i plan to never address it directly.)

to be loved is to be changed

I had an idea last night, inspired by a book I got recently.
Basically, Sloppenheimer (placeholder name) is a "Culinary Engineer," meaning he uses various chemicals to make recycled, synthetic nutrient paste into something that is theoretically tolerable. However, he doesn't have a lot of tools or chemical options (sloptions) anymore, since the machines used to make them have been cannibalized by other engineers with "more important jobs than serving waste to the populace (slopulace)."
He's a lower-middle class soft boi supporting his house (inspired by the Samsa family in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis), and he has recently been sent out to hunt monsters for money. He has no experience in monster hunting, unless you count looking for beetles.

He's a strugel, meaning he is expected to serve and not make a fuss. Do what he's told and never anything more or less. How? Figure it out.
However, his parents kind of... "spoiled" him. They encouraged him to become great and ruthless, to jockey for position and always bet on the long shot, because he needed to serve the family first, even at the cost of his reputation. They (barely) paid for his excellent education in bio-engineering, and his ravenous mind wasn't satisfied with what was, so he kept coming up with "how it should be" and making it happen. He's still kind and often gentle, but he isn't submissive. "Do no harm and take no garbage" is his motto. Of course, that eventually got him fired when they brought in addictive stimulants and asked him to incorporate them into the food he sold. He said no, and wound up working what people call the "Sausagemeat Shift."

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I had an idea last night, inspired by a book I got recently.
Basically, Sloppenheimer (placeholder name) is a "Culinary Engineer," meaning he uses various chemicals to make recycled, synthetic nutrient paste into something that is theoretically tolerable. However, he doesn't have a lot of tools or chemical options (sloptions) anymore, since the machines used to make them have been cannibalized by other engineers with "more important jobs than serving waste to the populace (slopulace)."
He's a lower-middle class soft boi supporting his house (inspired by the Samsa family in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis), and he has recently been sent out to hunt monsters for money. He has no experience in monster hunting, unless you count looking for beetles.

He's a strugel, meaning he is expected to serve and not make a fuss. Do what he's told and never anything more or less. How? Figure it out.
However, his parents kind of... "spoiled" him. They encouraged him to become great and ruthless, to jockey for position and always bet on the long shot, because he needed to serve the family first, even at the cost of his reputation. They (barely) paid for his excellent education in bio-engineering, and his ravenous mind wasn't satisfied with what was, so he kept coming up with "how it should be" and making it happen. He's still kind and often gentle, but he isn't submissive. "Do no harm and take no garbage" is his motto. Of course, that eventually got him fired when they brought in addictive stimulants and asked him to incorporate them into the food he sold. He said no, and wound up working what people call the "Sausagemeat Shift."

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HELLO

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How are you doing, Fry?

Could be doing better.

that not good, whats got you donw?

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 *Shatters through wall, twitching and jerking*

I have a better recipe, but it requires ground beef. Not as convenient, but it's amazing, I assure you.

 Oh fantastic, it worked

do share

 I apologize for the delay, Master Julian.

The recipe, should you choose to accept it, is contained within the spoiler below.

 

• 6 strips bacon

• 1 onion, chopped

• 2 cloves garlic, minced

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

• 1 pound ground beef

• 1 1/2 cups beef broth

• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

• 2 teaspoons hot sauce, or to taste

• 8 ounces spaghetti noodles

• 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chiles (such as Ro-Tel® Original)

• 1 (14.5 ounce) can fire roasted tomatoes

• 1 (4 ounce) can tomato sauce

• 1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

• 3 green onions, sliced, or as needed for garnish

1. Place bacon in a large cast iron skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until slightly crisp, about 7 minutes. Remove bacon slices to a paper towel-lined plate. When bacon is cool enough to handle, crumble roughly and set aside.

2. Add onion to the same skillet with bacon grease and sauté until softened, about 3 minutes. Add garlic, salt, and pepper. Stir until garlic is fragrant, about 30 seconds.

3. Add ground beef. Cook and stir until beef is crumbly and no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Lower heat to medium-low, and stir in beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce. Stir in 1/2 of the crumbled bacon.

4. Break spaghetti noodles in half. Scatter over ground beef, making sure noodles are separated. Pour tomatoes with green chiles, fire-roasted tomatoes, and tomato sauce over noodles. Cover and cook for 20 minutes.

5. Remove the lid and stir to combine the pasta and sauce. Smooth out mixture and scatter shredded cheese evenly over top. Sprinkle with remaining bacon. Cover and let cheese melt, about 5 minutes. Garnish with green onions; serve immediately.

 Nonsense, Chef Baalze. I am sure you have many other customers to be attending to. But I shall have to try out this lovely recipe of yours sometime.

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 *Shatters through wall, twitching and jerking*

I have a better recipe, but it requires ground beef. Not as convenient, but it's amazing, I assure you.

 Oh fantastic, it worked

do share

 I apologize for the delay, Master Julian.

The recipe, should you choose to accept it, is contained within the spoiler below.

 

• 6 strips bacon

• 1 onion, chopped

• 2 cloves garlic, minced

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

• 1 pound ground beef

• 1 1/2 cups beef broth

• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

• 2 teaspoons hot sauce, or to taste

• 8 ounces spaghetti noodles

• 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chiles (such as Ro-Tel® Original)

• 1 (14.5 ounce) can fire roasted tomatoes

• 1 (4 ounce) can tomato sauce

• 1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

• 3 green onions, sliced, or as needed for garnish

1. Place bacon in a large cast iron skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until slightly crisp, about 7 minutes. Remove bacon slices to a paper towel-lined plate. When bacon is cool enough to handle, crumble roughly and set aside.

2. Add onion to the same skillet with bacon grease and sauté until softened, about 3 minutes. Add garlic, salt, and pepper. Stir until garlic is fragrant, about 30 seconds.

3. Add ground beef. Cook and stir until beef is crumbly and no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Lower heat to medium-low, and stir in beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce. Stir in 1/2 of the crumbled bacon.

4. Break spaghetti noodles in half. Scatter over ground beef, making sure noodles are separated. Pour tomatoes with green chiles, fire-roasted tomatoes, and tomato sauce over noodles. Cover and cook for 20 minutes.

5. Remove the lid and stir to combine the pasta and sauce. Smooth out mixture and scatter shredded cheese evenly over top. Sprinkle with remaining bacon. Cover and let cheese melt, about 5 minutes. Garnish with green onions; serve immediately.

 Nonsense, Chef Baalze. I am sure you have many other customers to be attending to. But I shall have to try out this lovely recipe of yours sometime.

 *gets thrown through the other wall, slamming to the floor*

I, cough, I can provide the bacon and, ahem, beef.

*A hybrid between a devil, boar, and cow charges through the hole it created with me, tackles me, and smashes me against the third wall.*

Help i need help which one do i watch first: apothecary diaries or dungeon meshi

Adhd is so weird like my brain so scrambled that literal meth improves the function

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Adhd is so weird like my brain so scrambled that literal meth improves the function

 Lemme guess, you take either Adderall or Desoxyn?

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Adhd is so weird like my brain so scrambled that literal meth improves the function

 Lemme guess, you take either Adderall or Desoxyn?

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