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[scarcastically]

Y'know, going up in space, visiting other worlds is supposed to blow your damn mind. The idea's that you're exposed to stuff so unreal, so beyond believin' that it's alien to you.

So why exactly are we celebratin' Christmas in space? Feels kinda weird, to be honest. But I guess capitalism and commercialism is a universal concept.

Still, though. Kinda gets me thinkin'. How do you celebrate your holidays where you're from? Don't tell me about Christmas though. We all know about Christmas.

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[ocelthot]

Video games as recruitment, VR training, emotion control, PTSD suppression, complete privatisation of the armed forces, automatic data feeds to replace experience... it goes on.

[scarcastically]

Not a terrible idea.

[ after all, his reputation was so good, he "racked up kills like in a video game." ]

[ocelthot]

It certainly works.

And it's all just a stepping stones for world wide digital mind control.

[scarcastically]

The what now?

[ocelthot]

Originally there was a focus on controlling information to lead people to specific beliefs. With the advent of the internet that became difficult.

An AI was developed for the purpose of controlling the information flow of the internet, with that AI gone, they had to rethink.

Now nanomachines have been capable of censoring words and blocking psychics for a while and have been standard for special forces, politicians, and anyone handling sensitive military information for years.

With the development of emotion and sense control, the idea is to get the nanomachines into everyone. This will likely start with all military and military adjacent personnel, and driving as many people into military service as possible.

With enough saturation, getting the same nanomachines into the general population becomes less of a leap.

Then imagine what could be done with the control of every sight, sound and feeling had by every person in the world.

[scarcastically]

But who is in control?

[ocelthot]

A computer built in the 70s/80s.

[scarcastically]

Even computers need someone to work them.

And who built it?

[ocelthot]

The AI was built to be independent as soon as the satellite was launched.

Programmer was murdered by her husband in the eighties, the man who commissioned it has been a vegetable since the eighties, and the last two people with administrative access were killed in the early 2000s. So it's been unmanaged for six years with the goal of 'making the world whole.'

[scarcastically]

[ hm. sounds fake. no one wants to lose control of that kind of power. ]

Sounds dodgy to me.

[ocelthot]

[Which is why there was only two people with admin access left when Ocelot arranged to kill them. They didn't want to give up control, and now no one is in control.

They sure as hell did not want Ocelot to have access since he'd just promptly release their imprisoned war criminal figure head and let him go back to trying to start world wars just because he didn't want to be without war.]

If you put enough proxies into spy networks very few people notice when huge portions of the organisation drop dead so long as orders keep coming. That is something that's been proved repeatedly since world war 2.

[scarcastically]

And what war are you looking for?

What are you trying to burn?

[ocelthot]

[Sure it's good fun to pretend he gave a single fuck about the soviet union, but he didn't need that anymore.]

I won't pretend I'm some champion of free will or world peace here, I want what was stolen from me and an end to children as the raw materials for agents.

[There's a half truth or two in there, but the exacts weren't all that relevant.]

[scarcastically]

[ that . . . does strike a chord in him. the world took everything from me. everything I ever loved. ]

That's pretty admirable.