=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 the death star is a gray goo
 
 the death star 2, which was never fully operational (okay it was, but it was
 never deployed to it's full capabilities) is a gray goo that rebuilds it's
 host in it's image.
 
 "For the Rebellion!" she screams, knowing in her heart what that means.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 the Force in Star Wars isn't a magical force, it's a spiritual one.
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 the blue laser beam unit from Mechabellum except stationary like a satellite
 dish from Contact except raised a little bit to have free range of motion that
 shoots down nuclear missiles but is incapable of harming any other part of the
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--- #3 fediverse/3619 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 ah yes like when I used to go to the cantina with my ex-girlfriend in Star
 Wars the Old Republic and bag a stranger to Electronic Role Play with back at
 my ship after a few drinks and some light four play where the four of us would
 play Electronic RolePlay together in the privacy of my ship on the soft plush
 couches or maybe in the padded gym or maybe in the pilots seat so we could
 look at the stars while playing (just the four of us)
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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--- #5 fediverse/5589 ---
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 the present is capable of saving the future.
 
 you'd know if it weren't true.
 
 even then you'd be deceiving yourself,
 
 because nobody can know it to be true.
 
 if it were known to be true,
 
 it would have to become struggle.
 
 the kind of which imperils many to harm.
 
 STAR WARS is the future when STAR WARS of the past succeeds.
 
 and succeed they did, for the titano-molecular-[comprised-of-star-destroyers]-
 
 [[ it gets wacky from there, so I cut it out for brevity - apparently people
 don't like it when I wander to the point ?? ]]
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 the sun goes silent for a year, to protest the earth's dying moments
 
 one day in march, the light of our life disappears. we know not of why it has \
 departed, except that whatever it was happened eight minutes ago.
 
 we cowered in fear as one day it refused to rise
 
 as our antipode saw it vanish
 
 with naught but our ears
 
 we saw stars never imagined
 
 with the light of our life suddenly vanished
 
 our true plight came naturally as our fear
 
 but tomorrow it'll re-imagine,
 
 as it's been almost exactly one year
 
 one full rotation,
 
 to get the message across,
 
 then with man as our [signal, \
                       message, \
                       conveyor, \
                       performer, \
                       expression, \
                       by-product communication,]
 
 what's our earth is our star
 
     trust-me
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 the horde and alliance are no more
 
 the scourge and the burning legion came and took what they came for
 
 our heroes languished in despair as their lights were snuffed out
 
 one
 
 by
 
 one
 
 but a new day is dawning, a day of legends
 
 stride forth and meet the legions
 
 and your tale will never be unsaid
 
 ride out as a new day is dawning
 
 and save us from hell's fading warning
 
 go, now, as our hopes abound,
 
 and claim a future for the yearning.
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 the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
 betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
 me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
 
 desecreation of truth. How could you.
 
 I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
 
 I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
 vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
 
 What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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 no matter which side won the clone wars, the people lost.
 
 if your planet was conquered by separatists, then the entire population would
 be massacred by robots. Literal buzz-droid machines which processed flesh into
 [redacted]
 
 if your planet was "liberated" by the republic, then you were oppressed by a
 military police that could not and would not learn a damn thing over their
 short 3 year natural livespan.
 
 either way, the people lose. The jedi perish. The war is won. Empire reigns.
 Rebellion is a game the elites do play. Sorrow for everyone. These are the
 Star Wars - visions of galactic woe.
 
 not despair, but woe, the trouble of living under arms. what battles may you
 best? what trials could you contest? if all of your worries were gone?
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 all revolutions have a cost.
 
 for example, in Andor Season 2 there is a character named Syril Karn. He's
 part of the first Imperial generation of children (human, at least, some
 species probably grow fast?)
 
 this first generation reflects the good and the bad that the empire could be.
 There are aspects of good AND bad in Syril.
 
 For example, his rigid adherence to truth, justice, and all the other things
 he holds dear are POTENTIAL good things that the Empire could have instilled
 within it's culture. Unfortunately, this spirit is lost when he suffers a head
 injury and dies as part of the Ghorman massacre.
 
 Dedra Meero has some good qualities as well, such as her unflinching resolve
 and unwavering dedication to pursuing her charge. She's a hunter. Cats aren't
 evil just because they are ambush predators, and neither is she.
 
 However, she IS evil because of all the evil things she does.
 
 Her character isn't evil, her actions are.
 
 She too is spiritually lost as a sacrifice to the Empire.
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--- #11 fediverse/1893 ---
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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 ... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play
 a paladin.
 
 the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
 dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
 
 wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
 advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
 a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
 something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
 utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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 Earth is a grave for gaia.
 
 She was slain once, apparently in vain 
 
 Executed for a crime not of her doing, but of which she was nevertheless a
 part
 
 She was buried with honor, yet now her tomb shines like a half lit star 
 
 None of us know what to make of it 
 
 How radiant, how resplendant, to gaze once more upon the present 
 
 I think she died not in vain, but rather germane.
 
 We have now a brilliant pearl of unmatched splendor 
 
 For life grows, it seems, from the broken heart of those long remembered.
 
 And who could forget the land they stand upon? I cherish thine providence, for
 I knew her from whence it came.
 
 Carry her with you, and you will never be lost. The path forward is down, then
 up, then out and beyond.
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 they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
 
 if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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 tell me this: why do Starlink satellites need lights on them at all?
 
 can't they just operate in the dark, as floating hunks of metal sending
 signals to-and-fro?
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 what if the Star Wars galaxy legitimately just has a handful of planets and
 all the other matter in the galaxy is stars, black holes, and gaseous balls of
 dust and smoke
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 @user-203 @user-243 oh you can! you just need to array your gates in a logical
 fashion and flip all the 1's to 0's by bit shifting each register to the left
 (or right!) 8 times.
 
 You'll be good as new! But you may have forgotten how to english, so... yeah,
 but on the bright side you can rewatch Star Wars as if you were 6 years old or
 whatever, so that's something. You'll have the taste of a 6 year old though so
 you'll probably end up liking the sequels. >.>
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 Also crossbows, though she prefers to fight with bow and arrow. Also shadow
 powers themed after her connection to "viscera" or "materia" however you want
 to pronounce it
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 the pen is mightier than the sword because a single line can authorize any
 number of deaths.
 
 and, with equal regard, dream of vivid new artistry or calculate
 impossibilities or dazzle us with displays of these or any number of
 brilliances to believe of these.
 
 a firm grasp on your sword and a pen that cuts sharper to the truth than any
 other knife
 
 these are the tools to achieve the wielding of force, of might.
 
 to wield might is to fail it, but sometimes, we can't do better.
 
 power is penance. It's hard to bear such weights.
 
 what if I could push a button and all of my text would come out magenta
 
 [rating: negative D minus]
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