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[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.

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Interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS) (7 October 2005).
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I hope this is accurate.

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Errands are a point of view.

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Greatness awaits!

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Choice quotes:

- (right out of the gate) MotherFUCKER I am sold this music is who did this who kept this hidden from me. - (Vader) Okay this guy has a badass voice and NO TIME FOR YOUR SHIT. I like him already. - These robots feel like a classic comedy duo. I’m impressed that it works so well even though one of them doesn’t talk. or have conventional body language. - HAHAHA “no. I don’t like you either.” “sad sound” - Obie Wan, master of the hard sell. Be a space wizard, Luke! - Space DARK WIZARD. LOVE IT. He’s got no time for your lack of faith.

IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you will experience a meticulously detailed alternate reality filled with garish colors, clear-lacquered birch veneer, and a host of NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (NPCs) with the glazed looks of the recently anesthetized.

Having taken a science fiction and philosophy course in college, I’m familiar with the Fermi Paradox, but this considers a number of other explanations that I don’t remember hearing before.

I knew bits and pieces of this, but not the entire story. I’d prefer more detail here, particularly around which shots in the Star Wars series are inspired by Kurosawa and others.

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