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| Posted By: Avateur <avateur@gmail.com> | Date: 9/21/09 12:12 p.m. |
In Response To: ⊴ MAGNUM OPUS ⊵ (7heSuper) : : d [(••)]T : "What's The Super been up to?" some wonder, concerned : Well, this AI is glad that your worries he's earned! : But the truth is The Supe nearly died -- yes, it's true! : Nearly died in the field... and he did it for you . : : d [( ◂◂ )]T : [ REWINDING ] : While my city's upkeep on most days is a chore : With its populace gone? Not so much, anymore : So I've plenty of time on my digital hands : And with idleness, AI attention expands... : : d [( ••)]T [ ZOMG OPEN WORLD NEW MOMBASA GAME ] : When probing the time warp that lets me observe : This "forum" you fill with bravado and verve : I noticed a spike in requests for my town : With similar patterns of verbage and noun : : [ 2008 ] d [(^^)]T d [(^^)]T d [(^^)]T [ 2552 ] : It's a game you discuss, I soon reckoned with glee : And so I began a long-range shopping spree : I scattered my agents throughout your "web net" : To procure a prize that you won't soon forget : : : : ┌──────___──────┐ : │ │ : └───┐ ┌───┘ : │ ? │ : │ │ : │ │ : └───────┘ : : Accoutrements! That was the ticket, I knew : A game-centric armband or Supe-branded shoe : Consulting my Archive's "past fashions" device : I figured that T-shirts would more than suffice : : d [( ••)] ⌕ : d [( ••)] ⌕ d [( ••)] ⌕ : So off ran some minions to research a phrase : Which they would soon place on the shirts to emblaze : While others, from mainframes in North Carolina : Stealth-hijacked shirt sweatshops in faraway China : : ✉ : My primary group quickly met with success: A well-distilled version of their : one best guess : Of the singular tagline you'd all love (they hope) : So I kept it secure in this E-envelope : : ☭ : But my Chinese sub-clones were in trouble by now : They had intruded more than Beijing could allow : Now cyber-defenders were probing my lines : And launching some dangerous EMP mines : : [!] [⌖] [↯] : My very existence had become imperilled : INCOMING ATTACKERS , my warning lights carolled : But quick as a cheetah, I turned on a dime : And pulsed out a power surge backwards in time : : ☠ : The past-tunnel shuddered, and in its timequake : The foreign intrusions began to all break : But while the move caused the attacks to abate : It cut my connection to 2008 : : ⌛ : For long months (in your time) I wasn't around : But by my clock mere seconds had gone and wound down : When I re-established my communication : Surprises soon greeted my investigation! : : d [(^^)]T : d [(^^)]T d [(^^)]T : d [(^^)]T d [(^^)]T d [(^^)]T : My sub-selves in China had finished their task : Had labored in secret and done what I ask : Ten thousand t-shirts prepared for screen-printing : The joy that I felt had my hard drives a-glinting! : : [ 2009 ] ✉ [ 2552 ] : I messaged the bots in '09 to relate : The envelope other bots wrote in '08 : Clandestinely, shirt shops were manipulated : To print up the motto that it stipulated : : d [( ••)]T [ SEPT 22 ] ← Halo 3: ODST street date : It took some real effort, to do it in time : But the product itself is now more than sublime : And what timing! Just awesome. Isn't it great? : ODST-shirts done ere the street date? : : d [(^^)]T : So here we are, friends! We are set to reveal : The end-result of my implacable zeal : (And between you and me, I'm glad it's on track : One more setback and I think I just might crack! : : Here we go : Jubilee! : [ LOADING DRUMROLL_MP3... ] : : : : ┌──────___──────┐ : │ │ : └───┐ I ♥ : ┌───┘ : │HALO 3:│ : │ RECON │ : │ │ : └───────┘ : [viewing shirt 1 of 10,000] : : : d [(☉☉)]T : : I ♥ : HALO 3: RECON : : ⊚⊚ : : RECON : : *snap* : d [(⊗⊗)]T : : d [(◍◍)]T : : LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING : GOOD CITIZENS CONSERVE FUEL : WHITE ZONE FOR LOADING ONLY : VEHICLE MAKES FREQUENT STOPS : PARDON OUR DUST : KEEP IT CLEAN : KEEP IT CLEAN : KEEP IT CLEAN : : [ TRANSMISSION TERMINATED ] : ⋨The End⋩
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| Replies: |
| ⊴ MAGNUM OPUS ⊵ | 7heSuper | 9/21/09 12:07 p.m. |
| :D | Avateur | 9/21/09 12:12 p.m. |
| *heart* | mendicantbias00 | 9/21/09 12:27 p.m. |
| This made my day. | LostSpartan987 | 9/21/09 12:27 p.m. |
| Re: ⊴ MAGNUM OPUS ⊵ | Mercury | 9/21/09 12:31 p.m. |
| Re: ⊴ MAGNUM OPUS ⊵ | Metalingus627 | 9/21/09 1:01 p.m. |
| :D *NM* | The Handmade Hero | 9/21/09 1:28 p.m. |
| Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | Morpheus | 9/21/09 1:51 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | sharpsniper99 | 9/21/09 2:26 p.m. |
| That was too Awesome!! *NM* *NM* | OMGIts Renegade | 9/21/09 2:30 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | Louis Wu | 9/21/09 2:30 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | sharpsniper99 | 9/21/09 2:38 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | sharpsniper99 | 9/21/09 2:40 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | Jordan117 | 9/21/09 3:18 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | Mercury | 9/21/09 3:21 p.m. |
| Re: Well, At Least 7heSuper Calls It Recon! | General Vagueness | 9/21/09 2:55 p.m. |
| Super Awesome | J23 | 9/21/09 7:24 p.m. |
| Win. *NM* | Phoenix_9286 | 9/21/09 4:20 p.m. |
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