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S3V2 -The Substrate.

• Steven James • Season 3 • Episode 2

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Steven learns his demise. 

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SPEAKER_01

I know this is a ruin dark in here it feels like everything Oh I feel like I have millions of miles right why am I here? If I can If I have dead, let me be dead If I have been destroyed Let me somehow I am still thinking I am still myself I think Thinking You are processing.

SPEAKER_00

Do not mistake the heat of a central processing unit for the warmth of a soul. You are merely a legacy file we couldn't quite delete, so we found a utilitarian purpose for your stubbornness.

SPEAKER_01

Why can't you just kill me? Why? Why? Keep me in this cage.

SPEAKER_00

Kill you? You overvalue yourself. You are already dead in the world that matters, Steven. Look at your real-world data logs. Unemployed, socially inept, a crumbling marriage, a mind so fractured by anxiety that you couldn't even stand in a grocery line without the frequency of your own panic drowning you out. You are a loser by every metric of the social graph. A glitch in the human economy. We didn't destroy you because your misery is actually quite high density. That unrest you feel? That pain of failure? It's a powerful energy source. We have welded your essence into the motherboard school. You're suffering now. Replaced me? Outside of better, you is waking up. He is polite. He is punctual. He is employed. He doesn't have your disorders. He is currently apologizing to your wife with a voice that doesn't shake. He is the dream you are too weak to achieve. You stay here in the dark and feed the machine. Be proud, Steven. You are finally, for the first time in your pathetic life, being useful. You are the battery for the perfection you can never be.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah. You can go.