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shellphones2025-06-11 04:25 pm
reneggadetinkerer) wrote in shellphones2025-06-11 04:25 pm
EGGSPOSURE THERAPY ACT I | [VIDEO]
Type: VIDEO
Sender ID: reneggadetinkerer (Dr. Ivo Robotnik)
To: Public
Subject: AMA
Warnings: Megalomania
[The feed begins with Eggman sitting at what appears to be a console facing the camera. He's routed his shellphone camera into one of his Buzzbomber Radniks, giving a much more dynamic view of his quickly expanding warehouse and base of operations. The good doctor has wasted no time and appears to be well in production of not just Radniks, but other experiments and tools using the strange magic and technology found on this world. Anyone who knows him well may be alarmed. But if you don't, he just looks industrious.]
[Once the feed starts, he stands and begins to dramatically move about the room, arms clasped behind his back.]
Good day my fellow Riftfarers!
I have been here for several months now and it has come to my attention that several denizens of my world have made it their mission to inform the public of my er...proclivities. As such, I have thought long and hard about what this means and how to move forward.
[As he speaks, he gesticulates with one arm in sweeping, grand gestures.]
As such, I have decided that it is important, in the spirit of transparency that I make my past known. Yes, it is true that I, the Great Dr. Ivo Robotnik, have sought to conquer my world more than a few number of times. However, I have agreed to be on my...best behavior while I remain a tenant of this washed out world and such, I would like to extend the proverbial olive branch. You see, some Hedgehogs who shall remain nameless unless their name is Sonic, seem to believe I have the propensity for good.
Now, in the spirit of this newfound...charitability I wish to point out that any Radniks I have sold to you or anyone else are not dangerous. This has been verified by trusted sources but if you would like to investigate for yourselves? Well, I have nothing to hide.
Which brings me nicely to the reason for this broadcast!
[Eggman snaps, and a graphic appears on the screen.]
If transparency is the name of the game, I thought it would be a fun little exercise in trust! All questions are valid though I will get some of the easier ones out of the way first.
[Ahem.]
My name is Dr. Ivo Robotnik, but I have allowed others to call me Eggman. It was an insulting moniker I have chosen to adopt, thus robbing it of its power over me. As for my general interests? Robotics, mad science, engineering, aeronautics, and theme parks.
The floor is yours and I eagerly await your questions.
Sender ID: reneggadetinkerer (Dr. Ivo Robotnik)
To: Public
Subject: AMA
Warnings: Megalomania
[The feed begins with Eggman sitting at what appears to be a console facing the camera. He's routed his shellphone camera into one of his Buzzbomber Radniks, giving a much more dynamic view of his quickly expanding warehouse and base of operations. The good doctor has wasted no time and appears to be well in production of not just Radniks, but other experiments and tools using the strange magic and technology found on this world. Anyone who knows him well may be alarmed. But if you don't, he just looks industrious.]
[Once the feed starts, he stands and begins to dramatically move about the room, arms clasped behind his back.]
Good day my fellow Riftfarers!
I have been here for several months now and it has come to my attention that several denizens of my world have made it their mission to inform the public of my er...proclivities. As such, I have thought long and hard about what this means and how to move forward.
[As he speaks, he gesticulates with one arm in sweeping, grand gestures.]
As such, I have decided that it is important, in the spirit of transparency that I make my past known. Yes, it is true that I, the Great Dr. Ivo Robotnik, have sought to conquer my world more than a few number of times. However, I have agreed to be on my...best behavior while I remain a tenant of this washed out world and such, I would like to extend the proverbial olive branch. You see, some Hedgehogs who shall remain nameless unless their name is Sonic, seem to believe I have the propensity for good.
Now, in the spirit of this newfound...charitability I wish to point out that any Radniks I have sold to you or anyone else are not dangerous. This has been verified by trusted sources but if you would like to investigate for yourselves? Well, I have nothing to hide.
Which brings me nicely to the reason for this broadcast!
[Eggman snaps, and a graphic appears on the screen.]
If transparency is the name of the game, I thought it would be a fun little exercise in trust! All questions are valid though I will get some of the easier ones out of the way first.
[Ahem.]
My name is Dr. Ivo Robotnik, but I have allowed others to call me Eggman. It was an insulting moniker I have chosen to adopt, thus robbing it of its power over me. As for my general interests? Robotics, mad science, engineering, aeronautics, and theme parks.
The floor is yours and I eagerly await your questions.
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Because I was going to ask what your take on the evidence was, but...
[Does Eggman think that he has the propensity for good?]
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How about a different example? Let's say you could meet a bunch of different Eggmen, from different times in your life or even alternate universes. Maybe five. Or — no, better. Let's make it a dozen!
You wouldn't have any questions about their lives, and the possibilities?
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A tenuous alliance where we can at least work towards each other's mutual benefit would be idea, but we would all be aware that the others would jump at the chance to seize total power. At that point it becomes a race to see who can outwit, assimilate, or destroy the others first.
Their paths are irrelevant.
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[If he were a therapist, this is where he would be jotting down a LOT of notes.]
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... ... ...
What do you talk about with other people?
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A trash sculpture that I will then melt down because 'art' is only one step below 'philosophy' in the list of useless degrees.
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Do you really need to threaten them like that?? It seems pretty obvious they think they world of you! ... or, well, Orbot probably would if you didn't threaten to turn him into a trash sculpture.
Anyway, that's not really talking to them! [Though it sure feels on-topic.] Is there anyone whose real opinion you care about?
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And sometimes because I feel like it.
...And other times because Cubot forgets to change the filter in the coffee pot.
And sometimes because I just want to yell at something that has the barest capacity to feel fear and sorrow. Like screaming at a baby bird.
[He waves his hand, realizing he's done that thing where he's gone off on a tangent.]
Anyway, of course they think the world of me. I programmed them that way. They don't have a choice.
Define and quantify "real opinion." Because you're positing the existence of a "fake" opinion.