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Now let him try to deny the power of the machine-god.

Okay, recalibrate. May be worth the price of admission alone.

This isn't working. Try using that console.

This isn't working. You need to work out what the machinery is doing.

Told you there's something awesome happening here. Get involved!

Look at all this power, this sheer coruscating energy! It's cooking something groovy.

The MS6 was recalled after reports that it was able to alter ganglion cell axons at the optic disc, causing users to perceive colours previously thought unavailable to Homo sapiens.

Ignore the weird aesthetic stuff -- she's cracked everything open and put it back together. It's all heavily modified!

She's controlling the bootlegging system, you dick. Multiple screens and formats all at the same time -- she doesn't have time for waster mammal shit like food and rest.

Something's not working right over there.

Try the console on the other side.

Machine's watching you now. Onto you.

Not a chance that this is just bootlegging equipment. Look at all this power, this sheer monstrous energy! It's cooking something awesome.

Perfect zone. Look at the view! No trees, ocean, or mountains getting in the way. Pure, uninterrupted structure.

The bomb sure does.

The bomb vibrates, pulsing in time with the concrete tremors.

Of course! But what is the song?

So if you had the real recording of 'Superbloc, Baby', you'd also have a bomb...

Good hands would've found a purpose for it already.

The hand on its oscilloscope twitches in recognition of their voices.

Their audio equipment's all bootlegged shit, inverted logos and backward numbers everywhere.

That pen has been rejected for a reason. That much fancier pen of yours will do a much better job.

Become the cauldron in which boils the means to your transmogrification.

The greatest advantage a machine has over man: the will to live is not required.

like the very moment you rip off the cellophane that envelopes a brand new disc... Or even better, a repressed colour variant disc.

Ashamed of its single disc offering.

Someone's done the hard part for you. The way is open.

Like one of those master sword makers the government subsidises to make two blades a year.

Rancid. Pull that lever.

You don't need training in bomb psychology to know that this bomb is psychologically disturbed.

No shame on the kid. It's a feat of extreme will to pass by a red button and not press it.

Technical talk for a landline. It's connected to the network by copper wire.

You may have been on ice for five years but the inexorable march of progress certainly has not.

Naivety like this is the problem. Healthy competition is what pushes technology forward and society along with it.

You don't need his guidance. Wires and cables are the same everywhere and you are their master.

The well-greased cogs of your mind yearn for the challenge.

Both minerals used to put the juice in batteries.

No satisfying pleasure from untwisting a tangled braid of cords? No fun at all.

The Auto-Negotiator hums in your hand. You can practically feel the little magnets spinning inside.

That device he's carrying is some sort of all-in-one tracker and intercommunications device. State-of-the-art, wireless, a modern wonder.

Or maybe it's your budding techno-fascist consciousness expressing itself.

The mic is in the vicinity of the speaker, but out of focus, his mouth pointed away from the receiver, liquifying the consonants.

Spirits invoked by a well-placed cricket somewhere in the shrine.

It's a cricket, that much is obvious. Picking up a conversation happening right here, right now -- a live ceremony.

The conjured spirits have fallen silent. The machine hums and crackles with failed ceremony.

Oral imitation of double bass blastbeats. One kick with two pedals thundering nonstop thirty-second notes.

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