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Zets19 does this really interesting artful dodge

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where Baku admits that code is not wonderful

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and that there are issues with it, but he says

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that he makes the moral stance when Nox asks

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him, why are you still fighting for code or why

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are you still serving code, I think is what he

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says. And Baku says, I'm still trying to figure

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out which parts of code are evil and which parts

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of code are good, but... I know this. The people

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who are hurting people and causing them nightmares,

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giving them nightmares, whatever, are bad. And

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I will fight them is the implication. He does

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it as he's getting his belt on. And what I really

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like about that is, one, it's great in its clarity,

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in its moral clarity. If you don't know what

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to do, if you're confused about what's right

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and what's wrong, all you can do is... Unfortunately,

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I'm going to be quoting Frozen 2. Do the next

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best thing. When you're in an imperfect world,

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in an imperfect system, and you're in an imperfect

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actor, that's all you can do is do the next best

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thing. What is the next thing you can do? What's

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the best thing you can do? What's the best thing

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you can figure? The best doesn't mean it's good.

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It means it's the least bad thing, right? So

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I really appreciate that moral clarity and that

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idea of... Figuring out how to do this and how

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to figure out or figuring out how to be part

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of this imperfect world. And I don't want to

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belabor that. So I will stop now and I will shift

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to something that's really interesting is that

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there's this wonderful emotional moment, which

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I hope to talk about in a short where Baku looks

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like it almost looks like he's stopping Nem from

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killing herself. She's got this knife and she's

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going to go after the nightmare as part of the

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death game. But I think that. And she's kind

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of thinking, if I die in the dream from trying

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to fight this nightmare, maybe I'll die in the

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real world, and then I won't be the source of

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nightmares anymore. Because Nem hears that she

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might be the one who is the source of the nightmares,

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and that it could all be coming from her subconscious,

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which doesn't make her culpable, but it does

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make her a part of the problem. She hates to

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think that she's a part of the problem. She hates

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to think that she's hurting people. And that's

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part of her big, deep, wonderful conversation

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that she has with Baku. And it ends with him

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telling her, but you make people happy. You make

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people happy. You give them hope. You give them

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what they need to keep going, being part of everybody's

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dreams. Because we know this from the beginning

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of the series, from episode one, that everybody

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has dreams with them in them. And this is why.

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We don't know if she wanders through everybody's

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dreams or if she only wanders through the dreams

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of people who have nightmares. But she went missing

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four years ago. And I would assume that's when

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she kind of ascended into the dreamscape or her

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subconscious connected to everybody else's. And

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like I said, I assume that's what the timeline

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is. But I don't know for sure. And I'm assuming

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we'll get... clarity on that at some point but

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we may never get the the full truth so we'll

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just have to see how that plays out but regardless

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i think it's interesting i think it's an interesting

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concept interesting conflict it's interesting

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that she feels like she's at fault and you know

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therefore she should end it somehow uh however

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she can and i think it's really interesting that

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she was willing to heroically sacrifice herself.

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However you want to read that, however you want

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to take that in order to end this. And I love

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that Baku stopped her because from a utilitarian

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point, he could say, well, this is the best way

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to help the most people the most quickly. Let's

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do this. And, uh, here darling, I'll, I'll take

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you over there and help you. Um, or just, you

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know, save the trip. Don't fight the nightmare.

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Just come at me. Uh, but that's not what he does

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because he's a good guy. And It's interesting

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because you could say in a way both him choosing

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to fight and destroy the nightmare and him stopping

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them from going and facing the nightmare herself

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are ways that he's a part of the problem now

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too. Ways that he's perpetuating the system that

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code is using or is part of, involved with, whatever.

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We have next to no information about the inner

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workings of code and we don't even have an official

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statement that they're against the nightmares.

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Code agents infiltrate people's dreams to stop

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nightmares to what end? I don't know. I don't

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know. Anyway, I don't want to belabor it. I'll

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have short, subtle supplement this and add to

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it after I've thought about it some more, but

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that's my quick thoughts on it, my quick reaction,

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which is that Z19 is great because it has the

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moral clarity to have Baku make the statement

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of... I don't really know what I'm doing, but

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I'm trying to do my best. And I'm going to stand

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up and fight against people like you or whatever

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these dark forces that I know are bad because

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they're bad. And I'm trying to do good here.

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And I want to do better, but I can't yet. So

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in the meantime, this is what I'm doing. This

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is my path. I'm locked on this. I think it's

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a beautiful idea, beautiful concept. It's a beautiful

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thing for us to do when we live in this broken

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world, trying to figure out what exactly we can

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do to help. face the insurmountable darkness,

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the seemingly insurmountable darkness. It will

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be surmounted. It's doable. We're going to get

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through this, folks. Anyway, that's it for now.

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This is MJ with Writer Tears and Henshin Inspection

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signing out. Check out the link for more, the

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pinned comment, rather, for more. I'll have all

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my Zets stuff in there and other things, maybe

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links to shorts as well, because I think I'm

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going to have some hot shorts to follow up on

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this one.