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This randomly came into my head first thing in the morning, apropos of nothing.

Which I've no idea what that crossover entails

A giant robot car piloted by a forsaken child powers the city?

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Drugs are fucking rad man!

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Fully sober

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I dont remember the robotcar mech being used for anything but fighting monsters. It doesnt power the city

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Omelas is a utopian city from a short story that's powered by the suffering of a forsaken child

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I cant find anything about that online, i assumed you were talking about MEGAS XLR, the 2004 cartoon with the car mech where they for sure just fight robots. No city powering.

Okay on the third reread i figured out what youre talking about. A theoretical crossover between megas xlr and the le guin story. Nvm continue schizo posting o7

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

You know that regular people can have weird thoughts first thing in the morning, right?

It's caused by a thing called being sleepy and not eating yet

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You dont need to be literally schizophrenic to schizo post, this was a schizo post.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah then fair

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Shower dissociation? Wtf is this?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Megas XLR is a children's animated TV series from the mid 2000s about a guy from New Jersey who finds a broken giant mecha and fixes it, and "improves" it by replacing the head with a Car and the control scheme with a Xbox Controller (for weapons and fighting and flight) and Steering Wheel (for navigation.)

The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas is a serious sci-fi short story by Ursula K le Guin, about a utopian city named Omelas and those who walked away from it after they learned of the dark secret that keeps it utopian

it's powered by the suffering of a forsaken child

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

I understood none of that.