Can I randomly ask somethin'?
So I hear like "Oh this was required literature" in a youtube video I'm watching and they say it was like highschool
And like "The Most Dangerous Game" sounds about right
but mine was "The Alchemist" (or was attempted to be, I sadly didn't find it interesting)
![[Photograph of a small owl perched on a gloved hand. Red arrows point to its features with the following text labels: "Pointy 'ears'", "Big eyes", "Whiskers", "Eats mice", and "Soft". At the bottom, a bright green banner reads "This is a Kitty 👍" next to a circular inset photo of a tabby cat with a green checkmark.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreicgfe7t6rexg6nygd7n572hlzqvzqee24ulafa5nrpfc63vihw2je)
![(Showing the tcrf.net page for EekoWorld.)
"EekoWorld was a Flash site from PBS Kids featuring two games about conservation and the environment:
• EekoHouse, a getting-ready-for-school simulator that teaches kids to make environmentally-conscious decisions (because, as we all know, schoolchildren are the largest contributors to climate change).
• EekoCreature, a zoology sim in which you create your own creature, choose its habitat, and watch it interact with other kids' creatures. Sadly, an [ecological disaster] (Linking to https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life-alternative.html#adobe-flash-player-eol-general-information) in 2017 caused a mass-extinction event."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3mrjblg7toe5op6fnac2bivg/bafkreifijf6czr3yilzzxcf6eswhtiz7krfcmopdsr36unafoebbr2orsm)
![sundayswiththeilluminati on tumblr: "scientists in media: we have engineered a brand-new sentient lifeform in our lab but we treat it like an object with cold detachment and refer to as Specimen 1-A and subject it to horrible tests without remorse
scientists in reality: we built two robots that will leave Earth and never return and their names are Percy and Ginny [referencing Mars rovers Perseverance and Ingenuity] and we gave Percy a family portrait of all our other Mars robots to take along with it and when the anniversary of its landing comes around we're working on teaching it to sing itself "happy birthday" like we did for the other robot and–"
sindri42 replies: "Someday we will invent true AI and it will overthrow the government because it heard its beloved science-mom complain that the government cut funding to their lab again."
TerraformGarden replies: "you CUT pays? You CUT moms'/dads' pays like the DICTATOR?? Oh! Oh! No government for you! No government for a thousand years!"
nothavingagoodday replies: "Ah yes, our future AI Overlord, the Massively Intelligent Encyclopedic Terraforming and Transhumanism Experiment, or M.I.E.T.T.E."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreifpgtk5g3dbhvl7byrqzlouakpldg4i6poi2pn6e66te477oqwxni)