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[WP] "Remember how the world was supposed to end in 2012?", he asks as he hands you a file folder labelled "Classified". "It did."
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[WP] A film noir-like piece about a white cell detective investigating the mysterious death of a neuron, ignorant of it being the beginnings of Alzheimer's disease.
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[WP] Everyone thought it was going to be chimpanzees or dolphins that first approached human level intelligence and somehow started an interspecies dialog. But as the first self aware giant octopus, you have a few things you'd like to talk about with those messy, inconsiderate bipeds.
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[WP]You're hired by a delivery service that uses a time-machine to deliver parcels before they're ordered. You spend most of your day arguing with the recipients.
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[WP] Humanity makes contact with an alien species. They seem rather friendly, but also quite... baffled. After working out basic English, they ask us, "We have not seen any starship leave this system for one of your many other colonies in 297,591 local years. Why? Have you quarantined the system?"
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[WP] The Hero bravely strolls through the evil fortress, none of the monsters or minions daring to get in their way, their loyal companions following behind them. They break into the throne room and the Hero shouts out, "Mom! Dad! I'm back home! And I brought some friends with me!"
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[WP] A young girl picks a random person out of an old and outdated phone book and, unaware that the person she picked is already dead, sends a letter to them. Somehow, the letter travels to the world of the dead and, after reading the letter, the person it was written for decides to write back.
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[WP] "I am the Lorax; I speak for the trees. And for some fucking reason, they're speaking Vietnamese."
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