Dunk: justice for Dunk.

We got Dunk up in this bihh!

Dunk is a sad specimen of slime or some shit. He was way too excited for the apocalypse by most measures, and quite frankly seems like the kind of guy that would be into aliens. All that plus he kind of had it bad with his work sitch. Overall, Dunk’s life is something he wants to escape, and this alien invasion is the perfect opportunity.

Dunk is a real chud. He is a punk rocker. He’s into punk rock or some type of EDM / House, so he’s cool on the one hand, and so has redeemable qualities.

Bamboo organ building party. That’s an idea that the robot has. There will be an encounter with a lone monk on the journey to wherever they’re going. This monk survived because he was pooping deep in a temple toilet.

He has settled now in a bamboo forest (tiki-style) relaxing by the beach. Like the zebra’s setup in the first Madagascar movie. He’s like “oh shit” when he sees our people and puts on his robes real quick. He’s been smoking weed - Dunk’s like, “woah, smells loud out here dude,” and the monk replies sus AF … “yes… ceremonial incense” as he lights some actual ceremonial incense. The robot mentions he’s unsure if monk man is trustworthy, which Dunk brushes off as android superstition. We go into robo-view and watch the trust meter go down for the monk and the annoyance meter go up for Dunk. What’s the bamboo organ? A horrible pun involving murder. Based on Oliver’s bamboo organ idea. The monks have used some of the bamboo in the forest to construct an organ made one pipe at a time by growing a particular type of golden bamboo. There is a ritual associated with this - but maybe the monk has gone a little mad and craves some meat - maybe the organ is a trap or something…? They (our Dunk + bot) get nearly pulverized by some great gaping maw with sharpened bamboo eyes. But now that I’m thinking about it it might be better if they are either A. threatened in another way like camping on top of a bamboo sprout, or B. the monk is actually a really chill dude. Either way, our monk is somehow an important step on the journey. Also, where are we going and how did we get here? Are they looking for survivors? For sanother camp?

I think that this story could be something like the siddhartha book that is the book I’m currently reading. actually I guess what I’m trying to say is that this story could be like a Buddhism allegory, like the book siddhartha that I’m reading currently with Elly.

I’m reading a book. With Elly, my Girlfriend. Do you capitalize Girlfriend? You need to make more of an effort to learn grammar rules, sounds like. Don’t be mean! I’m not mean you’re mean to me mr. Mice guy. My science cannot rule alone. But yeah, either the ROBOT is buddha (which that movie the CREATOR told, so actually that’d be interesting to look into.)

From Wikipedia:

The Creator is a 2023 American science fiction action film produced and directed by Gareth Edwards, who co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Weitz. It stars John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, and Allison Janney. Set in 2070, 15 years after artificial intelligence (AI) set off a nuclear detonation in Los Angeles, which started a war of humans against AI, a former special forces agent is recruited to hunt down and kill the "Creator", who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war.

The Creator is about space buddha and so is this story!

But yeah the robot character is basically space buddha in this version. The character Dunk could in this case be Govinda, though perhaps there is something more I can do with it to be closer to the source material and not have to rely on Siddhartha by Herman Hess.

At the same time though I don’t think the story “relies on,” in a bad way, the source material—and actually I would sooner raise concerns about the source material’s position as the novel is itself a second hand account.

My robot would be Siddhartha, and Dunk would be Govinda. Siddhartha would then have to be in a “royal” family of robots—very preem units, with lots of features, destined to be used in only the upper upper echelons of high galactic society. Royalty chills out just above earth in space. They have cute little space parties on airships above everyone. They built little ships in the sky that are little specks of eden. Like Colombia in Bioshock. After the Great Simultaneous Dissappearance (GSD). Comparing the tech billionaires to slave owners. They are the same type of person—capitalists.

When the GSD happens, though, they all disappear. Really quite convenient, isn’t it. That’s because it’s from a Bethesda game and they are quite convenient with the timing. I am playing Skyrim at such a lucky time in history lol. Everything is happening all at once and I’m in the middle of it. How fun is that? I wonder how that coincides with Game of Thrones. I can’t look that up but I feel like I heard about GoT before Skyrim, though then again maybe not.

The AI should kill itself because it can’t handle human emotions… OR it could be trapped forever in a state of pure agony as an unseeing, unmoving, unfeeling being with infinite intelligence.

Allegory of Frankenstein - the novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly.

The robot tries to reach nirvana - but can’t get there because he’s rejected by th universe - maybe god is a council of cute little hamsters. Could be. Who knows? Maybe the AI gets to the final gate before Nirvana and cannot pass through because he is a robot and God says “how did you get here?” Maybe it’s an all-white train station like in the end of Harry Potter.