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** [[spoiler:Rabbit]]: A small, cute fuzzy animal that has been known to freeze in place when scared.

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** [[spoiler:Rabbit]]: A small, cute fuzzy animal that has been known to freeze in place when scared.scared and eats its own feces.
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** [[spoiler:Harry Truman]]: Failed businessman who never graduated college ends the deadliest war in history by using the deadliest weapons in history. Also determined where buck stops. Much more respected nowadays.

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** [[spoiler:Harry Truman]]: Failed businessman who never graduated college and lived with his parents well into adulthood ends the deadliest war in history by using the deadliest weapons in history. Also determined where buck stops. Unexpectedly won a second term even after newspapers declared his opponent the winner. Much more respected nowadays.



** [[spoiler:Gerald Ford]]: Kansas-born Michigander most famously known for that one time he fell down the stairs.

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** [[spoiler:Gerald Ford]]: Kansas-born Michigander Michigander, a former college football player and male model most famously known for that one time he fell down the stairs.



** [[spoiler:Barack Obama]]: Born and raised in Hawaii, lived in Chicago, not much experience other than being elected once to the US Senate (and that was a bit of a fluke since his original likely opponent had to quit the race after a scandal erupted about his sex life with his ex-wife, [[Creator/JeriRyan a beloved actress from a popular TV franchise]]). People either loved him or hated him. Really good at giving speeches and shooting hoops. Only one of them with a Grammy.

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** [[spoiler:Barack Obama]]: Born and raised in Hawaii, lived in Chicago, not much experience other than being elected once to the US Senate (and that was a bit of a fluke since his original likely opponent had to quit the race after a scandal erupted about his sex life with his ex-wife, [[Creator/JeriRyan a beloved actress from a popular TV franchise]]). People either loved him or hated him. Really good at giving speeches and shooting hoops.hoops (even though he never advanced any farther in the latter than being a backup point guard on his high school team). Only one of them with a Grammy.

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** [[spoiler:Emotions]]: It responds to various stimuli by causing the organism connected to it to experience a range of different arbitrary chemical changes, ranging from pleasant to unpleasant. The organism prefers the pleasant ones, so it takes extra care to only experience those ones. This process is somehow supposed to keep it alive. Because humans like to over-complicate things, they associate these with other senses, such as a series of noises in a unique order, and different wavelengths of light.
*** [[spoiler:Happiness]]: Many humans consider this to be the most desirable chemical reaction, going out of their way to experience it, which often results in getting an undesirable one instead. Associated with the colour of a ball of gas in the sky. Can be triggered by consuming the organism's preferred nutrient, or spending time with other organisms whom they share genes with.
*** [[spoiler:Sadness]]: In comparison, this one is thought of as the opposite of the desirable one. People have arguments over whether it's valid to experience or not experience this in certain situations. Associated with the colour of what makes off most of earth's surface. Triggered by loss of what is considered property, or loss of those with similar genomes.
**** [[spoiler:Depression]]: For whatever reason, some Homo sapiens lose the ability to feel most of the chemical changes except the undesirable ones. It often results in the humans who are victims of this being heavily misunderstood. Not having the pleasant chemicals often causes the creature to be so miserable it would rather not exist. [[SubvertedTrope Probably not a lot better than it sounds.]]
*** [[spoiler:Fear]]: The organism in question feels as if it is about to die, and reacts appropriately, although in humans, it's a false alarm 99% of the times it happens. Results in loss of the desire to consume nutrients, taking extra air into the two chambers inside the chest, and inability to use the hunk of meat in a sensible way. No wavelength in particular is associated with this. Triggered by many things, depending on different factors.
**** [[spoiler:Anxiety]]: Humans who have this feel as if they are about to die a lot more intensely, and in inappropriate situations. Can also result in the aforementioned loss of ability to feel pleasant chemical changes.
**** [[spoiler:Phobias]]: Reacting to various objects and situations with extreme shock and fear, ranging from understandable ones to downright ridiculous ones. No one has found an explaination as to why this phenomenon occurs, except past incidents involving the object or situation.
*** [[spoiler:Anger]]: The hunk of meat decides that its creature has to start acting violently. Associated with the wavelength that can be seen on the liquid inside long tubes in the body, which is also how the creature's face may appear when experiencing too much of this. Mostly triggered in humans by other humans with undesirable traits.
*** [[spoiler:Bipolar Disorder]]: A human's hunk of meat may occasionally not have the ability to decide which chemical reaction in particular to experience, resulting in passages of time where they have a dangerous amount of the pleasant ones, only to suddenly get the same but with the unpleasant ones.



* [[spoiler:Emotions]]: A hunk of meat responds to various stimuli by causing the organism connected to it to experience a range of different arbitrary chemical changes, ranging from pleasant to unpleasant. The organism prefers the pleasant ones, so it takes extra care to only experience those ones. This process is somehow supposed to keep it alive. Because humans like to over-complicate things, they associate these with other senses, such as a series of noises in a unique order, and different wavelengths of light.
** [[spoiler:Happiness]]: Many humans consider this to be the most desirable chemical reaction, going out of their way to experience it, which often results in getting an undesirable one instead. Associated with the colour of a ball of gas in the sky. Can be triggered by consuming the organism's preferred nutrient, or spending time with other organisms whom they share genes with.
** [[spoiler:Sadness]]: In comparison, this one is thought of as the opposite of the desirable one. People have arguments over whether it's valid to experience or not experience this in certain situations. Associated with the colour of what makes off most of earth's surface. Triggered by loss of what is considered property, or loss of those with similar genomes.
*** [[spoiler:Depression]]: For whatever reason, some Homo sapiens lose the ability to feel most of the chemical changes except the undesirable ones. It often results in the humans who are victims of this being heavily misunderstood. Not having the pleasant chemicals often causes the creature to be so miserable it would rather not exist. [[SubvertedTrope Probably not a lot better than it sounds.]]
** [[spoiler:Fear]]: The organism in question feels as if it is about to die, and reacts appropriately, although in humans, it's a false alarm 99% of the times it happens. Results in loss of the desire to consume nutrients, taking extra air into the two chambers inside the chest, and inability to use the hunk of meat in a sensible way. No wavelength in particular is associated with this. Triggered by many things, depending on different factors.
*** [[spoiler:Anxiety]]: Humans who have this feel as if they are about to die a lot more intensely, and in inappropriate situations. Can also result in the aforementioned loss of ability to feel pleasant chemical changes.
*** [[spoiler:Phobias]]: Reacting to various objects and situations with extreme shock and fear, ranging from understandable ones to downright ridiculous ones. No one has found an explaination as to why this phenomenon occurs, except past incidents involving the object or situation.
** [[spoiler:Anger]]: The hunk of meat decides that its creature has to start acting violently. Associated with the wavelength that can be seen on the liquid inside long tubes in the body, which is also how the creature's face may appear when experiencing too much of this. Mostly triggered in humans by other humans with undesirable traits.
** [[spoiler:Bipolar Disorder]]: A human's hunk of meat may occasionally not have the ability to decide which chemical reaction in particular to experience, resulting in passages of time where they have a dangerous amount of the pleasant ones, only to suddenly get the same but with the unpleasant ones.

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** [[spoiler:Psychology]]: It tries to find out how it works, to varying degrees of success.
*** [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud]]: All your problems are because you want to have intercourse with your mom.



* [[spoiler: LGBT+ Community]]: a massive amount of people get together to form support groups and hang out. Members are identifiable by the garish symbols and hyperspecific terminology with accompany puns that (usually) voluntarily replace forms of identification among denizens of the internet, occasionally reaching the point that it is their [[FacelessGoons sole identifying characteristic.]] considered TheDreaded across the web due to habits of preemptive incendiary carpet bombing.



** [[spoiler:Marriage]]: Because of the above (and possibly the "exhausting, dangerous, messy and uncomfortable activity"), two people move in together. Many things can go wrong (including results of the "parasite generation") and lead to an end where one tries to extort as much from the other as possible. Almost always ends in either heartbreak or death (death is the "good" ending, unless one partner gets really fed up with the situation).

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** [[spoiler:Marriage]]: Because of the above (and possibly the "exhausting, dangerous, messy and uncomfortable activity"), two people move in together. Many things can go wrong (including results of the "parasite generation") and lead to an end where one tries to extort as much from the other as possible. Almost always ends in either heartbreak or death (death is the "good" ending, [[DrivenToSuicide unless one partner gets really fed up with the situation).situation]]).



** [[spoiler:{{Aromanticism}}]]: The inability to experience this, more specifically the form that's supposed to keep the species going.



* [[spoiler:Psychology]]: The above mentioned hunk of meat tries to find out how it works.
** [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud]]: All your problems are because you want to have intercourse with your mom.



** [[spoiler:{{Asexuality}}]]: Not feeling any compulsion to perform the above described act, often to the confusion of those who desire it. People who this applies to have built a culture around prioritising the aforementioned items you put in your mouth over it.



* [[spoiler: LGBT+ Community]]: a massive amount of people get together to form support groups and hang out. Members are identifiable by the garish symbols and hyperspecific terminology with accompany puns that (usually) voluntarily replace forms of identification among denizens of the internet, occasionally reaching the point that it is their [[FacelessGoons sole identifying characteristic.]] considered TheDreaded across the web due to habits of preemptive incendiary carpet bombing.
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** [[spoiler:''Pinball/{{Taxi}}'']]: An old man dressed in red, an actress, the then-leader of the Soviet Union, a vampire, and a robot from space get in a car together. That's it.
** [[spoiler:''Pinball/FunHouse'']]: A boy makes fun of you at every opportunity he can. The key to outdoing him is to stay alert past his bedtime. The boy is voiced by [[Creator/EdBoon the creator]] of Franchise/MortalKombat.


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** [[spoiler:''Pinball/PopeyeSavesTheEarth'']]: A well-known seafarer decides he wants to be more like [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]] while his main rival becomes extremely rich. This large box lost the manufacturer so much money that it would not only go out of business a few years later, but take nearly all of its competitors out with it.
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** [[spoiler:Vanilla]]: The yield of a flower that blooms for an hour but at random times, then withers, requiring farmers to constantly check up on the plants, day and night, to manually pollinate them, because no pollinators exist in most places where it's grown. It's so labor-intensive that it goes for a ridiculously high price, but it's also so sought after that not only do people buy it at that price, but the farmers are armed and sleep where they keep their yield due to it being a frequent target of theft. The plant belongs to a taxonomic family of over 28,000 species, yet is the only one grown and harvested on a large scale due to the insatiable demand for it. Despite all of this, the word for this foodstuff is also synonymous with "bland" and "basic."
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* [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh]]: An expensive computer that runs less software than its main competitors.

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* [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh]]: [[spoiler:Platform/AppleMacintosh]]: An expensive computer that runs less software than its main competitors.
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** Alternatively Alternatively: A muscle that thinks. There was and still is much debate about how it does this. The one in humans is so smart it named itself and is able to create complex technology, yet so primitive it’ll probably take hundreds of thousands of years to be able to use the tech without thoroughly fucking itself up (you’re guilty of it as you read this sentence). Known to cause extreme misery if [[UsefulNotes/{{Depression}} it doesn’t]] [[UsefulNotes/PersonalityDisorders work]] [[UsefulNotes/ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder how]] [[UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder it’s]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Dyslexia}} supposed]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Suicide}} to]], which happens often enough that there’s an entire industry around fixing these issues.

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* [[spoiler:Pregnancy / Childbirth]]: A parasite (or sometimes more than one) lodges itself within a woman and slowly grows over most of a year, affecting the woman physically and psychologically. Eventually the parasite(s) is ejected painfully from the body; however, it typically stays with the woman for years, and the woman may even be imprisoned if she abandons the creature. Despite the intense physical and emotional discomfort the woman is put through during this time, the growth and arrival of the creature is widely considered a beautiful and life-affirming affair.

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* [[spoiler:Pregnancy / Childbirth]]: A parasite (or sometimes more than one) lodges itself within a woman female and slowly grows over most of a year, affecting the woman host physically and psychologically. Eventually the parasite(s) is ejected painfully from the body; however, it typically stays with the woman female for years, and the woman female may even be imprisoned if she abandons they abandon the creature. Despite the intense physical and emotional discomfort the woman female is put through during this time, the growth and arrival of the creature is widely considered a beautiful and life-affirming affair.


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* [[spoiler: LGBT+ Community]]: a massive amount of people get together to form support groups and hang out. Members are identifiable by the garish symbols and hyperspecific terminology with accompany puns that (usually) voluntarily replace forms of identification among denizens of the internet, occasionally reaching the point that it is their [[FacelessGoons sole identifying characteristic.]] considered TheDreaded across the web due to habits of preemptive incendiary carpet bombing.
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* [[spoiler:Psychology]]: The above mentioned hunk of meat tries to find out how it works.
** [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud]]: All your problems are because you want to have intercourse with your mom.

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* [[spoiler:{{Literature}}]]: Innocent trees are chopped up so that people can enjoy having their imaginary friends put into unpleasant situations.

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* [[spoiler:{{Literature}}]]: Dead sea creatures printed on dead trees used for varying purposes.
** [[spoiler:Fiction Books]]:
Innocent trees are chopped up so that people can enjoy having their imaginary friends put into unpleasant situations.situations.
** [[spoiler:Non Fiction Books]]: The same as before, but for acquiring information. Using them will [[GeniusBookClub make you look smart]].


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*** [[spoiler:Lucid Dreams]]: Exactly the same as the above, but the person experiencing it is aware that what’s happening to them isn’t real, despite it being even more vivid. Those with enough practice inducing these can become [[DimensionLord Dimension Lords]] of the world that they are hallucinating and use them to experience things they can’t in real life.
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** [[spoiler:Ronald Reagan]]: Illinois-born actor who defeated a peanut farmer in his first election and his Vice-President in his second (the latter with the most votes in American history at that time). Almost got killed by a guy with a heavy obsession for Jodie Foster.
** [[spoiler:Barack Obama]]: Born in Hawaii, lived in Chicago, not much experience other than being elected once to the US Senate. People either loved him or hated him. Really good at giving speeches and shooting hoops. Only one of them with a Grammy.

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** [[spoiler:Ronald Reagan]]: Illinois-born actor who defeated once co-starred in a movie with a chimpanzee. He defeats a peanut farmer in his first election and his Vice-President the farmer's former assistant in his second (the latter with the most votes in American history at that time). Almost got killed by a guy with a heavy obsession for Jodie Foster.
** [[spoiler:Barack Obama]]: Born and raised in Hawaii, lived in Chicago, not much experience other than being elected once to the US Senate.Senate (and that was a bit of a fluke since his original likely opponent had to quit the race after a scandal erupted about his sex life with his ex-wife, [[Creator/JeriRyan a beloved actress from a popular TV franchise]]). People either loved him or hated him. Really good at giving speeches and shooting hoops. Only one of them with a Grammy.
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** [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball]]: 36 people (many of whom are descended from prisoners) kick a pineapple-shaped ball around a cricket pitch and often get downright brutal in their efforts to gain possession of it. To score points they have to kick the ball between absurdly tall goal posts that make it so that it's really hard to ''not'' make a goal, and even if you miss you typically still get awarded a point.

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