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Misuse; not about a literal dog dying


* ShootTheDog: The family dog, which survived The End, comes back to the house. It tries one final time to locate his family, and when it fails, scratches the kitchen door with pancakes cooking on the other side. The dog curls up and promptly dies of starvation and (presumably) radiation poisoning. The cleaning robots carry it off and incinerate the body without a word.
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-->''"[[BookEnds Today is August 5, 2026.]] [[BrokenRecord Today is August 5, 2026.]] Today is--"''

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-->''"[[BookEnds -->''"[[{{Bookends}} Today is August 5, 2026.]] [[BrokenRecord Today is August 5, 2026.]] Today is--"''
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* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: The entire plot of the piece is that a fully-automated house keeps performing its duties of cleaning the house, preparing meals, singing lullabies for the kids etc., even though the home has been empty for a long time and the family and everyone else has perished in a nuclear war.

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* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: The entire plot of the piece is that a fully-automated house keeps performing its duties of cleaning the house, preparing meals, singing lullabies for the kids kids, etc., even though the home has been empty for a long time and the family and everyone else has perished in a nuclear war.



%%* ComputerVoice

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%%* ComputerVoice* ComputerVoice: Throughout the house, many mechanized voices speak to give the family directions.



%%* HumanitysWake:

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%%* * HumanitysWake: Nuclear war killed all of humanity, but not all living beings.



* RagnarokProofing: Although it survived the blast, the house runs out of water trying to put out a fire in itself because it has been using up all its reserves cooking and washing dishes since the attack.

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* RagnarokProofing: Although it survived the blast, the house runs out of water trying to put out a fire in itself because it has been using up all its reserves cooking and washing dishes since the attack.
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%%* AtomicHate

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%%* AtomicHate* AtomicHate: The entire purpose of the story is to show what would happen AfterTheEnd because of a nuclear war. There's nobody left, machines are still going entirely on their own, and humanity is basically gone.
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->"Today is August 4, 2026."

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->"Today ->''"Today is August 4, 2026."
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* DownerBeginning: Nuclear was has come and gone, and humanity has ceased to exist. All that's left is the house.

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* DownerBeginning: Nuclear was war has come and gone, and humanity has ceased to exist. All that's left is the house.
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* AfterTheEnd: The nuclear holocaust has already happened, but the family's smart house is still active and running despite the deaths of its inhabitants.

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* AfterTheEnd: The nuclear holocaust has already happened, but the family's smart house is still active and running despite the deaths of as if its inhabitants.inhabitants were still alive.
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* AfterTheEnd: The nuclear holocaust has already happened.

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* AfterTheEnd: The nuclear holocaust has already happened.happened, but the family's smart house is still active and running despite the deaths of its inhabitants.
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* DownerBeginning: Nuclear was has come and gone, and humanity has ceased to exist. All that's left is the house.

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