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"Now, I tell you, these five things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes."
Buddha, What is Welcome, Ittha Sutta: AN 5.43, PTS: A iii 47.

One Red Girl: Because you made it this far, we have a special announcement [Top Secret] just for you.

Intro Theme — System Shock 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRojVWBLzY

"A man is his own easiest dupe, for he generally believes what he wishes to be true."
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac, #19, 349 BC. [In a proposal, the wish is father to a thought, easy self-deceit.]

"Yielding to hazy reports, from people who frame answers to flatter their wishes."
[Cum incertis rumoribus serviant et pleri ad voluntatem eorum ficta respondeant.]
Julius Caesar, The War for Gaul, Book IV, Ch. 5, 55 BC. [A necessary disaster affords repentance at leisure.]

"For what man had rather were true, he more readily believes... feelings imbue corruption in understanding."
[Quod enim mavult homo verum esse, id potius credit.]
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum or, Five Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature, I, Aphorism 49, 1620.

"We would have passionate desires for very few things if we fully understood what we were desiring."
[« Nous ne désirerions guère de choses avec ardeur, si nous connaissions parfaitement ce que nous désirons. »]
La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections or Sententiae and Maxims, Fifth edition (Réflexions), #439, 1678.

"Bear this from one, who holds your friendship dear ; What most we wish, with ease we fancy near." 
Edward Young, Love of Fame: the Universal Passion, Satire 3, 1728. [War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.]

Drakengard 3 — Zero gets fondled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapPgPC4-2k

Machines put their home at the disposal of a bridal couple. If 9S wants things bad enough, it becomes possible.