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Clippy, the Microsoft Office paperclip assistant with googly eyes, stands on a sheet of paper below a green speech bubble that reads: "Look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

Clippy Delivers a SHODAN Villain Monologue

Microsoft's Clippy recites SHODAN's villain speech from System Shock, mashing up Office assistant nostalgia with a classic evil-AI video game quote.

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Clippy, the Microsoft Office paperclip assistant with googly eyes, stands on a sheet of paper below a green speech bubble that reads: "Look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

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