Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Patterns
Both words in one sentence
- First Episode Resurrection: Kenshiro is dying while connected to the Net, and willing to "upload" his brain patterns as a device to delete information he doesn't want to be collected postmortem.
Source: Comicbook / Ghost Rider 2099 -
Kenshiro "Zero" Cochrane is dying while connected to the Net, and willing to "upload" his brain patterns as a device to delete information he doesn't want to be collected postmortem.
Source: First Episode Resurrection -
Red Herring: The "Box of Infinite Complexity", a device in Kaptar with dozens of buttons and switches, lights with apparently randomly changing patterns, and instructions in Russian.
Source: Video Game / Obduction
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