Cryptocrystalline Shrikes

“So I was trying to embrace the absurdity, but I kept getting a ‘malformed motivation’ error, and the energy output would keep going down. I tried to work around this by changing one of the motivation jumpers to ‘short circuit’ mode, but then a different part said there was a ‘circular philosophy’ error. When I unplugged the circular philosophy detector, the fans started running really loudly instead, so I unplugged the fans too, because I thought since they're circular they might be causing the circular error, and then a bunch of the wires started melting and exploding. All I wanted to do was embrace the absurdity. What am I doing wrong?”

“Everything.”

“Nothing.”