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how did every scifi author sleep on the cell phone
they predicted an absolute hellscape of capitalism, authoritarianism, smart golems, force fields, space ships, computers faking makeup on to your face in a video feed, memetic viruses of staring at tv screens, telecommunication, flying cars
but NOBODY got the nightmare rectangle
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@icedquinn neural lace from the culture series. directly snapping photos with your eyes and editing memories. ships like to fuck with the meat sacks using it.
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@CleverMoniker @icedquinn :jokergirl:
Entire culture "civ" is based on ships making decisions, inventing tech, pushing limits of art and science, practicing politics, forming geo strategy, fighting wars and managing population.
Humans and bots have the same rights as pets of the ships
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn I thought the ships were "benevolent"
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@CleverMoniker @icedquinn In fact some ships have such a unique obsession with specific pets, they do weird things just to keep them happy.
Like rebuilding the entire ship layout size of a continent for one specific pet.
On the other hand theres ships that dont really care about the meat sacks. Eject them all out the airlocks, run off to some random planet and play god. Aka GCU Grey Area "meatfucker"
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn Yeah, but i didn't know they did such things, because even as pets you could just not do that. Can you tell me what they did to the people in the ships, like, not even just worst case just like a bad common thing.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn I see, but i have heard most of them don't do anything bad to them. I have not read the books tho. So i think saying that the ships "like to fuck with the meatbags" is an unfair statement if its just an exception to the rule.
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@CleverMoniker @icedquinn Heres the thing, they dont adhere to meatsack ethics, they adhere to ship mind ethics.
Imagine if you are born, designer baby dna up, upgraded and teched by a ship mind. You spend your entire life on it, dependent on it, you speak a language designed by it, taught by it, it can respond to you at any nano second of any day either by voice or thought.
Any action by you has no consequence. you can randomly pick up a heavy vase smash it on another guys face and a "field" will be generated to stop you at the speed of light. You can jump off a cliff in the ships many hulls and a drone with break the sound barrier saving you. You can blast your head clean off with a gun and wake up the month with it questioning why did you kill yourself.
There are zero laws in the entire civilization. The 2 worst punishments for bad behavior is exile or slapdroned. A drone will follow you around at all times preventing you from doing anything the ship dont want you to.
You can "choose" do practise actual degeneracy and not work a day in your life. Hungry? Not happy? stims and drugs. You can change your species if you really want to. Dont like the way things are? You can protest at a rally. Or leave. You cant really change things either way.
Oh but the good ship minds with the extremely well cared crews will never ever look inside your little meat brain and manipulate how you think and feel. This includes the sentient drones. Somehow they actually all have jobs which they REALLY find extremely fufilling and happy to do.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn When you describe it that way i kinda get it, even if they aren't doing
anything "bad" you live in their world and there's not really anything you can do about it.
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@CleverMoniker @icedquinn The eccentric culture ship minds i believe are their actual mask off states.
They usually dont care for a crew and have a reputation of showing up during times of crisis and doing what needs doing against culture generally accepted ethics.
Ship minds have specific trans dimensional chat rooms where no drone and human can enter. communicate in real time across the galaxy to debate matters of any real importance.
Humans and drones are quite sadly a very trained pet class they throw at the rest of the galactic ant farm doing diplomacy, propaganda and meat sack things.
Only real contestant is a old race that uses virtual crews to match a ship mind but they fucked off on some kind of religious rapture. I believe the ship minds purely do this entire civ thing because they are fucking bored.
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@CleverMoniker @icedquinn The "nice" ones like to wear a human avatar(robot made with meat) specially crafted to be biologically and psychology attractive to a specific pet and have sex with it as a joke.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn As a joke? Oof that doesn't sound too benevolent to me.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn I see, it could be that way yeah...
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@CleverMoniker @icedquinn Crew human got onto a ship, decided to sample the locals. Got locked in by the ship mind as a prank.
The malevolent ship mind: im gonna wear your body as a suit and let you get touched up by the gays. Excession.
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn That's... definitely more than a prank. And definitely not benevolent.
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@Some_German_Guy @CleverMoniker @icedquinn Culture series. The civ is called "the culture"
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@CleverMoniker @IAMAL_PHARIUS @icedquinn bored gods fucking around with peoples lives.
not a new idea.
whats the name of the book series?
iced depresso
Chinese man ? #nobot
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