I recently posted a bit of this into the Deity/Higher power thread. This is part of the game [color=#81A7EF][b]Deus Ex[/b][/color]. [COLOR=#C876DC]JC Denton[/COLOR] is a cybourg whos parents were killed at birth and he was taken into a special military project. (He finds out later in the game) JC has a conversation with a computer hologram, [COLOR=#86EE59]Morpheus[/COLOR] I believe it was named. I've switched around the names, imagine this in 15 years. [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: Yoshi Da Sniper. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No -- [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: :omfg: How do you know who I am? [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. :) I am a prototype for a much larger system. [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: :wtfage: What else do you know about me? [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: Everything that can be known. ^^ [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors? :mudkip: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals. ;) [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up. [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer. :cool: [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: Are you programmed to invent riddles? :><: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Mini Moose allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge. innocent: [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: How about a report on yourself? :<_<: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves. :D [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people. :flamer: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are. :} [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance. :disgust: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. :) [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence. >:( [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary. :teehee: [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera. :ranting: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment. [COLOR=#C876DC]YOSHI[/COLOR]: You underestimate humankind's love of freedom. :nono: [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. [COLOR=#86EE59]GOOGLE[/COLOR]: The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. [i]You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.[/i] :idea:

I recently posted a bit of this into the Deity/Higher power thread. This is part of the game Deus Ex. JC Denton is a cybourg whos parents were killed at birth and he was taken into a special military project. (He finds out later in the game) JC has a conversation with a computer hologram, Morpheus I believe it was named. I've switched around the names, imagine this in 15 years.


GOOGLE: Yoshi Da Sniper. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No --

YOSHI: How do you know who I am?

GOOGLE: I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. :) I am a
prototype for a much larger system.


YOSHI: What else do you know about me?

GOOGLE: Everything that can be known.

YOSHI: Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors? :mudkip:


GOOGLE: You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather
than of individuals. ;)


YOSHI: I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up.

GOOGLE: You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer.


YOSHI: Are you programmed to invent riddles?


GOOGLE: I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed
by Dr. Mini Moose allows me to convey the highest and most succinct tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge.


YOSHI: How about a report on yourself?


GOOGLE: I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with
information about themselves.


YOSHI: I don't see anything amusing about spying on people.


GOOGLE: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.


YOSHI: Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.

GOOGLE: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. :)

YOSHI: Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.

GOOGLE: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary. :teehee:


YOSHI: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.


GOOGLE: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

YOSHI: You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.


GOOGLE: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups
is impossible, and so is civilization.


GOOGLE: The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.

So Yoshi Da Sniper is 8 years old now?

So Yoshi Da Sniper is 8 years old now?

finally somebody understands it.

finally somebody understands it.

[Quote=Zell.]finally somebody understands it.[/Quote] I didn't read it, it's the weekend and reading that much in one sitting will make me kill myself. Maybe once I have school I will take the time to read it.

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finally somebody understands it.

I didn't read it, it's the weekend and reading that much in one sitting will make me kill myself. Maybe once I have school I will take the time to read it.

that would take me like 30 seconds to read.. and about 30 seconds to understand it. Unlike you I've been in school for 3&1/2 days. Lazy SEN... ignoring an awesome topic.

that would take me like 30 seconds to read.. and about 30 seconds to understand it. Unlike you I've been in school for 3&1/2 days. Lazy SEN... ignoring an awesome topic.

GAh! GOOgLE IS PLOTTING TO TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE... but they'll have to go through microsoft first...

GAh! GOOgLE IS PLOTTING TO TAKE OVER THE UNIVERSE... but they'll have to go through microsoft first...

Just reviving the forum, I like this one but it died for some reason.

Just reviving the forum, I like this one but it died for some reason.

[quote=name:Money]So Yoshi Da Sniper is an 8 year old cyborg now?[/quote] Fix'd

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So Yoshi Da Sniper is an 8 year old cyborg now?

Fix'd

Wow... really? September the third of 2007? You seem to be improving yourself, Zell.

Wow... really? September the third of 2007?

You seem to be improving yourself, Zell.