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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Jul 1, 2018 2:00:26 GMT
Oh yeah. Especially if you down 20 apples, 10 cheese wheels and 30 sweet rolls in one sitting and your character still carries on like nothing happened lol Especially when you're in mid-battle- Just imagining the character ducking behind a rock and scarfing down a giant feast like that in less than 10 seconds while a dark wizard is trying to kill him with lightning. LOL I've done that while fighting dragons. I'd eat half my inventory and resume the battle and I just picture the dragon thinking to himself "Did he just shoved 50 sweet rolls down his gullet?" Love those games!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 2:03:40 GMT
Especially when you're in mid-battle- Just imagining the character ducking behind a rock and scarfing down a giant feast like that in less than 10 seconds while a dark wizard is trying to kill him with lightning. LOL I've done that while fighting dragons. I'd eat half my inventory and resume the battle and I just picture the dragon thinking to himself "Did he just shoved 50 sweet rolls down his gullet?" Love those games! LOL. Elder Scrolls is awesome. Glad they finally announced the next one!
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Post by Vassaggo on Jul 1, 2018 2:12:01 GMT
I was either thinking of some lab monstrosity that's technically alive but instead of having the terminator skeleton under it's flesh it was just a skeleton of future guns. Or hell take a large animal and just stuff the weapons into it's body. Something akin to the cow that has the port in it's side so you can see it's guts work. Instead of leaving the hole open just cauterize the wound right before pushing Betsy the cow into the field. Just thought of a reason why. A failure of imagination. Maybe it couldn't think around that corner. The T-800 Infiltration models weren't built to send back in time. It was a response to a direct problem. Humans could spot the ones covered in rubber. So Skynet wrapped it in flesh. Once Skynet was on it's heels and seeing it was going to lose. It took it's first illogical/imaginary leap. Send something back in time to stop John. It saw the problem with metal vs time dilation. It had the Infiltrator so it solved that problem straight away. Maybe it just couldn't make another one of those leaps. A question I've always had about Skynet, as an AI, is that once it had mastered cybernetics, it must have understood that there was potential for a union of the two species -- humans and machine -- that would be mutually beneficial to both. Its war against humans seems relatively simplistic for what is supposedly a sophisticated AI. In any event, an infiltrator would attract less attention in the past than a non humanoid monstrosity. The former would be less likely to alert the general populace of something being wrong which could jeopardize Skynet's existence. Any way you look at the Terminator mythos, information that seemingly comes from nowhere is introduced into a time loop. Making something from absolutely nothing is commonly referred to as a miracle. At some point in the future an AI is created which attempts to destroy humanity, in the process of doing so, it somehow learns that to guarantee its creation, it must send key technology back in time... So who invented Skynet? Us or Skynet? And was Skynet's goal really to kill Sarah Connor or was it to ensure its creation or both? Yeah it has a few names destiny paradox, predestination paradox, Causal Loop, the bootstrap paradox, the Beethoven Paradox, or my favorite the Ouroboros. I read a lot of horror in my teens. I liked The Art Trilogy by Clive Barker (20 years later and still no 3rd book). It has the Iad Ouroboros the snake eating the tail. That's probably why I like that term for it. Have you ever read the short story All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein? It was made into a movie with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook called Predestination. I had a quirky Philosophy Professor in college who assigned the short story to introduce us to that style of paradox, introduce the idea of a philosophical zombie, and get us to question the idea of self. I recommend both the movie and the short story. Also the 12th Doctor Explanation is awesome...
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Post by Power Ranger on Jul 1, 2018 11:45:39 GMT
This isn't for or against Cameron, but I have a question. I'm not 100% sure about something in Terminator Time Dilation. The movie states Skynet sends back Infiltrator Models because of the skin. If they sent back just metal the process frags them. So the thing that is saving skynets bacon is the flesh. Now the t-1000 is saved because even though he is a liquid metal polyalloy it works as a flesh so dodged the bullet. Kyle also says no future weapons the metal will fry in the time dilation. So here's my question. Why didn't skynet wrap flesh around weapons. Have it make a freak of nature bag of living flesh that would wrap around the future weapons. This has always bothered me. Is there an answer? The terminator was a weapon that was already in existence so Skynet didn’t need to develop another. Also the terminator didn’t seem to have trouble locating weapons. Plus the Terminator series is not a part of the MCU so there was no Shuri to create a metal alloy which could survive time travel.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jul 2, 2018 3:12:08 GMT
A question I've always had about Skynet, as an AI, is that once it had mastered cybernetics, it must have understood that there was potential for a union of the two species -- humans and machine -- that would be mutually beneficial to both. Its war against humans seems relatively simplistic for what is supposedly a sophisticated AI. In any event, an infiltrator would attract less attention in the past than a non humanoid monstrosity. The former would be less likely to alert the general populace of something being wrong which could jeopardize Skynet's existence. Any way you look at the Terminator mythos, information that seemingly comes from nowhere is introduced into a time loop. Making something from absolutely nothing is commonly referred to as a miracle. At some point in the future an AI is created which attempts to destroy humanity, in the process of doing so, it somehow learns that to guarantee its creation, it must send key technology back in time... So who invented Skynet? Us or Skynet? And was Skynet's goal really to kill Sarah Connor or was it to ensure its creation or both? Yeah it has a few names destiny paradox, predestination paradox, Causal Loop, the bootstrap paradox, the Beethoven Paradox, or my favorite the Ouroboros. I read a lot of horror in my teens. I liked The Art Trilogy by Clive Barker (20 years later and still no 3rd book). It has the Iad Ouroboros the snake eating the tail. That's probably why I like that term for it. Have you ever read the short story All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein? It was made into a movie with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook called Predestination. I had a quirky Philosophy Professor in college who assigned the short story to introduce us to that style of paradox, introduce the idea of a philosophical zombie, and get us to question the idea of self. I recommend both the movie and the short story. Also the 12th Doctor Explanation is awesome... I've read Heinlein extensively and I'm aware of the many instances of causality paradoxes in sci-fi. With Skynet and the Terminator franchise I've just wondered why no one in-story has ever contemplated the true nature of Skynet. "'—All You Zombies—'" is a classic.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jul 2, 2018 3:14:15 GMT
This isn't for or against Cameron, but I have a question. I'm not 100% sure about something in Terminator Time Dilation. The movie states Skynet sends back Infiltrator Models because of the skin. If they sent back just metal the process frags them. So the thing that is saving skynets bacon is the flesh. Now the t-1000 is saved because even though he is a liquid metal polyalloy it works as a flesh so dodged the bullet. Kyle also says no future weapons the metal will fry in the time dilation. So here's my question. Why didn't skynet wrap flesh around weapons. Have it make a freak of nature bag of living flesh that would wrap around the future weapons. This has always bothered me. Is there an answer? The terminator was a weapon that was already in existence so Skynet didn’t need to develop another. Also the terminator didn’t seem to have trouble locating weapons. Plus the Terminator series is not a part of the MCU so there was no Shuri to create a metal alloy which could survive time travel. Try sticking a Kimoyo Bead up your ass. Might help with those MCU hemorrhoids. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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