• then_three_more@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 hours ago

    The Culture: the machines are probably more sentient than biologicals. When I decide I’m done with being biological I might upload my mind state into a substrate as part of a group Mind.

    • ...m...@ttrpg.network
      3·
      1 hour ago

      …the great thing about lancer is that you don’t even have to play it; you can just sit back and enjoy lore videos for weeks and weeks and weeks…

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
    29·
    7 hours ago

    Dune: the very concept of a sentient machine became abhorrent to humanity and they were obliterated by the Butlerian Jihad.

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      6 hours ago

      the very concept of a sentient machine

      Of a thinking machine, period. Doesn’t need sentience. It’s why they use mentats/guild navigators instead of calculators and databases.

      • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 hours ago

        They hated thinking machines so much they turned humans into machines that… think… for them… guys, I may have learned a new thing about Dune!

      • nocturne@slrpnk.net
        6·
        5 hours ago

        You are correct, I lifted that directly from the dune wiki.

    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
      8·
      6 hours ago

      Sometimes I genuinely forget what is dune and what is warhammer

  • Reznik@lemmy.zip
    6·
    6 hours ago

    Shadowrun: That thing that took the renraku arc and then destroyed the matrix as we knew it? Well… there is a golden dragon owning one of the most powerful megacorps of this world. Pick your poison, I guess.

    • GreenBeard@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      I love Shadowrun. Sure, it’s still a grim dark dystopia where megacorps and their puppet states are grinding mankind into paste with senseless war, murder, destruction and debauchery, rogue AIs are devastating us while tech industries keep us pacified with digital drugs and bigotry is keeping us weak and divided, but at least there’s actual elves and dragons and stuff.