Re: {General} Mad ideas
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:33 am
Oh, right. Gettysburg is the historical place. New Gettysburg is, like, a place from Star Craft.
Is awesome.
"Megafortress" and other such names could be individual nicknames used by its crews. Not that many of these monsters would be built, after all. If we go all-out with the madness: perhaps they were fitted with top-of-the-line avionics and computers stuff in the 1980s, and they developed rudimentary personalities as a result! Superbombers with primitive minds built of IFF transponders, flight calculators and tape-recorded doomsday protocols, their gray titanium bodies fueled by nuclear fire...
I never said anything about holograms, mang.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Hrm... how did the Blacksuits get enough funding for an AI, and I really can't imagine it coordinating their scattered operations like a "conventional" AI complete with holograms or disembodied voices carrying out human conversations. They're too retro! Unless their AI was invented in the 70s or 80s, the golden age of sci-fi, and ever since then the 'Suits have been upgrading it and it has remarkably kept up with modern tech.
Just because it has a Japanese-sounding name doesn't mean it has to be Japanese, mang. It's basically just a vastly upragded SOCRATES, with the advantage of the Greycoats having more money for keeping it upgraded. It's probably much more capable than the aging SOCRATES, which can't be upgraded to the same extent due to funding issues.SOSUMI (perhaps designed by some Japanese Greycoat mang?), being more advanced, can thus have the GlaDOS voice and more nifty features?
I imagined HEMLOC having a WOPR/Joshua voice since WarGames is a Cold War flick set in the 80s (the reign of von Reagan!) and SDI grew out of von Reagan's militaristic machinations.I don't know what the SDI's AI should sound like. But it should be cool, albeit unconventional.
Or, y'know, multiple copies of HEMLOC. Just like GDI has multiple EVAs.Maybe SDI can have MULTIPLE AI with different voices!
SOSUMI, mang. And it doesn't have to be. The Greycoats generally don't go for menacing sounding naming schemes anyway (Form and Dorian don't sound so menacing on their own either).Shroom Man 777 wrote:Oh. Sorry. SOUMI doesn't sound so menacing.
Sounds Cylon-ish and more evil, but could work. Although, these AIs don't "go rogue" or somesuch, so the crazy MGS AIs are not exactly a good example.Colossus sounds just as cool as Joshua.
Yeah, that could work too. Maybe the HEMLOCs are customized depending on where they're assigned, and given different codenames. But they'd still be HEMLOC systems fundamentally. And SDI Base One's HEMLOC (the original, I imagine) will have the original Joshua-voiced and be referred simply as HEMLOC instead of some codename.Maybe the SDI's AI can have different voices. And, maybe, they aren't exactly identical - for security and redundancy's sake.
No, Shroom, just no. I mean, what possible motive is there for us to make Austrailia a full blown aparteid government, even with their historical track record towards their own native population?Shroom Man 777 wrote:I think Australia should've had an apartheid government. Sorry, Ford, but I just do.
Shroomy, do you have any idea of the institutionalised racism that has existed in Australia since 1907? Look up A.O. Neville some time. Australia doesn't need an apartheid government, because it basically already had one forty years before South Africa. Keep in mind that the Stolen Generation and its intended purpose can be argued as being a form of attempted genocide. Australia had legislation which was proudly referred to as the 'White Australia' policy, and even came with badges proclaiming that Australia was a land for whites. There's no reason for you to know about stuff like the native reserves and all those laws and the 'Protector of Aboriginies' title, but it all adds up to the same result: Australia doesn't need to have more racism introduced to it, as Australia is just really good at racism.Shroom Man 777 wrote:I think Australia should've had an apartheid government. Sorry, Ford, but I just do.