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FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
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baby's first coin toss loss
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>>722346121
You lost the coin toss bruh
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>>722346349
hey Catherine, how's the ark?
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I don't remember the coin toss scene at all.
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>lies to you and then acts like she didn't
extremely realistic woman writing
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>>722346349
>simon clearly doesn't understand this, as made clear during the part where he gets copied into a new robot body
>catherine never clears this up for him
she was straight up lying to him bro
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>>722346953
>EVEN CHINESE
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>he fell for the "coin toss"
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Now it's her fault Simon is too fucking dumb lol
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>>722346943
>Earlier in the game you literally do the exact same thing
Not the anon you replied to, but thats the dishonest part: The game presents it in a way where the "old Simon" loses it concious as soon as the "new Simon" awakens. Why not have that in the end ? Just to cause drama for dramas sake.

This game was literally made for pretentious mouthbreathers to go "UHM ACKTUALLY...." in hindsight
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A reminder that Simon had LITERAL BRAIN DAMAGE.
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>>722347028
Simon doesn't have a functional brain.
Literally.
He's a derived from a low-quality scan of a brain-damaged guy from centuries ago.
Its a miracle that he can function at all, and Cath knew that.
She didn't want to risk breaking him and by extension, dooming her science project.
Yes, she does value her project more than Simon.
Yes, that is a touch sociopathic.
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>>722347028
>>722346897
It was in-between. She explains it several times but he was dumb and never got the full ramifications. She was also socially inept as shown in several logs and when it came to smoothing things over with anyone. It was clear at some point she just wanted to get things over with as he seemed to be retarded, possibly in more ways than one due to the zombie glue and his scan.

This came to a head when the launch finished and she finally let her frustration open up on his ultra-dumness.
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Personally I chose to believe that Simon was largely blocking out the reality of how the process probably worked as he pushed on to the arc's launch, since the thought of getting onboard it was his sole motivator for pushing on and the only hope he had to escape the underwater shithole

>>722346349
Actually she specifically uses the word 'transfer' when coming up with the idea of the deep diving suit, so if you think that word implies actually moving the consciousness over then you do have to call it deceitful
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>>722346897
She knew dumbass Simon was the only sliver of a chance she had of launching the Ark and saving something of humanity, as small a part as it was
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>>722347284
this
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>>722346897
>>catherine never clears this up for him
Because if she did he would go
>HUH???? SO IT WOULDNT BE REALLY ME THEN??????
And then proceed to sulk until his body decayed, leaving her (and the people on the Ark) for dead.
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why didn't she just copy herself into the suit?
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>>722348267
She specifically says she will do it if Simon doesn't want to, but he's still the one in control of things
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I still don't see the fucking point of the ark, why dont these retards use what resources they have left and make even more robots using brain scans to try and rebuild the facility or something.
Is this like how we have billionaires throwing trillions on aisloppa instead of curing cancer
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>>722349912
>make even more robots using brain scans to try and rebuild the facility or something
That's essentially what the WAU is doing. It's how Simon woke up.
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>>722349912
Humanity at the time had no idea how to support artificial life outside of simulation.
It took the WAU many, many years of trial and error to create a body capable of supporting a human consciousness.
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>>722347656
shes a mocking bird, shes just as crazy as the rest of the broken robots. remember, you find her as a fallen machine, thats just going through the motions of her last obsession: trying to launch the arc. And like a good broken robot, shes happy when she finds her real self is already dead because deep down she also wants the continuation of consciousnessss to be real, for her to be the real her.

simon should have just made an army of himselves and stopped relying on some crazy bitch bot with a death wish. The her on the arc does believe in the coin toss, shes that delusional/selfish.
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>>722347305
Simon died in Toronto you stupid cat
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>>722349912
Right?
Get yourselves some bodies, the WaW under control, and start restoring the base: multiply, innovate, industrialize, expand.
Once your situation is stabilized explore the ruined surface - start with shore-adjacent cities, personally investigate the situation.
Preserve artefacts from humanity's past and expand the boundaries of their knowledge, seek out any survivors persisting amidst the cataclysm and ensure their safety.
There's plenty that can be done besides moping around feeling sorry for yourself.
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>>722350725
Eh, she doesn't sound happy at all when she finds out about her bio self's death, did you remember wrong
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>>722349912
>world ends
>people get big sad
>start killing themselves because le sad
>Catherine comes up with the ark project to give people hope and something to focus on rather than depsair in her autistic mind this would stop people from killing themselves
>pscyhologist jew member of the team accidently creates a death cult with his suicide note by quoting some obscure LSD fueled 1960s psycho babble about how if you could perfectly copy a mind then you could transfer the soul to the copy if the original dies fast enough because consciousness is like spirits and shit man
>people start secretly offing themselves directly after having their brain scan done
>catherine then starts telling people actually IT DOES transfer you to the ark BUT it's a coin toss whether or not your SOUL goes so dont kill yourself if you wake up in the brain machine

basically a single jew sabotaged the entire opperation by trying to justify their own suicide with a comforting lie. Asian autist tries to salvage the situation with another lie. While this is going on, the WAU starts making black goo and creating monsters.
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>>722346349
My reading of it is that Simon is in denial about his own mortality. You're effectively get through 4 different characters who all think they're the real Simon when in effect the "real" Simon died in canada in the 2010s. And they're all coping with this fact by pretending that there is a continuity and a chance for them to live on inside the ark. when the ark gets launched and Simon 3 remains at the bottom of the ocean he finally runs out of cope and lashes out at Catherine because his mortality is now a complete certainty. Catherine basically found herself trapped on a USB stick and the only person who could carry out the ark's lauch was this 200 years old personality construct of a Canadian moron. The coin toss thing is basically a relatively smart person trying to nudge a delusional idiot into doing what she think is the right thing by feeding into his delusion that he isn't already dead.
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>>722350891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0rAQJ8M8bk

>lol dont worry its better this way. now lets go launch that ark ;)

she doesnt sound upset her real self is dead, shes upset that her 'friends' were capable of actually killing her. shes selfish like that.
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>>722351669
>her real self
You failed the media literacy test.
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>>722351760
>muh media literacy

holy cope
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>>722351874
I can see why you'd act emotional about the fact, but please maintain your composure.
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>>722346897
Not exactly. She was quite clear about the process, Simon was just retarded. That's not her fault.
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>>722351952
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>>722347646
How so?
One could argue Simon isn't even human, I disagree as he is sentient but nonetheless his inherent value if up for debate.
Her science project is also one that carries in it the remnants of around 100 or more people, so it's a simple calculus, 1 person for 100.
She is also aware that in a way both she and Simon will be on that ark, they were both saved, but also had to sacrifice; a sacrifice she also willingly embraced.
Unironically Simon is just stupid.
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>>722352350
>Transporter cloning incident
Seems like a big fucking problem desu
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>>722352021
No. she believed her own bullshit, thats why mockingbird katherine uploads herself to the ark even though the human katherine had already uploaded her brainscan to it. Theres two katherines on the ark now, human katherine-A and crazy robot katherine-B. And shes so selfish, she uploads herself first before simon. Then what does she do after she loses the coin toss? she kills her usb self after gas lighting simon so he doesnt off himself and have his consciousness continue onto the ark. Shes the true villian of soma.
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>>722349912
That's exactly how billionaires think.
>"Who gives a shit about a better future for the human soul- I won't be around to see it. Just keep building planet destroying data centers because the only shit that matters is what I see and feel RIGHT NOW."
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>>722352706
I still can't believe people don't get that the coin toss is a cope from Simon.
It's copy and paste, not cut and copy.
The Simon on the ark believes he "won" the coin toss, the one left behind believes he "lost" they are both entirely sentient, the one on the ark just lacks information that Catherine hesitates to share with him.
There isn't Simon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, there is Simon, both equally alive and continuing from where they left off.
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>>722352706
>even though the human katherine had already uploaded her brainscan to it
But she didn't. Speedreaders, I fucking swear.
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I like how mind transfer/copy works in Kikokugai.
Every process of copying a mind inexplicably destroys the source, a phenomenon known as Soul Burn.
So, in theory, there's no coin toss. It's assumed the "soul" is tranferred to the new body.
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>>722346121
Anon she spelled out how the copying works like five times, and she ended up with a copy left behind too.
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>oh no, my mind was copied to another body!
>how can I know I'm really me????
>woe on me!
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Every time you enter a SOMA thread, it's a coin flip between the same thread as last time, or a totally new one
How many times have you lost the coin toss, I wonder
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>>722351669
She just understood that having another previous Catherine alive complicates things. It's the same reason she tells Simon to erase Simon B. She'd be stuck behind in the hellhole.
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>>722346121
She did quite literally nothing wrong btw. She managed to take retarded Simon through hell on Earth to launch the Ark and "save" humanity
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>>722346121
>IMAGINE ONE DAY...THE COIN LANDS ON IT'S SIDE
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>>722353925
Agreed. She's being perfectly logical and Simon is just stuck moping in denial, unable to understand some version of him is always going to be stuck behind.
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>>722354103
>>722353925
I agree but at the same time if it were me. I'd fucking never do it. That's not me that got up into the ark that's some fuck enjoying paradise with my memories.
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>>722353925
The Ark was such a retarded idea, it amounts to nothing. The only reasonable choice was to take the cancer girl topside and try to make a baby with a sperm bank before she croaks. And if that fails just look for any bunkers with paranoid billionaires in them and help them repopulate.
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didn't play the game but the idea of copying yourself is pretty neat
i wonder how long it would take for me and my hypothetical clone to diverge in behavior
as in
>enter cloner
>leave cloner
>see clone(or is it possibly the original? if the room is symmetric it's impossible to tell)
>both of us decide to play rock paper scissors
>???
>profit
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>>722346121
no u
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>>722353615
Morgan is a different problem. they're a singular individual who've been through endless procedures of memory and personality erasures. Morgan's quandary is that they gets 20 different memos from themselves with 20 contradictory directives about Talos and the typhoons and the question is which one is truly "them". as it turns out you are a blank slate alien being tested for empathy in a computer simulation so the point is moot and the real question is no matter what you decide to do are you able to be nice to people while doing it
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>>722354416
It really entirely depends on the personality of the person being copied.
Most people would be freaked out because they're babies. Me or you would just be like
>Now neither of us will be virgins!
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>>722354096
*its
*edge
*wrong game
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litteraly why would i give a fuck that some copy of me gets to live in roblox heaven?
fuck that guy
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>>722354416
>both of us decide to play rock paper scissors
Absolute cinema, every time
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>>722349912
Because the facilities they are in are not safe
Everything from mockinbirds running around, to the damaged facilities breaking down and the poor state and limited nature of available bodies/machinery
ARK buys time for all of what you describe as Catherine states the ARK can control outside machinery like satellites
If there are any remaining automated systems on earth, you could hijack them from the ARK to start remotely rebuilding things on earth
It might even be possible to control the WAU and/or the mockingbirds after you study them for long enough
If you could get production of basic robots running remotely, you could eventually expand industry to manufacture and launch upgrades to the ARK, transfer consciousness into the robots or even make life-supporting domes and clone people from dna printed based on digital data to restart humanity for real
Everyone is digital anyway, so why stay on earth where you could die for real? Just remotely fiddle with shit from the relative safety of space after you drop the ARK in the Lagrange point nearest to earth
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>>722354416
You should make an opposite sex clone and have sex with her
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>>722346121
>if i send my VRchat character into space that means my consciousness will go with them

You're a retard for not seeying it coming a mile away
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>>722346349
how about I copy my penis inside your ass, huh? does that make you any less hay?
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>>722353925
what's the point, aliens are a lot more likely to find earth and look around on it and find a distress beacon + the ark than to find some shit in space
The guy killed real Catherine because she was being irrational
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>>722354740
NEVER SHOULD OF COME HERE
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>>722354974
>remotely fiddle with shit from the relative safety of space
nobody said they can do that
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>>722354376
She was ugly though.
I'm not doing it with some ugly chick.
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>>722355926
You play a corpse. A female corpse even. I meant that you would impregnate her with sperm from a sperm bank, if any of those survived.
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>>722355774
Catherine literally says that
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>>722346897
the simons were fucked regardless. he's too stupid to comprehend what's happening and if catheine did take the time to explain it he'd lock up and the ark would be as screwed as everyone else. better to just nod along and point him in the right direction, it's the morally correct thing. it even got (a version) of simon to safety too, she didn't need to do that.
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>>722353393
>It's copy and paste, not cut and copy.
copy and paste and cut and copy are still functionally the same thing, the only difference is that the original gets deleted after the fact. You're not transfering it into a different place in the system, you're still only making a copy.
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>>722346121
retard
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>>722349912
>I still don't see the fucking point of the ark, why dont these retards use what resources they have left and make even more robots using brain scans to try and rebuild the facility or something.
Exactly, instead of just accepting it they could have harnessed the power of WUA and start creating sane cyborgs that could easily start rebuilding.
Updating WUA to be less retarded alone would solve almost all problems, as its flaw is that it was too simple of an AI to understand whats going on.
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>>722354335
I think I would. There's really nothing else for them to do anyways.
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>>722350725
>>722350891
>>722346121
Wait I thought there's no coin toss and we just perpetually making copies of our brain and move onto the next body, its just game chooses to instantly switch to a perspective of the new copy. Right?
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>>722354335
I'd smash the thing and break anything that might be used to try it again. Everything is mortal and I don't care about some retarded effigy of my species.
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>>722347646
>Yes, that is a touch sociopathic.

Why are you typing like a Twitterfag?
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>>722350859
the game makes it pretty clear there's no one fucking alive outside the few ocean bases.
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>>722358403
Yea, just perspective change for gameplay purposes while the original is still stuck in the old body
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>>722353615
was this a good game
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>>722346121
>We've designed a robot that is capable of feeling confused and angry
great job scientists!
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>>722359728
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>>722359304
yes
try it out its pretty good
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>>722359304
it is, maybe arkane's best game
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>>722346314
>>722346539
>>722346602
>>722347256
Thats it, I'm telling my dad at the ADL to label "COIN TOSS" as antisemitic so you guys stop teasing me!
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the teasers to soma were more interesting than that borefast of a walking simulator
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lLVOif6CHgE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eytOzwyfiCA
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>>722346314
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Was soma fricitional's last good game? I guess the bunker was alright.
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>>722364212
what about rebirth? haven't played that one yet
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>>722364212
last original game before they went back to
>ohh spooky chaser naked enemy in vaguely identical stone/dirt corridors
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>>722364212
I rather enjoyed Bunker. Felt like a very good new direction for the series.
>>722364362
Rebirth sucked. Very obvious twist, annoying (female) protagonist, too much focus on contemporary issues, weak scares...
I'd unironically claim that A Machine for Pigs is a better game than Rebirth.
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>>722346349
spoken like a true coin toss loser

>>722347028
I would have let simon live but realized if he woke up there was no way for him to get out of the room. as the access tool was with new simon in the abyss. So he would have sat there desperate until batteries dies instead of wandering the ocean floor exploring whats left of the site
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>>722347830

Simon 2.0 was a 100 year old legacy scan of a Canadian with terminal brain damage put into black box of a dead woman.

It was an old, janky program that couldn't comprehend new ways of thinking.
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>>722354974
let go of the cope bro. earth is dead. killed in an extinction event surpassing even the asteroid that killed the dinos. whatever life continues will be new evolutionary offspring. much like all mammals, including human monkey, evolved from a rodent like species that hid from the dinos.

ark is just a time capsule piece of tech, like the voyager probes, that will survive thousands of years as a piece of defunct hardware as a mark that humans once existed. everything left ruined on earth will be recycled by nature and geological activity in these kind of timeframes
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>>722356365
no she does not. She only mentions about being able to manipulate the onboard hardware of ARK to keep it going for as long as possible
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>>722359304
I just replayed SS2 (because of the remaster) and Prey (because I spent the entire time while I was replaying SS2 thinking about Prey) last month. Honestly maybe I've just gotten too old but neither are very good.
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>>722365702
SS2 has a cool setting but the combat is absolute jank
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>>722365404
>thousands of years
our own satellites don't survive more than half a century before starting to glitch out and malfunctioning
now imagine a satellite made during a super high stress scenario by a bunch of amateurs that's running a heavy simulation 24/7. despite what popular media says machines do not last forever, in fact currently they last even less than humans. when was the last time you saw a still functioning hdd that's been working nonstop for 3 decades and hasn't malfunctioned at any point?

>as a mark that humans once existed
pointless when the thing is just adrift in space. might as well just send a sign out to space that says "I WAS HERE"
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>>722364759
I couldn't even finish A Machine for Pigs, thought it was garbage. Rebirth was bad but some parts of it resonated with me, even if overall it was really disappointing. The story was ok, they just should've not had the baby mechanics and the jump scares. The gameplay in general was more frustrating than scary. Also revealing the whole mystery of the other world was a mistake.

Stuff that still sticks with me years after playing it:

The crazy chambers that had people trapped in never ending torment to harvest their vitae via psychological torture.
Sneaking out after getting trapped deep underground with hundreds of insane gatherers/ghouls that have been trapped down there for hundreds of years (also a really frustrating part).
The subplot about the protagonist's first daughter.
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>>722365909
This was the biggest wtf? pill experience in vidya, I spent the last 25 years thinking the bottom looked like the top until I replayed SS2.
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>>722346121
Her VA was really good. Might even be the best ameriburger VA I've heard in a game.
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>>722347184
CHINESE CHINESE CHINESE CHINESE
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>>722366102
Are you gay, a woman or transgender? Not trying to be insulting, just checking if my instincts are still working as intended.
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>>722366381
No, but I have kids.
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>>722365404
We could get an old axolotl sequel.
>People go back to earth as robots and rebuild
>Centuries later they learn how to sintetize real dna out of digital archives
>Repopulate the planet
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>>722366415
Thanks for confirming that you are indeed one of the three things I mentioned.
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>Bruno had his own, fully functional fax machine, of course. For years he’d been getting his clothing and equipment that way, built up atom by atom from stored patterns and extruded whole through orifices inside and outside the house. It produced much of his food as well, supplementing the fruits of his stubbornly anachronistic garden. The gate could even reproduce a person; he’d done the old parlor trick a time or two, spending the afternoon with a perfect copy of himself. Well, two copies spending time together, actually, with the original Bruno having been destroyed in the reading process. But this amounted to much the same thing in the end. With copies, you were supposed to hit it off at first and then quickly get on your nerves, but Bruno had found his own company alarmingly dull; what did he have to teach himself that he didn’t already know? He could send a copy off to learn new things, he supposed, but he wouldn’t want to be that copy, sent away from the work that really mattered to him, and of course one of him would have to do just that. Invariably, he reconverged the copies within the hour, faxing them back into himself, concluding that maintaining one Bruno de Towaji was quite trouble enough
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>your self is yourself
>but your copied self is not yourself
how is this HARD??? how is this... DEEP??? nigger you are literally killing yourself
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>>722366728
Trannyhumanism
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>>722366063
>might as well just send a sign out to space that says "I WAS HERE"
that is exactly the point.

>our own satellites don't survive more than half a century before starting to glitch out and malfunctioning
nobody was talking about functionality. Its going to take 40 000 years at least before voyager probes, exposed to the absolute cold of deep space, metallic structure starts to disintegrate. Yet they will be there together with their golden plates showing who made them and where. aka "I WAS HERE"
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>>722365702
>>722366112
I replayed ss2 for the first time in decades with the remake, it was so kino I replayed it on impossible immediately after the first playthrough. Prey, on the other hand, I did not bother finishing. No accounting for taste I guess.
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>>722346121
What was the point in launching the arc into space again instead of just powering it with geothermal technology?
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>>722370976
in hope ayylmaos pick it up
and for the crazy AI not to fuck with it
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Simon was both too dumb and too ignorant to accept the truth even when shown literal example of being copied over when he copied himself into the heavy diving suit.

Catherine prioritized the fate of humanity over one bookstore owner from ancient past.

For the greater good or needs of the many, etc
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>>722370976
With the shifting of the tectonic plates and mass earthquakes caused by the giant meteor slamming into the Earth it was no longer safe anywhere on, below or inside the planet.
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No one ever mentions the audio logs where other crew members started coping about transferring their mind despite knowing it doesn't work like that. And then proceeding to get themselves killed.
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>>722354416
I'd have someone to play fighting games with. And one of us pick the one character I'd been wanting to main.
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>>722346121
She could have cut and & paste rather than copy. The trap was needless.
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I doubt I would even bother if I was Simon. I don't care about humanity living on if it's just in a limited simulation. You can't even have children or grow. You'd be stuck in an eternal limbo that some dudes programmed.
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Imagine having your brain scan leaked online and knowing that it's being constantly tortured by neets running simulations from their basement.
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>>722351259
People were killing themselves because one of t he scientists thought if you died during or shortly after the transfer, your consciousness would hop over
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>>722372978
Being trapped at the bottom of the sea and clinging to a slowly winding down pseudo-life in an apocalypse probably didn't improve their mood much either.
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>>722372102
>launches it into a post-impact dust cloud
BRILLIANT!
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>>722349912
no everyone is dead so putting everyone in the metaverse is just as good okay
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>>722371904
>owner
He was just a wagie.
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>>722346121
>"Hey Katherine, where are you from? You look Vietnamese. So, anyways, how about you upload yourself into my suit, so we can have some fun..?"
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What exactly is the point of sending a bunch of artificial minds into space where it will drift endlessly in space until it collides with a celestial object and explodes?
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>>722375857
Coping with their own impending deaths. Trying to find meaning in their lives, and by extension, the entirety of human history. Obviously. Moron.
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>>722348040
Everyone is essentially dead, outside of those being kept alive in a nearly comatose state by the wau.
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>>722346121
I watched a playthrough of this game years ago. Is it even worth playing now?
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Didn't the original die years before the game even starts? Why do people get upset about this game if you were a copy the whole time?
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>>722372978
Really all they had to do was put them in a coma, then scan, then kill. Then nobody would be around to know the difference. But that would have required the Continuity cult to have control first.
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>>722375968
AI is not alive and cannot find meaning dummy
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>>722347284
They kept pushing this narrative angle that copied consciousnesses almost physically could not comprehend not being their original selves and shit, but it never really landed right, felt forced, and just made Simon look like a huge retard
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>>722376151
The living staff started the project and did 99.9999% of the work. Catherine's brain scan did the rest, brainlet.
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>>722346121
This was such a clever use of first person view in vidya storytelling, kinda reminded me of bioshock and would u kindly
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>>722346121
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>>722376568
Ok so what does that have to do with what I said faggot
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>>722357162
None of them were computer nerds, and barely any of them realized how much the WAU actually controlled. It was top secret when they handed over control of the station to the WAU.
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>>722366102
It's been a while but from what I remember the whole thing about A Machine for Pigs is that it leans on a time travel plot that isn't communicated to the player very well and doesn't make a lot of sense without it.
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>>722376827
why was he so fucking retarded, holy shit
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>>722366330
MEXI... GO, MEXIGO, MEXIGOMEXIGO, MEXICO
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>>722346121
Was she Bond burgered?
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>>722379463
Budding scan technology didn't produce a very good scan
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>>722347305
>The game presents it in a way where the "old Simon" loses it concious as soon as the "new Simon" awakens.
no it doesn't you moron
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Why not just copy a computer scientist into a new robot body and tell him to fix the WAU to not be retarded so you can live forever and start making more clones.
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Give one good reason to destroy the WAU, a legit one, not "muh fate worse than death".
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>>722379463
he is literally me! :D
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>>722380880
It's AI therefore it's evil.
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>>722380880
I would rather die
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>>722372978
>be scientist
>don't understand how copy and paste works
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>>722349912
it was retarded, they should've let wau to do its thing as that'd at least something continue instead of dooming it all
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WAU did nothing wrong, it'll fix the planet eventually.
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>>722380880
it looks ugly
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>>722346314
>coin toss
There never was a coin toss. You remain in your body and the copy gets to go on. It really isn't that difficult to grasp, the game just shifted you to the copy for obvious gameplay reasons.
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>>722380880
They did a poor job portraying it as evil. On a devastated world where the old humanity is dead. The WAU will eventually make a new humanity and repopulate and maybe someday heal the planet.
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>>722346121
this but after wau turns her datapad into concious and vocal onahole
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>>722352706
I dont think she killed herself, i think the chip she was in burnt out. Pretty sure they mentioned she couldnt think too hard or emote too much in the gameboy because the hardware couldnt handle it.
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>>722380880
I just think it won't be able to do it. all the nano repair goop and records on earth can't bring us back. the human existence was built on nature running its course for millennia.
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>>722380880
It was infecting sea life that would have otherwise stayed alive despite the comet.
It was objectively kind of evil in that it was actively killing people and stealing brain scans and shoving them into robots which lead to a lot of suffering.
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>>722359069
No it doesn't.
Its a hypothesis based on two data points.
The satellite images do not confirm all of humanity is dead, just that large sections of the planet are burning.
Their inability to establish communications from their, *damaged*, *deep-sea* facility, while the surface is blanketed with smoke, ash, lightning, and chaos also does not confirm all of humanity is dead.
Their retarded depression is based on the assumption that 10+ billion people immediately died from a major asteroid impact, which is deeply unconvincing to put it kindly.
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>>722383946
It's experimenting on a dead planet. It'll learn in time. The alternative is to just let everything have its end and kill it. Just some dead rock floating through space.
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>>722347284
He literally has brain damage. I don't blame either of them
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>>722386050
>It'll learn in time.
It already has. We play as WAU's newest creation after all. All the monstrosities we come across are yesterday's versions.
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>>722380880
Literally every game by Frictional is about stopping an eldritch horror, even going back to Penumbra. The WAU takes on that role in Soma.
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>reach the crew quarters on Tau
>one of the cyborgs is stuck in bed, being kept alive by the WAU so he can dream about his mulatto kid for eternity

I can see why Ross was so desperate to kill the WAU and free those guys
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>>722382454
There is a 50/50 chance that your specific perceived consciousness wakes up in the old Simon's body, since there are only 2 consciousnesses and 2 "bodies", ergo it's a coin toss. Yeah two consciousnesses wake up, but the one "you" perceive could be either one. The other one is also you, but it's not YOU (even though it could have been).
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>>722385815
it's literally spelled out for you at the end. "Last human being" as in last. You know, the one that dies at the end?
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>>722353512
stop reading Uroslop



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