Would you kill yourself?
No. I'd team up and work together with myself and be best bros.
Have done. It's the right decision if you are going to suffer immensely and it wont get better.
>>741762694then get backstab by the whiny version at the finish line.
>>741762596Now this would be a perfect way to sneak a TADC thread without posting the fortnite skins
>>741762596I don't want to think about itBtw this plot twist is the only good thing about this game
>>741762596In that situation? Probably, i'd rather have painless death than struggle in doomed world
I appreciate Mandalore for finally putting the SOMA troll threads to bed. I don't know if it made the prospect of creating them boring or if he finally answered the question in a manner they could understand, but at least they're gone
>>741762804>plot twistWhere exactly was the twist? It was a straight line for anyone with any reasonable amount of intelligenceYou... didn't actually fall for the coinflip... did you anon?
>>741762596Yeah I'd want that.
>>741762596this version is stuck there forever since he can't progress further in that body, so it would probably be a mercy to end its "life"
Yeah I think I would have done it in this circumstanceI don't think that Simon will even be able to get out of the room. He'll just wake up in confusion, and have nothing to do but wait and ruminate as the battery powering him runs out.Although this is still from the perspective that you believe you ARE looking at a person and don't choose to see it as just some computer parts jammed into a corpse that have programming to act with the personality of the copied brain of a long dead man (Although in Simon's position, he kind of has to choose the former, since it's the exact same thing he is in that moment)Although if I DID leave him to wake up, and DID believe it was a former-me, I'd at LEAST leave a note so he was left with a BIT less confusion
>>741762890But the braindamaged MC fell for it...
>>741762985>hello, me. Guess you lost the coin toss. I didn't have the guts to kill me(You), but I'm sure you'll manage somehow.
>>741763013>>741762890Catherine uses the word 'transfer'. There's definitely room to interpret something being moved from one place to another, and if all this scifi tech seems like magic to you anyway you could be forgiven for not assuming it works the same as shuffling files between drives on a computer a hundred years ago
>>741762596the devs thought they were smart with this game but really just proved they are pseuds with middling intelligence
>>741763195Somebody... lied? Or at least twisted the truth? *gasp* I don't understand!Are you as confused when somebody tells you "Good morning" and you see the sun setting?
>>741763195At what point do we learn that people have been killing themselves because they figured out it doesn't transfer them but just makes a copy?
>>741763510That was openly copying from the start, Simon assumed this process was different and was straight-up shifting him to a new body with different scifi bullshit
>>741763510what? none of the crew was under the impression that they would be transferred, they killed themselves as soon as they get transferred to keep continuity, you really misunderstood this game
>>741762890>>741763443you... write like .... *gasp* a fucking.... idiot.. and ........your ....shit *wheeze* is .... all.... retarded.....
>>741763605i meant copied* they kill themselves when they get copied because they believe it would keep the continuity for the copy. its literal pseud shit that thinks its smart.
>>741762596why didn't he just open a path of darkness to escape to another world? is he stupid?
>>741763656No its just desperate people grappling onto bad logic to convince themselves there was actually a way for them to escape the underwater shithole
>>741762596No, I live solely to spite those who would celebrate my demise.
>>741763656It was just literally coping by the crew. They knew they had nothing to live for, so the thought to cleanly "teleporting" yourself into a virtual paradise ala Star Trek was an appealing one.
>>741763734Yes, it was essentially a death cult.
>>741763712>SOMA level in Kingdom Hearts 67
Was he retarded before the car crash and that's why he killed his girlfriend driving?
>>741762694I'd do this cause i have no doubt i'd not betray myself so the other me would be the same BUT... if you so much as stutter on that doubt off the other you or prepare for possibly the worst.
>>741763620You also have brain damage like the game's protagonist? My condolences...
>>741762596if I look like that, yea
>>741762596I stopped playing long before that. Where it asked me to drown robots. Nope. I probably wouldn't KMS in that scenario. Tech could solve all the problems. So you're a robot. Big deal.
>>741762694>>741764034Whether or not you would betray a clone of yourself is the ultimate NPC/goy test
>>741763013guy wakes up underwater in a corpse/AI goo body, I'm surprised he doesn't hallucinate the whole thing taking place in lollipop land.
>>741762596WOULD I
>>741763361well they went about exploring the question if a copy is a transfer, which everyone already knew is not the case, but the underwater environments were nice.
>>741762694I've never understood stories where someone gets cloned and then it becomes this massive battle to be the "real" one, because I'm positive that if i ever met an exact duplicate of me, we would just talk it outI guess that's not a very interesting story, but I just find it so weird how many stories seem to revolve around "I can't trust another copy of myself!", I feel like that's an admission of guilt from the author
>>741762596I already want to kill myself after experiencing the slightest inconvenience.
>>741765626my clone and i will just argue about sleeping arrangements and who will go to work and who will stay at home playing vidya.
>>741762596I would have already have died of brain cancer ages ago. That's just a robot larping as me in the future.
>>741762804That game didn't have a plot twist though.
>>741762890>You... didn't actually
>>741762694>>741764621But if you had a tiny clone of Hitler would you fuck with him?
yes, if i was a jeet
>>741762694same except i'd suck my own dick and make out as well
>>741768101me and my clone will suck n fuck for days
>>741762596No. I will be my own best friend. I know myself enough and will find ways to encourage each other to be the best version of ourselves. Since we both do Judo that means I now have a practice partner I can train with outside of training time slots. I now also have a music buddy. Another a LAN buddy.
>>741770780I find it funny how /v/ is always homophobic but then also always says shit like this all the time.
>>741762596It's not really you though, it's a bunch of 1's and 0's that thinks it's you. It'd be like caring about unplugging ChatGPT.>>741772996It's not gay because technically it would just be advanced masturbation. Also, I'd totally fuck myself in the ass.
>>741762596>NoI am taking the super suit I was gifted back up to rest of the stations and tearing up any of the proxies dumb enough to mess with me and my little clone bro. Then we are making our way to the surface and finding any way to start up power with the Wau to the facilities and start making the world habitable then.>My head canon is there are are most likely other occupied bunkers filled with still living humans we don't know about.
>>741772996>homophobicBack to RetardEra with you, ya nufag troonie tourist.
I'd just kick the arc into the deep sea pit
>>741773243Simon in SOMA is a bunch of 1s and 0s that thinks it's you to begin with. The narrative makes it unclear whether or not it's a continued consciousness from the prologue but this moment makes it clear that it isn't.
>>741765626Yeah I hate hiw cloning stories are always about normies getting cloned. I want a story where its someone thats already had an existential crises and completely understands hes a clone and does everything they can to help the original like a bro.
>>741773243>It's not gay because technically it would just be advanced masturbation.No its not masturbation because its not you. Its a seperate male. Its literally gay.
>>741763195>Catherine uses the word 'transfer'Are you one of those retards who think that when you send an e-mail, it magically dissapears from your pc?
>>741773829You are a brown indian NIGGER!Also you are trans.And you like watching Tryone the shitty nigger rail your fat whore wife and daughter.
I'm insanely afraid of deep, dark water so I'd probably huddle in the corner and cry like a bitch until I rusted.
>>741776912The game.
>>741765626It's an IQ bell curve thing where the dumb never think about this, the smart realize it doesn't matter and it's just the midwits that get stuck on "who's the real me"As for interesting story, it depends on what the clone is supposed to represent. A lot of the time the "clones" aren't perfect replicas and differ from the original, usually by either removing flaws (the perfect version) or adding/exaggerating flaws (your evil twin). I'm not a writer, so maybe this is me being retarded, but if you get along with your clone then there's no dynamic there to explore. It can work if the story is focused on something else, but I can't think about a clone-focused story where the clone isn't opposed to you for one reason or anotherI hate when hack writers pull>I cloned myself because I am better than everyone else>well, who's the best you then>villain plan collapses from clone infightingshit though, never makes sense
>>741762596I did notI decided that he should have the chance to survive
>>741763361I don't see how it makes them pseuds. The game is told from Simon's perspective, so basically any stupidity in the dialogue is due to him being a simple man getting copied over and over again, and both his originals and his copies refusing to accept that consciousness doesn't transfer. The only time he registers that the "coin toss" is bullshit is the one time that the game keeps the viewpoint in the original body instead of changing it to the copy.
I don't see people praise this aspect of SOMA much, but the voice acting is really good and memorable.
>>741775673>No its not masturbation because its not youYes it is. Would you consider jerking your weiner with your hand gay then too? When you do that, you're touching a guy's dick and making him cum.
I'd go for a female clone of me but not a male oneThe problem is it would probably all be pretty weird
>>741775674Catherine outright manipulated Simon into believing it would be a transfer by rigging the copying and the launch of the Ark to the same button. It's an action that makes no sense from a logical standpoint, especially if she believed that Simon already understood the process. She knew what he expected, and also knew that if she went sequentially by copying first, Simon would realize she was stringing him along and refuse to launch the Ark.Then she tries to shift the blame on Simon, which is actually what I would expect from a retard with no social skills. There is a reason the original Catherine was killed, she was an obnoxious, egoistic bitch.You think there was only one retard in the game, but there were actually two. They were just retarded in different ways.
>>741762751Why would I backstab myself?
every time you fall asleep you effectively dietomorrow it's another being waking upyou have memories of dead people that got to live before you
The whole reason he pushes on and kills his old self and all is because he's STILL under the delusion that he can transfer himself into a digital paradise. I cannot mentally put myself into this situation because his actions make no sense at all, both the clone me and original me would have already resolved myself to do whatever my plan was, even if it involved killing myself so I don't have to turn into an immortal alien goop slave.
>>741782298
Will we get another Soma from Frictional or will it be a flop?
>>741782495He was just clinging on to the idea of the ark as a way to escape the underwater shithole, it was his sole hope and motivator for pushing on, a literal copeYou're not at the bottom of the ocean at the end of the world running around rusty hallways full of robot-tumor monsters, so yeah you're of a bit more sound mind and nowhere as desperate for a ray of sunlight to latch on to like he was
>>741782298Falling asleep is akin to being teleported in this manner (minus the location change of course).Any interruption of consciousness is, after all.
>>741783179>10 years of developmentMakes sense to me, all their Amnesia projects since SOMA have been small scale. 10 years is either very promising or troubling, usually troubling.
>>741782298>this sounds like something a low IQ redditor would say
>>741778842>Would you consider jerking your weiner with your hand gay then too? When you do that, you're touching a guy's dick and making him cum.I am me. I am not a different guy. Are you autistic or something?
>>741782151Launching the ark was Simon's idea in the first place.Catherine has to play appease the retard as an autist, because her continued existence is contingent on not getting smashed in a tard melty (A consistent affliction in the game) or getting so angry that she breaks the calculator she's been uploaded to. She already tried explaining that the coin flip thing is bullshit immediately after Simon came up with it, but from Simon 3's perspective it worked and he can't understand hypotheticals because he is retarded.>You think there was only one retard in the gameLiterally everyone in SOMA is retarded or they wouldn't have been mostly wiped out by the world's most predictable apocalypse, Simon is just especially retarded.>but there were actually twoEven if you were right, there's 3 Simons in operation by the end of SOMA.
>>741770780BRUH I was just thinking about answering with this. Pretty much if you love yourself, you're gonna try it. Like if you have a make horse, you're gonna mess with the horse dick at some point. Nah I'm not gonna kill myself, me n the boys are gonna have a pint at the bottom of the ocean. Then take a bouillon to the surface and chill in some non shit spot while the absolute silver fixes things below.
>>741770152Yup, except I'd modify myselves to be pretty and androgynous, and we'd upload Caine AI to the computer so it would want to be our friend and help us actually rebuild a society but it's all clones of me breeding and spreading to the surface. >>741772996I'm so fucking sick of these raiders and their Tumblr bullshit. Fuck off faggot.
>>741762751Sounds like a you thing anon.
>>741783760>Bro you can't even use the turkoise font what do you mean?
Why the fuck does nobody talk about the fact that in this game in the ending in the countdown the "seconds" are clearly far slower than real life seconds?
>>741764390Stop posting you autistic mouthbreathing sperg
>>741784935they are future seconds
>>741785415Ok, sorry. I'm too stupid to take the hint sometimes.
>>741784935far *longer, I meant>>741785529Why did they redefine them, what for?
>>741784148>Launching the ark was Simon's idea in the first place.Because his understanding of what it implied was different in the beginning, and then it's Catherine that keeps pushing him to do it.And she keeps manipulating him to that end, culminating in the scene where she rigs the button to launch the Ark and upload simultaneously, to feed into Simon's misconception that they are getting transferred, and not copied.They both chose to sacrifice themselves (one unknowingly) to launch a sci-fi computer running a future equivalent of Sims 3 into space, an utterly pointless endeavor as the Sims have no way to actually influence the world outside the computer they are running on.
>>741785415Hit a nerve did I?
