• junderwood@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Ooooh nice - that idea will definitely make it into the Starfinder campaign I’m gonna run

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      10 months ago

      So what you’re saying is this should be combined with cordyceps in a random lab in China that has really shitty containment procedures.

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      10 months ago

      I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.

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        10 months ago

        This still pisses me off.

        The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense.

        But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.

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          The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn’t be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there’s at least some symmetry.