• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    The energy generated by this virus is how the infected undead will continue to walk the earth.

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

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

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        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.

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            They have the same wetware and clearly aren’t using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They’re excellent candidates.

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    And if they could come up with a virus that gave intelligence to the masses, that would be great…

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So when this starts infecting humans we either get electricity super powers or all die from electrocution.