Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Cyborg Factory

[Kemonokami]

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a Human mind."

--Frank Herbert, Dune.

[PantsuGirl]

@Kemonokami Quite sure it was Rayna Butler who said that =)

[Kemonokami]

@PantsuGirl

I'm just speaking in technicality, since Herbert did write Dune.

[PantsuGirl]

@Kemonokami I know, just playing with you =)

[somekindawizard]

It's interesting, this is a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the Terminator 2 teaser trailer.

[Khirzask]

Best game ever.

[yaik7a]

I'm pretty sure his special enhancement was a weapon.

[Kizor]

@yaik7a These are Spartans.

It's probably both.

[582Thomas]

@yaik7a yeah, his "weapon" ;D

[logicpwnsemotion]

Boo-Yea!!  oh wait.....

[mrhnm]

A cyborg is created when you combine man with machine it is not a robot.

[MrTrenchcoatguy]

@mrhnm

Well, that explains the 'special enhancement.'

[Bleakunending]

May I have-a sam extra time please! sank yuu!

[PyroDesu]

Strange that the vid itself is the making of androids, not cyborgs like the voice-over.

[jthweatt]

@jbecker8082 Yes, that is a possibility as well. Maybe it's...like a Swiss army knife or something.

[Xalgucennia]

Well it is deliberately a double entendre, so there is no use arguing which it means, it is both a weapon, and implied, a robotic phallus

[farnium]

CAWK. . . SHES' TALKING ABOUT HIS CAWK.

[cdmaster35]

guys he dont have a robo dick he is just a killing machine so the last thing they see is his lazer

[LuminarNightblade]

@cdmaster35

So you're basically saying he shouts "I'MA FIRIN MY LAZOR!" when he cums? ...wait, so what was non-human about him again?

[mcbain434444]

wait why don't the ladies like his cyber dick?

[MutsumiOtohime78]

@mcbain434444 I assume since he's a robot it's pretty small since he wouldn't really need to use it for reproduction, just for waste disposal and a large willy for something you're just going to pee out of it just wasteful.

[mcbain434444]

@MutsumiOtohime78 So his cyber dick is for utility rather then to please the women and is thus too small? They would sell more if they made a model to appeal to the market share of women looking for gratification.

[Kemonokami]

I badly want to write this limerick on a bathroom stall.

[lilbeefer]

I AM SMRAT THE SPESHAL ENNHANCMENT IS A WILLY

[nor94]

@lilbeefer

Oh god, I lol'd

[farnium]

@lilbeefer

You made me squirt coffee out of my nose.

[moksheebs]

dood the guy's got laser-****

[Kemonokami]

MUST they have horribly creepy heads?!

[MrsPeelWereNeeded]

@Kemonokami What? The "special enhancements"? :)

[Usercool]

I'm sure he has an impressive Love Gun.

[goosenamedbrian]

WTF? Hhhhmmmm ;: ?

[Thewisedaz]

This don't appear to be cyborgs at all, just robots.

[neomegadyn]

alguien que quiera jugar Alpha Centaury un multiplayer ps :D me manda un MP. jejeje yo juego con Provost Zhakarov XD

Does somebody want to play a Alpha Centaury multiplyer game? send me a PM.

[neomegadyn]

alguien que quiera jugar Alpha Centaury un multiplayer ps :D me manda un MP. jejeje yo juego con Provost Zhakarov XD

[Solenor92]

I wish i was a cyborg...

[rangepure999]

lol i get what his special enhacement is...

[pericles495]

what is it

[Skinnyoompalumpa]

@pericles495

his cock

[AlfaCentauri2060]

"A handsome young Cyborg named Ace,

Wooed women at every base,

But once ladies glanced at

His special enhancement

They vanished with nary a trace."

[HazzMadd]

lol i get it

[spectre111]

@HazzMadd

Then maybe you could explain it to me.

If it is penile humor it doesn't seem to be that funny, not to me anyways.

[HazzMadd]

He has a robo-dick, not exactly a chick magnet. People date so they DONT have to use a toy.

[patrickbenjy1]

what is sid meiers alpha centauri

[TheWatcher337]

it's an awesome turn based strategy game

[LordMyoo]

Think Civilization 2 IN SPACE!

[predking]

And with high octane nightmare fuel! :D

[Twerty222]

So true. So fucking true. ;-;

[Cappodocian]

It is a masterpiece

[1055555grace]

robotics!

[Valkyriefury]

This is the SMAC video with the dumbest comments.

[sssssz]

I rather like it. It gives you this feeling that robotics has become a rather mundane topic in Chiron.

[Valkyriefury]

I mean youtube comments, I love the quote, I find it rather funny.

[drsaten]

this poem simply sugests that cyborgs become dangerous when you teach them thought. they will enevitably come to the conclusion that humans are elogical. therefor try to kill them all.!!!!!

[sleinfer]

dude cyborgs have thought there just humans that had parts of there bodys replaced

[6775077]

that would be an android, not a cyborg

[Valkyriefury]

nuh-uh

[6775077]

i was commenting on drsaten, not sleifner. An android is a robot that is designed to mimic a human being, and that is what he refers to! a cyborg is, as mentioned, is born a human, but complemented with unorganic parts.

[Freecell82]

Actually, a cyborg is any combination of biological and artificial systems. Doesn't necessarily have to be born human.

[6775077]

nice one. you settled it.

[Gruegirl]

think of Terminator, they can add biological stuff to that shell and make it a cyborg :-P

[Gruegirl]

if The Terminator can be considered a cyborg, then that android shell can have organics attached later.

[podtech115]

Oh I get it now!

He woo women, then kills them with his special enhancement.

[Milltio]

not even close

[Jikiitar]

I still don't get what the heck the 'special enhancement' is supposed to be. I sounds like it's supposed to be vulgar, but it's too ambiguous.

[jthweatt]

His "special enhancement" is a euphemism for his penis. Presumably, it's sufficiently large that the ladies flee from it.

[drsaten]

your stupid "His special enhancement"

means his plasma rifle. he melts women to death. THATS WHY they vanish

[gyrobotZ]

Also the notion of forced birth control methods. Since a cyborg's biological functions can be put in and out at will for a society. What is not to say to implement strict birth control measures to control society?

[Hakudohshi]

Yep, if society were cyberized organic functions could even be suspended remotely, think about that, if you have a mechanical heart someone with power could have a shut off switch for all the mechanical hearts in the world. Same thing with reproductive organs.

[gyrobotZ]

This is heavily empathized with Cybernetic conscious, how reproduction is awkward for them, how they disconnect from non-cybernetic societies.

[ih8makinusernames]

@jthweatt Oh, I always interpretted it as the opposite. Since he's a cyborg he doesn't require such an organ and therefore when ladies see he has no penis they leave. But theres no real way of telling which is correct.

[jthweatt]

@ih8makinusernames Well, I will grant that that is a good theory. But a) clearly the ladies are looking at something, and b) that something qualifies as a "special enhancement." Speaking generally, I would not consider the status of having no penis to be an enhancement, or a special one at that.

Notwithstanding what the movie seems to show, a cyborg isn't a robot. It's a bionic human. The Six Million Dollar Man was a cyborg. There's no reason for him not to have a penis.

[FSUGuy2012]

@jthweatt lol

[Selinja]

Yes, you can read the "poem" it with both a sexual undertone and with a murderous one. Now since it is found as a graffiti on the Barracks, and since the effect of the Cyborg Factory is purely militaristic, this ambiguity between vulgarity and violence is surely intentional. Just take it as shining example of Spartan Humor ;)

[EvilViolencePerson]

Little Coletta!

[hbrtqazwsx93]

hey can the cyborg project backfire on you. You know 1st cyborg rebellion then cyborg domination 3rd human extermination. That would be cool

[Crimmond]

A cyborg only needs one integral part that is organic. Doesn't need to be a Borg like thing.

[SirBroadsword]

Crimmond:

The Borg ARE an excellent example of the cyborg concept, however...

[waggabiggadoo]

Hivemind cyborgs. Cyborgs can be individualistic in nature too.

[neomegadyn]

The cyborg there looks everything, but not like a cyborg

[bugogorac]

Here we have a cyborg expert. Please, tell us more...