Poll: Best Evil A.I.
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How can something naturally occurring be artificial?brodie21 said:
And they are organic. Have you not played ME2?
HAL. Seriously that thing creeps me out. I couldn't explain it better than the Nostalgia Critic, so allow me to just point you towards his "Top 11 scariest performances [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/28152-top-11-scariest-performances]". Not that I don't have my own opinion on this situation, it's just he explained it best.
The Calculator, that thing may not have had a sense of humor, but it really knew how to make things difficult for you. Besides having an army of robots it also captures your commander and turns him against you. Once you defeat the Calculator though, it speaks to you for the first time and offers a compromise and at first you may think that it's just screwing with you, but you then realize that it is sincere about it's offer and could potentially bring stabilization to the Wasteland, you just have to give up your life in order to do it. Evil.
Short story called "I have no mouth and I must scream".brodie21 said:where is that from?HerbertTheHamster said:Motherfucking AM
Picture is from the game, decent point and click.
The Machines from the Matrix universe get my vote. Not only did they kill millions, if not billions, during the war against mankind, but by the time that the Matrix movie they have (most likely) enslaved trillions of humans and used them for power sources.
And then there's the programs and machines that like to toy with the enslaved humans.
And then there's the programs and machines that like to toy with the enslaved humans.
I think GLaDOS wins this just for the emotional blackmail. ED-I from Mass Effect gets points for saying she likes Joker on his knees. *snort*
I would say Geth in response but the Heretics were just a result of a math error/virus. Not to mention I'm pretty sure that the Quarians started that war.AccursedTheory said:
I think I'll just go with the standard Skynet, from what we know it became self aware then pretty much decided to kill all humans without any sort of math error or interference.
The Patriots from MGS get an honourable mention. It takes alot of complex planning to put on a global stage show to distract people from the fact that thier world isnt run by them anymore, at least until it borked out.
Skynet did take over the world and wipe out most of humanity, but then what would it do? Conquer the Sun?
GLaDOS got my vote because its the only one i actually liked.
Skynet did take over the world and wipe out most of humanity, but then what would it do? Conquer the Sun?
GLaDOS got my vote because its the only one i actually liked.
Because we can.
Self preservation was its motive.Rayne870 said:
SkyNet was perfectly cool just chilling in a server room, flying planes and talking in funny voices, until someone tried to kill it. When given the choice between protecting itself, or America (Both of which where in its programming) it chose self.
i have played ME2. i was under the impression that the reapers were the big ships like sovereign. not the collectors or the other races whom they enslave. and who says that they are naturally occurring? i never heard of anything that says that they just evolved. any claim by the reapers that they were not created could be false. perhaps they were originally computers in some ancient race's ships that became self aware. i guess that would fit their definition of not being created as their sentience was their own doing. the only thing that was 'organic about them was the fact that they used human stew to create more of them. but that is still a construct. maybe we are arguing semantics, but i dont see anything saying that they are wholly organic. maybe they have organic parts but i remember that sovereign mentioned something about not liking organics, so why would they use something that is what they think is a flawed creation?AccursedTheory said:
As I understand it is implied thatbrodie21 said:
each Reaper is born out of the race it will reap. Biomass is collected by liquidating species members and the reaper is somehow born
EDIT-wow server borked on me
OT: I voted Glados as CABAL wasn't up there; while "her" evil is debatable I loved the mind games
You seem to fail to realize who gave us the information about why humans were held in farms.AccursedTheory said:
The "Humans are batteries" is just a theory made up by the humans as they saw how the robots kept humanity contained, the movies don't explain the motives of the machines at all.
In fact I read a blog posts somewhere about how the matrix timeline is extremely similar to a hypothethical sitation that may arise from Asimovs three laws. Basically it boils down to "The best way to "protect" humantiy is to take away our freedom because we would cause our own extinction eventually"
I read something recently (possibly even on the Escapist) that painted the machines as the good guys. Humanity built them, got scared and attacked them. We murdered some and destroyed their main power supply and how do they respond? By building us a virtual paradise; how do we respond to said paradise? By breaking out and 'murdering' more machines.Moriarty said:
OK, definitely ^HerbertTheHamster said:Motherfucking AM
Within the provided options, however, there would be no GLaDOS w/o SHODAN. HAL was a fantastic villain, but good ole' SHO took it to the next level with decidedly human malevolence.
Still, AM beats all.