Comments on: Come on you apes, do you want to live forever? http://scrimisms.com/2005/09/29/come-on-you-apes-do-you-want-to-live-forever/ Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: F. J. Taylor http://scrimisms.com/2005/09/29/come-on-you-apes-do-you-want-to-live-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-396 F. J. Taylor Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:57:45 +0000 http://icebox.lonelyfridge.com/?p=39#comment-396 This is a cleaned-up version of what Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daley, USMC (twice Medal of Honor recipient), said to his unit in WW I just before they "went over the top." This is a cleaned-up version of what Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daley, USMC (twice Medal of Honor recipient), said to his unit in WW I just before they “went over the top.”

]]> By: luke http://scrimisms.com/2005/09/29/come-on-you-apes-do-you-want-to-live-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-84 luke Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:59:51 +0000 http://icebox.lonelyfridge.com/?p=39#comment-84 dig out that old song "one life to live." don't remember who wrote it, but i know anne sofie von otter recorded a version of it. speaking of personality-in-a-computer, reminds me of the Marathon sequence, where the A.I. Durandal decided he'd live forever by either (a) removing mass from our universe so that it reaches a steady state, instead of infinite expansion outwards (and thus thinning) or eventually colapsing inwards or (b) creating a pocket universe which would be steady-state, so he could live forever, god of his own universe. strange feller. reminds me of the weird idea i'd had as the basis for a game set in marathon-world. a derivative of the same basic A.I. system which durandal and the other "human" A.I.s came from has in his spare time become a strange buddhist, and resolves to either stop a war, or save a plannet or something by employing a cyborg (you) to dismantle the militaristic capabilities of both pfhor and humans in some corner of the galaxy... why buddhism and other eastern philosophy? because there are so many cool quotations to be used by the AI. reading what Durandal says to you is 25% of the fun of the original Marathon series. dig out that old song “one life to live.” don’t remember who wrote it, but i know anne sofie von otter recorded a version of it.

speaking of personality-in-a-computer, reminds me of the Marathon sequence, where the A.I. Durandal decided he’d live forever by either (a) removing mass from our universe so that it reaches a steady state, instead of infinite expansion outwards (and thus thinning) or eventually colapsing inwards or (b) creating a pocket universe which would be steady-state, so he could live forever, god of his own universe. strange feller.

reminds me of the weird idea i’d had as the basis for a game set in marathon-world. a derivative of the same basic A.I. system which durandal and the other “human” A.I.s came from has in his spare time become a strange buddhist, and resolves to either stop a war, or save a plannet or something by employing a cyborg (you) to dismantle the militaristic capabilities of both pfhor and humans in some corner of the galaxy… why buddhism and other eastern philosophy? because there are so many cool quotations to be used by the AI. reading what Durandal says to you is 25% of the fun of the original Marathon series.

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