#fallout synths

[liberty-prime-rib]

Just like you and me

[thefalloutwiki]

💥 Trivia Tuesday 💥

The entirety of the Replicated Man quest can be completed without leaving Rivet City by starting the quest with Dr. Zimmer, then talking to Seagrave Holmes, Doctor Preston, taking the holotape from the church's altar.

[shinybanette]

Discord when I change my pfp to X6-88:

[deepfang-dreamer]

An exhausting amount of people on the internet seem to take any opportunity to be bigoted against fictional minorities(Mass Effect Spoilers, technically)

To preface: I know this is probably a bigger issue in my personal experience than actually is, and I'm not saying people who play racist for made-up ones are the same towards real ones(usually.), just me, well, ranting. I'll focus on three instances I have the most experience with: Mutants(Marvel), Synths(Fallout), and Synthetics(Mass Effect).

The former is the one I have the least knowledge on(though not none of course, I *have* read comics before), but as I've mentioned again and again, hating Mutants in-or-out of Universe is illogical because they share a world with 500 other types of Cape. I know the X-Men/Brotherhood and all their messy drama are front and center, and can therefore muddle perception, but. I've seen people argue sincerely that Sentinels are a good invention. You know, the giant robots with the sole purpouse of capturing at best or killing at worst a minority population. The Sentinels make good Cape baddies, sure, but they're also explicitly designed to exterminate Mutants, even those unaffiliated with that world. They're literally the SS as giant murder machines. As well, most Mutants don't have the world-breaking powers of Omega-level ones. Elemental resistance, minor Changer powers, often some physiological shift, I mean, Ugly Jon? Beak? Jason Treemont? These aren't people who are going to blow up your neighborhood. That one kid who did, Jesse? Yeah, a showing of exactly how dangerous Mutant powers can be-just like any other Cape class. Not every Sorcerer is Doctor Strange, not every Mutant is Magneto. Most aren't. So, like, *why* are you so keen to say the Sentinels are necessary again?

Synths are the most infuriating, because arguments come in three equally incoherent varieties: They're Mechanical lifeforms, They hate and/or will outcompete/overpower Humans, or they just aren't Human and this is somehow an issue. In order then: Synths are 100% Biological lifeforms with a single Bionic implant. You see them being made(or a stylization of the process). They're created with FEV, the Forced Evolutionary *Virus*, that you know, has only ever been shown to have effect on Organic creatures, as expected. The Human used to source their DNA template is literally the inciting incident of the game. I genuinely want to know if these people can read. Second point, no, they won't, seeing as most Synths were helped in their escape *by* Humans even though other Humans enslaved them. They're not a hivemind, and their culture, what little of it there is, is primarily facilitated and predicated by Human kindness and solidarity between both species. And supposing they *did* feel that way, no dice. Because, you know, Synths have no inherent ability to shapeshift, read minds, lift more than a Human, or any other superpower that would let them handily supplant Humanity(if you can still consider them the dominant race on the planet), and also, their population has to be less than what? A thousand, maybe two or three? I'm not a demographer. But my point being, there's no way Synths even have the numbers to be a serious threat to Humans, especially combined with the other factors. Point 3, I just. What? I can name 4 species off the top of my head that existence before and after Humans rose to province in this world, discounting Synths/Super Mutants/Ghouls/Ghosts, as well as subtypes of Automatrons. Humans ain't special. And genuinely, how do these people interact with any sort of fantasy media? Do they watch Star Trek and think Spock and Worf are somehow inherently inferior to their Human cremated? Get a grip. I had someone just yesterday unironically argue that since Humans made Synths, they have complete and total control over them by right. I'm sure this logic has never been used against real minorities to justify atrocities.

Synthetics are the most disturbing, mostly because of the third game's ending(This isn't a Destroy rant, I already did one of those). But anyway, Shepard is offered three choices-To destroy the Reapers(big bads) and every other Synthetic lifeform in the Galaxy, to become the new heartmind of the Armada, and to fuse Organic and Synthetic life for a resultant utopia. Now, obviously, people have valid reasons to pick Red. Blue and Green are too unknown, too "invasive", blah blah blah. But an again, disturbing, amount of people fall into one of two camps on Destroy: Synthetics can be rebuilt/Synthetics aren't people anyway. Red, well, destroys *everything* a Synthetic is, from the outer hardware being rocked to the internal code being fucking fried. An Organic equivalent would be massive organ failure as their brains were dribbling from their ears, you can't come back from that. And the latter group is just baffling, as this is a series that draws a distinction between a Virtual Intelligence, something more akin to modern "AI" in that they're no-sapient algorithms a assistants integrated into technology, and a Synthetic Intelligence, meaning a fully realized person born of code and chrome. There's also the people who swear up and down that since modern 21st-Century Terran computers don't have sapience, literally no fictional machine could ever achieve it. Which I don't have to tell you is just dumb. And I really just don't get why some people are so fervently against rejecting such an obvious theme of the story. It's like trying to read Spider-Man and saying Ben Parker was wrong.

Anyway, those are my experiences. I again understand it's all fictional, but I will say the vitriol feels very, very real more often than not. I mean, something like Warhammer, I'll roll my eyes still, it's not for me, but whatever, I get that's the setting. But I truly don't understand why so many people *want* to be fantasy racists, and my tolerance for them is just about done.(Not in an edgy or pretentious way, just that I'm fairly sick of trying to argue in good faith against people like...that.)

[sagegreensage]

Aw man, those synths in Fallout 4 really all were acab (assigned cop at birth), huh?

Nick Valentine and X6-88 especially.

[greenhades]

[prowlsart]

a detective and a boxer, solving cases together. what a bunch of fucking nerds

[gmodcybermod]

For those who think Detroit become human had wasted potential, or that fallout 4 was too hard on synths, check out binary domain

Binary Domain had (spoilers, heads in drawers etc) so much story potential, and could've totally topped Detroit bh 6 or more years before it's release. The designs are fantastic, characters are good but SEGAGames how do you fuck up what could be a turning point where these robots didn't know they were people and the hybrids are accepted instead turns into the US "not giving into racial" and going genocidal on sentient beings and leaving the charismatic possibly character opinion changing French robot to just disappear.

Maybe it's a comment on the USA, but such cool gameplay and style felt wasted. Even the mass effect companion thing didn't change or even do anything.

Btw if you're beating up a robot for not protecting your mom from your dad because it probably had a no attack protocol, why don't you take the bat to your blackout drunk dad who can barely get up?

I will say I've never heard of a romantic interracial couple call each other "rice farmer" and "Yankee" respectively while being so okay with it. These characters barely changed at all, he's still a racist and will make one exception for her because they had sex and get mom was just a glorified test tube baby incubator.