XFllo
There is no Planet B
Since: Aug, 2012
Apr 6th 2013 at 9:30:15 AM
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I removed the page quote. Tropers agreed that it's not relevant and doesn't help the article. See this discussion.
"The Feka goons aren't just toothy Blues Brothers fanatics who want to sell a video game system. They go way beyond merely wanting to produce video games and make a profit. No, no. It's much more than that. They're not even human. Please take a moment and let that sink in. They're not even human. Just think about it - the weight behind this statement. In a last ditch effort to discredit Sega, the advertisers behind this atrocity decided that the best way to strike back at their biggest competitor was to make the argument that the people who made the Sega CD are evil, soulless, red-eyed, communist robots who want to steal your money and eat your children. Oh my God indeed. Oh. My. God."
— The Johnny Turbo Story
punkreader
Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 23rd 2011 at 12:55:12 AM
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I've got a question: what if both the villain and the protagonists aren't human? And the human population uses it as a reason to harass, literally invoking the trope, and violently drive off the protagonists and start a war with the villain's race? The humans, or at least the majority of them, are enemies in the story, albiet not main enemies for most of it. Does that count, or is it What Measure Is A NonHuman?
I'm not entirely sure why this trope is considered an inversion of It Can Think. Look at Daemon, for example. Early in the book, it is explicitly stated that the titular program is not a true AI, but merely a big and complex decision tree created by a Chessmaster of a software developer. Which is a problem, because it means the Daemon can't be reasoned, bribed or terrorised into abandoning its orders.
In other words, it is the lack of sentience that is the source of the problem. Which makes it an inversion of It Can Think... but how 'not even human' applies to this situation?
Edited by Vindicar