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 Post subject:About the short story on the front page.
PostPosted:Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:23 pm 
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...Having re-read it, I think the narrator is a person who's been patched into a computer. Like, brain-in-a-jar kinda thing. It makes sense, he says all he has is his thoughts and no senses, and he talks about access to functions, and mentions an operation. Desflurane is a general anasthetic, so that fits. Physical memory, too. (RAM, anyone?)

It's a guy in a box! Something to do with Cerberus' storyline?


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PostPosted:Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:52 pm 
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Well, nice one, sure makes a lot of sense!

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PostPosted:Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:48 am 
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I thought that was obvious from the first two sentences.

"I'm dead. At least, I think I am."

Seems pretty obvious to me. Then again, considering that I read a lot of cyberpunk, and that this is a game about hacking, and at least one interpretation (read: Let's Play) of Uplink is that the player is actually an AI...

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PostPosted:Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:17 am 
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I thought that was obvious from the first two sentences.

"I'm dead. At least, I think I am."

Seems pretty obvious to me. Then again, considering that I read a lot of cyberpunk, and that this is a game about hacking, and at least one interpretation (read: Let's Play) of Uplink is that the player is actually an AI...

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PostPosted:Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:13 pm 
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In a dramatic twist, it turns out the player of Uplink is already dead, having been killed by Snape.

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PostPosted:Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:19 pm 
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In a dramatic twist, it turns out the player of Uplink is already dead, having been killed by Snape.
ermm... snape?

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PostPosted:Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:27 pm 
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In a dramatic twist, it turns out the player of Uplink is already dead, having been killed by Snape.
Take out the second part of that sentence and that would actually be pretty cool. This whole time you think you're a guy but it's revealed you're a Dixie Flatline-esque personality upload. Your final mission is to destroy the server hosting you and all backups, finally achieving peace.
And then the game deletes itself from your computer.

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PostPosted:Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:35 am 
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Or, y'know, the player was never alive in the first place. You were an AI the entire time. See also: Let's Play!: Uplink.
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In a dramatic twist, it turns out the player of Uplink is already dead, having been killed by Snape.
ermm... snape?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severus_Snape

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PostPosted:Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:30 am 
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In a dramatic twist, it turns out the player of Uplink is already dead, having been killed by Snape.
Take out the second part of that sentence and that would actually be pretty cool. This whole time you think you're a guy but it's revealed you're a Dixie Flatline-esque personality upload. Your final mission is to destroy the server hosting you and all backups, finally achieving peace.
Awesome! I'd love to see that. Hilarity and tears ensue.


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PostPosted:Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:27 pm 
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Or, y'know, the player was never alive in the first place. You were an AI the entire time. See also: Let's Play!: Uplink.
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In a dramatic twist, it turns out the player of Uplink is already dead, having been killed by Snape.
ermm... snape?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severus_Snape

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I _know_ who snape is... just couldn't connect the dots! =P

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It's an Internet meme. "SPOILERS: SNAPE KILLS x" where x is whoever Snape happened to kill.

Examples:

"SPOILERS: SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE"
"SPOILERS: SNAPE KILLS ELVIS"
"SPOILERS: SNAPE KILLS SAURON"

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PostPosted:Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:58 pm 
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PostPosted:Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:54 pm 
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SNAPE KILLS THE MOOD
oohhh.. got it!

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PostPosted:Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:05 pm 
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It's like no one reads the front page anymore.


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PostPosted:Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:21 pm 
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Just read it. I assume this is giving us information into the state of the world that the rewrite will take place?

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