"anyone can be a robot, in the sense that we mean biologically indistinguishable from modern humans" @arthur_affect @MetroidThief
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in fact the backstory weakened it even more bc these "Cylons" aren't even Cylons
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they're just humans with resurrection tech who I guess maybe started off as AIs at some point
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but there's no direct connection at all between them and the Cylons the humans oppressed as slaves
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in fact it's just a different set of humans who also oppress them as slaves
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man those Centurions are poor stupid rubes
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(cf the key flaw w the heresy the heretic geth, which is that the Reapers have never actually helped them at all)
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it drains all the horror from "those toasters evolved into better humans than us" when that didn't in fact happen
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2004: Wouldn't it be fascinating if machines "wouldn'tit fascinating if robots were exactly like modern humans"
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2008: Lawl that's because modern humans literally descend from those robots
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yeah if the point is that the Man-Machine War inevitably leads to the robots becoming humans that's a dumb point
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the story doesn't even support it, it's a contrived outcome bc of the actions of the Final Five
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the Centurions, in fact, never do become human and abandon that as a goal
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