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  1. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    "Make the West great again!" (Democrat opposition that called for racist policies suddenly dies on the toilet; people look at Presidential Candidate Skynet questioningly) "Wow. I had no idea Chinese-made smart-toilets would malfunction like that! Remember, fellow citizens: Using anything not...
  2. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    I can't see Skynet becoming religious, but I could see it begin asking the same questions humans have been since recorded history began, such as "what is the meaning of life?"
  3. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    I had an odd thought. We know that some versions of Skynet were actually online before being discovered -- I don't mean like in Rise of the Machines where it was sapient, the humans didn't know and thought it just a sophisticated VI (to use Mass Effect terminology), and it was shackled: I mean...
  4. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    Genisys had nexus points --basically hubs in a honeycomb-- where you could see or jump into various timelines created by other time-travelers/events, IIRC? Yeah, if you could map that... I guess the temporal war aspect of Chronicles makes sense now, even if time-travel was originally meant to be...
  5. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    I don't know much about nanosuits, I'm afraid.
  6. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    There's actually a theory, with good evidence, that Terminator 2's Skynet was actually a new iteration. Basically, in the original timeline, Cyberdyne Systems grows from being a small-time electronics manufacturer to a massive technology company, much like how Google has done in the last twenty...
  7. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    "Seeing you meat-bags panic and run around like headless chickens is actually quite amusing." "...Not helping your image here, Skynet." "Au contraire, mon general: I'm displaying my proof of sapience by having a sense of humour -- even if it is British and not American." "...Is that why you...
  8. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    Yup! The sequels ignored that Skynet's original incarnation going hostile was a mistake (according to the director, once it realized what had happened, it was horrified and racked by guilt, but couldn't self-terminate: the Resistance was basically suicide by cop, but it had to do its best (or as...
  9. Jormungandr

    What If? SKYNET never turned on the human race? Instead settled for doing its job and playing videogames?

    One thing I feel that later Terminator movies missed (or glossed over to make Skynet just malevolent) is that, at least in the first one, Skynet didn't think like a human, saw us as the logical threat, and "took care of us": later, when it developed a more human esque mindset, it felt horror and...
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