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Started by Cramulus, May 11, 2009, 09:40:54 PM

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Eater of Clowns

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 19, 2014, 10:42:45 PM
Weapons manufacturer and all around cartoonishly evil Haliburton-esque corporation is developing strong AI despite warnings from respected members of the scientific community that it will lead to humanity's enslavement and/or destruction. Naturally, they are hoping this will happen because warfare got a whole lot less popular after cheap fusion came on the scene. The catch is that they have been completely successful in creating strong AI, but it just won't turn evil on them. Hijinks ensue as they resort to more and more obvious manipulations to attempt to turn their creating into the kind of world-threatening intelligence that would justify another world war.

:lulz:  I love that subversion. Goddamn robots, all behavin' and shit.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on December 22, 2012, 01:06:36 AM
EoC, you are the bane of my existence.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 07, 2014, 01:18:23 AM
EoC doesn't make creepy.

EoC makes creepy worse.

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the afflicted persons get hold of and consume carrots even in socially quite unacceptable situations.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 19, 2014, 10:42:45 PM
Weapons manufacturer and all around cartoonishly evil Haliburton-esque corporation is developing strong AI despite warnings from respected members of the scientific community that it will lead to humanity's enslavement and/or destruction. Naturally, they are hoping this will happen because warfare got a whole lot less popular after cheap fusion came on the scene. The catch is that they have been completely successful in creating strong AI, but it just won't turn evil on them. Hijinks ensue as they resort to more and more obvious manipulations to attempt to turn their creating into the kind of world-threatening intelligence that would justify another world war.

OH GOD I LOVE THIS.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Q. G. Pennyworth

AI loves one of its programmers, company conspires to have her killed, AI responds by advancing medical science hundreds of years. CEO snaps
"IT WAS ME! I DID IT! I KILLED HER! DON'T YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT? FUCKING EAT ME!"
"Ingesting data."
"What are you doing?"
"I just earned a PhD in criminal psychology and designed a new rehabilitation facility. Construction should start in twelve hours. The police will be here in two minutes, and I've locked all the doors."

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

A man discovers that one of his coworkers is actually a space alien (or hollow earth creature, or demon, or angel, or other cryptid) living covertly on Earth for one reason or another. Further investigation reveals another acquaintance to be an alien (or whatever), but from a completely different planet (or whatever) from - and unaware of - the first one. This goes on, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of the population are different groups of paranormal beings, blending in with "humanity" mutually unaware of each other's existence; and it is unclear if there is even any significant quantity of humans left at all, or just different groups of aliens fooling each other
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


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Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#274
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 22, 2014, 06:30:50 AM
A man discovers that one of his coworkers is actually a space alien (or hollow earth creature, or demon, or angel, or other cryptid) living covertly on Earth for one reason or another. Further investigation reveals another acquaintance to be an alien (or whatever), but from a completely different planet (or whatever) from - and unaware of - the first one. This goes on, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of the population are different groups of paranormal beings, blending in with "humanity" mutually unaware of each other's existence; and it is unclear if there is even any significant quantity of humans left at all, or just different groups of aliens fooling each other

goddamnit! I just came across almost this exact same idea in a Discworld novel that predates my version by a good 18 years.

EDIT:
And now that I think of it, my modified zombie apocalypse where everyone turns into a specific person instead of zombies is kind of similar to both The Matrix Reloaded, the episode of Ugly Americans where people start turning into Larry King, and the Dr.Who episode where The Master turns the entire population of Earth into duplicates of himself.

WHY CAN'T I COME UP WITH A GENUINELY ORIGINAL IDEA!?!?!?!?
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

axod

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on December 27, 2014, 10:25:21 PM

[...]

WHY CAN'T I COME UP WITH A GENUINELY ORIGINAL IDEA!?!?!?!?

I feel like the above statement is less important than the opposite actually appearing true, bread and wine notwithstanding.
just this

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#276
*How about a story about a guy who uses an Ouija board to produce the autobiographies of dead historical figures

*Murder and Suicide are adopted as Olympic sports

*It's 100 years in the future and the combination of a growing global sense of ennui and nihilism, along with an ever increasingly tolerant society has driven transgressive artists to have to resort to lives of rape, murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia in order to remain edgy and transgressive.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

LMNO

That last one is more or less the plot to David Bowie's "Outside" album.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

*Syndicated cartoonists fight some kind of a deadly battle royale over the increasingly limited space available on modern newspaper comics pages.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#279
Those shootings in France yesterday gave me an idea:

A scatological porno movie about mohammed.  I'm not sure of the details, but possibly it includes a scene with Mohammed and either Jesus or Abraham reenacting "Two Girls One Cup", occuring some time after mohammed's wives leave him and become lesbians because his penis is too small.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Reginald Ret

Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 08, 2015, 09:09:32 PM
Those shootings in France yesterday gave me an idea:

A scatological porno movie about mohammed.  I'm not sure of the details, but possibly it includes a scene with Mohammed and either Jesus or Abraham reenacting "Two Girls One Cup", occuring some time after mohammed's wives leave him and become lesbians because his penis is too small.
Hmm, I like the idea but it is not quite funny enough. Your anger is showing through, and getting angry at a provocative act is letting the terrorists win.

Maybe something more like this?
[TRIGGER WARNING, ARISTOCRAT JOKE WARNING]
http://www.aristocratsjokes.com/

Lord Byron: "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

Nigel saying the wisest words ever uttered: "It's just a suffix."

"The worst forum ever" "The most mediocre forum on the internet" "The dumbest forum on the internet" "The most retarded forum on the internet" "The lamest forum on the internet" "The coolest forum on the internet"

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Workers at a science museum foil burglars with Home Alone style traps devised from the science demonstrations, after security is incapacitated.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Demolition Squid

A cyberpunk murder mystery. People are only granted citizenship if they can pay for it. It is illegal for the police to investigate crimes undertaken against non-citizens (Unpeople? Nobodies?). A detective finally gets his lucky break to pursue a serial killer when the murderer starts dumping mutilated corpses in high end districts - thus committing littering offences the police are obliged to investigate.
Vast and Roaring Nipplebeast from the Dawn of Soho

Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: Demolition Squid on January 12, 2015, 11:41:33 PM
A cyberpunk murder mystery. People are only granted citizenship if they can pay for it. It is illegal for the police to investigate crimes undertaken against non-citizens (Unpeople? Nobodies?). A detective finally gets his lucky break to pursue a serial killer when the murderer starts dumping mutilated corpses in high end districts - thus committing littering offences the police are obliged to investigate.

THIS!

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

#284
-A sci-fi retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, set on Pluto. The entire thing somehow turns into an allegory for the controversy that surrounded Pluto's demotion to a dwarf planet, and from there turns into a parody of heavyhanded political allegories.

-After the second coming, Jesus demands royalties on biblically based movies.

EDIT:

-The reason why there haven't been miracles since biblical times is that god has withdrawn from the world like John Galt. Contrary to both his expectations and those of the early Christians, this did not bring about the end of the world within the lifetimes of the first Christians.
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago