Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522
I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they’d just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.
Big fridge following me around sounds scary.
They’ll eventually stumble and flatten me.
Or are there fridges on wheels in that game? I haven’t played it.
Well, no. But everything in the game is running a quantum processor. The taxis are some rogue AI … that owes you favors? Weird. But any random trashcan has enough juice to run this stupid chip instead of sticking it in your head. What a terrible idea.
Um … there’s two other random objects with AI. One is a gun that won’t shut up, reminds me of Clippy from M$ Office. The other is a vending machine. There may be more, I haven’t finished the game, due to my issue with not sticking known bad hardware into my cranium. But either of those could run Johnny.
I don’t think they could. The chip isn’t a normal program that any old computer can run.
Biochip Spoiler?
The chip needs a brain onto which it can imprint its stored engrams. Its not a normal chip and it’s specifically made to interact with a human brain in experimental ways.
At best it would just do nothing if plugged into a fridge, like installing drivers for hardware you don’t have.
There is literally an AI vending machine. How is that different from a fridge? And that being the case, how can you say it can’t run this chip? Ya just can’t. Because there’s a huge plot hole there. Unsuspend your disbelief for a moment. Think about it. … and think of the fun if we installed Johnny in that stupid talking gun.
The chip specifically interacts with human brains on a biological level. It’s not a “normal” AI.
Hehe. Friend, you seem to know a lot about this imaginary tech. But you don’t. My rules are just as good as yours. If I say Johnny can run on a trashcan, its just as true as your theory. And more fun.
I mean, sure, if the writers wanted to put the chip in something else they could write different lore about what it does, granted. In the same spirit of “How do you kill a vampire? However you want.”