Everyone Loves A Good Cult
been playing cult of the lamb lately. it's real good but don't buy the switch version, it's busted as hell
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A machine cult you say? *starts praising the Omnissiah*
But does he really, though? Lol
Calling it now - Yay, Roko, and Station collaborated to make this place.
Roko didn't actually contribute, but she's where Yay got the idea.
I might be into robot cult...
Cult of the Lamb is such a fun game
Do they know Yay? Yay knows everything.
I agree, but Yay can be "sparing" with the truth if it suits them. They might ask Hanners who has multiple AI contacts including "Station"
I'm getting foreshadowing vibes of an "Escape from Cubetown" arc. Remember who traveled in cube-shaped spacecraft? "We are the Yay. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Chocolate will be provided."
There will be doggies.
I'm wondering if pintsize will join them, and if so what kind of hell can/will be raised by him.
Interview is spelled Itnterview in last panel.
Internview - You have to watch things and not get paid for it.
I am thinking something along the lines of the "Metal Float" from Vivy but not run amok and evil?
Thanks for the advice! I was considering getting it on my switch but will get it for Steam so I can play on my Steam Deck. If they ever let me order one.
This would not sway Clinton from the whole 'Evil Nemesis' thing
Before reading the last panel I was certain Marten's critique was going to be "and somehow you don't find a nightmarish AI techno cult to be, mysterious, weird, and very cool"
Claire, you know you can just ask Station, right?
She knows Station?
I'm envisioning cubetown as a version of Buckminster Fuller's floating city concept.
“…well *technically* only the ‘town’ portion of the title is the working part BUT”
This might be a wild guess, but I have a feeling pintsize got her the interview somehow, maybe as a thank you for the body talk/making marten happy.
Now you have me wondering if this is all a scheme of his to infiltrate and flood their servers with the worst porn imaginable.
Cult of the Lamb is super fun, but hopefully that's not the environment she's interviewing in.
Lamb cultlets are especially tasty.
It might be a nightmarish AI dystopian techno-cult, but if they offer wages and benefits, I'm in.
Hmmm, health care. Do they have enough humans to offer medical services, or will they just offer to replace your faulty components with mechanical/electronic units?
Heads up, typo of interview in last panel.
glitch in the matrix. this whole timeskip has been claire in a coma.
So, I've been reading Distress by Greg Egan, so this has taken a very "Stateless" vibe already.
Claire's Interview, Scene 1 - Fade in. Interview Bot: Ah, Ms, Augustus, Agent Pintsize #3895023 has told us much about you. It was at this moment that Claire realized humanity was hooped, but she resolved to make the most of it and took the job anyway.
The irony here will be Marten becoming the human 'social companion' for a community of AIs, in juxtaposition to his relationship with Pintsize.
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Hey, if they're gonna take over, I want my corpse to be an infiltration unit, not a part of the final bone piles.
I actually have experience with running a cult.
This doesn't surprise me.
It's a working title.
I maintain that it’s only a 315 km sail from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Saint Pierre & Miquelon thus allowing Cubetown to go occasionally there for French goods. It’s the real reason Cubetown is mysterious.
Claire's main task will be cataloguing the Soft Cheese Library.
If it is something unpleasant I am sure Yay can take care of it.
That would be awesome, although I like the thought of Bubbles and Faye charging in to set them free then laying waste to the place..
Why not both?
Claire goes to the interview, in walks Yay, who is just enraptured when they realize who Claire is, she gets the job, double the salary. Maybe they even build a VR studio for her to work our of.
You believe that that Yay wouldn't know before the interview? How nieve. 🤣
"Nightmarish techno-cult" describes most IT workplaces, yes
"Nightmarish Luddite cult" described the couple of universities I worked at 20-ish years ago.
Ok so this is prolly gonna be more like the space arc maybe
Sounds more like the intro to a Water World parody.
It's just a little glitchy, I'm sure that they'll patch the switch version! It's fun!
well, an interview is a chance for both the interviewer and the interviewee to find out if this is a good fit, so it's probably also a way to start to find out if it is, in fact, a cult?
The only cults I've been in had stock options.
Ah, you worked for Apple too?
I'm gonna guess Hannelore is going to have OPINIONS about this place
It's on the water. Their cult may have blue oysters.
Seems obvious that they would, of necessity, have blue oysters!!!
It's a thin line between a very structured polycule and a very chill cult
I've seen this IRL. On Alcatraz (Avenue, not the Rock) on the Berkeley border. It was indeed very chill, until the patriarch started believing his own press. Alas, Chaos Cabaret....
It is actually the center of Gary's secret resistance to Yay's hidden global domination.
LOL- when has Yay ever been hidden about their global domination agenda?
Maybe they need a librarian to catalog and organise their human batteries, I mean how bad could it be?
They follow their charismatic leader, AI Nrand.
John Galt laughed at that, but Atlas just shrugged.
I mean, who among us *hasn't* gone for an interview at a nightmarish techno-cult?
I once interviewed for a TV production job at Rex Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow. But that was 50 years ago.
Having seen our recent batch of nightmarish human techno-cults, I'm good with giving the AIs a shot at it.
Perhaps they'll make Claire their human avatar.
Some cults that succeed can become religions so she’s technically not incorrect in her assumptions
pretty sure we're IN a nightmarish AI techno-cult from which there is no escape....
A good cult is possible.
Every modern religion started as one!
“Itnterview”
It's like an interview, but with more of a focus on pronouns.
It's probably out in the ocean so they have an easy supply of water for coolant. -or there's some turbines underneath to generate power from the currents.
Or they're having some serious discussions with a few Architeuthidae.
A jobs a job no matter where it takes you.