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Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?
Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org>Date: 5/8/08 11:55 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Can Flood Infect Machines? (MJOLNIR7)


: really?

Really. Having 'the power of perception by the senses' and having the ability to say "I think, therefore I am" are so wildly different that suggesting that equating them (as you have) is absurd.

Rats have the power of perception by their senses. (Though I'd concede that they're well below the 'sufficient size' threshold the Flood needs.) I would not, under any circumstances, try to argue that they're self-aware.

The Flood requires a body sufficiently integrated that it can take over a nervous system and 'disconnect' the host brain from physical control, without being left with a useless husk. That pretty much covers any animal on this planet. The 'sufficient size' requirement is actually more limiting than the 'sentience' one.

(Bungie has never actually laid out how the Flood works - but they seemed close enough to the Vang that I proposed a set of rules for Flood takeover mechanics back when Halo came out, and sent it along to Bungie for approval. I knew they wouldn't specifically confirm my ideas, or answer direct questions, but I asked them to yank anything I speculated on that was outright wrong. They yanked nothing.)


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Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 4:07 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 4:21 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?elpolloguapo 5/3/08 10:56 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 4:36 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 4:58 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 5:00 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?GatchamanUK 5/3/08 5:21 p.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?InnerRayg 5/3/08 6:19 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 6:38 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:40 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 5:00 a.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Free Weights 5/8/08 6:33 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mendicantbias00 5/8/08 7:05 a.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 10:16 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mub 5/8/08 10:33 a.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 11:44 a.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 11:55 a.m.
                                         Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Don 5/8/08 12:06 p.m.
                                               Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 12:12 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Simpsons Rule 5/8/08 12:20 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Crackshot53 5/8/08 12:21 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 12:28 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Crackshot53 5/8/08 2:18 p.m.
                                                     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SinisterSamurai 5/8/08 2:55 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Don 5/8/08 3:36 p.m.
                                                           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 3:43 p.m.
                                                                 Yeah. And Duel Weilding became "legal," too. *NM*SinisterSamurai 5/8/08 5:41 p.m.
                                         Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?MJOLNIR7 5/8/08 6:46 p.m.
                                               Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Louis Wu 5/8/08 8:43 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/8/08 6:25 p.m.
                                   I've always taken sentient to mean self-sentient *NM*elpolloguapo 5/8/08 6:29 p.m.
                                   Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Cthulhu117 5/8/08 7:42 p.m.
                                   Humans are NOT the only sentient creaturesangrymob 5/9/08 12:18 a.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?mub 5/3/08 6:15 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:44 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Honestly 5/3/08 6:46 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 6:55 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?scarab 5/3/08 6:37 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?ACEfanatic02 5/3/08 7:50 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Vincent 5/3/08 8:19 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/3/08 8:36 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SgtSatin 5/3/08 8:48 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Ragashingo 5/4/08 9:39 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/08 4:22 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Omega 5/4/08 11:15 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 5/5/08 4:24 p.m.
                             Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Jinno 5/5/08 9:25 p.m.
     Yes.Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 5/4/08 10:01 a.m.
           You know...stan 5/4/08 11:22 a.m.
           Re: Yes.elpolloguapo 5/4/08 4:15 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Cthulhu117 5/4/08 12:19 p.m.
     Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?SinisterSamurai 5/6/08 5:03 p.m.
           Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Bryan Ojeda 5/6/08 8:38 p.m.
                 Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?angrymob 5/7/08 4:01 p.m.
                       Re: Can Flood Infect Machines?Bryan Ojeda 5/7/08 4:13 p.m.
                             To define 'infection'Jillybean 5/7/08 5:34 p.m.
                                   *Bows* *NM*Don 5/7/08 5:41 p.m.
                                   I wish...elpolloguapo 5/7/08 6:10 p.m.
                                         Re: I wish...Bryan Ojeda 5/7/08 9:20 p.m.



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