( All grown up and no place to go ) The irony is, that means that Gordon and his opponent are operating on almost the same level. ( Psych 1, Psych 2, what do you know? ) The Synths known to the Resistance as 'gunships' were once creatures akin to whales--aquatic filter-feeders with a complex social structure but only the barest beginnings of sapience. Then the Combine invated and turned them into living, airborne tanks, all traces of sentience stripped away and replaced with the programming needed to track a moving target and destroy it. ( All your life is Channel 13 ) The gunship has no memory, no capacity for abstract thought, no real emotion beyond the recognition of pleasure and pain. ( Sesame Street, what does it mean? ) All it knows is that the creature below is an enemy and needs to die. ( I'll tell you what it means )
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Date: 2008-12-14 11:00 pm (UTC)The irony is, that means that Gordon and his opponent are operating on almost the same level.
( Psych 1, Psych 2, what do you know? )
The Synths known to the Resistance as 'gunships' were once creatures akin to whales--aquatic filter-feeders with a complex social structure but only the barest beginnings of sapience. Then the Combine invated and turned them into living, airborne tanks, all traces of sentience stripped away and replaced with the programming needed to track a moving target and destroy it.
( All your life is Channel 13 )
The gunship has no memory, no capacity for abstract thought, no real emotion beyond the recognition of pleasure and pain.
( Sesame Street, what does it mean? )
All it knows is that the creature below is an enemy and needs to die.
( I'll tell you what it means )