• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    801·
    1 year ago

    The energy generated by this virus is how the infected undead will continue to walk the earth.

    • junderwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      1 year ago

      Ooooh nice - that idea will definitely make it into the Starfinder campaign I’m gonna run

    • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      So what you’re saying is this should be combined with cordyceps in a random lab in China that has really shitty containment procedures.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.

      • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        This still pisses me off.

        The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense.

        But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.

        • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn’t be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there’s at least some symmetry.

          • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            They have the same wetware and clearly aren’t using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They’re excellent candidates.