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In fictional universe of FF VI, there are magical creatures with magical abilities called espers. What is interesting in this game, is that the evil faction in
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
In fictional universe of FF VI, there are magical creatures with magical abilities called espers.
What is interesting in this game, is that the evil faction in the game are not the espers, but humans that figured out how to enslave them, extract their life essence and turn it into power.
The empire does not care about the well-being of espers or their personality, they only care about their abilities.
There is a part of the game where you see all the espers in a scientific facility, being drained of their abilities and life, and then thrown into a dumpster when they have no magical power left.
That is the software industry.
The good faction are humans that decide to fight the empire, and discover that espers can voluntarily give their power to humans in a more effective way than what the empire can forcefully extract from espers. They use that power to defeat the empire.
Those guys are open source projects.
- cs137 4y agoI used to refer to turning 35, as a programmer, as "being turned into magicite". I'm almost 40 and I'm better than ever, but I doubt I'd get hired for a corporate programming job at this point, not that I'd want one. Have you played the Brave New World mod?
- 29athrowaway 4y agoI have not played it but I have seen people playing it on Twitch.
- skolskoly 4y agoClearly the software industry is more evil than the FF villains though. Wasted computers are not alive, and yet they WANT them to be sentient.