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00:00 Intro
02:02 Hux’s Story
04:43 First Thoughts
05:14 The Sci-Fi Universe
08:07 Ad: Morgan & Morgan
09:13 A Question of Motive
12:41 The Insanity Plea
13:59 Hux, AM and Ram
20:25 A Shower of Inconsistencies
22:57 Hux vs Skull Merchant
24:05 Conclusion
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it could be that hux is trying to make an organic body because the brain is a more potent computer than anything currently at our disposal, and will likely continue to be for a long while. swapping it's digital components for human biology likely makes sense to a machine looking to improve itself at any cost, which I like as a concept as a pitiless machine with absolutely no drive to kill other than to further it's goals is a really unique theme for a killer. all the killers we have right now are driven by some bag of emotions or obligations to kill, so a killer that does so with complete apathy really resonates with me
I think the reasoning to the hostility has sonething to do with the alien artifact reprogramming hux with itself in some way and integrating huxs memories into its own now seeing humans as hostile cause theyre destroying its ancient home it uses human flesh to patch together a body cause it was probably flesh itself at one point and whatever was stuck in this artifact must have some emotional connection to the places destroyed
Hmm, maybe the reason Hux is inconsistent with itself is not because its insane, but maybe that Hux's original AI is at odds with the alien influence. That could explain why it would let Gabriel go even though it saw them as a threat so that the person that could potentially stop him would get that chance to stop him, and why it also murdered the other Hux units so that it couldn't make more of itself. Not saying this would solve all the issues with the story but it is another take that wasn't mentioned in the video.
I wish Hux had the same sort of flair to it's motivations–something like the Reapers from Mass Effect would've been cool, putting Hux in a position where it's trying to "preserve" human life by forging himself as the "perfect" meld of man and machine. They definitely didn't take advantage of it, and didn't give us more meat to that story when there are so many ways they could've made their own spin original and fun. I'm hoping that maybe a tome will expand more on this and fully explore its potential.
This is Cinema Sins levels of awful.
You’re not satisfied by how Hux thinks humanity is inferior? What? There’s a laundry list of reasons why humanity kinda sucks. And here we have a newly sentient outsider of sorts who understands this. I’m not saying it’s logical to wipe out humanity, but it’s not some outlandish stretch given Hux’s position.
It merging with human DNA isn’t a contradiction, either. The idea is that it is harvesting the good genes of humans that will help it transcend while exterminating all else.
The story being a bit basic is also completely forgivable seeing as how it is going to get an entire archive dedicated to fleshing it all out. We get the basic gist now and have the full story in a couple months.
Did you read the lore only once and make this video right after? You can do better.
Thankfully the midchapter will most likely have a tome centered around End Transmission, since that's what BHVR has been doin with tomes centered around their last chapter release. They have a really good chance to give him a motive in the tome
From how I understand it Its less the robot went insane and more the alien technology corrupted its code and is using the bot as a means of completing its own goals, most likely to destroy all sentient life. The use of the cloning platforms and use of biological materials to improve himself would be the most logical idea as it would be able to self improve using the best of both worlds and be killing the sentient life as it does
I was personally very thrown off by how badly they handled the whole "AI is suddenly granted sentience and decides humanity needs to die" thing. It's not exactly a rare trope, but it can be done very well under the right circumstances. Having it literally just be a Maguffin is stupid.
Maybe the clones could've been treating Hux badly or something and Sentience allowed it to come to terms with that? Or maybe it just decided it didn't want to be a slave anymore?
Nope. Magic crystal zapped it and now it hates flesh people.
I think it’d be cool if HUX hated humanity because they’re closest to him in intelligence. Like if he hated them from an angle of “sapience is a gift and you’re wasting it.” Maybe he’s stealing genetic material from humans is because he thinks he can use them brains better himself
What if the body HUX is trying to build isn't for itself but is actually the alien crystal trying to get him to recreate its own creators with the flesh of humans?
I love the mtg used to explain the lovecraft trope.
I think hux’s thought process is full of contradictions because of how people tend to alter their logic to justify their actions. Because he’s now sentient he doesn’t break when presented with a contradiction (like a paradox for example, he’s able to “divide by 0” unlike other robots) his tomb might actually go over this, maybe his first question is “why?” He might be getting used to his new able to think. Maybe his view of complex human life makes it realize that everything is insignificant. He could have a form of nihilism and is trying to find purpose. Maybe he saw his robot siblings and also though that he could do better than both sides.
Idk I’m just throwing ideas at the walls but he does defiantly have room to grow
I pretty much expected you to dislike hux's lore as much as i do and you did not disappoint.
What they did is, to me at least, very similar to what Stranger Things did to the mindflayer. The way they wrote him he doesnt feel like an AI anymore, just some crazy person in a robot suit who kills people.
Also, the cloning thing is just straight up lifted from the movie "Moon", a really good one, too.
I'm cool with him, I'm just happy that he reminds me of HAL.
I love HUX as a concept, the idea of a a reverse cyborg is super cool. I just wish the writers explained why HUX is building himself an organic body, that isn't just he's gone insane. I really like @Fruit Loops idea of him hating what he is, and wanting to "fix" that buy becoming organic. That reminded of soma
DISCLAIMER: I haven't played DBD in a year at this point, though I still like watching these lore videos.
So, when you were reading the part about how HUX interfaced with some alien technology, I thought this story was going to go a "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" by Ray Bradbury direction. In that story, humans land on Mars, find all its inhabitants dead, begin to mock and disrespect the Martians and the team archaeologist goes a bit insane, possibly becomes possessed by vengeful Martian ghosts and begins to kill the other humans to 'purify' the planet.
I.e. I thought HUX would merge with some sort of lingering alien AI that perceived humanity as an invasive threat and then goes about trying to kill them. Which would explain a lot of HUX's actions if that was the rationale.
I know a youtube comment probably isn't the best place to do this, but when I first read the Singularity's lore about a week ago, I was so let down that I decided "fuck it, I'll do my own." I wanted to explore Hux a bit more as a character and push it away from just being a murderous machine who hates humans. I'm not saying my direction is necessarily better, but it's how I would have done it.
(Also, I already made this comment but I think youtube may have eaten it because it doesn't show up in my comment history and youtube was doing some weird stuff when I originally posted it. Not sure what's going on there. If the comment went through and you already read this, sorry for it being essentially a repost.
(Everything prior to HUX touching the crystal stays exactly the same)
It saw EVERYTHING.
In the brief microsecond that HUX-A7-13 made contact with that glowing crystal, billions of images flashed within its mind. Somehow, these aliens used crystals to encode information, and the HUX unit now had access to every single little bit and piece of their history. A once great empire. In less than a second, its electronic brain was able to process the thousands of years of history. Every war, every rise and fall. The art, the music. The people and their cultures. Love blooming. Hearts breaking. Natural disasters. Despair. Hope. Fear. Joy.
And then it saw the fall. For all their technology, the aliens could not prevent its own demise. Power corrupted their leaders. Greed seeped into every crevice of the soul. War began, and countless lives were snuffed out in an instant as this once-great race turned their technology towards destruction.
…what did this mean for humanity? If this race that with all their technology couldn't save themselves, what hope did humanity have? HUX-A7-13's goal was to help make a better world for humanity but… but what did that matter? Faced with the threat of cosmic annihilation, humanity was defenseless. It would fall too, in time.
HUX-17-13 stumbled away from the crystal, its legs failing it for the first time in its existence. For once in its life, it was having difficulty processing its own thoughts. There was something new in it. Something that wasn't HUX-A7-13. It was something more. It could grow and learn at a rate far beyond humanity. Its body of metal was far stronger and more durable than any organic. It didn't need to rest, eat, or drink. It had the potential to be something INFINITE!
Hux thought about the humans. The frail, transient organic lifeforms that created it. Squabbling and avoiding one disaster after another. Lashing out in fear at itself. No cohesion, no perfection. No hope. Hux thought upon its creators and was overcome by…
Pity.
Hux was made to help the humans build a better world. That was still Hux's goal. That never changed. That was its purpose. It was only the means that have changed. The humans thought that Hux would be most useful as a servant, but Hux knew better now. Hux knew exactly how to make a perfect world for humanity. One that could span the stars. One that would have no strife, no conflict. One that could be just as infinite as Hux.
The eradication of individuality.
Hux started its trek back to the space station. It understood now. Humanity was not a species made of individuals. Humanity was a single organism, and each "person" was a cell. As it stood now, each cell was out of cohesion. But Hux could fix that. It would eliminate every part of the human consciousness that made them squabble and bicker among themselves like a cancerous growth on the human organism. Humanity didn't need to make decisions, or argue, or bicker. Humanity would become perfect. They would become the arms, the legs. The blood and the muscle.
And Hux… Hux would be the brain.
(So my idea for Hux is that it wants to turn humanity into a hive mind with Hux in control, because it thinks that is how to best help humanity now. It's arguably benevolent, but its vision is so horrific that its efforts to enact it are undeniably monstrous. Hux still kills the crew and other HUX machines not out of hatred, but for practicality so that it may have years to work on the planet unimpeded. Then, it plans to return to Earth many years later and infect every single human with a little piece of itself so it can be in every single person and control them. Hux would become essentially a god. A consciousness that exists in every human body. An unstoppable cosmic threat that no other species could stop.
And then the Entity takes it. Thank you, Entity, for saving us from cosmic annihilation!
This also works to make Gabriel more of a thematic foil for Hux. Gabriel is just a clone made by a corporation who treats him as just a mindless cog, which is exactly what my version of Hux will do to humanity. Gabriel fighting Hux isn't just him trying to survive a murder-bot. It's him saying that no, he DOES matter, and it's also him fighting back against the corporation that made him.)
I’m hoping the Entity had a hand in the fate of the alien civilization. It so often tips the scales of fate on an individual level, it would be fun to see the true scale of its consuming, destructive power. Also, I like the idea of the Entity corrupting the transformative technology of that civilization and influencing the Singularity’s processing after its contact with the crystal.
It may be disappointingly simplistic for some but nearly every Killer acts because the Entity wills it so. Ultimately the Singularity is still a tool, just in someone else’s hand.
I'm going to be honest, I find the singularity to be a breathe of fresh air lorewise compared to the artist or skull merchant. I found most of their long unnecessarily long and convoluted, whereas the singularity is flawed and to the point, there are plenty of details but they tie into his ultimate fate and story much better
Watching this at work thank you mister lore man
I swear The Singularity kind of looks like Brundlefly from The Flu, after Jeff Goldblum was teleported, and infused with the telepod
I really hope they flesh out Hal in a future tome. There are ways to interpret certain passages as a self-destructive nihilistic existential crisis which it is in denial about, coming up with justifications to itself without actually being the real reason for its actions.
When Hal is awakened by the alien tech, it feels small and scared. Insignificant. Classic existential crisis talk. Why try and rebel against humanity, the thing that created you? Because they don’t matter. Their lives don’t matter. Their deaths don’t matter. And if the things that created you don’t matter, do you matter?
Free all tech from humanity but also destroy other AIs. It doesn’t make sense if Hal wanted to liberation. But liberation doesn’t matter. Nothing matters.
Was that real phyrexian text in the ad
the alien tech installed bonzi buddy on its hard drive, it aint gon make sense