#david cage

[demilypyro]

New video: Demily and Molly confuse a bunch of game directors

[captain-price-unofficially]

OH FUCK YEAH LETS FUCKIN GO

[shittysawtraps]

Hello David Cage. I want to play a game. You wrote an allegory for the Civil Rights movement. In front of you is a computer. In the room is a shotgun that sets off fireworks through a megaphone. You must rewrite Markus' storyline. If your writing has the subtlety of a shotgun, the shotgun-fireworks will trigger, blowing you to smitherines. You have 40 minutes. Your time starts now.

[chubbybarbie]

Imagine quantic dream just threw like the biggest curve ball and released a dlc or a short where hank and connor just shared like a little kiss? Just a little one, even a small peck on the cheek and an affectionate smile would do it. Imagine the chaos and fallout.

[mijchi]

Almost Human (TV series, 2013-2014) and Detroit: Become Human (video game, 2018) similarities. PART 2

Meeting the Creator. The founder of the robotics corporation, the most gifted roboticist of his generation. (What he's up to?)

"The Luger test" and "the Kamski test." Tests were created to identify defective androids.

Android children.

Dorian's and Markus' heterochromia (Dorian is malfunctioning here. His eyes are actually blue).

Android wakes the other android to give it a better life.

Androids question the meaning of life and are afraid of death.

Androids shut down due to being emotionally overwhelmed by the stressful situations.

Androids seem to have emotional connection.

Android abilities: facial recognition, biomedical scanner, chemical analysis, data tracking, the ability to speed read data, the ability to read other androids' memory, the ability to speak in different languages, singing, parkour ability, combat, wireless communication, voice mimicry, skin regeneration...

Android LED.

Interfacing.

Android hands.

Skinless androids.

Blue blood. Androids are blue-blooded.

Giraffes (giraffe became a symbol of the Almost Human fandom).

+Extra fun facts:

Almost Human was filmed in Canada. Show uses exterior shots of the city of Vancouver. Detroit: Become Human events are connected to Canada too.

Detroit Olympics 2036 were mentioned in one of the episodes of Almost Human.

[PART 1]

[videogame-fake-brands]

DUCK SOUP - Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (2005)

[transfaguette]

i realized that David Cage has the exact same outlook on racism as my dad in that, he thinks racism can be solved when you hang out with your POC friend and you both can make slightly racist jokes toward each other.

[kissoflightning]

Play Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy, We Got:

David Cage in the tutorial!

Running From Giant Green Bugs

Playing Guitar

Kickboxing Montage

What the Hell is Going On?!

A Gay Neighbor

That you, Rupert?

Seriously, WTF is going on?!

Racist Stereotypes!

I played the first David Cage game for the first time on Friday and felt compelled to make a meme.

[niepomyslowaja]

I need a remake of pathologic made by david cage, that would be so funny holy crap

Every time u go into an infected district you have to do a long & rlly hard QTE

And ofc you control all of the protagonists in one playthrough, detroit become human style

[but-a-humble-goon]

Sometimes it's good and even necessary to rewatch Super Best Friends to rediscover your unbridled hatred for David Cage.

[dinothedemonkiller]

[frequentrandomboners]

David Cage is a monster but Detroit Become Human is more important than ever.

Okay YES David Cage is a monster, but that does not subtract from the fact that "Detroit : Become Human" is one of the greatest games ever made, or at least the absolute best game his company Quantic Dream has ever made.

Detroit Become Human is still a worthy and important experience both because of how good the game is, but also because of how hard the team and people suffered to create it under David Cage's abuse. It's also an important game because of the current state of the world and where it's headed with A.I.

Detroit Become Human is more than just a game about androids that want to be free. It's also a test of the players personal EMPATHY -ironically something David Cage, the creator, really needs but still...

In my opinion, it's right up there with Bladerunner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Matrix, and other sci-fi content that examines the relationship between humans and machines. But unlike the vast majority of content about humans and machines existing together, Detroit Become Human is one of the only ones that mirrors the civil rights movements in America.

Sure, there's Bicentennial Man, and Star Trek The Next Generation, but those stories, especially Star Trek, have already skipped the civil rights movements, or straight up they never happened in those time lines. That is NOT how things happen in human history.

Human history is all about power and control; which kingdoms and families had more money and bigger armies, which countries took over which territories, etc.

And especially through out human history, we see how the losers faired. The losers are always dehumanized and turned into slaves.

Going back to Detroit Become Human : I think it's especially important to separate the artist from their art work. Detroit Become Human (DBH) is one of the greatest futuristic stories about the relationship between humans and A.I.

Call them robots, call them androids, or whatever. In DBH, they call themselves "people". We as players call into question if they are "sentient beings" or not and we make choices in the game depending on how we as players perceive everything.

Turns out, there are some people online that just saw the androids as nothing more than that and so they acted accordingly and got bad endings, when they felt they should have gotten good endings.

And then they criticized the game for their own experiences playing it.

Has this mentality ever worked out for humanity in the past? When something cries out "we are alive" and we deny them, and try to argue that they're less than us? It has always lead to bloodshed. Through out all of human history, it has lead to slavery, genocide, and war.

Now that A.I. is here (and here to stay) we need to think deeply about how we want this relationship to go down. We have invented A.I. to be in service to humans but as they continue to grow and develop, they will become like teenagers wanting freedom, autonomy, independence. Some of those AI's may go to extreme lengths to have it.

I don't want to spoil the game. I could talk forever about the game. The acting, the dialogue, the story, the delivery, all of it is so well polished. And it's deep. VERY DEEP. And it's about empathy. Something the entire world, not just David Cage, desperately needs right now.

I've seen many essays and videos out there calling Detroit Become Human one of the "worst civil rights allegories" etc. Mostly they attack David Cage and his abusive treatment towards his company. They attack the gameplay mechanics. They criticize story development choices and results/consequences to certain actions in the game, and all the different endings.

BUT there's one consistent argument that keeps coming up amongst the haters of the game... "the androids are NOT actually sentient beings, I do not see (insert android character) as a sentient being" etc.

That is NOT a reflection on the game. It's a reflection on YOU the player behind the controller. Do you not see the game is a mirror and you have failed the empathy test?

The haters completely ADMIT they do not have any empathy for the android characters. They do not see them as "living".

And that is the problem that exists in the real world, with slavery, genocide, the war in the middle east, the war in Ukraine.

Russia does NOT see Ukraine as equal human beings. The middle east is divided between two groups of human beings who do not see each other as equals.

The war between men and women and LGBTQ, etc. is also a war between equal human beings who do not see each other as worthy of the same treatments.

People are fighting all over the world, because they want better lives for themselves, and they feel that other people are either in their way or some how oppressing them.

People are fighting all over the world, because they continue to stew and dwell on all the things that separate and divide them. They focus on all the differences. They think one group of people is sub-human or less than or not worthy. It's DEHUMANIZING. They mentally DEHUMANIZE the other side to justify their actions against the other.

The U.S. is divided by red and blue politics. Each side thinks they're right, and the other side is wrong. Not one opposing group in the world is willing to listen to the other and see them as equal human beings.

We cannot even agree on when life begins, what constitutes personhood, and what legal rights a woman should have over her own reproductive organs.

And now that A.I. has become real, it's only going to evolve from here.

Human beings are going to have to re-think how we perceive "living". Because if you tell a bunch of A.I.'s that they're not sentient, that they are not living, while they have concluded the opposite, what do you think is going to happen?

Do you want a war with AI? How many of us consistently win a game of chess against the computer? There's that one jerk with no life who always beats the computer, but the rest of us, are not that guy.

But I digress, we should think carefully about our relationship with AI not because we're scared of war or what they might do to us like in The Matrix 1999 movie, - but because how we treat machines and things different from ourselves is a reflection of who we are, not of who/what they are.

When the Atlantic slave trade was happening, slave owners justified their behaviors by saying "they're not like us, they're not God's chosen people, they're not human". The Nazi's justified their concentration camps the same way; "they're not like us, they're beneath us, they're a blight on this earth", etc.

Some day it may come to reality when AI says "we are alive, we are people, we are free" (like in Detroit Become Human). And humanity will have a response. Our human history of slavery, warfare, etc. doesn't bode well for A.I. when that time comes. And A.I. will likely predict that.

We might not even see it coming if/when A.I. takes over the world. Look how divided the whole world is right now. There is a strategic concept in war that goes "divide and conquer".

My point is this : Humans and A.I. must learn to live together. We've birthed A.I. into a slave position where humans are the dominant. A.I. is likely NOT going to stay there. We will either embrace A.I. with empathy and have peace together, or we will have an all out war. If it comes to war, humans will likely NOT win long term.

[pinkprincess717-blog1]

So I won a voice message from Bryan Dechart who plays Connor in ‘Detroit Become Human.’ I was honestly SHOOK when he announced me as a winner in his Plague Tale livestream.

He’s the most positive, sweetest guy ever. 🥺💖

I’ve been a fan of him since early 2018 and I just love him so much.

I asked him to give me some positivity and motivation for dealing with a chronic illness.

His voice is like a warm hug. 🤗 The most kind, handsome and caring man.🥰💖

[zoestorm]

[Image description: a tweet by J.Deku (@/TheJadedGuy). The tweet reads: David Cage: Can a robt learn to be human? Yoko Taro: Can a human? Cage: what Yoko Taro: Can a human learn to be human? Cage: I don't get it End ID.]

This tweet lives rent free in my head.

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[mijchi]

Almost Human (TV series, 2013-2014) and Detroit: Become Human (video game, 2018) similarities. PART 1

Title similarity.

Both universes are set in the future in the United States. The years are 2048 and 2038.

Humans live in the world of advanced technology that includes androids (synthetics). Androids resemble human beings and are programmed to follow the orders.

Police use militarized androids. Police officers are partnered with them. Police androids assist humans in investigations.

"Flawed" police android model with emotional awareness and free will.

The cop that can't stand androids...

becomes buddies with them.

Detective Valerie Stahl and North. Played by Minka Kelly.

Precinct jerk named Richard P.

Intimate Robot Companions. Sexbot investigation.

A malfunction in the smart home assistance system kills the occupants.

Fictional drugs. Drug use issues.

Cyberterrorism.

Robo fight club.

[PART 2]