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- From: pooh+@cs.cmu.edu (Will Timmins)
- Subject: Re: Unique Races
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- References: <1992Dec27.135046.27572@sarah.albany.edu> <Bzxq0y.2M6.1@cs.cmu.edu> <darknite.725523045@camelot>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:09:54 GMT
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- In article <darknite.725523045@camelot> darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III) writes:
- >In <Bzxq0y.2M6.1@cs.cmu.edu> pooh+@cs.cmu.edu (Will Timmins) writes:
- >
- >>Well, I had a race like the Cho-jha in a game of mine... it seems that hive
- >>mind insectoid races are fairly common.
- >
- >What's a more reasonable special effect for an insectile
- >intelligence than a hive mind...?
- >
- >>Thus, scout hive demons have a good amount of independence. (in fact, in a game
- >>I ran, one character was a scout demon that had managed to 'defect' from his
- >>hive while on a mission in another dimension)
- >
- >>Comments?
- >B
- >Yeah.
- >Are the Hive Queens actually intelligent, but just very busy and
- >too busy to allocate enough time for a real conversation? Or are
- >the more intelligent members of the hive bound to the bidding of
- >what is, essentially, a sub-sapient computer? If the latter, do
- >the intelligent members ever want to break away? Are they
- >unable, or unable to conceive the concept?
- >
- >
- >--
- >"Dave's Black Box Theory:
- > You just worry about the input and the output; you don't worry about
- > the sh*t in between."
- >John S. Novak, III darknite@camelot.bradley.edu
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