History Quotes / RidiculouslyHumanRobots

->''"As with many David Cage games, it’s the kind of plot that makes you constantly yell questions at the screen: Why were androids built for menial tasks designed to look and act perfectly human in the first place? Why weren’t they boxes on wheels, or how about this: a dog with [[Franchise/SpiderMan Dr. Octopus]] tentacles? That would’ve been more efficient at cleaning up and amusing for the kids. But considering the androids do look human, why are all the'' real ''humans [[FantasticRacism so unflinchingly hateful and dismissive of them]], when the androids’ superficial human qualities would be triggering the sympathy instincts in most normal people?"''

->''Early experiments in Exo science [[BrainUploading managed to encode the human consciousness into a form that could be processed digitally.]] At the time, we believe that was the big hurdle to overcome in the creation of the Exo. Little did we know that the real challenge would be the phenomenon known as Dissociative Exomind Rejection. Nascent Proto-Exos developed serious symptoms of cognitive disorder that eventually led to death. It turned out the human mind would not reconcile its presence in a new "body".'' [...] ''The second preventative measure to DER is to program certain "humanisms" within Exos. As machines, they have not the physical needs to eat or reproduce like real humans. But artificially injecting that drive has been clinically proven to reduce the odds of DER....''

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->''"The geth blur the line between organic and synthetic life. It makes sense that they would seek understanding from a higher power."''
-->-- '''Tali'Zorah''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''