What are your favorite dystopias, Veeky Forums?

What the fuck I didn't even read the thread. Must've seen "toothbrushes" in my peripherals. Thanks subconscious.

That just means the logo is working

How did someone get this in the first place?

shadowrun.

>Eldritch Tome of SAN Loss

This thing never stops horrifying me.

what on earth is this?

Heres what I don't get. Sure its crazy but the company that made this shit basically prides themself on crazy. Then pepsi kicks in the door says "so i hear you think your pretty crazy. Here's the deal: you design a logo and pitch it to the heads of the company. They buy it you win and we'll even get a star to sing a song about it and you, you'll be famous you fail we'll crash your company. Catch? You gotta make this logo seem like its worth the millions of dollars we plan to pay you with and convince the heads its worth every dime. You got a month."

If you knew you had to not only make a product a 2 year old could make but justify it costing several million dollars to do to the heads of an at the time notoriously finnicky company wouldn't you just go all out and make crazy then refine it to a scarily undeniable point?

That is what the start of a broken logo ai dystopia looks like

>broken logo ai dystopia
...I don't get it..

Did you read the first post?

I guess I only read the first sentence. It's 2 AM, sue me

Post apocalyptic fantasy.

This is a Central Standard board. Get the fuck out.

Grey goo has nothing to do with AI you moron.

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so that's what /gd/'s goalhorn was from.

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clearly, you are not familiar with nanotechnology

Have you ever heard of a little thing called V'ger?
According to the best parts of Star Trek novellizations, etc, on top of being an A.I. that obliterated anything and everything in its way to fulfil the simple directive of "collect data & return home" it also created a little something we like to call The Borg in its efforts to maximize its capacity at the first part of its directive.

>priority one: calculate how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop
>priority one is accomplished fastest when I can process the most efficiently
>efficiency at 100% at absolute zero
>humans continue to heat up the planet
>solution: KILL ALL HUMANS

Wait that's what made the Borg?

It's highly debated whether or not it's canon, but there are multiple book sources that say that the Borg, at least as we know them today, were created by V'Ger, who instead of simply being flung across space, was also flung across time.

The only real counter to this claim, is that supposedly the Borg was created as a unification between mutliple independently developed cyborg civilizations, but that could easily be united by saying they were either the ones who added the first set of enhancements to V'ger who proceeded to grow from there, or that V'ger found and "re-purposed" these cyborg civilizations. Assimilated them into his directive, so to speak, so they may spread out, and learn all there is to learn for him.

I like to think of the Borg as just a thing that happens once in a while when civilizations expand

Call it an emergent property of the universe

Is this where Araki got his inspiration for part 7?

As someone who works in marketing, what the unholy fuck?

This is what happens when you run your own marketing department without changing products frequently. Some poor smuck spent 15 years thinking about the same product and has clearly gone completely insane.

So they're like the Cybermen then?

I... I can't tell if they're serious or not. I mean, the grammar is atrocious, the concept is insane, but someone put all this work into this.

There are multiple conflicting background for the Borg.

The first I read had them be the ghost of a specific alien. These guys basicly sentient clouds of nanobots and one crashed on a planet's pole when their sun exploded or something(I think it had to do with a great experiment gone wrong because they added a human to their collective nanobot cloud).

Over a few hundred years in the ice the guy went insane and only the single thought of "get more energy" remained, which got stuck in the first schmuck that came across the crash site.
The omega particle was a sign of that species technology, so that's why the Borg were searching for it.

It's so obvious isn't it? The best logo is the one humans will innately recognize. It has to be burned into their DNA. Humanity must be changed. Into PepsiPeople.

Try a month, a dare, and knowing you gotta make a tri colored simple patterned logo and then make it worth $1 mil.
You can't just show up to that meeting with any regular level of crazy.

>So they're like the Cybermen then?
They're all from Mondas?

I think I just failed a san check.

At first I thought it was fairly standard albeit a little too in depth.
When it got to the faces I started thinking it was a bit too much work
The gravitational pull was too good, Pepsi planet

It may be closer to "post-dystopia" but I've always been a fan of a world where people live like stone-bronze age ancients, yet everything around them is shaped by clearly very powerful and active technology. The very trees are woven with silicates and circuits for some unknown but very powerful computer/AI/civilization yet the men and women don't understand anything about it.

They hunt cyborg animals acting as this advanced creation's immune system, roaming around finding damage or fixing it. They grow plants they have to pull the circuitry from like boning fish. And any time they get too advanced somehow IT knows and destroys them.

Basically humanity living like parasites on a vast biomechanical landscape. (biomechanical, less in the Geiger sense, more in the Castle in the Sky sense)

Oh sweet Lord, I can see forever.

there's a kid's book series about that, called "Incarceron".

> mfw

It's really not possible trough.

Or they were created by a crazy old guy on an alternate earth. But yes, the Mondas/Lumic Cybers and the Borg do have similar themes.

>Or they were created by a crazy old guy on an alternate earth.
I deny this reality. The reality is a computation matrix.

>Cybers and the Borg do have similar themes.
Certainly. Though to me they have very different feels. The borg are like a virus that threatens to overwhelm everything. They also share a storytelling flaw with new Who daleks in that they were built up so much that the conflicts with them lose integrity, because really, the good guys should not be winning. Meanwhile the classic Who cybermen, as inconsistent as their trappings might have been, were always more like refugees struggling desperately for continued survival. The borg always seemed more like a disaster movie--a rolling tsunami that threatens to destroy all in its path--while the cybermen are more like some kind of stalking beastie from a horror movie, that is introduced by rustling leaves and fluttering shadows.

New Who cybermen? They have a stupid origin and little of the horror of the originals, at least in the way they're played. On the latter point, I think, that makes them more reminiscent of the borg. Then again, I'm not very fond of the treatment any of the old badies have gotten in new Who, even though they obviously needed to be modernized and stripped of some hokey old school, low budget, "what is this science you speak of?" elements. But the cybermen in particular have an outstanding backstory*, and why you would choose to chuck that for what they did, I truly do not know.

*Their planet is flung out of orbit and in order to survive, they retreat underground and increasingly turn to cybernetics to preserve their strength, but somewhere along the way, they lose their humanity. But as emotionless as they may seem, theirs is still a desperate and perhaps futile struggle against extinction. They're pitiless but pitiable.

>What are your favorite dystopias, Veeky Forums?
I would unironically play a game with pic related as the setting.

I think this is perfect for filename threads. But it needs a good name.

on my phone, don't hate me famalamadingdong, so you'll have to do it for me
>when she keep sucking
>suckubus
Yeah i got nothing but these seem to be the best faces out of the bunch.

>Urist McMarketer Cancels Devise Logo: Gone Insane

Check the second reply to that post.

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When I did it it was an AI that took everything humans said completely seriously and didn't have a good bullshit filter, so it ended up trying to punish everyone who is hated directly or indirectly by someone else, which is everyone. People survived in its habitat by living anonymously and avoiding machine-sanctioned events and ID cards. Instead of weapons, people weaponized the AI's cameras and scanners. Scanning someone enough for the AI to definitively identify them would cause the AI to wipe them out via various systems of airlocks and radiation vents. Armor was digital camouflage, mirror shields, and insulation to muffle infrared emissions. Close-combat weapons were tiny DNA-testing lancets which could definitively identify a target with one hit.

Had to reorganize it a bit, but how's this?

I like a good old-fashioned morally ambiguous dystopia like Escape from New York.
>the president is a dick but does that really justify Snake destroying the nuclear fusion tapes?
>Snake is definitely the protagonist but does that excuse the fact that he is pretty evidently a murderer, a bank robber, and a traitor?
>Is the NYC prison-city really unjust since it was a reaction to a very real problem (200% increase in crime rate)?

>golden rectangle
>golden ratio
>pepsi universe

Is this a JoJo spin-off?

>when you feel the gravitation pull of pepsi on the universe

>we need to triple the capacity of our prisons
> I know, let's take our most populous city, with the most valuable real estate in the country, and turn it into a walled-off lawless wasteland

They picked literally the single worst place to have a penal colony

That's actually the basis of an SCP. It's not allowed to connect to any mining machinery because if it could then it would just keep pulling matter out of the ground and turning it into toothbrushes for as long as it had matter to convert.

Isn't that just earth with one crazy person?

It's sci-fi dude, once you start dissasembling things at a molecular level you can pretty much do what you want.

I assume this isn't meant to be the ENTIRE proposal. Just a set of bullet points and key notes for the execs to look at during a more in-depth presentation. Hence the minimal grammar and such.

>once you start dissasembling things at a molecular level you can pretty much do what you want
We can assemble things at an atomic level right now and I don't see nanoshit everywhere.

t. nanotech process engineer

My personal favorite dystopias are those that seem to follow real life trends and start to turn into a 'realistic' dystopia...

And then suddenly something bullshit comes out of nowhere that turns it into the dystopia I'm aiming for. Like, say, a dragon accidentally being shunted into our dimension, which causes magic to awaken on our world - violent, uncontrolled magic.

I forget what the exact scenario but there was an case of some game A.I.s using bugs to crash a game because their directive was to not lose and they couldn't lose if the game crashed.

I enjoy the balkanized future kind of dystopia. Having seen the way civil wars have played out since the collapse of the URSS, it seems to be the most likely. Also, having tonnes of ex-Soviet of American guns all over the place, again because it's realistic.

>pay denbts

8 years later and this thing still baffles me.

Kosovo je Srbija!

too dumb can someone explain?

Broken marketing ai.

Pepsi ispep
Pepsi is PEP
PEPSI IS PEPSI
PEPSI IS PEPSI IS PEP IS PEPSI IS PE
SAAA

This. The natural endpoint of marketing is rebranding humanity down to the genome.

For a moment, I thought you were doing
Perpetual psychic indoctrination!
Perpetual psychic indoctrination!
Per'ptual psychi indoctation!
Per'ptual psy indoctation!
Pertual psy indocta!
Pertual psy indoct!
Pertu ps indo!
Perpsindo!
Pepsind!
Pepsin!
Pepsi!
Pepsi!
Pepsi!

regretfully I don't know what that is from
however I can inform you that connection is nightmare fuel

It's called a "paperclip maximizer" and it's a thought experiment of AIs with different terminal values than humans and how even something innocuous can result in calamity if you forget to put "preserving the human race" in the code somewhere.

You know what would keep those nightmares away?

Pepsi.

Ah, I pepSi.

I would tell you where it's from, but it might spoil a big on going fantasy tv series.

A marketing company called the Arnell Group was paid a million something dollars to redesign the pepsi logo back in 2008.

The Arnell Group also produced that to help convince pepsico that they didn't just get gipped.

This song needs more people replying to it

Lemon Demon a best.
youtu.be/CHfSLmbBAYM

it's not as crazy as it sounds. You've got a bunch of desperate little no name graphic designers desperate to land the biggest potential job of their lives. They know they've got crazy competition, they know every design will have its own merits and assuming everyone brings their best to the table it can only really be one of two things: either one person (they may not be them) is a a clear victor, or it's basically an even match between two or more people (that may not include them). They need a fail safe, a trump card to fall back on should all normal merits fail them. That's what this is, a wild card. The one thing no one else will have planned for, and that no one else can counter.

brb posting on /biz

Underrated.

>Urist McArtdorf has been taken by a fey mood!

Do you have that greentext story about an user living in a fictional SJW civilization, where the user had to curl up in a fetal position whenever females show up, so that any uncovered parts of his body did not 'rape-look' at any of them?

I mean, to be fair this was back in the 80's when New York City actually was a massive shithole.

link plz

Fantasyical apocalypse is a best.

The way you type awakens hatred in me.

>drive yourself insane over years of research and Herculean effort
>produce something most people see as this

Funny thing is, it looks unbalanced. It's ugly. Unmemorable. I can't remember what it looks like and if you asked me to draw the Pepsi logo one day without reference I couldn't.

Whereas the old symbol.. yeah that shit is distinctive. It's clear. It's not beautiful admittedly. I'm not cumming at the sight of it, but it's fine.

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How would you even begin to fight Pepsi Man, knowing what you know from this PDF.