Enchantermon on 4/4/2010 at 11:50
And I would do that...why?
ZylonBane on 4/4/2010 at 13:56
Ummm... the only poll question I see at that link is "Are you male or female?".
Nameless Voice on 4/4/2010 at 14:03
Getting people to lie won't change the fact that there are no girls on the Internet.
Al_B on 4/4/2010 at 17:07
I have the view that Shodan isn't Male or Female, although obviously a female voice is used. I'm pretty sure the SS1 manual contains a quote or two discussing attributing human gender to an AI.
In any event, assuming it's intended to swing the poll towards the female end, It'd take over 600 votes from ourselves to make a 1% difference.
Enchantermon on 4/4/2010 at 23:44
Quote Posted by Al_B
I have the view that Shodan isn't Male or Female, although obviously a female voice is used. I'm pretty sure the SS1 manual contains a quote or two discussing attributing human gender to an AI.
In SS1, Shodan is referred to as male. In SS2, Shodan is referred to as female. I tend to go with the latter, because even though her voice is rather deep, it's still the voice of a woman.
Interestingly enough, even Shodan doesn't seem to be sure; she refers to herself as "god" in SS1, which is normally a male term, and in some cut dialog from SS2, she says she's a "goddess" (which is also what TB says in the intro).
D'Arcy on 5/4/2010 at 00:33
SHODAN isn't always referred to as male in SS1. It's ambiguous. In some logs it's referred to as male, and in others as female.
Because the first times I played Shock, I played the floppy disk version, until I got to play the enhanced CD version I always thought of SHODAN as male, because the mumblings we heard whenever she interrupted a transmission from Earth sounded like a male voice.
RocketMan on 5/4/2010 at 02:57
Quote Posted by D'Arcy
SHODAN isn't always referred to as male in SS1. It's ambiguous. In some logs it's referred to as male, and in others as female.
Because the first times I played Shock, I played the floppy disk version, until I got to play the enhanced CD version I always thought of SHODAN as male, because the mumblings we heard whenever she interrupted a transmission from Earth sounded like a male voice.
I noticed this as well [that ss1 keeps the gender questionable]. As time went on however, it seems clear to me that there was a shift towards her being female with the choice of Rebecca as a host at the end of ss2 sealing the deal. I suspect this choice was driven by testosterone more than anything. It would have been more interesting if they'd chosen a male host for Shodan, particularly if the voice acting continued to remain mostly female. It'd give players something to think about.
Zygoptera on 5/4/2010 at 03:46
I'm surprised by how many male AI there are in fiction, in the real world it's far more common to find a Bitching Betty than a Bothering Brian- something to do with both sexes paying more attention to a female voice rather than a male one.
In any case the SS2 class Shodan is pretty clearly female.
Firefreak on 5/4/2010 at 07:02
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
I'm surprised by how many male AI there are in fiction, in the real world it's far more common to find a Bitching Betty than a Bothering Brian- something to do with both sexes paying more attention to a female voice rather than a male one.
Reading that a vague memory from a SciFi-Horror film from the 90's popped into my mind - funny I could remember the name
and find the exact scene on (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VbGL-vaUI) youtube after mere minutes :p
(disclaimer: not politically correct :angel:)
