[Ogre] RE: Ogre-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

[Felix Cat]

I don't know about that. The story of a certain GEV pilot and a Ninja comes 
to mind.

I think it's more a difference of timeframe - a Combine ogre post-descartes 
would be more likely to "care" about canned meat fixing it than a Factory 
States (semi-?) independent ogre would.

> > I'm an aircraft mechanic in the US Air Force. I was going to say much 
>the
> > same thing, but Jim did a MUCH better job than I would have
>
>Well, the Ogre fiction seems very clear that Ogres are different to any 
>other
>manmade artifact - friendly Ogres are "him", enemy Ogres are "it" - they 
>have
>computer brains because men can't react quickly enough to survive, they're
>inhuman, they spew thermonuclear death and destruction (ok - so do HVYs, 
>etc),
>but you get the picture - they are not machines that anybody empathises 
>with.
>
>Stranger