# Clothes and the civilized sentient?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 2, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-and-the-civilized-sentient/989506 "2023-09-02T14:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Celtic\_Kitsune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celtic_kitsune/32/12086_2.png) [@Celtic\_Kitsune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celtic_Kitsune)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothes-and-the-civilized-sentient/989506/21 "2023-09-23T13:03:54Z")

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> [@ParallelLines](#):
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> I will point out that by the point I fought the Samurai again, I was -terminally- bored. What’s the point of playing a game with zero risk? If I really, really wanted to win, I could have at any time - he’s dumb as hell, I mean, how many times did I fake him out despite not even bothering to change my color scheme? And -after- he lost the sword, I couldn’t be bothered to play with him anymore. Sure, I lost in the end, or at least, that’s what -he- thinks, but there was really nothing NEW to do anyway.
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> (channeling the inner Aku)

heh I see 😉

> [@Tatterdemalion](#):
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> As I understand it there are 2 things going on. They are terraforming the planet for human occupation, and accidentally upgraded all the AI based machines to sentience. Secondly Florence is an intentionally uplifted wolf.
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> Then there is Sam, an alien who is stranded on the planet, and is the external viewpoint who can comment sardonically on the whole mess, and provide comic relief.

Thanks, I meant that specific strip in particular, what was the realisation the engineer was supposed to have had? It’s probably something really obvious but I’m not sure.

And also I didn’t realise the sentient machines were an accidental result on that particular colony world, I thought it was in the human sphere in general. Thanks, that explains a lot!

> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> Yes. Florence not only isn’t native to that planet, she wasn’t even supposed to wind up there. Sam hijacked her.

She seems to have taken that pretty well when she found out.

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