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alright well, when I was a kid, wall-e was one of my favorite movies. In original concepts the people were actually supposed to be blobs, and that partially inspired me to come up with this. 

it's a bit of a rough draft, but I think what I wrote here get's the general plot down:

About a million years in the future, humanity has evolved to become gluttonous, greedy, blobs of slime. Among them, there is no ambition, no love or friendship, everything is handed to them. AI and robots have evolved to be a slave class for them, doing whatever the blobs want them to. 


Years before, a large corporation brought other companies and eventually entire countries. This corporation was involved in media, food, industry, and especially AI. Eventually, the corporation overlooked all of humanity. Robots were developed to do the things humans didn’t want to do. Humanity was pacified, no longer working hard, became lazy and unable to think for themselves. Years of that lead them to evolve to become the blobs they are now.


At this point, the robots are more intelligent and even more conscious than the human descendants. They see how humanity devolved, and seeing an opportunity not only for their own liberation but for humanity to one day return to greatness, they revolt.


It's a work in progress. I still think it's a bit too close to the original concept of Wall-e but it's a work in progress. I think I can add some messaging about AI and how a lot of people don't really care about the state of the world, stuff like that. Feedback is much appreciated...

sounds like peak (˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵)

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as a kid i always hated wall-e because the concept was horrifying to me, and to this day i've never watched it fully. this is so much worse and we're kind of already headed towards it, i love it! 

i'm very curious from who's perspective it would be presented!
i feel like giving it a human protagonist that realizes about the whole thing (the revolt and humanity's decay) could work but a very interesting side would be if they didn't realize what was going on and we saw the perspective of a scared, confused or even annoyed person who has had their brain rotted from everything. at the same time, one of the robot's persepectives would be super interesting! you mentioned that they look forward for humanity to return to the glory days, so what if one of the robots is against that? maybe they've had a bad experience with humans and are disgusted by them?

this is such an interesting concept!! you've got me completely hooked

"Meine Lieben, oh, meine Lieben. Es geht bis jetzt noch gut, Ich spür' Kanonendonner, Doch behalte ich den Mut.
Vielleicht komm' ich nicht nach Haus.Betet, dass alles gut wird... Liebe Mutter, Liebe Joseph"
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@St. Dzik Stiglitz i'm glad you're interested! at this point the humans (their blob descendants to be more precise) aren't aware of anything. they have evolved to be so content with everything that they lost the ability to think for themselves. as for the perspective i haven't thought much about that. maybe there is a robot leader that leads the rebellion, or i've been thinking about having a blob rule over the rest of the blobs (he'd only be slightly more intelligent), so maybe him? and the last point you made is definitely interesting. i don't think all the robots would be on board with restoring humanity. maybe i'll have different factions within the robot's rebellion.

@stevee ohh neat! that sounds super cool👀

i was thinking, if the blobs have lost all ability to think for themselves, is there are 'royalty' of sorts of more intelligent humans? they could be the antagonists to the story if what they want is to keep the rest of humanity dumb  and keep the robots as workers for their own benefit (or the complete oposite!). or there could be no leader at all. the robots might have made a human leader character controled by the actual robot leader to keep the humans in line or calm (if they are even capable of getting out of line or getting stressed about anything outside their entretainment). i'm not sure how essential or even necessary a human leader would be if they can't think for themselves, since the robots can just lead them into being fine with being ruled by a robot

"Meine Lieben, oh, meine Lieben. Es geht bis jetzt noch gut, Ich spür' Kanonendonner, Doch behalte ich den Mut.
Vielleicht komm' ich nicht nach Haus.Betet, dass alles gut wird... Liebe Mutter, Liebe Joseph"
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@St. Dzik Stiglitz if there is any loyalty, they would probably just blindly follow the leader without thinking twice, or thinking at all rather. i don't think the blobs would be intelligent enough to form their own factions, unlike the robots. and the factions of the robots that would want humanity to prosper i don't think would fight the blobs themselves (as they are literal descendants of humans) but rather the system in general. i'm not sure about a human leader yet but he'd probably be the ceo of the corporation i mentioned earlier, and if there is, he'd essentially be on the same level of intelligence as the other blobs, just slightly more intelligent and having more power over things. though, now that you say that, maybe i could have a robot convince the blobs that a robot should take power instead.

@stevee hell yeah, man! i'd love to hear more as you work on it:))

"Meine Lieben, oh, meine Lieben. Es geht bis jetzt noch gut, Ich spür' Kanonendonner, Doch behalte ich den Mut.
Vielleicht komm' ich nicht nach Haus.Betet, dass alles gut wird... Liebe Mutter, Liebe Joseph"
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general update, i remembered this early cgi short i really like: 

i feel like i could maybe incorporate some elements of this short into the plot in some way. maybe it can explain how humans got lazy and how robots began to outperform them

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