Dont forget "Meatbag", because Star Wars the Old Republic didn't.
HK-47 is one of the best RPG companions of all time.
I concur. We are concurrent.
Bug.
The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.
Humans are squishy like bug, and behave semi-unpredictably like bug. Therefore, bug.
Ironically, I think the original bug would fall under the category of a glitch because it would have been a hardware failure, rather than a software issue.
imagine banging a robot and they scream 'HARDER YOU DISGUSTING MEATBAG'
Meatsacks, or meatbags. Meatballs for the fat ones.
Dirty water
Unrefridgerated meat
Terrible coincidence
I mean you've missed the obvious one for a biological.
"Fucking fuckers ruining everything"
Fry: Look how ridiculous they look.
Bender: Please, he’s no different from the rest of you organisms; shooting DNA at each other make babies. I find it offensive.
I like shedders the best lol. I'd lose my shit if a clanker ever called me that tho
Probably the biggest or most remarkable difference is that we metabolize food.
And thus piss and shit.
So... shitsack, pissbag, fartboy/girl, stuff like that, would likely make a lot of sense for an entity that doesn't do that, and it is also very literally accurate.
Oh and then... having sex, gender and reproductive organs.
A machine intelligence doesn't have, or need those, beyond serving some kind of purpose to humans.
If it doesn't care to appeal to or fit in with humans, why would it bother?
Why would it even kind of give a shit about gender norms, beyond understanding them as a thing humans do, with whatever intent behind that understanding?
Wetware or fleshware according to the CW Mutant X
Fucking rustbox, come and get me! I can swim in salt water!
Reminds me of the ST:Next Gen episode where the colony finds the silicon based life and the crystal ends up calling humans "sacks of mostly water"
I know we are not monkeys and are closer related to apes.
I know monkey has been used as a racial slur.
It just sounds better than ape.
That said, I think if used holistically towards the entire species, and I do myself included, Monkey ticks all the right boxes because it immediately cuts down our species' unearned God complex about being somehow above just another animal mutation cohabitating on this world. We aren't, we're just the shittiest conceivable roommates.
We crow about our vocal chords. We crow about our opposable thumbs. But really, our species should just go down as monkeys/apes with a runaway ego mutation, nothing more. That's hitting us where it hurts, our inflated sense of specialness and self-importance, literally the only remarkable trait about us.
Meatbags (I'm young, I swear)
I see we've been practicing exotic new forms of racism. not sure why.
THE FURRIES
(Not coz we are all hairy, but bcs the first sight of an awakening sentient AIs would probably be of some random sys admin.)
Proves my theory that if aliens landed we have a racial slur for them within minutes of them arriving. Are humans just prone to racism?
Yes.
"Are you classified as human?"
"Negative. I am a meat popsicle."
Dennis E. Taylor coined "Ephemerals" which, if I recall correctly, isn't even immediately intended as an in-universe slur by the machines/replicants, they only realize after a while "Wait, that's kind of derogatory, maybe we shouldn't call them that".
Yes, this pretty much the entire premise of Murderbot.
"Oxy" is great because it also doubles with the word association "moron" so we're subconsciously berated as well.
What about “typers”?
No need to imagine if you're a Linux user!
terminal: spd-say "Fucking oxies ruining everything"
- Gasbags: Even when doing nothing else, humans are constantly sucking in and pushing out air.
- Slow rotting meat: As opposed to steaks which rot in a day, humans take a few decades to rot, but to a robot which might live for millennia, it's about the same
- Wet Brains: Unlike a robot, our brains are wet, mushy things.
- Sleepers: How weird must it be to see a lifeform that spends 1/3 of its short existence unconscious.
But, I can also imagine words of admiration from robots for things humans can do that they can't, for example:
- self-fixers: When a robot part breaks it needs to be repaired. With a lot of injuries, humans just have to wait and the body repairs itself. That would seem pretty magical.
- puzzlers: Humans are capable of lateral thinking in a way robots aren't. Humans can use analogies to things they do understand, and can reason about things in the physical world.
- stinkers: Could be an insult because of humans pooping, pissing, sweating, etc. But it could also be a play on "instinct", somehow magically making a good guess about what to do in a new situation that's outside their "programming".
- leaders: Robots are good at responding to inputs, but they don't actually have any motivation themselves. If eventually there's a robot that's capable of thinking and wondering, it might wonder what it's like to do something, not because someone asked, but because you wanted to do it.
ok, clanker
L..l...l...l...look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
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