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I've been thinking,

Really, the idea of machines having spirits probably is something a lot of people who aren't familiar with technology might arrive at, that is, we try to establish empathy with any object that shows behaviour or patterns (computers and animals included)... So I guess it's natural that the ignorant could create a dogmatic religious belief about machines... So gratz to GW for making something believable

But anyway, on-topic... Ever find yourselves freaking out your friends by suggesting that their phone's machine spirit must be angry or tired?

I sacrifice animals to my computers machine spirit when I'm trying to debug C++. However I do throw in the occasional human for Perl. The worst is assembler, that demands a virgin sacrifice.

No, but I glue marbles to household appliances and append wraith~ to their names. Wraithphone. Wraithfridge. Wraithwife.

Everything works better with dead Eldar possessing it!

I... yes. Yes I do.

It's totally easy to see how the Machine Cult religon developed. How Many of us swear at our computers and get angry at them as if they were alive! They certainly act inexplicably sometimes.

Call Centre on Terra:

"Have you tried soothing it with oils and music?"

I am absolutely guilty of this. I would swear my computer enjoys certain programs and actively tries to stop me from running certain others.

Henners91 wrote:Call Centre on Terra:

"Have you tried soothing it with oils and music?"

lol, try the holy litany f ctrl+alt+del.

Guilty... my old moped needed to be argued with his machine spirit to run! untill i gave it to the mek my new one's spirit is cool

the radio in my moms car is posessed.

it will inexplicably kill all sound for weeks on end. when it gets taken to the garage for a check up it will act like nothings wrong.

My moms cell phone also doesn't ring half the time when you call it. it just goes straight to the voice mail.


my computer sometimes takes forever to load something, but i find application of holy force and a Litiny of Hate will clear things up. sometimes the chatichism of dismantiling is nessesary too.

Shas'O Dorian wrote:I sacrifice animals to my computers machine spirit when I'm trying to debug C++. However I do throw in the occasional human for Perl. The worst is assembler, that demands a virgin sacrifice.

Hm, never thought to actually do this...though i think it might work on some of my projects +1 for that!
*going to the back of the house to cutthroat his dog*

Yes my psp has a awesome machine spirit that loves me. My old PC however that spirit hated my guts.

Now my car... It's machine spirit needs some counseling. But thats what I get for a first car.

It's called magical thinking.

It's the same reason people kick the vending machine when it eats their dollar or plead with their car when it won't turn over.

It also has something to do with the anthropomorphic fallacy. Ascribing human traits to inanimate objects is pretty standard. I have a friend who called his playstation Mr. Snugles and another who christened his new car Lolita.

I work an office job, and it is held as gospel by my coworkers that only my gentle but firm chastisement can keep the printer working.

I think anyone who works with machines, particularly electronics, develops a certain degree of animism as a way of coming to grips with the incomprehensible ways that modern technology behaves. From there, it's only a short step to talking to them as if they're sentient. Still, I have not named any of the machines in my office, so I guess I'm not too far gone to save.

I sing to my computer for a laugh sometimes... it seems to work

If someones electronics are broken, I tell them to pray to the Machine Spirit for a while. Scary thing is, it often works.

I've been doing this since before I even knew what the Machine Spirit was.
Anyone have any Good Machine Prayers (they can be for old 40k fluff or ones you've made yourself).

You see, I can't really say my computer has a spirit. It's always been a good little box of circuts for me. Maybe it has a spirit, but it's a little bitch, because it always does what I say, whenever I say it.

My laptops spirit is testy. If do something different, it's hard drive dies. My Droid however, (yes, phone) that I am posting with now, is soulless, or compliant an accepting, not sure yet.

My Computer is downright schizophrenic. It seems to be channeling spirits from other dimensions.

I find the machine spirit of my computer reacts to being smacked on the head and being dropped from a second story window. Works every time.

I threatened my computer with a sword once.
Howerver, since her last stroke my computers Machine Spirit has been downright nice...The Machine Spirit in charge of my ISP on the other hand...

When you get something new, it has no personality. Fresh stamped, nothing makes it different from the millions of other copies.

Over usage, it begins to take on a personality based on how you use it. For people who dislike the thought, it's based on wear and tear. For those who like it, it's the object reacting to you.

I used to have a computer which loved to tell me when to go to sleep. It would slow down, refuse to connect to the internet, and sometimes just shut down. You could wait for 30 minutes for it to cool, and it still wouldn't work. Usually when I had school, or something important to do. If nothing big was going on, it worked fine.

That, and our wireless router worked best when a cat slept on it. Somehow.

Totally. I'm guilty of trying to bribe computers into compliance, or getting into shouting matches with error pop ups.

Also, my car. Oh my god my car. Someone put a dent in my car while it was in long-term parking at the airport. I apologized to it, and took it for a car wash and a gas up right away. Also, it's a Ford with the Microsoft Sync system. (voice activation for like, 80% of the controls) I know it reacts very badly when I get mad at it for misunderstanding me.

Another good way to get on your car's good side is to slowly, sensually, stroke its exhaust pipe.

ewwwwwwwww

mods...purge this user

I have done this in the past. I think it was when my laptop was being slow and very uncooperative, I may have resorted to various litanies in the hope that it would be nice to me. It did.

My phone also tells me it's machine-spirit is active when it powers up, but that was my doing.

I find myself appealing to the machine spirit of the fax machine in our office.

My computer plays music when I have the speakers turned off. It's rather weird. It freaks me out sometimes. lol

My computer and I get into fights all the time, like right now it has a virus that I cant remove my computer wont let me run any other program but the virus which takes me to a webpage to buy the software to remove the virus, and mozila firefox which is really no help to me at all. So I replaced the Hard-drive now it works perfectly again. But anyways yes I find myself constantly trying to appease the machine spirits of all my electronics, and it works to! either that or I'm just really good at taking care of my stuff, but when it doesnt work I threaten my electronics with a vist from the techmarine phillips, phillips the screwdriver that is bwahaha. That usually makes stuff return to working order I guess techmarines really are rather brutish when they work on things lol oh yeah and if I work on my rc car and I leave it apart for a day or a month or two when I put it back together and go drifting it either wants to run into me, or something hard enough to knock paint off the body shell all the while its probably thinking ha ill run into the curb to knock off some paint on my bodyshell just to spite you and make you do more work to keep me looking aesthically pleasing!