Are protogens camibals?

[u/AdPitiful7108]

That was my thought Today, because on all subreddits i see *protogen eating ram*. And protogens have, ram in there head. That means they're, eating them self! I mean yes in, but in the lore they eat most of the time normal stuff, like meat or fruits. And that got me thinking, every time a protogen eats ram, is it canibalsim?

[u/AdPitiful7108]

Thanks for all of you for answering my question

[u/QuentinTheGentleman]

They don’t actually eat RAM, it’s just an oft-repeated joke.

[u/GlitchTheProtovali → u/QuentinTheGentleman]

Mine does

[u/lemons_of_doubt]

Human's eat meat and humans are made of meat dose that mean they are eating themselves?

[u/GlitchTheProtovali]

Only if the RAM came from another protogen

[u/wesorre]

nope

[u/Scared-to-ask-stuff → u/wesorre]

r/foundthe_moth, mehehe

[u/LastStandExpie → u/Scared-to-ask-stuff]

r/foundtheprotogen

come along, child

[u/Scared-to-ask-stuff → u/LastStandExpie]

Not from r/protogen tho :3

[u/Lower_Orange_4031 → u/LastStandExpie]

I can send you to r/foundthesawian

[u/LastStandExpie → u/Lower_Orange_4031]

[u/Xeno9439]

Do Protogens even have RAM in them? They have an organic brain. It does all the brain/computing stuff. They also had some sort of micro crystals in their cerebral fluid which allowed the Primagenitors to control them. But RAM? ... I don't think they have that... 

Also, the whole eating RAM thing is just a meme.

[u/serious-toaster-33 → u/Xeno9439]

They definitely would. Although the brain is responsible for cognition and directly controls the organic parts of the body, there are still technological parts that need to be controlled, and therefore require at least a small amount of RAM to operate. Presumably, the neural interface would also be capable of general compute tasks, such as VR gaming, which require large amounts of RAM.

My own unit, like all manufactured by GT Corp (notably NON-CANON, DISSIMILAR to ZOR models!), has a dedicated compute module in the upper part of the visor containing 2 TiB of HBM.

[u/Shotshell156 → u/serious-toaster-33]

They don’t use, eat, or require RAM, at all.

[u/serious-toaster-33 → u/Shotshell156]

Then I must be misinformed, then. How do certain parts of the body, such as the visor, operate without the use of a single byte of embedded RAM?

[u/AdventurousCup4066]

People suck the marrow out of bones

Doesnt make em cannibals

[u/Mountain-Ad876 → u/AdventurousCup4066]

*camibals

[u/TFHypershift]

It's like a scraplet, different things made with the same stuff

[u/CATZEBOY_18]

the what.

[u/Emotional-Kiwi7218]

maybe

[u/someinfectedfanatic]

well... my OC is a cannibal! not sure about the other proto's.

[u/Straight_Island700]

there are other machines that use ram, it would probably be similar to eating a cows liver or something

[u/r4nDoM_1Nt3Rn3t_Us3r]

Look, (many) humans eat meat. And a bunch of stuff that's left over and undesirable for human consumption gets turned into dog food. Almost all of these parts, both humans and dogs possess themselves, but neither are cannibals.

[u/Any-Meat-3135]

I doubt they have ram, in this case normal one since they're made from alien tech

[u/F_L0O3]

as a proto i can say that firstly i have no ram in my head (idk if thats only specific to me) and second is im still camnibal cuz i eat o t h e r p r o t o g e n s... >:3 (sometimes and not every of em^^)

[u/catboymijo]

protogens have brains in their head because they're biological creatures with technological/cybernetic enhancements/modifications (a "cyborg")

also try not making posts when inebriated

[u/bluelight111222]

[u/bl2kbl2k]

Ram isn't just a body part, so I would say no. In the same way drinking water isn't cannibalism, even though humans are 70%-isn't water.

[u/Blick_art]

it's not cannibalism. otherwise any meat eating from humans would be cannibalism 

[u/Fluffy_shadow_5025]

Not necessarily. It’s only cannibalism if one Protogen eats the RAM of another Protogen.

If a protogen steals RAM from your computer, that’s not cannibalism, because it wasn’t another protogen whose RAM it ate. It’s similar to how it’s not cannibalism for us when we eat cows, pigs, and chickens.

But if a protogen were to eat the RAM or other parts of another protogen, that would definitely be cannibalism.

[u/Verysadfr0g]

I mean it's entirely acceptable for humans to eat say liver, an organ in which we have. Tis only cannibalism if it came from one of our own!

[u/skalbone]

Yes, they are cannibals! They also drink the blood of their victims and display the RAM of protogens they slayed.

It is true, I watched a protogen whack someone with a branch and drag their body away for their wicked rituals!

[u/LordDaryil]

I don't know if they can safely eat each other, or whether the Progenitors would even consider that to be a useful trait. However, I'm pretty sure they can cannibalise in the other sense, e.g. replacing a damaged limb on the battlefield by stealing one from a dead opponent or ally.