I want to do a BLAME!-esque cyberpunk campaign that plays inside a huge, cancerously growing complex that is part of an AI's hardware.
I want to use pic related as a map for a portion of the complex, but my knowledge regarding computer components is pretty much 0.
please help me flesh out some of the areas based on what the real component does and what kind of problems can be encountered there
Anon, what I'm about to tell you is not only not what you're looking for, but also useless.
I really don't think you should get hung up on what little piece of machinery does what. Your players, unless they know in detail how computers work and are pedantic about it, will just think it's cool you modeled the map after whatever this thing in your pic is.
And if they do know, you can just ask them about it.
It really seems like too much trouble to go after this information, when you already have a lot ahead of you as it is.
>>54987636
Read the manual, should have a page which labels the various parts.
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/Z97-PRO/E9062_Z97-PRO.pdf
>>54987636
Here you go anon.
>>54991521
Not OP, but you're great
>>54991521
thanks anon, thats useful
>>54987636
looking for players?
>>54995145
I already have a bunch of guys to play with, meeting up with my friends again
>>54991521
You're a cool person anon
>>54991521
You're /g/ood.
>>54987636
>BLAME! in a computer
>Not REboot
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>>54996427
I get the feeling he means physically in a huge computer rather than digitally within a computer's system
>>54987636
read introduction to digital circuits.
>>54987636
I mean how much detail do you want?
ps
this might be worth a look, there's a few nice videos at the bottom explaining most of the parts and what they do
http://www.logicalincrements.com
>>54987636
This might be useful:
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/53a6c8e1f34fd
>God Dwellers
>Sophonts who live inside the structures of archailects
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/49cfe7a37b5b3
>Archailect
>Any Mind of the Fourth Toposophic or higher; a megascale brain of dysonic (Kardaschev II) or greater ability and efficiency; a mind or cluster of minds that has grown so vast as to become a god-like entity.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5067d430e6021
A list of megastructures, some of which take several thousand lifetimes to explore. I quite like the matrioskha-like shellworlds.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4817c2cc10200
>Blights and perversities that are the direct result of failed transcendence events.
This may be what the players are inside of. The concept is similar to Blame's setting.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45bd1a9eb4a5c
>Hiders
>There are many ordinary sophonts who do not trust the ruling superbrights and hyperturings.
http://pruned.blogspot.com.br/2013/02/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers-redux.html
BTW, even the sewers and pipes could be part of the computing processes ocurring.
>>54987636
So op not particularly partaining to your subject, but the moment your brought up being inside an ai I thought I have no mouth and must scream
So don't be too blown away if that happens to you
>>54998816
>Blights and perversities that are the direct result of failed transcendence events.
Someone's been reading A Fire Upon The Deep?
>>54998949
It's the probable inspiration.