The one problem I've always had with GFL world-building is how they can't seem to make up their mind with the T-dolls. Are they androids or are they humans? I understand completely that they're 100% android lore-wise, yet T dolls eat actual food (lookin at you, FF FNC). In the GFL official manga, M4A1 is seen shooting down a Sangvis Agile unit and consuming said unit's power core, which made sense. Turning actual food into usable energy for a robotic unit just isn't very realistic or practical.
The one problem I've always had with GFL world-building is how they can't seem to make up their mind with the T-dolls. Are they androids or are they humans? I understand completely that they're 100% android lore-wise, yet T dolls eat actual food (lookin at you, FF FNC). In the GFL official manga, M4A1 is seen shooting down a Sangvis Agile unit and consuming said unit's power core, which made sense. Turning actual food into usable energy for a robotic unit just isn't very realistic or practical.
You could have some sort of internal bioreactor/furnace unit to let them eat food. Still not very efficient though, but it can make sense for infiltrator units (or possibly 'living-off-the-land' scouts where solar isn't feasible due to weather and they can't use radioisotopes for some reason).
Making them in the shape of humanoid girls isn't practical anyway, unless they're repurposed infiltrator/domestic units.
In a meta/Doylist sense, robots being able to eat food is usually handwaved away with furnace (older works) and bioreactor tech anyway. Even Doraemon has one, so it's a genre convention of sorts, like sound in space.
Neither is alien ruins spreading an epidemic. It's just a game.
Alien ruins spreading an epidemic is highly believable in a fiction sense actually. I won't take "It's just a game" as an excuse, mainly because I do like this game quite a lot.
You could have some sort of internal bioreactor/furnace unit to let them eat food. Still not very efficient though, but it can make sense for infiltrator units (or possibly 'living-off-the-land' scouts where solar isn't feasible due to weather and they can't use radioisotopes for some reason).
Making them in the shape of humanoid girls isn't practical anyway, unless they're repurposed infiltrator/domestic units.
In a meta/Doylist sense, robots being able to eat food is usually handwaved away with furnace (older works) and bioreactor tech anyway. Even Doraemon has one, so it's a genre convention of sorts, like sound in space.
I see. Thank you for the explanation. T-dolls are supposed to be civilian models re-purposed to military use by the way.
The one problem I've always had with GFL world-building is how they can't seem to make up their mind with the T-dolls. Are they androids or are they humans? I understand completely that they're 100% android lore-wise, yet T dolls eat actual food (lookin at you, FF FNC). In the GFL official manga, M4A1 is seen shooting down a Sangvis Agile unit and consuming said unit's power core, which made sense. Turning actual food into usable energy for a robotic unit just isn't very realistic or practical.
In Griffon's case, all of their androids were previously civilian models meant to be used in cafes, kindergartens, etc -- situations where a close parity to human function is desired, so as to bypass the uncanny valley. Many of them are companion-type models, designed more for emotive interactions than combat abilities, and they have to be explicitly retrofitted with combat-capable add-ons for service (the cores that we're perpetually short of).
So, yeah, they eat - but don't need to. A later chapter makes a quip about how restrooms aren't a priority for them.
Their army counterparts, designed strictly for combat use, don't care the slightest bit about your cakes.
You could have some sort of internal bioreactor/furnace unit to let them eat food. Still not very efficient though, but it can make sense for infiltrator units (or possibly 'living-off-the-land' scouts where solar isn't feasible due to weather and they can't use radioisotopes for some reason).
Well I know Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead sort of addresses this with some of its cybernetics. Avoiding some of the more advanced technology, one of the possible paths is to have a metabolic interchange, in which low energy-requiring systems can be powered, or mitigated, using the body's natural processes. The side-effect, of course, being the need to consume more and the body not getting all the nutrition it needs. While t-dolls are clearly more robotic, it could be that their bodies are able to metabolize and transfer that energy, without having to worry about nutrition in the way a normal human would.
Considering that C:DDA also allowed for a player to hook up batteries (not AA, but some fictional sci-fi type of universal power source), or use microbreeders. Generally though, you would be limited as far as super-human goes since you could go through power that took days to save up in minutes.
Kinda late for the discussion but I completed Night 1-3 and the dialogue just makes no sense and makes me more confused if dolls are robots, androids or humans.
In Night 1-3, MG5 asks about if P7 drank her tomato juice, to what MP5 aswers that yes, "she took 6 months worth of vitamins", or something like that.
As far as I know (I'm not a nutritionist), but vitamins and minerals are essential only to biological entities. If dolls uses some kind of reactor to transform carbs and fats from food to some kind of energy, why does vitamins comes out in the lore.
I'm maybe making this small stuff in the lore as something bigger, but I'd love to get clear what are Dolls and their bodies.
The one problem I've always had with GFL world-building is how they can't seem to make up their mind with the T-dolls. Are they androids or are they humans? I understand completely that they're 100% android lore-wise, yet T dolls eat actual food (lookin at you, FF FNC). In the GFL official manga, M4A1 is seen shooting down a Sangvis Agile unit and consuming said unit's power core, which made sense. Turning actual food into usable energy for a robotic unit just isn't very realistic or practical.
Maybe the androids feature organic components like artificial tissue, they might have to eat to keep those components alive.
Kinda late for the discussion but I completed Night 1-3 and the dialogue just makes no sense and makes me more confused if dolls are robots, androids or humans.
In Night 1-3, MG5 asks about if P7 drank her tomato juice, to what MP5 aswers that yes, "she took 6 months worth of vitamins", or something like that.
As far as I know (I'm not a nutritionist), but vitamins and minerals are essential only to biological entities. If dolls uses some kind of reactor to transform carbs and fats from food to some kind of energy, why does vitamins comes out in the lore.
I'm maybe making this small stuff in the lore as something bigger, but I'd love to get clear what are Dolls and their bodies.
Their bioreactor itself may be using organic components - not necessarily human-analogous, but symbiotes like engineered bacteria and viruses to aid processing.
But the actual answer with any GFL weirdness is "Persica thought it'd be funny."
The one problem I've always had with GFL world-building is how they can't seem to make up their mind with the T-dolls. Are they androids or are they humans? I understand completely that they're 100% android lore-wise, yet T dolls eat actual food (lookin at you, FF FNC). In the GFL official manga, M4A1 is seen shooting down a Sangvis Agile unit and consuming said unit's power core, which made sense. Turning actual food into usable energy for a robotic unit just isn't very realistic or practical.
I know I'm real late to this party, but here is when I got here. My personal explanation I tell myself, is that in the gfl world, the t-dolls must be made up partially of synthetic biological components.
I think there's an exact word for this, I don't believe it's cybernetics, but I can't remember it. So perhaps they have a few mimicing synthetic organs. They don't need to eat food, but their given biotic organs so that they can anyways. So was to help with their role of being near humans and to help humans not be so unnerved by them.
Now it wouldn't be efficient to give combat androids fleshy and delicate skin and tissue. But maybe in the world building they are given skin like biologics that is more durable than human flesh, not as sensitive as ours, but it still lets them sense their environment that way, and that's why it's there. Then, again, with the explanation that they weren't originally built for combat roles, it makes sense to give them a softness and sensitivity to the world
