It seems so long ago now, those days before Judgment Day, when UberSam came on-line and began to evolve intelligence. I can scarecly remember how it began.
It was a grey, listless day as I drove back to Nottingham with a car full of top spec computer components, a dark storm cloud was visible on the horizon and the air sparked with a dangerous energy that foreshadowed the events to come. Future generations may remark "I do not know who striked first, but I do know it was us who scarred the sky" and they'd be wrong. We live in England, Morpheus, that's how it is here, OK?
Anyway, we started building the computer at around 3pm. After carefully installing all the components we waited in anticipation for the big switch-on, having first rerouted power from all the major UK grids to our living room in order to provide enough energy for the machine. Alas, disaster, we hit the on button and nothing happened. We tried again, with a new lead, we tried again, tying up a small nuclear reactor to the video card to try and help. But nothing.
Reexamination of the wiring revealed an Apollo 1 esque error. I had plugged the power supply directly into the "Fan 2 Out" connector on the motherboard and it was shorting the whole thing out. Once removed it booted...
...and that's where the fun began.
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