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I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.

“Cable management” inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.

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That’s probably it, but in my head they just assimilated too many people like me.

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That’s exactly it. Cable management is a top-down design philosophy. The Borg are a collective that organically integrates biological, mechanical, electronic, and any other systems that they find useful–it’s quite literally the polar opposite of a top-down design philosophy.

It would be more surprising if the Borg had tidy cable management, because that implies some hierarchy. Actually, the Borg cubes are a little out of place in that regard. Spheres or fractal-ish structures would make more sense.

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17 points

Borg were scarier before the concept of the Queen.

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I kind of forgot about the Queen… Totally agree.

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because that implies some hierarchy

Yup. See: Conway’s Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_law

This indeed works in both directions and it’s possible to gain some insight into an organization based on its behavior and output.

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Plus when the cables get broken / damaged, the cube just fixes itself like a biological healing, there aren’t borg drones out working on the hull

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Plus when the cables get broken / damaged, the cube just fixes itself like a biological healing, there aren’t borg drones out working on the hull

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3 points

Limited to non-existent RGB too, obviously not advanced at all

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If it ain’t broke, don’t adapt it.

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When your mind has the power of the Borg collective, you don’t need silly inefficient structures to make it easier for the human mind to handle.

Neither spaghetti cables or spaghetti code are a hindrance when there is brutal efficiency to be had.

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I can excuse forced assimilation, but I draw the line at poor cable management.

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You can excuse forced assimilation?

(I want you to know that I tried to add an image of Shirley reacting, but it failed 4x, so you’ll have to use your imagination.)

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Speaking of failed images, I can actually see your memes from lemm.ee now! Not sure what changed, but yay.

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Well hot damn!

I haven’t changed anything either, so we must owe a thank you to someone somewhere.

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