Jayce: Hey, I know we’re in the middle of a fight right now, but I have an important question.

Viktor: *sighing* Defender, why is it that-

Jayce: Can you run Doom?

Viktor: Yes, actually.

Jayce: Really?!

Viktor: No, you idiot! With what screen?!?!

Someone ported DOOM to Ao3

“Can it run Doom” this,

“Can it play Bad Apple” that.

Can you recreate Doom using only frames from Bad Apple?

Whenever I see someones robot OC, my immediate thought is "can it run doom?" And it haunts me.

I'm mostly drawn to people's OCs through my writing brain. I like to think of what kind of worlds they live in, what kind of unique struggles separate them from humans. For the case of robots, androids, protogens, sentient AIs, cyborgs, and the like, I ponder over lots of existential questions.

Are you part human if you've achieved sentience? Was your mind based off of a human brain? Or did you piece yourself together bit by bit over countless iterations? How much of you is a machine, and how much of you is you? Can you make edits to your own mind, your own memories, the little things that a human couldn't charge about themselves? Do you have the perks of a machine, such as quick calculations and exquisite quality of memory, or are you locked away from those possibilities because accessing them would break you?

And that's where I get to "can it run Doom?"

I like to imagine a TV-headed robot sitting on the couch while a close friend has a keyboard and mouse plugged into their chest. I like to imagine cyborgs using half of their mind to play it during conversations. I like to think that AIs speedrun the game billions of times per second, always searching for the next little boost that can get them ahead.

Why does this haunt me? Well, can the character run a computer program like that? Can they think and comprehend what's going on while the game is playing, or do they have to turn their minds off in order to execute the program? What if they don't ever wake up from that? What if their mind that was once used to simulate an entire consciousness loses it's purpose and becomes nothing more than an unfathomably powerful gaming computer, it's full potential wasted on a game released dozens of years ago that ran on a fraction of a fraction of an android's processing speed, the soul removed and the body filled with nothing more than a mere game?

How would it feel for your own human brain to be used to run countless calculations, outputting a simulation of a place that never existed? Would you feel it? Would you not even notice it? Would it replace your every thought and memory until there was nothing left inside your head?

Why does this haunt me?

Because at least once person is reading all of this and thinks it sounds really hot-

[id: A screenshot of the ao3 work “But can it run doom?” an ao3 work that displays the game Doom. The work is open in the pinterest app browser. /end id]

i might have to be put down for this

Putting my new (old) Sony Clié NX70V personal organiser through the wringer, trying to get Doom running on it

It works! (And is insanely hard to control, but it works!)

Can it run Doom?

What?!

Can it run Doom?

Of course!

Almost anything can run Doom! Any console, computer, whatever. Whether it’s an old Apple computer, an oscilloscope, a pregnancy test, OTHER GAMES, etc.

Here’s the real question.

Can it run Crysis?!

If we tried hard enough, Pokemon fans could probably get Miraidon to run DOOM

The geometry dash 2.2 update is filled with crazy creations but i have yet to see if it can run doom

Idk what kind of emulator they had to use for this

(BET 94)

of course i can run doom everything around here can run doom the severed HEADS can run doom. not that i've tested it

Can Tears of the Kingdom run Doom?

i think it's time to ask the quintessential question: can bad apple run doom?