so today ...

[flamingsword]

I dislocated a toe from bouncing my leg up and down. Yes, really. And then it swelled up and decided to ache.

In other not-new news: bodies were a mistake, and I want to replace this thing with a robot. Anybody who has a line on the future of brain-in-a-jar / mind-uploading / other forms of flesh replacement ... hit my DMs?

Comments

[ex_flameandsong751]

That sucks. May it mend swiftly.

I have a very bad sinus infection when I just got done being sick. Why are bodies.

[flamingsword]

Oh ugh! I hate sinus infections, and I had a viral one that recurred yearly for about 8 years whenever I would get stressed. They’re so unpleasant and nobody takes you seriously that you’re sick either. Pisses me off.

[silk_dragon_zen]

Brain in a jar seems ... like not that much better an option:

“Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..."
"No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?"
"Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens."
"I can imagine.”

Also, Sage is working on maybe learning how to do that Tibetan Rainbow body thing for us. We'll let you know if it ever works ...

— Ben

[flamingsword]

Marvin wasn’t a brain in a jar, though, he was entirely machine. A true robot, not a robot body being piloted by a squishy brain or by an uploaded human personality. But if we’re taking sci-fi as our cues, I want to be one of the tachikoma from Ghost In The Shell!

[princessofgeeks]

YIKES

[flamingsword]

Yeah, it doesn’t feel great right now. Hopefully I’ll be back to walking on it tomorrow. 🤞

[sabotabby]

WTF? sympathies.

[flamingsword]

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. 🤷 My body ordered its structural collagen from Wish.

[panisdead]

I would fucking LOVE to be a brain in a jar. Let's do it.

[flamingsword]

I NO RITE?!

Seriously though, the closest person commercially to making brain in a jar stuff happen is Neura-Link or whatever and oh hell no am I letting elongated muskrat anywhere near the ability to paywall my brain from working with a body or an internet connection. Fuck no! I don’t trust that guy farther than I could throw him.

[panisdead]

CORRECT. I despise that guy.

[havocthecat]

I do not know why I cannot just be a glowing ball of sentient light with the ability to communicate with everyone. And read. Or type with my thoughts. Come on. Embodiment is for suckers. I guess I am a sucker.

[flamingsword]

Why can’t I just Ascend like Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1? I could deal with being a glowing energy being!