Good. Put the boot down when it's needed.

We've been down this road before. Wolverine and Vader are the only two who would succeed. The problem with Vader, is that he can grow tired. And, fighting against wolverine, a man who can regenerate, is a problem. Unless Vader can pin and disable wolverine, it's going to be a long fucking fight.

However, if you've got wolvers on your side, he could potentially kill all other 8, but you'd have to move and run in order to do so, since in the fight, he'll probably be put out of commission for brief moments.

But, overall, Vader is a complete powerhouse. Don't let the old movies fool you. He's a cyborg with the strength and speed to match general grievous, and has access to the power of the force and is a ridiculous swordsmith.

Well Charles, you'll be happy to know that Addsense canned us. So,I guess we're both stuck up the creek without a paddle. In your case, time for an identity change, no? Vanish into the crowd.

Heyo! I already exist in a relative state of B!

Pissy lungs and a strained heart! But so long as the gears turn properly in my noggin, I can make something of it all.

Quote from: Sandtrap on October 27, 2014, 01:13:03 PM

Vacations are a good thing. Sometimes, you just need to go for a walk in a different part of the woods, clear your noggin out, and then return back home to something fresh.

I won't stop ya. I won't say sorry, because there's nothing to be sorry for. Everybody needs a break every now and then. The internet isn't tiresome physically. But mentally.

So, I wish you a good trip and perhaps, a return to here with some new spark in hand and mind.

I wouldn't blame anybody for leaving. The topics here are about as interesting as watching paint dry and there's nothing but drama and animosity.

Let's face it, we should have all gone back to b.net a long time ago. I personally am growing tired of forums in general. If things go according to plan these next few months, I'll most likely be leaving permanently.

That's the thing about forums. Every door is open. Every experience, or outcome is open. So, over time, as you go along the internet world, in a sense, you live a virtual life where eventually, you've seen everything. Every type of post, every type of fight. The same stupidity over and over. You've seen and done all you can.

And no matter where you go, it won't change. The community may be different. But the overall rules are the same. What really matters, is the gems you find. Small little moments, talks and events that you will remember, because they stand out in the sea of grey. People that you want to keep talking to, beyond the forum.

People haven't realized it yet, but the internet will never, ever replace true, real world social interaction. And that's the point. If you spend small portions of time on the internet, and encounter those little gems, those moments worth saving, then your experience will go well. But if you let it absorb you completely, then your experience goes dull and grey.

It all comes down to what I said. Filter through the sand and messy stuff, to find the rare gems worth saving. And when you grow tired, take a vacation. Because with the internet, you can.

Must haves. Hmm. That's tricky. Physically, I don't know what I'm looking for. I don't have any preferances save for the fact that they aren't too out of shape. Not stick thin, not big enough to spread out like a pancake on a trampoline. So that leaves mainly the mind. What am I looking for in that regard?

-Intelligence: Every person who's alive, has a certain intelligence for certain things. They excel in an area where another would not. I know I'm intelligent to a degree, but I don't know where. But I'd have to look for somebody like me

-Guts: I've worked alongside women on jobs before. Construction and so on. My sister, in the summer who only has one working eye, which is half functioning, hauls firewood alongside me. A woman who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty, and has the guts to work in a job centralised around men, has my deepest respect.

-Trust: I don't open myself up to people easily. I've been stung too many times. But despite it, I'm loyal. If I were to ever have a partner, this person would have to be someone I could place my absolute trust in. Somebody I could tell what was on my mind, and share every secret with. Someone I know I could open myself completely to, and know that they'd be doing the same. Because I would never break that trust. And I'd need to know they wouldn't betray me for it.

-Attitude: Somebody like myself. I'm easy going. There's no rush. Things fall into place when they're ready. I don't care for money but I understand the neccesity of it. If I need it I will get it. Calm, shy, friendly by all appearances, but I'll push back when shoved if I have to. I avoid fighting as much as possible. I have a rather strange positive/morbid sense of humor based around things going wrong.

If I see these four things in somebody, then it's a damn good start.

FUCKIN' A MOTHER NATURE WHO'S THE MAN!

Huzzah!

Quote from: Sandtrap on October 26, 2014, 11:45:21 PM

Depends on the vessel.

Is it your car? Fuck you, I piss on your seats and leave you with that "piss in car" fragrance so that you have to eject me.

Spaceship? Pull on the conduits and wires.

Eaten me? I don't think you've ever seen me rip apart things before. Fuck yo stomach.

Why would you want to escape?

1. I fucking hate riding shotgun. If I'm going to die in a car crash, it's going to be from my own hands.

2. With the amount of planes being shot down lately, I don't trust a spaceship any better.

3. Fuck stomachs. They smell like shit.

Depends on the vessel.

Is it your car? Fuck you, I piss on your seats and leave you with that "piss in car" fragrance so that you have to eject me.

Spaceship? Pull on the conduits and wires.

Eaten me? I don't think you've ever seen me rip apart things before. Fuck yo stomach.

How about you just do your thing and give no fucks? If you get flak, well, fuck em. You do what you enjoy. Just leave it be and keep on rollin'

I should acquire a picture of corner spider that lives in my house. Corner spider is best spider.

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I would gladly take the opportunity to replace every part of my body (except for the brain, obviously) with cybernetic components - no more pain, significantly decreased chance of disease and ailments, much longer lifespan, much less upkeep on the body.

Even...you know...

Especially you know.

Where is the fun in that?

You don't have cyborg fantasies?

Lol. I wrote something on that very subject. I'm gonna have a lot of shit to post in Anarchy.

I'm going to do the infamous quote snipping thing, not as it's an argument but because it's better to address each point distinctly <.<

Quote from: Sandtrap on October 26, 2014, 12:22:35 PM

Okay. Let's just sit down a minute here. I knew this was going to lure you of all people here. So let's get down to brass tacks.

Heh of course >.>

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Look at your body. What is it? It's the result of a very, very long line of evolution. A process that's slowly been perfected to the best that it can be made over a very long period of slow, gradual, natural adjustments.

The first part is correct, but humans are far from perfect. There are things to consider, bodies grow old and decay over time, your joints wear out and your eyesight will fail. We can use medicine to treat them but it doesn't fix the underlying flaw of natural biology. You could argue that machines fail and decay but at a slower rate, and that's what I would seek. The durability of robotics and the replace-ability of robotics supersedes that of organics.

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But, what is the most important thing that you're missing here, is that your body clings to life. It fights for survival. Every part of you will fight to the bitter end to keep going. Part of it is a natural, ingrained survival instinct. The other part, is less grounded. But still holds merit.

Here I would make the distinction of how I value my gestalt.
The body is a vessel to house the mind, very little more. If there is no mind or sentience there then it is simply a shell, lower than that of a basic animal which exists solely for the purpose of continuing it's existence and lineage. The mind however, is so much more. The gift of sentience is to be treasured and prolonged as much as it can be, if that means replacing the organics of the vessel with inorganics then I'm quite at peace with that.

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We fight to survive. To keep going. And that means, that life, the life we hold, is important. Because if it wasn't, why would we fight so hard to keep it?

Of course, and the reason I would replace organics with robotics is simple to continue that fight against death.

As I said, I support synthetic implants for those who need them.

Of course, and some day I will eventually need them. I just see it as preferable to increase my durability so to speak beforehand to minimise the risk of dying before then.

But you know what that drive of yours tells me? That want to remove something of yours that isn't broken?

You would abuse it. And so would others. Not only that, but, I believe we're thousands of years off from even understanding how our own bodies truly work. Let alone perfectly replicating them into a synthetic counterpart.

Others perhaps, but certainly not I.
I wholeheartedly value life and the machine, the Techpriest thing might be a joke but it's not entirely that far removed from how I view technology.
If I was gifted with robotics, it would be abhorrent in my mind to abuse them as such. Yes they can be replaced, but the attachment to them would be the same as to my own organic body. You don't treat the vessel poorly because it is simply a vessel, because that risks damaging the contents.

So, I pose my wager to you.

What happens, when you take away what you have, that already functions well on it's own? What happens, when you replace it with something that functions better, but lacks the spark and the feeling that only a hand, or an arm will ever provide?

You lose control. You lose feeling. What happens to those that lose that feeling? Suicide. Depression. Psychotic tendancies emerge.

It is here that I would point to the rapid advances in robotics and bionics where you are able to feel with a robotic hand as if it were your own. And we are still stumbling around in the dark at the moment in terms of the field of possibilities.

There is also the fable (wrong word but still) about the broom.
If you have a broom and it is formed of two parts, the handle and the brush you have a broom. Say one day the handle breaks, so you replace it. Is it still a broom? Yes. Is it the same as the original broom? Partially. Then the next day, the brush breaks. So you replace it. Is it still a broom? Yes. Is it at all related to the original broom? At this point it isn't.
However, this fable doesn't account for the mind. If the broom had a sentience that was as a composite of it's physical form and you did the same thing, the sentience wouldn't be gone but the physical form would be different.

The point I'm getting at is that gradually replacing parts of your physical form with robotics doesn't detract from your humanity, which I personally view as being held inside your head. (Brain to be specific).

The more you remove from yourself, the more detached you become from the reality around you. Your empathy, your feelings, will degrade because that ancient, primal force in your original body is gone. Your survival instinct, the will to survive another day, vanishes.

This is where again, my point about whether the mind or the body is the source of your self. Yes the body plays a role in it, but the mind is what I view as most important. If I do not alter my brain, I don't replace my empathic centres or slice out parts of my prefrontal cortex in the process of replacing my limbs and my internal organs then there will not be an alteration to how I view the world. It might change for others, but the only comparable we currently have is those who have lost their limbs to trauma and not given them up willingly.

If you ask someone with an artificial heart whether or not having an artificial heart makes them less human, they would probably be offended but their answer would still be No <.<

And when that happens, every door is open to all the darkest things that lurk in our heads.

I've already had the misfortune of fighting pandora's box, but I won. It certainly changed me, but even then I don't have that same locked door in my head now, as I've already had to kick the door down and start slaying the monsters >.>

(That's simply a colourful metaphor for defeating mental illness, but I'm sure you already know that)

So, unless you can create a body part, that can perfectly replicate every single feeling in a finger for example, the tension of skin and muscle, the sting or feel of touch or pain, the ache when moved too far, the tiredness of tendons having to much strain on them, and everything else that you feel, then all I have to say is.

I put my faith in science to do so, they are already able to provide touch sensations to artificial limbs so I would expect that in the time it will take me to save up the money for such augmentations it will be refined to the point where it is almost indistinguishable.

Your move.

Heh, and now it is yours <.<
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The body is equally as important as the mind. It's a vessel. But the two are necessary. And I'll tell you why in a bit. The mind influences the body. The body influences the mind. But, first, things to do. I'll be back.