dreamrealthat's always been the best part of frankenstein: what if you built a robot but instead of out of parts you used humans
dreamrealin shelley the replica was good but still a replica, it's a commentary on being the thing you are supposed to be (the monster is not), in the movies the parts were insufficient to the ask
GreenResponseorganic tissue still beats the inorganic machinery, only in Japanese animation robots are fully operational
GreenResponsewe are 75% water after all
comradim 75% beer!
dreamrealSome of those portrayals are awful. And stupid. But people seem to like 'em. Huh, people are terrible and stupid.
dreamrealFilm at 11.
Paradreamreal: I've had an idea for a near-future scifi war story where the premise is that specops agents have the ability to jump across the battlefield from one corpse to another, idea being that they have neural implants which can take over the body once the person is dead.
Parare: building robots out of human parts
dreamreallike altered carbon except on the battlefield?
dreamrealThe problem is that the corpse you'd jump into would be a corpse for a reason
ParaSomething like that, yeah.
ParaAnd of course still with all the downsides of corpses, so rigor mortis and whatever.
dreamrealnot just rigor mortis but "this person died because a cannonball went through their torso."
ParaAll you need is an arm to pull the trigger.
dreamrealand a way to use the arm. But it's an interesting idea.
ParaOfficially (in universe) the neural harness could be a full-body health monitor which is injected into the body and limbs. Really it's just alternative linkage to make the remoting not dependent on actual nervous system.
ParaAll kinds of body horror/zombiefication possibilities for a good writer to explore.
dreamrealYou should write it. I know a lot of publishers.
ParaFriend of mine just spent a few days on a local book event because he's been writing shite on the side. His words, not mine :D
ParaApparently the bar to entry is surprisingly low these days, especially if you're willing to write short stories to be included in collections and such.
dreamrealWell, I have an "in" with a few short story publishers, like I said...
dreamrealthey tend towards more fantasy than scifi but even so
dreamrealalso: they've never published any of MY stuff, because it's too.... well... err... me
dreamreal(I definitely agree with them: I write this existential conflict stuff and they're publishing light fantasy/horror things. One comment from them on one story was "you know even Cthulhu wouldn't be happy with the implications of this story, right?")
dreamreal"And he's seen things. And BEEN those things."
ParaAnother idea I've been thinking about is about a person who can fold space. Or rather collapse multiverses to one. Really it's just an extension of quantum suicide/immortality, but the problem is that while I have the gimmick I don't really have the story.
nb-benit happened to them while they spent their time in the toilet constipated, squeezing really hard
enoqlooking at line 64 https://dpaste.com/4VM9833DT#line-64 why is the chain called before actually populating values in the session? would that not execute all other filters first and only then populate the session?
dreamrealchains are wrappers, decorators: they can have pre- and post-operative modes
dreamrealand the filter might have other filters that run before this one: imagine a "host does not have an 'a' in the name" filter that is placed before this one
dreamrealbut yes, it implies that other filters run first
dreamrealPara: I was thinking... imagine that FIRST RUN where the scientists deploy on their very first real battlefield. "Wait, in our tests the corpses were viable... we just sent MacGillicuddy into a body that was missing the entire top of its head and most of its right side. Did we... uh... prepare him for that? That corpse looks like it's trying to scream but has no lungs."
Paradreamreal: Imagine being blown up and waking up in a corpse right next to your own.
ParaThat kinda gives me title to work on. Dissociation.
ParaAlso what if the body you jumped into somehow gets revived. I mean, what classifies as "jumpable". No brain activity? Or just severed?
* dreamreal nods
dreamrealNow I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with this, and I'm already imagining what I can do better :D
ParaI unfortunately have a lot of time this month to spend on being productive so I may have to figure out how to write a draft :)
ParaCan't build my VM infra from scratch every day either (which is what I did today)
dreamrealJust get an AI to do it, then rewrite it from scratch to be good