Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm to me feels very "We are Borg" (Borg in this case just being lots of tiny little mes) where every little duder *only* understands himself to be part of the collective. Multiple bodies makes me think of...well, Jamie Maddrox, where he could send his clones out, but they were kind of individuals after that? So the thought of getting absorbed back into the Greater Jamie and being just...*gone* after that, that seems like a rough thing to put yourselves through over and over
I dunno, maybe I'm just not evolved enough yet. Honestly, they're both kinda existentially horrifying in their own way!
Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm to me feels very "We are Borg" (Borg in this case just being lots of tiny little mes) where every little duder *only* understands himself to be part of the collective. Multiple bodies makes me think of...well, Jamie Maddrox, where he could send his clones out, but they were kind of individuals after that? So the thought of getting absorbed back into the Greater Jamie and being just...*gone* after that, that seems like a rough thing to put yourselves through over and over
I dunno, maybe I'm just not evolved enough yet. Honestly, they're both kinda existentially horrifying in their own way!
It could be worse! A character in the book I'm writing has the ability to duplicate themselves and when a duplicate dies or is reassimilated their memory is merged with the original. So they could make a bunch of selves, have them learn skills, then assimilate and bam they've got multiple masteries. Only that's too slow, what with skills taking time to learn and their primary interest being combat related skills for reasons of the story.
So their solution to making themselves into a master of those skills? Make a bunch of duplicates, arm them with the weapon being learned, and they kill each other. Memories go back to original, new batch of duplicates, repeat. It's the concept of machine learning taken to a horrifying level. Because merging the memories means they not only received the memories of the skills learned but also the deaths suffered by each duplicate. And they know it's breaking them over time mentally, but they keep going because of the story events
The one i'm most familiar with via having watched it several times is Twelve Kingdoms, which does a combination of both. Protagonist gets magical language abilities and powers and an appearance change but all she wants to do is go home, her friend who loves the idea of being someone special who doesn't belong in their home world gets none of that and has a miserable time trying to survive in a medieval society without those things and eventually has a breakdown and begs to return.
oh, you mean OLD isekais, yeah they're all dramatic about it
isekais since the late 00s have been all about that GAMER HAREM POWER FANTASY
Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm to me feels very "We are Borg" (Borg in this case just being lots of tiny little mes) where every little duder *only* understands himself to be part of the collective. Multiple bodies makes me think of...well, Jamie Maddrox, where he could send his clones out, but they were kind of individuals after that? So the thought of getting absorbed back into the Greater Jamie and being just...*gone* after that, that seems like a rough thing to put yourselves through over and over
I dunno, maybe I'm just not evolved enough yet. Honestly, they're both kinda existentially horrifying in their own way!
It could be worse! A character in the book I'm writing has the ability to duplicate themselves and when a duplicate dies or is reassimilated their memory is merged with the original. So they could make a bunch of selves, have them learn skills, then assimilate and bam they've got multiple masteries. Only that's too slow, what with skills taking time to learn and their primary interest being combat related skills for reasons of the story.
So their solution to making themselves into a master of those skills? Make a bunch of duplicates, arm them with the weapon being learned, and they kill each other. Memories go back to original, new batch of duplicates, repeat. It's the concept of machine learning taken to a horrifying level. Because merging the memories means they not only received the memories of the skills learned but also the deaths suffered by each duplicate. And they know it's breaking them over time mentally, but they keep going because of the story events
Naruto also does this but there it's not really explored in any depth past "good stuff stays, bad stuff doesn't, now bad ninja boy is suddenly the best ninja boy"
Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm to me feels very "We are Borg" (Borg in this case just being lots of tiny little mes) where every little duder *only* understands himself to be part of the collective. Multiple bodies makes me think of...well, Jamie Maddrox, where he could send his clones out, but they were kind of individuals after that? So the thought of getting absorbed back into the Greater Jamie and being just...*gone* after that, that seems like a rough thing to put yourselves through over and over
I dunno, maybe I'm just not evolved enough yet. Honestly, they're both kinda existentially horrifying in their own way!
It could be worse! A character in the book I'm writing has the ability to duplicate themselves and when a duplicate dies or is reassimilated their memory is merged with the original. So they could make a bunch of selves, have them learn skills, then assimilate and bam they've got multiple masteries. Only that's too slow, what with skills taking time to learn and their primary interest being combat related skills for reasons of the story.
So their solution to making themselves into a master of those skills? Make a bunch of duplicates, arm them with the weapon being learned, and they kill each other. Memories go back to original, new batch of duplicates, repeat. It's the concept of machine learning taken to a horrifying level. Because merging the memories means they not only received the memories of the skills learned but also the deaths suffered by each duplicate. And they know it's breaking them over time mentally, but they keep going because of the story events
Any plans for them to learn surgery from both sides?
@Madican that story sounds like the love child of Nier: Automata, Planescape: Torment, and Multiple Man's more depressing arcs, which I mean very much as a compliment!, but geez, unless you are just going *straight-up* horror show I hope you manage to find a glimmer of hope *somewhere* in that nightmare scenario
Swarm of nanobots, obviously- make a temporary body, turn into a giant menacing face, dissolve into a seething carpet and disappear into the vents- *all* the good stuff
Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm to me feels very "We are Borg" (Borg in this case just being lots of tiny little mes) where every little duder *only* understands himself to be part of the collective. Multiple bodies makes me think of...well, Jamie Maddrox, where he could send his clones out, but they were kind of individuals after that? So the thought of getting absorbed back into the Greater Jamie and being just...*gone* after that, that seems like a rough thing to put yourselves through over and over
I dunno, maybe I'm just not evolved enough yet. Honestly, they're both kinda existentially horrifying in their own way!
It could be worse! A character in the book I'm writing has the ability to duplicate themselves and when a duplicate dies or is reassimilated their memory is merged with the original. So they could make a bunch of selves, have them learn skills, then assimilate and bam they've got multiple masteries. Only that's too slow, what with skills taking time to learn and their primary interest being combat related skills for reasons of the story.
So their solution to making themselves into a master of those skills? Make a bunch of duplicates, arm them with the weapon being learned, and they kill each other. Memories go back to original, new batch of duplicates, repeat. It's the concept of machine learning taken to a horrifying level. Because merging the memories means they not only received the memories of the skills learned but also the deaths suffered by each duplicate. And they know it's breaking them over time mentally, but they keep going because of the story events
Any plans for them to learn surgery from both sides?
There's too much to learn when it comes to surgery and other thinking-type skills. They can master parkour in a day but it'd still take years to get down something like surgery, though they do study anatomy and other fields to at least have a rudimentary understanding of things like psychology and medicine.
Madican that story sounds like the love child of Nier: Automata, Planescape: Torment, and Multiple Man's more depressing arcs, which I mean very much as a compliment!, but geez, unless you are just going *straight-up* horror show I hope you manage to find a glimmer of hope *somewhere* in that nightmare scenario
Existential horror is the scariest horror IMO
Oh yeah they're not just throwing themselves into the meat grinder for no reason, they've got an ideal firmly fixed in their mind that they think is worth sacrificing themselves for. Whether it actually is or not, well the story is still being written.
My plan for if we survive to create the singularity is to upload myself into a robit body what got a great rack so this story in QC is pretty relatable.
Almost every time I see an actual stat screen in an isekai it's when they've been newly summoned to the other world and it's almost always solely to reveal their useless skill that's secretly OP or after their first fight with something when they check the screen again. After that point the stat screen almost ceases to exist for the most part.
I have read...a lot of isekai. Most of it garbage but hey when a new isekai anime comes out I usually know what it is before it even airs. And also that they picked one of the worst of them to make into an anime. Which one am I taking about? Yes.
Rising of the Shield Hero.
Aka, "Incel: The Anime".
If there are worse ones out there, please do not tell me.
Ohhhhh......fuck... really? I was just trying to que that up.
Ability to enjoy the series is likely to directly correlate to not actually paying attention to what is happening and just look at the pretty pictures.
Some series high (low?) lights.
Protagonist calling a picture of a woman in a storybook looking like a slut.
False rape accusation narrative (problematic because it buys into the idea of evil women accusing men of rape)
The main character buying a child slave (in part because she supposedly reminds him of the woman who accused him of rape) to act as combat slave.
The main character abusing the said slave until she does as told
The slave becomming super loyal and happy to act as the protagonists "sword"
Another character calling the protagonist out for all the above slave crap, duels him to free the said slave, all of this is shown as a bad thing.
Slave gives a speech about how slavery is great.
I have talked with fans who have either missed all of that, somehow, or are convinced the series is meant to be ironic, somehow, or that the story is meant to be a unreliable narrator (which it is, but not on purpose) and there is a twist coming where the protagonist is shown to be a villain.
I've also finally gotten round to reading Sweet Home which is another Korean Webtoon
It's a story about an 18 year old surviving in a monster apocalypse (well, actually a huge and excellent big cast of characters, but initially). And the main character starts off as a self-loathing 4chan troll, and it doesn't really shy away from how horrible that is. But it's also a story of someone slowly and genuinely trying to be a better person. It does mean that there's a few slurs thrown around at the beginning, and I'd give a big content warning for talking a lot about suicide.
But, at least 50 something chapters in, it doesn't invoke that flippantly at all.
It's also incredibly funny and creative with the monster design. It's very body horror-y, but in a really interesting way rather than just gross-out ish.
It really uses the whole "scroll down" format very well. There are some absolutely amazing moments and reveals using it.
so, I hadn't realised that this actually finished up in august this year
and I finished it and it's really good! It has some absolutely amazing art, both really well stylized and dynamic and really grounded and tangible.
And i'd say that it's a really humane story. It goes really dark as well, but i think it's really well worth reading.
Probably some of the most amazing comic fight scenes I've seen. All the fun of shonen-y style "ah, this is the weakness and this is how i can get the advantage" while rarely, if ever, giving a running commentary and instead conveying it all through the art.
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Multiple selves would be ideal of course, but considering each swarm is millions of nanobots that's a lot of selves to keep track of. I'd rather just multiple bodies activated and deactivated at will.
Swarm to me feels very "We are Borg" (Borg in this case just being lots of tiny little mes) where every little duder *only* understands himself to be part of the collective. Multiple bodies makes me think of...well, Jamie Maddrox, where he could send his clones out, but they were kind of individuals after that? So the thought of getting absorbed back into the Greater Jamie and being just...*gone* after that, that seems like a rough thing to put yourselves through over and over
I dunno, maybe I'm just not evolved enough yet. Honestly, they're both kinda existentially horrifying in their own way!
amazing
Alice and the Nightmare
Three months in three days. And it might (/will) just keep going like that until whatever date is significant to this cast.
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
It could be worse! A character in the book I'm writing has the ability to duplicate themselves and when a duplicate dies or is reassimilated their memory is merged with the original. So they could make a bunch of selves, have them learn skills, then assimilate and bam they've got multiple masteries. Only that's too slow, what with skills taking time to learn and their primary interest being combat related skills for reasons of the story.
So their solution to making themselves into a master of those skills? Make a bunch of duplicates, arm them with the weapon being learned, and they kill each other. Memories go back to original, new batch of duplicates, repeat. It's the concept of machine learning taken to a horrifying level. Because merging the memories means they not only received the memories of the skills learned but also the deaths suffered by each duplicate. And they know it's breaking them over time mentally, but they keep going because of the story events
oh, you mean OLD isekais, yeah they're all dramatic about it
isekais since the late 00s have been all about that GAMER HAREM POWER FANTASY
Naruto also does this but there it's not really explored in any depth past "good stuff stays, bad stuff doesn't, now bad ninja boy is suddenly the best ninja boy"
Any plans for them to learn surgery from both sides?
Existential horror is the scariest horror IMO
There's too much to learn when it comes to surgery and other thinking-type skills. They can master parkour in a day but it'd still take years to get down something like surgery, though they do study anatomy and other fields to at least have a rudimentary understanding of things like psychology and medicine.
Oh yeah they're not just throwing themselves into the meat grinder for no reason, they've got an ideal firmly fixed in their mind that they think is worth sacrificing themselves for. Whether it actually is or not, well the story is still being written.
With the strength of five gorillas!
Ability to enjoy the series is likely to directly correlate to not actually paying attention to what is happening and just look at the pretty pictures.
Some series high (low?) lights.
False rape accusation narrative (problematic because it buys into the idea of evil women accusing men of rape)
The main character buying a child slave (in part because she supposedly reminds him of the woman who accused him of rape) to act as combat slave.
The main character abusing the said slave until she does as told
The slave becomming super loyal and happy to act as the protagonists "sword"
Another character calling the protagonist out for all the above slave crap, duels him to free the said slave, all of this is shown as a bad thing.
Slave gives a speech about how slavery is great.
so, I hadn't realised that this actually finished up in august this year
and I finished it and it's really good! It has some absolutely amazing art, both really well stylized and dynamic and really grounded and tangible.
And i'd say that it's a really humane story. It goes really dark as well, but i think it's really well worth reading.
Probably some of the most amazing comic fight scenes I've seen. All the fun of shonen-y style "ah, this is the weakness and this is how i can get the advantage" while rarely, if ever, giving a running commentary and instead conveying it all through the art.
It's also free!
Steam // Secret Satan
Do they ever go into the cause of the problem or is it not important?
So much for the cars were a countdown theory. Guess the time skip will end when Willis can draw trees with leaves again.
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS
Also I know what I would ask...
a sensual dance from salami dave
If I could choose my body, I would 100% be a tall big-tittied amazon.
Oh right, that guy.
I didn’t even notice that he wasn’t addressing WC. Perhaps he views this win as a fight between Kings with WC merely the instrument?
Gunnerkrigg Court
Penny Arcade
Alternatively, they could always use an ally among the seven.
Double alternatively their boon could be something like "Don't be such a shitass anymore Dave."
UnDivine
The Sword Interval
Skin Horse
He's standing in front of Allison, but isn't looking at her. Think he's addressing White Chain.