Featuring a harsh lesson on the nature of crackers
I need to binge this, I haven't read it in like... four months, at least.
You've missed out on so many boobs!
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
If I was told I was possibly immortal I'd crack a smile too.
Same. I used to think I'd hate immortality, but I'd really like to live long enough to see our first space colony, our first alien contact, commercial space flight, etc.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
If I was told I was possibly immortal I'd crack a smile too.
Particularly when dying is probably the thing she's most afraid of and she's been laboring under the assumption that she has maybe a few years left to live for some time now.
If I was told I was possibly immortal I'd crack a smile too.
Same. I used to think I'd hate immortality, but I'd really like to live long enough to see our first space colony, our first alien contact, commercial space flight, etc.
My wife has already refused to have her brain implanted into a robot body, so now I have to outlive her so I don't feel all guilty about it.
I would really need to know the terms and conditions of immortality, because that's a real monkey's paw thing. I'm hoping it'd be some variant of the "nanomachine swarm" idea, myself.
You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
Immortality is all well and good until your stuck floating in space or trapped on a dead rock at the heat death of the universe. For all of eternity.
The trillions of years leading up to that would probably be a gas though.
Gotta do the genie wish right.
"I wish for a ring a necklace. The wearer of each is immortal. They can only be removed by the person wearing them. They are also untarnished by time. A person wearing one can only be killed by the wearer of the other. If they are removed time does not catch up to the bearer for 24 hours."
Now you can technically die if you want. You just have to wear some jewelry for forever.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Immortality is all well and good until your stuck floating in space or trapped on a dead rock at the heat death of the universe. For all of eternity.
The trillions of years leading up to that would probably be a gas though.
Gotta do the genie wish right.
"I wish for a ring a necklace. The wearer of each is immortal. They can only be removed by the person wearing them. They are also untarnished by time. A person wearing one can only be killed by the wearer of the other. If they are removed time does not catch up to the bearer for 24 hours."
Now you can technically die if you want. You just have to wear some jewelry for forever.
the rings are made of poison sumac
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Immortality is all well and good until your stuck floating in space or trapped on a dead rock at the heat death of the universe. For all of eternity.
The trillions of years leading up to that would probably be a gas though.
Gotta do the genie wish right.
"I wish for a ring a necklace. The wearer of each is immortal. They can only be removed by the person wearing them. They are also untarnished by time. A person wearing one can only be killed by the wearer of the other. If they are removed time does not catch up to the bearer for 24 hours."
Now you can technically die if you want. You just have to wear some jewelry for forever.
Immortality is all well and good until your stuck floating in space or trapped on a dead rock at the heat death of the universe. For all of eternity.
The trillions of years leading up to that would probably be a gas though.
Gotta do the genie wish right.
"I wish for a ring a necklace. The wearer of each is immortal. They can only be removed by the person wearing them. They are also untarnished by time. A person wearing one can only be killed by the wearer of the other. If they are removed time does not catch up to the bearer for 24 hours."
Now you can technically die if you want. You just have to wear some jewelry for forever.
the rings are made of poison sumac
Glove.
I'm sure that glove will be quite thankful at being made timeless as you still age and die like everyone else.
I'd just want immortality but with the option to die peacefully when I fulfill an abstract condition I set.
Then when it's just drifting around space dust for the remainder of eternity I can clock out.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I mean, that's why I think Bina's case seems pretty ideal. She;s probably only be near-immortal or immortal compared to humans, but still capable of dying if where to like, fly herself into the sun or something.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
If I was told I was possibly immortal I'd crack a smile too.
Same. I used to think I'd hate immortality, but I'd really like to live long enough to see our first space colony, our first alien contact, commercial space flight, etc.
Immortality is all well and good until your stuck floating in space or trapped on a dead rock at the heat death of the universe. For all of eternity.
The trillions of years leading up to that would probably be a gas though.
I feel like the complete sensory deprivation that experience entails would essentially shut down your conscious experience of the world. I feel like it wouldn't be endless torment so much as a reaaaaally long meditation.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I mean, that's why I think Bina's case seems pretty ideal. She;s probably only be near-immortal or immortal compared to humans, but still capable of dying if where to like, fly herself into the sun or something.
also she has a tail and magical powers
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
The thing with hypotheticals about complete cannot-and-will-not-die-ever immortality is that that's just straight up magic, and it seems weird to me to follow magic to logical conclusions, particularly bringing in scientific theories about heat-death and the like.
Here's the thing though; being struck floating in space for all eternity sounds boring, but you can still think, you still exist. I'd still prefer an eternity of boredom over oblivion.
My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
I feel like the complete sensory deprivation that experience entails would essentially shut down your conscious experience of the world. I feel like it wouldn't be endless torment so much as a reaaaaally long meditation.
You think that, but my sci fi story thought otherwise:
tldr; Immortal goes into cryonic suspension with everyone else for the 250-year exodus from Doomed Earth, only to find out he's still conscious while frozen solid the entire time. Short version, he's less sane coming out than he was going in.
I feel like the complete sensory deprivation that experience entails would essentially shut down your conscious experience of the world. I feel like it wouldn't be endless torment so much as a reaaaaally long meditation.
You think that, but my sci fi story thought otherwise:
tldr; Immortal goes into cryonic suspension with everyone else for the 250-year exodus from Doomed Earth, only to find out he's still conscious while frozen solid the entire time. Short version, he's less sane coming out than he was going in.
Here's the thing though; being struck floating in space for all eternity sounds boring, but you can still think, you still exist. I'd still prefer an eternity of boredom over oblivion.
“I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.”
My wife had us fill out our medical power of attorney paperwork and other related things the other night and when I told her I wanted to be kept alive at any cost, even if I was going to be in a permanent vegetative state and she could divorce me and move on with her life if that happened, she was like, "Shouldn't you talk to a therapist about that?" And I was like what, because I don't want to ever die? Psssh, fuck that. And she replied with, "Shouldn't you accept the inevitable?" and I told her that if/when I die, I am going to die screaming (metaphorically if not literally)
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I need to binge this, I haven't read it in like... four months, at least.
... Heel turn time?
I’m reading more “IM FUCKIN INVINCIBLE!”
You've missed out on so many boobs!
Same. I used to think I'd hate immortality, but I'd really like to live long enough to see our first space colony, our first alien contact, commercial space flight, etc.
yeah, but for what it's worth, that was my immediate impulse too. :?
xkcd
My wife has already refused to have her brain implanted into a robot body, so now I have to outlive her so I don't feel all guilty about it.
I tried selling her on the chainsaw hands, or being a sexy tiger bot. No go.
The trillions of years leading up to that would probably be a gas though.
Gotta do the genie wish right.
"I wish for a ring a necklace. The wearer of each is immortal. They can only be removed by the person wearing them. They are also untarnished by time. A person wearing one can only be killed by the wearer of the other. If they are removed time does not catch up to the bearer for 24 hours."
Now you can technically die if you want. You just have to wear some jewelry for forever.
the rings are made of poison sumac
Glove.
I'm sure that glove will be quite thankful at being made timeless as you still age and die like everyone else.
Then when it's just drifting around space dust for the remainder of eternity I can clock out.
She's been on break for most of winter, and there's barely 10 pages since she restarted.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I feel like the complete sensory deprivation that experience entails would essentially shut down your conscious experience of the world. I feel like it wouldn't be endless torment so much as a reaaaaally long meditation.
also she has a tail and magical powers
Huh, undine's hair at the beginning was so long
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Someone in the Sleepless Domain Discord put this together:
I guess this isn't Cassidy's first time getting lasered.
Yes I too have read Remnants
“I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.”
My wife had us fill out our medical power of attorney paperwork and other related things the other night and when I told her I wanted to be kept alive at any cost, even if I was going to be in a permanent vegetative state and she could divorce me and move on with her life if that happened, she was like, "Shouldn't you talk to a therapist about that?" And I was like what, because I don't want to ever die? Psssh, fuck that. And she replied with, "Shouldn't you accept the inevitable?" and I told her that if/when I die, I am going to die screaming (metaphorically if not literally)