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ParanoidObsessive 11/17/17 4:08:53 PM #398:	The Wave Master posted... My robot leg doesn't come with any weapons. Well, no weapons yet, but I plan to put a Progressive Knife like in Eva in this initial version. I figured a gun or a rocket wouldn't make it past airport security so I will stick with a giant glowing electric knife for now. You need to get them to put one of these in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwOpQbFf4o Zeus posted... The Wave Master posted... and as my stump gets smaller over time it has to be adjusted further. Ew. How does that work? Just atrophy around the afflicted area? Dentures actually work the same way - without real teeth, calcium slowly stops being channeled to the jaw, which, combined with age and just general wear and tear, means your jaw slowly starts to erode a bit. So you basically have to get new dentures every X number of years or so, because they have to be refitted to your mouth or they start to hurt a lot. With a leg, I'd assume you'd have the same problem of having to refit the join over time, but if you also lose a couple inches in length as it goes, you might start to have issues with your hips and back, because legs being different lengths actually cause more problems than most people realize. shadowsword87 posted... I just finished The Three-Body Problem and it's... frustrating is the right word. It's a really interesting world full of great ideas and the science is spot on, and everything else is just so boring. I've noticed as I get older I've been phasing fantasy and sci-fi out of my reading more and more. I'll still occasionally read the odd fantasy novel (or series), but I don't go actively looking for it as much as I used to, and I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be. I've got the added problem of being a speed-reader, though. When you can go through a single book in a couple days and burn your way through a new author's entire body of work shortly after you discover them, it means it gets harder and harder to find authors whose work you enjoy enough to seek out their stuff. And it doesn't seem like there are a ton of good writers coming up to replace the older ones who've died or to provide an alternative to the writers whose works I've already read in their entirety. Right now I'm reading this, and it's actually pretty good/interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095 Some of what's in it is stuff I already knew from other books, but it's always interesting to see how different writers present the same info in different contexts. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:890582104] in All Geek's... [t:75748636]...</cite> <quote><cite>The Wave Master posted...</cite> <quote>My robot leg doesn't come with any weapons. Well, no weapons yet, but I plan to put a Progressive Knife like in Eva in this initial version. I figured a gun or a rocket wouldn't make it past airport security so I will stick with a giant glowing electric knife for now.</quote> You need to get them to put one of these in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwOpQbFf4o <cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote><cite>The Wave Master posted...</cite> <quote>and as my stump gets smaller over time it has to be adjusted further.</quote> Ew. How does that work? Just atrophy around the afflicted area?</quote> Dentures actually work the same way - without real teeth, calcium slowly stops being channeled to the jaw, which, combined with age and just general wear and tear, means your jaw slowly starts to erode a bit. So you basically have to get new dentures every X number of years or so, because they have to be refitted to your mouth or they start to hurt a lot. With a leg, I'd assume you'd have the same problem of having to refit the join over time, but if you also lose a couple inches in length as it goes, you might start to have issues with your hips and back, because legs being different lengths actually cause more problems than most people realize. <cite>shadowsword87 posted...</cite> <quote>I just finished The Three-Body Problem and it's... frustrating is the right word. It's a really interesting world full of great ideas and the science is spot on, and everything else is just so boring. </quote> I've noticed as I get older I've been phasing fantasy and sci-fi out of my reading more and more. I'll still occasionally read the odd fantasy novel (or series), but I don't go actively looking for it as much as I used to, and I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I used to be. I've got the added problem of being a speed-reader, though. When you can go through a single book in a couple days and burn your way through a new author's entire body of work shortly after you discover them, it means it gets harder and harder to find authors whose work you enjoy enough to seek out their stuff. And it doesn't seem like there are a ton of good writers coming up to replace the older ones who've died or to provide an alternative to the writers whose works I've already read in their entirety. Right now I'm reading this, and it's actually pretty good/interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095 Some of what's in it is stuff I already knew from other books, but it's always interesting to see how different writers present the same info in different contexts. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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