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[Nikitian]

@syvarris On happy-flesh:

Because, for example, one might want to settle down eventually and have children (come on, there is only a chance of sterility, right?)? 

But honestly, yes, I'd agree that temp-botting and then maybe getting back your body or growing a new healthy one might be the best "practical" choice. I say "practical" because there is one more practical matter to consider, and that is - it does not matter if you remain physically alive until the end of the war if you end up completely deranged by then. All in all, fleshy bodies are an excellent deterrent to issues of existential origin, which can kill a person more surely than a bullet. What for to keep living if nothing is real? How can one be sure that what you experience around is actually real - especially since you can know for sure that this is a body made by humans, and it might be flawed - or, more importantly, defect by design, feeding you false data? How can you live if you cannot feel no touch, no taste, no smell - nothing that made the life nice? And then if you do make yourself feel some of that - you know for sure that your feelings exist only because you put an electrode in your own brain! You're deceiving yourself! Etc.etc.etc. It can be overcome (with wisdom, stubborn determination, philosophy education or some other way), but it is still much of a problem (also existing in flesh-bodied lives, but to lesser extent).

So whether it is practical to move on to robo-body or not is up to each person, balancing on whether the immediate physical gains outweight (or not) the potential mental problems it can create. So yes, while "flesh is weak", indeed, it allows for happier life on average. "Ignorance is bliss", in a fashion. 

[tryrar]

Well fuck, though I kinda figured killing himself with his own explosives was the way would go

Will think up new char soonish(maybe regular gun guy with a love of heavy weaponry)

[piecewise]

Not sure if piecewise missed my question in the mission thread - If my contested action of tossing the Eater in the cocoon towards Eatatlantis/Eatermom/whatever had gone uncontested and gotten a good roll, what would have happened?

This all would have been over a lot quicker.

Spoiler: The eater was inhabiting humans (or anything else really) as a sort of cocoon. Once it had matured, it was trying to get out of the cocoon to meet up with its buddy up there. You hucking it several miles broke the cocoon, so to speak. 

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

So you never actually had to kill it in the specified spot, if it's host had been killed anywhere where it's mate was, it would have all been finished up?

[Hapah]

I imagine something fancy might have happened if we got it to the Pit. Or maybe not!

[piecewise]

So you never actually had to kill it in the specified spot, if it's host had been killed anywhere where it's mate was, it would have all been finished up?

It just had to be fully mature.

What, you think I give you legends built upon complete and total accuracy to facts?

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I guess it was just assumed they were true, you know, 'the missiongiver is always right.'

[Kriellya]

I guess it was just assumed they were true, you know, 'the missiongiver is always right.'

Pretty sure that's been very, very rarely true in ER

At best, the missiongiver isn't saying everything. But in most cases, we're going in because Steve doesn't know what's going on, and wants us to fix that. So anything he tells us is a guess at best, and an outright lie at worst.

[Yoink]

Tyrar's new character is perfect for this outfit.

[tryrar]

Even more so when I get that missile launcher I wanted to do designed

[Toaster]

See?  Non-violent mission set.  All you had to do was not kill it until told to do so; the target area was secretly a lot wider than you thought.

[Gentlefish]

"The place where no shadow is cast by the sun"

GDI guys.

[piecewise]

"The place where no shadow is cast by the sun"

GDI guys.

hehe





Here's a question for you: Would you trust Joker team with your life?

[Toaster]

Lars would, but he's biased since he's rolled with them once and also thinks Milno is a literal saint.

[tryrar]

Yeah, I would, but then again I died on a joker mission so my input may be invalid. (TBF the overshoot wasn't something that could be controlled, and might have been survivable if it hadn't activated my bag of explosives )