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Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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The "Federated Commonwealth of Malatora" (often shortened to simply "FedCom") is, in short, the future. People should be free to live with as few laws as possible, and society should promote and support the common good of all. Our goals include uplifting humanity to the next social and evolutionary level. We believe that science can push the limits of what most people consider possible, and we do not fear pushing beyond the limits and weakness of the original human body.

It took this guy a whole half a paragraph to make a mistake about biology that only an idiot who's never picked up a middle school biology textbook would make.

This poo poo is so going somewhere.

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Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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echopapa posted:

Manhattan is my spiritual homeland. There, it's mine. Now who wants to buy the Chrysler Building from me?

I dunno. Do you take bitcoins? I could use a citadel for when the crazy robofurries come.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Since FedCom is not limited by any such treaty, we are free to construct and deploy any weapon we like, as we see fit... and we'll probably need every advantage we can get, if poo poo ever does hit the fan.

Yup. That's totally how international law works. 'Oh, you didn't agree not to build nukes? Then go right ahead!'

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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A Man With A Plan posted:

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal today about private islands. It mentioned that the cost of powering your average personal island (not a community) on diesel generators was about a million dollars a year. Three thousand-ish dollars a day. I hope these are some incredibly rich furries.

Like that's even possible. They probably don't even have jobs, let alone large amounts of disposable income. gently caress, some of them probably aren't legal adults yet. They're crazy, socially retarded children and manchildren who are completely incapable of interacting with their peers, let alone functioning in McDonalds-level job interviews.

Frankly, these people shouldn't even have access to an internet connection. They have no grasp of reality and are in serious need of psychiatric care before they kill themselves and others, or at least attempt to do so and fail miserably and hilariously.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Well, I suppose they've got to get their soylent green from somewhere.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Angela Christine posted:

It's kind of sad that they haven't realized that classical fantasy dragons can't fly without magic. A big, sturdy, muscular body won't get off the ground with the pathetically small wingspan they are usually shown to have. Creatures that can fly tend to be a bit spindly in the torso to keep the weight down. Flapping is really hard on mechanical systems too, that's why we use fixed wing aircraft rather than imitating birds. Has anyone even successfully made an little RC model dragon that can actually fly?

Don't forget that they'd be made of METAL.

I also like how they don't realize that nuking the entire planet would not only kill off almost every land-based organism, contaminate every fresh water system, and generally gently caress things up for all the organisms they talked about protecting the rights of, but the radiation would also be carried in the wind, most likely reaching their island and killing them off as well.

For all his talk of being a great strategist, Taygon really, really sucks at thinking things through.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Blast of Confetti posted:

Can we get some kind of alternate community (nega cyber metal dragon beasts with 10 cocks, if you will) and wage war on them?

e:Wait we need to have 11 cocks

No. Wood fishmen with ten vulvas. We'll come from the sea, and they'll never know what hit them.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Mutant Headcrab posted:

Book lungs.

BOOK LUNGS?!

Why the gently caress would you use book lungs for ANYTHING? There's a reason terrestrial vertebrates don't use book lungs. They're terribly inefficient. He's just picking poo poo that sounds cool with no attention to whether it's even remotely feasible or not.

He really doesn't have the vaguest idea of what he talks about. He doesn't take into consideration any of the resource requirement his little ideas would have. He doesn't take into consideration where he's going to get all the materials he needs. Where does he plan on getting the work force he'd need for all these projects? Who knows?! His superior aspergian mind apparently isn't able to comprehend how the all technology he talks about actually works, either. He doesn't even take into consideration the possible consequences and safety risks of what he talks about! I mean, does he seriously think the human brain could withstand being STRUCK BY LIGHTNING?

And that's not even getting into his idea of making a nation's laws consist of a handful of spiffy but ultimately meaningless phrases, his complete ignorance of basic ethics, and his wonky ideas on human behavior. There are toddlers out there with a better grasp of reality than this guy. There are chatbots that are more capable of coherent thought than him.

Milky Moor posted:

I have never understood the idea of wanting to be a hermaphrodite.
It's so he can go and gently caress himself

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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The cervix remains tightly sealed to prevent any damage to the infant, despite this inevitably vigorous pleasure-seeking.

Why would anything go past the cervix, anyway?! Does he seriously think that's normal? That that kind of thing just kind of happens during sex, and it isn't CRIPPLINGLY PAINFUL?

I'm going to cry.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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I have the sudden urge to cross my legs and never uncross them again...

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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They're already trying that, along with every other crazy subculture. Which gives me all the more reason to HATE.

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Haters are gonna hate, unfortunately. It's because they have no self-esteem of their own, so they gotta justify their empty lives by trying to bring others down to their level.

Let them TRY. FedCom will just keep moving forward, and ignoring these losers. Every naysayer and opponent that comes here to try to knock us down only ends up adding fuel to fire our spirits — it's the haters that give us ever-stronger motivation to prove them all wrong. In the end, we will be the ones laughing.
I wonder if they realize that this isn't an argument to stop them, it's an argument to keep on pushing 'till they go out and win themselves a big, shiny Darwin Award.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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I want them to try and perform the surgery. Because taking a human brain out of its body can't possibly go horribly wrong.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Cuckoo posted:

I never understood how hermaphroditism can be a fetish, though. The real life condition is so gross and bizarre, and the drawings are universally nonsensical and hilarious. It seems to be really closely tied to furries, too.
Eh, I wouldn't call it gross and bizarre, but considering how much poo poo intersexed individuals already get, it's not like they need to be dehumanized into some creepy sex fantasy as well.

naptalan posted:

Goons have done a lot of terrible things before, but crushing a (micro)nation? That has to top them all.
I've always wanted to be an evil villain. I suppose now is a great time to start. Especially if it means ruining that crazy bastard's dreams (i.e., letting him keep doing what he's doing and mocking him all the way).

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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He's been building up his delusions for at least ten years now. I don't think anyone has any hope of breaking them down, regardless of whether he leaves his Dickdragon Fortress of Solitude or not. He's set in his craziness, and the only thing we can do now is encourage him in it and laugh when he crashes and burns.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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this is what i think
the way the world is going now it might not even be capable of supporting human life in the future

note the weather changing..the Earth's atmosphere Slowly going to hell
and getting health problems from the air all from factories..cars..trains (Humans are killing the Earth) why not think of a way so we will Not have to use oil and gas for cars motorcycles planes and jets to get places?

if the world continues the way it's going (since the start of all oil and gas machines) soon every living thing in the future will die out
(die like the dinosaurs did..only we go out in pollution)

...agh.

My head.

JESUS CHRIST MY HEAD!

And these are supposed to be the people who will somehow find out how to create self-sufficient cybernetic bodies? These people who barely have a grasp of basic ecology and climate science?

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Some more questions:

Is anyone there a licensed surgeon? Neurosureon? Anesthesiologist? You do know that you can just start lopping off limbs and poo poo, right? That you can't just fill someone up with anesthetics and expect them not to die or undergo excruciating pain, right?

Hell, you do understand that the brain needs a constant influx of nutrients to function, right? Sodium, potassium, calcium, all necessary for neurons to even carry out action potentials. And those have to be regulated by some means, because the neurons are reliant on diffusion to transfer sodium and potassium in and out of the cell. You'll also need a constant supply of glucose so the cell's mitochondria can keep producing ATP. Do you even know what ATP is? What about proteins? How do you think any cellular damage is going to get repaired if the cells don't have the necessary nutrients? This isn't even scratching the surface of what the brain needs to run.

Oh, and are you taking into account how you're going to replenish the ever-diminishing supply of red blood cells, which can't undergo mitosis or repair themselves because they lack nuclei? And how are you going to remove the toxic heme from dead red blood cells? You're going to need to support the liver and bone marrow as well. Sure hope you have a plan to support the lymphatic system, too, unless you plan on dieing from the common cold.

Again, this is barely a fraction of what you'll need to take into account. The human body isn't just some simple little jigsaw puzzle. It's significantly more complex than any machine humanity has ever invented, and we still don't even fully understand how it works. gently caress, we just found out last year that neuroglial cells play a role neurotransmission, rather than just supporting the neurons.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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edit: Ok I'll start: I wonder if tanya's actually a female.
Right, could we please, please not go in that direction? There are plenty of things to say are wrong with all the poo poo going on with Malatora, but resorting to the standard internet 'R U RILLY A GURL' bullshit is kind of low.

shotgunbadger posted:

I already said we want to see just how delusional Taygon is and why he is that way, anyone else wanna toss in some goals here?

Things I'd like to see come of it: Either Taygon starts getting his poo poo together, drops the hyper-inflated ego, gets psychological help, and becomes a productive member of society/a decent person, or Taygon starts spiraling even further downward, alienating himself from everyone, and we get some laughs out of it. The former is always preferable, but the latter is far more likely to happen.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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SniperWoreConverse posted:

I saw open Yale has their 101 class for it posted, and I watched a few, it seems like a field that's just plain sweet as gently caress. How hard do you think it would be for a degenerate dropout such as myself to get back to school and try and break into it?

If you're willing to put in the effort, it's certainly possible. Biotechnology, from my understanding, is a pretty big field that's constantly growing. As a heads up, though, biology is a pretty brutal field of study, and you absolutely cannot just wing it and expect to pass even some of the base level courses. Be prepared to put a lot of work into your studies.

That said, it's definitely fascinating, and it really puts into perspective just how goddamn awesome life is.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Particularly multi-role warships, which can serve as cargo vessels, bulk personnel transports, and colony ships in peacetime. Odds are probably quite good that once space travel becomes simple and routine, piracy will make a big comeback, so a fleet of warships to protect settlements and convoys will always be useful anyway.
Space travel isn't likely to become cheap and simple... well... ever. It's ridiculously resource intensive no matter how you do it, and there are so many dangers involved that there's no chance of any sane government letting people just dilly-dally around in space. One stupid move can prevent any form of space travel or even satellite communications for MILLENNIA.

Space piracy is goddamn silly, for so many loving reasons. There's absolutely no way to get more money and resources from space piracy than you would spend trying just trying to catch up to whatever you're trying to steal while simultaneously not crashing into them at high speeds. And that's only a small portion of the problems with it.

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A single strike from such a relativistic weapon would seriously ruin your day
Reality isn't a cartoon. Relativistic weapons aren't happening for a long, long time (and I'm not talking a century or two), for the same reason everything you're mentioning won't happen. You don't seem to have any grasp of the kind of loving energy you'd need to accelerate a small projectile to a high percentage of light speed.

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The immense size of such a vessel has additional advantages, notable in the ability to carry larger fuel reserves, and generate vast amounts of power for the weapons and defenses. In space, bigger really IS better.
No. Bigger is significantly worse. Not only doesn't it really increase survivability (and may even hamper it, since it just give the ship more surface area to be pelted by poo poo), but the amount of energy to move the drat thing will increase exponentially, and where the gently caress do you expect to get that much fuel? Of course, that also applies to everything needed to keep the entire loving thing from being a goddamn deathtrap to everyone on the ship, as well.

And guess what? The more fuel you put on your ship, the more loving fuel you'll need to make up for the added mass of the fuel.

urrgh why am I even typing this poo poo

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Guys, I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation. They've now seen our publicly viewable posts TOP SECRET INFORMATION! Furthermore, because Tanya was banned for being a creepy and having no sense of tact PERSECUTED BY THE EVIL BIGOTED MODS, many of us will surely continue mocking them because holy gently caress they're hilariously crazy SEE THE ERROR OF OUR WAYS AND EMBRACE OUR INNER DICKDRAGONS!

If this keeps up, we'll have an almost endless source of hilarity BE DOOMED!

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Deadly Chlorine posted:

Wait a loving moment. So this isn't just a ten donged dragon/chakat colony, it's a ten donged dragon/chakat nudist colony?


Also oh my god I wish I hadn't taken biology because I want to kill him now

Dickdragon/chakat/twatelf/cuntfairy/cockwolf/titfish/human being, except made of dicks nudist colony.

They're a veritable melting pot of crazy fetishes.

And imagine how it feels for us biology majors...

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Ratbones posted:

Guys, don't mess up my chances of becoming a robot bird. I need a tender robo-cloaca to be happy.

And now I want to see what would happen if we sent them a copy of FATAL. Perhaps they'd be the first group alive to ever 'successfully' play a game of it.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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The United States alone has enough nuclear bombs to wipe out practically every land-based and fresh water organism, along with a significant portion of saltwater organisms.

And he seriously thinks he'd have the upper hand. The guy who isn't much good for anything other than jerking off to dickdragons in his parent's basement.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Y'know, I can't help but imagine, when this is all said and done, there's going to be a bunch of furries running around wrapped in tinfoil with dildos strapped to themselves while pretending to be robots.

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Malatora war strategy #3: "This time we bum rush America but everyone is made of super aluminum and bullets can't hurt them and they breath black holes. Also mindflayers."

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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So now Tanya plans to be QUEEN OF THE DICKDRAGONS?

E-gads. These aren't dickdragons at all. They're dickhydra. You lop one dick off and an even bigger one grows in its place!

Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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The thing I love about this is that pretty much everyone is against Taygon now. Everyone around him thinks he's loving crazy, and he just doesn't get it. He doesn't understand that the problem isn't with everyone around him. It's him. He doesn't understand that his behavior is unacceptable, not because he can't, but because he outright refuses to admit that he's the one to blame for his problems, nobody else.

He's a liar, a narcissist, a hypocrite, a bigot, and a fool, but instead of accepting it and changing for the best, he plugs his ears and pretends he's special snowflake, alienating himself from everyone. As long as he keeps this up, things are just going to get worse for him, but he won't stop. It's hilariously pathetic.

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Miijhal
Jul 10, 2011

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Oh no! Taygon won't talk to us! What ever will we do?

Oh, that's right. Continue doing what we've been doing this whole time.

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