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biocon moms
Thu, 2016-03-10 05:38
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biocon moms
Fri, 2016-03-11 03:12
#2
Login Location: New Quebec,
Login Location: New Quebec, Titan, Saturnine System
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Ah, that wonderful age when you think you know everything and your parents are full of shit.
I'd give anything to see my mothers again. Trust me, they may seem like a pain in the ass when you're ten, but if you didn't know if they're still alive or not, you'd appreciate them and their ways a whole lot more.
Anyway, let's see. You must be about ten, if you're comparing your age to the orbit of Saturn and pointing out how you're less than 1/3rd of a year old. A bit young to hit the rebellious years, but...
Well, I won't give you a lecture about why we still use Earth timekeeping. (Well, maybe I will, but I'll put it in a callout at the bottom of this post. Having had to defend the position on why we still use it in an open debate at T.A.U. against a rather ardent supporter of Martian timekeeping, I'm rather vested in it.) Instead, let's see...
Puberty - it can be a weird time, I admit, but thankfully it's not as gross as it once was. Acne is a thing of the past, thank modern medicine. It is awkward, though, it certainly can be weird, figuring out what you want, what you like - [i]who[/i] you want and who you like. Growing larger and more physically capable is certainly a nice upshot, though if you live on Volkograd and aren't just spoofing your location, that may not be particularly interesting to you. It's hard to freerun without any gravity at all.
And sex is fun... Believe me, sex is fun. Well, it can awkward and weird at first, but it's worth it. But I digress.
Your main point appears to be one of morphological freedom. Well, I'm all for morphological freedom - as the person living in one of the most extensively-modded Hazers on Titan, I'd be a massive hippocrit if I weren't - but you're also young - very, [i]very[/i] young. I just asked a neurology professor, and they told me that they wouldn't endorse a child your age resleeving except under 'extreme circumstances.' Apparently it can be very dangerous, neurologically speaking, and carries risks of resleeving complications far in excess of those that older persons face. The risks go down dramatically through your teens, but he actually said he wouldn't recommend that anyone under the age of 20 resleeve for any but serious reasons. So your mothers are actually being medically-inadvisably permissive in that regard.
Really, though, why do you fear puberty? Have you talked - seriously talked - about it, with a mental health expert? You probably should.
On keeping time by Earth standards:
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Sun, 2016-03-13 23:26
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There is something to be said for wanting to preserve one's neuroplasticity, but that can lead to all sorts of mental problems down the road. I doubt anybody would condone experimenting on a child. Well, maybe on Bright.
You could make a deal with one of the criminal syndicates, but who knows what they do to kids? Not like you've got any collateral.
Sun, 2016-03-13 23:29
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Login Location: Elysium
Login Location: Elysium, Mars, Planetary Consortium
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Hey kid, wanna buy some candy?
Tue, 2016-03-15 01:41
#5
Login Location: Nyhavn-Aarhus
Login Location: Nyhavn-Aarhus Maglev, Titan, Saturnine System
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You can actually get a neuroplasticity mod. I have one, it's pretty cool. Bit of childlike wonder to the world, really fast to pick up languages.
I have connections in Titanian law enforcement.
I just looked into it. I'd give the details, but the OP is literally ten, and this shit is making [u]me[/u] feel like I'm not going to be sleeping anytime in the next 72 hours. Now I sort-of understand why every now and then a proposal to amend the Commonwealth's judicial code to allow for the execution and permanent ego-erasure of members of Nine Lives and the ID Crew keeps coming up.
OP, for the love of fuck, don't make any deals with the syndicates. You do [u]not[/u] want to find out what happens.—
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Tue, 2016-03-15 08:06
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From personal experience, intelligence or even knowledge are not sufficient to claim any sort of wisdom. In a short span of earth years, you will have morphological freedom regardless. So why fret? Enjoy your youth and relative safety while you can, and use it to prepare yourself for the amoral teacher that is experience.
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Tue, 2016-03-15 10:10
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Login Location: Aarhus, Titan
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Especially if he's on Volkograd. An exploitative hypercorp stronghold that cracks down on anything with a whiff of collective bargaining lest they attract the aid of their very autonomist neighbors?
The School of Hard Knocks is going to be open for business sooner rather than later for this poor kid.—
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Tue, 2016-03-15 14:47
#8
Keep in mind that your first
Keep in mind that your first morph is an opportunity, not a restriction. I lost mine too early, and it's a shame. Value what you have, even if it's not what you want most. Walking a mile in shoes that don't fit can teach a lesson that you don't get by switching as you desire. As someone who has been in tons of different morphs, I can tell you that even though I didn't feel particularly "at home" in my original body, you don't get better than that.
Sure you might be more capable or get different social responses, but there is something to be said for working with nature. It gives you an idea of what you really want in a morph, for one. Second, if you stick with your base morph until you've settled in on a career path, you can choose a morph that fits for you. Of course, as a mercenary I tend to go for a nice Remade, but when I first forked (during, by the way, that key neurological development point in my life, so I have first-hand experience) I chose a crappy Slitheroid because of the marketing and price point. Fortunately I didn't see action against the TITANs in that morph, because I would've been exsurgent toast.
Not to mention the fact that there's a reason we tend not to resleeve adolescents. Back when I was a licensed psychosurgeon, adolescent resleeves were something like 30-40% of my work. Your base neuropatterns develop with your body, and that includes decision making and interpersonal assessment skills as well as your intellectual neurons: switching over to an adult-pattern brain is a huge adjustment at least and can leave you with developmental gaps. Dealing with that would actually become crucial for me when I merged after the Fall.
Sun, 2016-03-20 09:49
#9
Hey Kid, wanna work around
Hey Kid, wanna work around your Moms' restriction?
Get some simulspace access to some of those 'morph tryout' places.
Spend the next 6 Earth Years trying out every morph combo you can.
Stay away from Nonaspace tho (9 lives runs it)
By the time they are ready to let you resleeve, you could have a custom morph design that would make a Jovian crap themselves... or get you awards from Titanian Morph designers... or Scum beauty contests.
Sun, 2016-03-20 13:35
#10
As a word of warning,
As a word of warning, accelerated simulspace and minors has a chequered past. Just gonna put that out there.
Mon, 2016-03-21 05:49
#11
I was talking about the non
I was talking about the non accelerated kind.
Kid's got time.+
Tue, 2016-03-22 00:52
#12
Word of warning: while
Word of warning: while simulspace "try it before you sleeve it" rigs are certainly better than resleeving cold turkey, they don't [i]really[/i] capture the full effect of being in a new body. Certainly they can give you the physical sense of the morph, but they're emulating it in your existing thinkspace, and can't really give you a good feeling of what, say, a mind wired and tuned for mental or social activity is going to be like.
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Tue, 2016-03-22 05:10
#13
Mostly true.
Mostly true.
The really top end ones can emulate the feel of the differing mindspace... almost perfectly.
But they are hard to get access to, and are based on Eidolon tech.
Thu, 2016-06-02 23:06
#14
Don't those essentially do
Don't those essentially do what an ego bridge does in bridging you across multiple thinkspaces at once, only instead of resleeving you fully, pour you back into your existing mind?
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Fri, 2016-12-16 00:55
#15
The problem with simulspace
The problem with simulspace is that to use it properly, you'd first have to sleeve into an infomorph, and if mommy is against resleeving into another biomorph, she'd probably throw at even the suggestion. But putting that aside for a moment, being a psychosurgeon, I'd rather not recommend skipping puberty. While I'm all for egomorphological freedom, puberty is an important phase for psychological restructuring that really shouldn't be missed out on.
Here's a trick, though: Back yourself up ASAP. Do go through puberty, then have a talk with an instance of that backup. If you still think that a life without puberty is preferable, you can overwrite yourself with that old copy, and even merge the memories of the time in between into your younger ego. There are a few rather groundbreaking papers about ego merging coming out of Titan recently, so when you're old enough, the technology should be well-established and battle-tested.
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Fri, 2016-12-16 07:34
#16
Baribal wrote:The problem
Though most of the papers don't talk about skipping formative years, so that's a little iffy there.
Likewise, I've looked over the papers and I remain skeptical: it was more of a "can we do it?" than a "should we do it?" proposition.
If you're going to do the "wait through it and allow a fork the option of skipping it" thing, I suggest letting the fork just be an independent, unmerged alpha.
All the cool kids are doing it.
Fri, 2016-12-16 14:57
#17
SquireNed wrote:Though most
Absolutely. And frankly, I doubt that an instance of boomzilla that has gone through puberty would rather be replaced by one that hasn't. But with the multitude of identity disorders that exist, I wouldn't want to rule it out completely. And now that, since we can now shape both morphs and egos, adjusting them to our identity instead of adjusting our identity to them has taken over as the dominant form of therapy, I really can't see an categorical problem with it.
Also, said Titanian papers aren't about identity disorders, but merging technology, so of course they don't tackle that topic directly. But I do see potential for application here. Heck, even without identity disorder, merging at least temporarily with a backup from a long time ago may be a good time. "Remember when we used to X? I remember like it was yesterday." So, how about making it yesterday?
If you consider that a good argument, you should better not take a look at what recreative psychosurgery I'm applying as a matter of course, nor at some of the therapeutic ones. Hell, something goes wrong, there's always the option to resetting to before messing it up.
Sure, that's a possibility, and a very safe route, but it'd also make the ego miss out on all the memories that happened in the meantime.
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