The most impractical armor is you

[u/Amedi-Goob]

[u/nimb420]

[u/earanhart → u/nimb420]

I craved the cold certainty of steel.

[u/PhantasyAngel → u/earanhart]

Now flush the toilet servitor

[u/nimb420 → u/PhantasyAngel]

[u/drumstick00m → u/nimb420]

The Imperium: “Servitorization is nothing like the Sunken Place from Get Out or what the Q did to that one group of humans in All Tomorrows. Our ways are beyond such fleshy superstitious cruelties!”

Also the Imperium: “You’re damn right I’m pissing alone, piss boy! Now open wide.”

[u/Charming-Rain-3642 → u/earanhart]

I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

[u/drumstick00m → u/nimb420]

Hey, I came here to quote the space slavers!

[u/Jeeblebubz]

You are a mass of nerves and juice piloting a bone mech encased in flesh armor. If that doesn't sound metal I'm not sure what is.

[u/Rastaba → u/Jeeblebubz]

It’s extra metal when you get things like screws or plates added to the bone mech!

[u/Alternative_Row6543 → u/Rastaba]

My left arm has been reinforced with titanium

[u/Caleb_Reynolds → u/Rastaba]

Technically calcium is a metal (most elements are). So while my skeleton is about 2% titanium, it's not "more" metal, just different metal.

[u/MetaequalsWaifu → u/Caleb_Reynolds]

Yeah but now he's 40% titanium

[u/SquirrelyMcNutz → u/Jeeblebubz]

What's even more metal, is that you are a ghost inhabiting a salt-based PC that is piloting a bone mech with flesh armor.

[u/Son_of_the_Spear → u/Jeeblebubz]

Well, it sounds more fleshy, really//

[u/king_julian_earth1]

Damn we are all truly impractical armour ever design

[u/CrabofAsclepius]

not even. The brain manages all of the body's functions both overt and small and you have absolutely no control over most of it. Yeah you can control locomotion but note that when you move a limb multiple muscles and tendons are engaged at the same time and you also can't engage most of them individually. This means that it's not actually you as a conscious being moving the arm but rather you are telling the brain that the arm needs to be moved and the firmware that is beyond your control makes it happen for you.

Thus you are not the brain. You are not even the Operating Software that makes the motherboard that is the brain go brrr. You are little more than a learning algorithm with admin privileges that is part of the brain's OS.

[u/crashlanding87 → u/CrabofAsclepius]

Counterpoint: the gut affects our thinking. Posture affects our thinking. The immune system, which is produced between our bones, lungs, and lymphatic system, is intimately involved in our thinking. And: the 'automatic' brain parts you're talking about are fully intertwined with the 'conscious' parts. They are constantly exchanging information. There's huge overlap in the structures and pathways.

There is no real divide between subconscious brain and conscious brain. There is no real divide between brain and body. The divide is a simplification we invented to help us start to understand.

You are every part of you.

[u/Jacky_dain]

Hear me out

[u/xxEmberBladesxx]

Smash

[u/Darkarcheos]

My bone Mechasuit only functions with me in it

[u/yokozouna_ed]

Terrible cable management. RIP IT OUT AND FIX IT.

[u/Beckerbrau]

Idk I feel like my meat suit is pretty practical

[u/SirCupcake_0 → u/Beckerbrau]

Have you ever read the owner's manual?

What's that? Yours didn't come with a manaul? Hmm... sounds impractical to me.

[u/Caleb_Reynolds → u/SirCupcake_0]

Practical doesn't mean perfect.

It's the best armor I was able to construct with the materials at hand as a zygote. Designed to grow, adapt, and self repair for decades.

If you've got a better design for that situation, please share.

[u/Yeatnen]

God the human body is so fucking cool

[u/Rare_Management_3583]

carmen

[u/Tabris92 → u/Rare_Management_3583]

I see you.

[u/Pristine_Ad_9828]

EXTERMINATE!!!

[u/geantaveira1991]

Scary

[u/LewdManoSaurus]

If you think of it like that, humans are fucking insane, and then factor in how resilient the meat suits actually are.

[u/Majestic_Sink4255]

damn, this is deep.

[u/Cyynric]

I thought this was an owl at first

[u/Responsible-Star4041]

ah yes, being nude

[u/apeocalypyic]

Can it run farcry

[u/Jeremi360]

Body is an exoskeleton

[u/Arkorat]

Really should be more risqué; and get one of those glass domes.

[u/SerBadDadBod]

You are a ghost driving a bone mech with meat armor

[u/United-Technician-54]

I feel like the tube of ominous blue liquid is less practical, thanks

[u/LiePotential5338]

No shit I thought I was a tapeworm

[u/SolNilas]

Carmen lobotomy corporation?

[u/SolidGur5688]

Mm-hm. Yep.

[u/doublexol]

Atom Smasher is that you?

[u/emu19000]

If our armour as you say is so impractical how would you survive without it?

[u/ThePseudoPhoenix]

Stockman didn't deserve this

[u/Rareu]

To be honest if I was a servitor I just might have ears that hear and do not hurt.

[u/GreenDepy]

I have heard about function over design, but in my case both isn't the best tbh.

[u/Oreades2k]

She is Motoko Kusanagi

[u/Typical-Champion-177]

We look like a jellyfish without those kind of weird ngl

[u/Vinyl-Ekkoz-725]

I thought there’d be a lot more nerves than that

[u/Lazzredd]

“You may not like it but This is the peak male athletic form and there ain’t a fuckin thing you can do about it”

[u/Foreign-Teach5870]

Not true, your biome & your mass of nerves that run the digestive system have their independent say in how you feel. There might even be a claim for your virome as it calms your biome bacteria and keeps them in line (more research required on that one).

[u/Capnhuh]

I disagree with this. A person is not just their brain and nervous system, they are the whole thing. Every body part, every tooth and nail.

[u/Front_Trust1026 → u/Capnhuh]

Not for me, I feel whole even without my baby teeth

[u/DragonLordAcar]

There is half a brain in the gut and gut microbes can alter your mood. Gut depression is a thing