Both Legs, hands down.
Hands are hard to emulate with prosthetics, whereas legs appear to have been upgraded
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Both Legs, hands down.
Congratulatioms, you have no limbs now
No, he doesn't have legs or hands.
Plus life in a wheelchair is still quite possible, whereas life with no arms would need so much more assistance from others I would think. Can't write, everything would be speech to text, hardly any recreational activities to keep you entertained, etc.
I want tank treads like the guys in the NES game Base Wars.
You can get those in the game Caves of Qud. They’re an awesome cybernetic that make you go super fast!
That game has been mentioned to me like 3 times recently... I've been waiting for a sale, I might just have to go ahead & pull the trigger.
If you love roguelikes and you love open world games like Skyrim or the Fallout series, I think you’ll love it. The setting is like a blend of Dune with Fallout (fresh water is a big deal, technological ruins are everywhere, but there’s no 1950’s vibe, this is the extreme distant future).
I mean, legs are a problem; even with prosthetics, resection seems to be unavoidable, from the few people I know who've lost a leg. The issue is at least partially that there's a lot of force being applied in areas and ways not designed to take it.
Still, I agree with you; no question that is the legs. If it weren't for the resection issue, I'd have a range of prosthetics, including springy ones. There's a definite silver lining on that cloud; I can't see any upside to losing both your arms.
What's resection?
When you do a section over again
I have a good guess and don't want to Google it
Oh, I just split it into two words and I dont want to google it either
Well, I'm no expert, but I do know a couple people who've lost a lower limb, and apparently it's common for problems to develop with the stump, which are aggravated by the use of prosthetics. The consequence is that, every few years, they have to go in and remove a little more of the limb.
My understanding is that resections are things that are needed on the decade timescale, but maybe more frequently. And I'm not sure everyone has this problem. I know only that the two people I know had to have them, and that they limited their prosthetic use - they said - because it increased the chance they'd need a resection.
Maybe an expert can weight in?
This was my exact thought process. I feel like we're much closer to human-like robolegs than robohands.
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I would choose legs over one of each. If its just one then an arm but if its two then the legs.
Many people would probably be fine if their non-dominant hand was replaced by a prosthetic, though.
Computer work is so important these days and missing a hand is a huge downgrade for that.
Speech-to-text is pretty decent nowadays. You're going to be a bit slower in applications that have a lot of keyboard shortcuts available, but that's generally still very workable. Not saying it's equal, it's just not that bad compared to losing both hands.
I'd rather be immobile and be able to play video games.
Depends on the games you play, doesn't it? Strategy games (non-competitive) or turn-based RPGs work fine with one hand. And I bet it's possible to make a way to use at least the directional keys (wasd/arrows/d-pad) with your prosthetic, e.g. by rigging up one of those old school joysticks.
This comic did not need to have an anti woman slant to make this joke.
Yeah, it would definitely be better as a 3 panel (2 through 4)
Oh my God ... he chose arms didn't he?
Omg, I didn't get that far in the joke. I was just thinking that he was ignoring the stupid text presure by just being in the moment doing stupid nonsense stuff with his friends ignoring the phone.
I don't get it
It is implying that the reason he was not answering the gf on the phone is because of the choice he was given at the last panel: he chose to not have arms, they cut his arms, and he can't write a text on the phone anymore because of it.
wow. that is not my take at all. my take is he is not answering because hes talking stupid bullshit with his friends so is not paying attention to his phone as opposed to being out with a girl not paying attention to his phone.
I guess I'll lose your arms and your legs
I wanna know if he was allowed to say 1 of each would you go full left, full right, or 1 from each side. I would also imagine the arm side would absolutely have to be the non dominant one.
Ditch her.
Use nose to swipe down on phone to unlock. Use virtual assistant to check messages. No arms, no problem ;)