people are running away from me and i do a terminator 2 style melt to get through some grating, then the goo just goes right past the terrified people, opens a refrigerator, grabs some ice cream, and melds back where i originally was
@heatherhorns Kind of wonder if your T-1000 style liquid-metal computer has geometries where their processing power is better and if, like, when they have a real important task they have to just settle down and be a genus-three doughnut or something a while.
@Austin_Dern omg
i wanna hear @Nine on this
@heatherhorns @Austin_Dern wwell, yes, i mean, sometimes you're gonna need extra surface area for certain tasks, or you're gonna need to reconfigure a few internals, or even externals, to interface with physical devices, sometimes you really DON'T want to be broadcasting over radio/wifi/bluetooth/nfc/tachyons or whatever, so you wanna dissassemble that part temporarily. and sometimes you just REALLLLLLY need like, a fuckin', extra pocket or too.
so yeah, different shapes, different uh... japes?
@Austin_Dern @Nine i've considered this idea with heatherhorns before!
not necessarily paws but just having physical tells
@heatherhorns @Nine My wife is able to tell when I'm taking with specific people on the furry mucks just from how my face and posture change while I type. It's amazing.
@Austin_Dern @heatherhorns "I am a gestalt entity formed from a massive hypercluster of nanomachines. I am therefore immune to your puny physical meatsacks' 'tells', and have the perfect pokerface"
"Ren, when you have a winning hand, your tail gets super slick and jelly-like because you literally divert processing power away from your appearance to internally squee about how good you are at poker. It gets spiky when you have a bad one."
"...I said I have a perfect poker-FACE, not tail."
@Nine @heatherhorns Be hilarious, though, if someone can figure out what you're thinking about by what shape your paws are taking on, though.