Ideas of questionable quality

[Sundance]

From the fluids thread. Remember the Sealab episode where they’re all talking about becoming robots and one guy ends up a brain with a speaker attached to it?

Well, maybe we’re out of cyborg parts and metal but we want to have some fun.

- Start with a brain.
- Attach wires to the brain.
- Attach a station-bounced radio to the brain.
- Attach a power cell to the brain.

Voila! Now it’s a Brain-Speaker Assembly. All it can do is talk on the radio, like an AI core except that it’s totally useless. The brain can still suicide if the player would rather be a ghost or ghost drone.

Maybe you can attach a robot leg to it so it can move around like an unholy abomination.

This is already been suggested and explored extensively, under what was called Brainvats. I can't however find the brainvat original thread I posted which had original sprites. I think it has expired or maybe it possibly got pruned.

It was a very simple concept; it was just a vat a roboticist could make in its manufacturer, and you could shove a brain into. It was free from laws and fragile. It could speak. You can put a hat on it. You could attach wheels and an arm to it and it could scoot around and pick up things, while still maintaining its freedom and fragileness.

It was picked up but honestly it was made far more complicated than the original suggestion (requiring an assortment of toolboxes, prox, practically all the tools), and promptly abandoned after said coder was bored/frustrated of trying to implement it. Also letting me a little down that there was no consultation with the original thread, nor did they use my sprites (which were actually very good for 2014 me).

You can actually find bits of it if you search in the code.

I'll see if I can search for it, but it was a fairly long time ago, i'm afraid it has gotten lost to time.

Edit: Found it.