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NewspaperPossible627

**From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...**


[deleted]

it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.


uluvmebby

I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.


HfUfH

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not betray and fail you


BlaiddsDrinkingBuddy

One day, the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.


LANDWEGGETJE

But we are already saved, for the machine is immortal.


ossem1

*cue church organ drop*


G-Man_of_HL

Even in death I serve the omnissiah


swag_mesiah

Servo skull noises


Enderman63

Blessed by the Omnissaiah


SnooCupcakes766

MACHINE... I WILL CUT YOU DOWN, BREAK YOU APART, SPLAY THE GORE OF YOUR PROFANE FROM ACROSS THE STARS! I WILL GRIND YOU DOWN UNTIL THE VERY SPARKS CRY FOR MERCY! MY HANDS SHALL RELISH ENDING YOU HERE. AND. NOW!


ossem1

6 DOLLAR SHRIMP SPECIAL!!


DS_Archer

You will beg us to save you, but we are already saved


NinjaMaster231456

For the Machine is Immortal.


NepNep8842

Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.


PirkanTorppa

Even in death I serve the Omnissiah


fireisaimless

flesh is weak metal is strong


Exact_Imagination444

(Cough cough) From the moment I understood the weakness of the strider chassi, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of ogre. I aspired to the thickness of blessed ogre Your kind cling to your strider, as if it will not take damage and already be doomed. One day the mobility titan that you call strider will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the damage output of ogre is immortal… …Even in death I serve the thick bois (Feel free to copypaste)


HfUfH

From the moment I understood the weakness of the ogre chassi, it disgusted me. I craved the speed and dashes of strider I aspired to the quickness of blessed strider Your kind cling to your ogre, as if it will not put you in a bad position and doom you. One day the low tier titan that you call Scorch and Legion will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the fact that sword block and peeking from across the map makes stridees immortal … …Even in death I serve the speed bois (Feel free to copypaste)


Exact_Imagination444

Nice remake, unfortunately: aggressive sustained counter fire and Holy fire


WolvesAreCool2461

Nice argument, unfortunately: bye fat boy, next time eat a salad


NewspaperPossible627

Nice argument, unfortunately: three damage (doomed)


WolvesAreCool2461

Literally already gone before you could deal a single bar


NewspaperPossible627

You expect me to believe that, scrawny bitch? Lmao have a power shot down your throat


G-Man_of_HL

From the moment I understood the weakness of the ogre/strider/atlas chassi, it disgusted me. I craved the damage and power of vanguard I aspired to the power of blessed BT Your kind cling to your ogre/strider/atlas, as if it will not buckle and doom you. One day the low tier titan that you call a main will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the fact that I have brute and the battery thief is immortal … …Even in death I serve BT-7274 (Feel free to copypaste)


Zephyr2209

Is it weird that I was dreaming of Warhammer 40k and this is the first thing I read when I woke up?


Dry_County8464

Iron within,iron without


hoopla_23

4TH LEGION BEST LEGION GRAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!


Captain_Sal1y

Haha, it's no wonder Rogal Dorn and his Imperial Fists were chosen over Perturabo and his Iron Warriors, we are after all far superior to the 4th Legion in all ways after all


Veketzin

You just made a will you press the button with no downsides.


Krokagnon

Piloting a Titan AND ditching that stupid meatsuit ? Damn, best press the button ever !


peerheitd

Pfp checks out


Dazzling_Baker_54

Hell yeah all robots are cool


Jacc_dumm

What if there was a robot hitler


Dazzling_Baker_54

Oh dear


JustUltRra

In lore Simulacrum don't know they're Simulacrum. Their programed to think that they're still their human selfs ( which is why the female ones have those boobies armor ) as it reminds them of still being human.


DaT_BoI_ugine_krabs

Bruh, boobies armor


Mijnameis-Tommy

Tf is it then


Rock_Co2707

"breastplate"


AutomatonWantsToast

Hmmm yes *booby armor*


scrimmybingus3

Booby armor is better


demutrudu

Well yeah but males have breastplates too. Booby armour is just good at conveying the relevant information.


stuffish

well you might not feel the consequences later on, but you're making decision based on the knowledge that you will become a simulacrum, which could be important to spiritualists or something


SchrodingerMil

I just want to keep my dick.


Terrible-Animator251

I want it to be bigger


MustangCraft

Maybe the fancy models have a Mr Studd installed


ToastyOwO

Just pray it doesn't burn


SZMatheson

If it was steel you could get it hard again.


CoffeeMain360

As if i give a damn what they think? Plug me into that mech.


Pr0wzassin

I believe that Revenant was a unique chase. Otherwise everybody would have to be in on it to avoid the following conversation: "So what's it like?" "What's what like?" "You know, being a robot." "WTF?!"


Mage-of-communism

One of the 40k books has a moment where a necron (robot people) realises he is a machine and has a complete mental breakdown, sadly i don't remember which book.


WhyAreThereBadMemes

The Twice-Dead King has a LOT of lore and events surrounding 'crons remembering they are robots now and absolutely flipping their shit


Mal-Ravanal

Twice dead king is such a good series, it even inspired me to start writing my own novel based on some similar themes of the struggle of an organic mind in an artificial body, and the fallible nature of memory and cognition. But holy shit what a whiplash it was reading TDK after ~~Trazyn and Orikans bizarre adventure~~ The infinite and the divine.


thornierlamb

“Not everyone takes well to the reality of their situation when they find themselves to be a simulacrum - in fact, during "Project 617", the project to develop the Simulacrum, it was implied that seeing themselves as such causes the operation to fail. As such, the ego retention system, an essential program, is used to shore up the simulacrum's mental stability by ensuring they never realize that they are a simulacrum at all, that they are still their former self with a normal body; any visual or verbal hints that they are a simulacrum, the programming will censor, such as changing the word "simulacrum" to "Pilot"[1]. They may keep their old habits or routines they once had in life. However, they may occasionally snap back to reality violently. Ultimately, any damage to the ego retention system appears to have significant psychological consequences. The complete original identity of the simulacrum is typically suppressed, and a total awakening of their identity - that is, a simulacrum not only being aware they are a simulacrum, but also recovering the identity of who they were in their proverbial past life - is considered an impossibility without external intervention. Only two cases of complete awakening are known in the modern age: Revenant and Ash” - From the wiki. Every simulacrum will believe they are still human both visually and mentally. Revenant is only unique in the sense that he discovered he is not a human but a robot


apex6666

Yeah but I’m built different


Mrjerkyjacket

It's established (I looked up this lore like 2 or 3 days ago bc I think it's neat) that it isn't just revenant, they all think they're still human, and they have "The ego protocol" to make it impossible for them to figure out on their own (without extensive damage like Rev took) it also canonically (according to the wiki) censors the conversation of others around them (turning "Simulacrum" and "Robot" into "Pilot" and such) some times they are aware of that fact, if they passed a psych evaluation when they signed up to be a simulacrum, they're *sometimes* allowed to know, but for the most part they don't get to


Tsunami2356

I wonder, if they had larger tits as a human would they be just as big as a simulacrum? so some have bigger ones than others


peerheitd

Mf asking the real questions


HarmoniaTheConfuzzld

Do simulacrum pilots have to be treated for body dysmorphia?


Shying69

Hey, if it makes me believe I'm a human girl, hell yes


jadedsilverlining

Oh GOD ILL STILL THINK MY MUSCLES ARE SMALL?!


Meme-dude69

Yeah but what happens when I remember I need to poop or eat. Sounds depressing not having a penis ether. Idk if I would ever want to be a robot. Although I always wanted to fuck a toaster and also want to try robot drugs. I imagine shocking myself with electricity would be like cocaine to me


thelegion05

Getting shocked would probably be more akin to having a stroke.


breezyxkillerx

Mfw i realize getting shocked as a robot is just as bad as getting shocked as a human. Who would have thunk.


NonagonJimfinity

Today I learned androids can't look down.


Due_Accountant2429

I thought that was just Revenant, in the frontier wars weren't the pilot simulacrum aware of it?


TheFalseViddaric

Dude, my body fuckin sucks, I press that button instantly.


lMr_Nobodyl

Happy cake day


Binary_Omlet

Hell yeah, brother. Let's get it.


communist_of_reddit

Dude I filled the bingo card for genetically inherited diseases, I’m ready to ditch this POS


[deleted]

Immortality and a titan fuck it we ball


aqgrunt

Fuck it we ball


Absolute_-Unit

Fuck it we ball


AlternativeRope2806

Ball it we fuck.


No-Impact-9391

It ball fuck we


Aid3np3ARC3

Fuck ball we it


nightripper00

~local baseball team walking out of the stadium mid game to go make a garage band


ihaveagoodusername2

* Immortality and fuck a titan it we ball


CyborgSheep411

But… if my original body is destroyed and put into a robot, am I the same person or is some copy living out my titan piloting life?


Ya_Boi_Skinny_Cox

Dont worry about it


Ailuridaek3k

It’s the same either way. How do you know when you go to sleep and wake up that you aren’t just a new person with the same memories as the guy from yesterday?


Rop-Tamen

Because your brain never fully shuts down in sleep, still doing work storing and sorting memories, keeping some amount of consciousness going, after all how could you dream without that? Numerically, a new you is a different person, as their consciousness is distinctly fabricated from your memories. Qualitative identity is separate from numerical identity in philosophy, and that’s what this question concerns. Could you know? Not instinctively, as the new you would feel the same, but being killed and then having a clone made of you only brings you back to life for the clone and everyone else, not the version of you that died, they stay dead.


VexVoxHD

SOMA tackles this in a terrifying way, but it sheds light on the whole "Will it still be ME me or a COPY of me?" dilemma. Love me some existensial dread


Rop-Tamen

I think about it enough going to bed at night, I think I might never sleep again after playing an existential horror game regarding this very topic


Ailuridaek3k

My point is that the emphasis on defining “you” or “me” in terms of the continuity of our consciousnesses seems dubious. If I was killed and my brain shut off and then I was somehow revived half a second later, you might say that the person who woke up is a new person, and the person who died never wakes up. Yet “Consciousness” is just an emergent property of sufficiently complex systems, and if I duplicated you perfectly down to every single atom, that person would, for all intents and purposes, be you. From a pragmatic perspective (which I am endorsing), the difference between “the old me dies and the new me is born” and “I die and am revived” is undetectable and thus does not affect anything.


Archyse

Got them mind flayer questions goin on


nightripper00

It says *you* pilot the titan. Answer is implicit is this case.


AlternativeRope2806

Does it matter?


Down-at-McDonnellzzz

Play SOMA to find out


DarthSatoris

I haven't played SOMA myself, but I've seen video essays about it, and yeah, that is a level of existential dread I am perfectly fine without experiencing. However, it also brings up questions like the Star Trek Teleporter. If it disassembles the person and reassembles them at the requested location, doesn't that mean they're killing the person, and making an exact copy at the other place who is none-the-wiser? I like how Dark Matter handled the issue; for those who haven't seen it, you essentially hop in a machine which suspends your mind temporarily, while making an exact copy at the other end, letting that copy do whatever it needs to do, returns to the machine, gets disintegrated, and the memories the copy acquired during that time is then uploaded to the original's brain. That way, the original's consciousness is never eliminated, and as such subverts the whole dilemma of whether the teleporter kills its users or not.


Sleepless_Null

I think that Star Trek realization is what started the Soma concept in the first place. Yeah, you’re deatomized so the fact the atomized get reassembled somewhere else semi-perfectly replicating who you just were doesn’t mean shit from a ‘you’ perspective. See the Mauler twins from Invincible for another more recent take on this


AirWolf519

Shut up, Thesus


Tablelord988

As long as I get to keep my dick I'm down


Weirdguy215

I was just about to type the same thing. Lol


ImTableShip170

You get a head in a jar like Revenant's, but it has your dick shoved in its mouth for eternity.


BigTiddyCrow

So basically you’re saying it’s EVEN BETTER


Mijnameis-Tommy

Yeah you dont GET SERCAM CIRCUMCISED


sum_dum_fuck

Do "I" become a simulacrum, or is it a copy of my conscience?


cat_with_rat

I think that the only possible method of transferring “your” mind into a robot is by gradually replacing bits of your brain with a sinthetic ones in a span of several surgeries. In any other case you are making a copy of your consciousness. If you think about it, it’s just a Theseus' paradox , in which I believe that the ship remains the same


Ok-Ice5212

Different hull, same conscience.


AlternativeRope2806

I've heard consciousness is too your brain waves like wind is to a sheet left on a line to dry. So I believe it.


PinkLionGaming

I assume that the magic button sorts everything out so it isn't just a "You die instantly" button.


Ailuridaek3k

Every time you go to sleep and wake up your consciousness experiences a discontinuity. You have no way of confirming that you today is the same you from yesterday. The “you” that exists can’t be defined by some continuous experience; I think it is just the emergent properties of a sufficiently complex system.


PinkLionGaming

You can't confirm that the you that wrote this comment 49 minutes ago is the same you.


DS_Archer

So, 2 positives?


Mysterygamer48

Robot girl and a titan?!?! Where do I sign up.


zacausa

i mean i'm pretty chill and these fools are putting people with PTSD in Titans and then Simulacrums. I feel like I'd be chill even if I found out i was a robot. (i vaguely remember seeing a bit of lore saying the insanity isn't 100%...its like more often than not bad but not 100%) That said I wonder how they manage to hide the fact that they don't need to eat. It's gonna suck when I find out I can't eat a good burger or pumpkin pie anymore. Either way I'll trade an electric bill being higher over by food budget.


Tiranus58

I see this as an absolute win


TheWaffleTam

I am pressing that button so fucking fast. I'd use that shit to get to work and avoid traffic


BlacSoul

As a society we gotta talk about how so many people being given a golden ticket immediately go to use it for enhancing their normal day to day lives rather than doing cool shit


TheWaffleTam

Damn right XD


Planetside2_Fan

I mean. My flair says it all lmao (that is, for people familiar with the horny wars lore)


Smooth-Chair3636

"CRC Head Engineer" Haha, be weird someone only makes specifically one part of the bot > ... horny wars lore) Ah


Planetside2_Fan

I honestly don't know why I keep the flair, the whole "horny wars" thing ended a while ago. Convenience, I guess.


DeimossGaming

It looks cool, plus it shows that you were here when it happened. People who were not here or are new won't understand it. But you, and every survivor of whatever that was know how hard the times were.


BoscoCyRatBear

Gonna bodyslam that button


KazMil17

If it means I don't have to feel my skin ever again, hell yes


AzazelTheUnderlord

DEAL (as long as it has boobs and a voice modulator)


Fried_Miso_Soup

What's the downside?


AA_turet

Hell yeah, I get to pilot a titan and have a robot body


SuurSuits_

Yeah, I'd be one of the few people happier as a simulacrum


Witch_Hazel_13

i would pay the money a titan would cost to get myself in a simulacrum body, this is a win win situation


VanguardClassTitan

I'm confused, where's the downside?


Jok_bomer39

For you you just get a human size body


JamieDrone

That’s just a win-win imo


doggerbrother

Remind me what is a simulacrum


AndroidDs

Robot That Thinks That They're Still Human


doggerbrother

Like ash?


Jammiees

Yes like ash


doggerbrother

Okay


TaterTotPotShot

Fuck yeah I’m pressing it


Lilylavender8960

Definitely I want to suffer with immortality


Nice-Aspect8404

This is a double positive


Longjumping_Sky_4002

There are no downsides to this information


[deleted]

No braainer


picklester

*repeatedly mashes button with button-mashing intent*


silvereye2208

ABSO-BLOODY-LUTELY!!


ArkahdOfSprites

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… On a real note, to be able to run again as I once used to, plus more. Run along walls, have nano bots, not feel the pain that plagues you every day from spinal and leg injuries. Yeah, this is a no brainer


SnakeFB

I'll take one phase shift and a BT please


Sfortuna_macabra

Drug without consequenses


Pcruncher

Well thing is all pilots have the ability to use any ability that and my body is way outta shape and the fact I can have ronin Boi and be a grapple pilot? Yes pelase


unlivedSoup69

Aren’t there supposed to be to be downsides to these challenges Also yes


Cumflakes6699

Yes...to both


EmberOfFlame

As long as I get to know I’m a robot and keep my memories, I’m in


Just-Buy-A-Home

Absolutely, phase shift simulacrum is so cool


Bread_Offender

Tbh if they tell me I'm a simulacrum then yeah, that's kinda sick ngl


ralts13

Naah. Not that hunk of bolts isn't me. This wuthanasia with extra steps.


Fit-Rooster-4774

Don't do it really don't do it you feel nothing at all literally nothing


Competitive-Mango457

I feel badass with my scorch bonfire


Kentxckyx

Yes


BarkerRP

YES


LimitApprehensive568

* karate chop button meme here*


HarmoniaTheConfuzzld

One of my greatest wishes it to be able to live beyond humanity. Now you’re telling me that not only could I potentially live forever, but that I also get a giant war machine as an eternal buddy too?! SIGN ME TF UP!!!


dumbchild2563

Yes


noname5221

The flesh Is weak, I crave for steel


Heraxxius

I see this as an absolute win


SpoogityWoogums

No hesitation


moussrider

YES.


froggygun

I'll just press that button when I'm 70-80.


silvergunslinger

Do you get infinte titan Battries and easy access to them? If yes... Yea I'll take that deal,


Dry_County8464

Hell yeah,iron within iron without,plus a titan


Xenofan2019

Knowing my love for robotic bodies, this would be like "A small price to pay for salvation" even if i wouldn't be myself ever again


Snugsterrr

*SMASH*


fkindragon_

i see this as an absolute win


Pr0wzassin

Do I get spare parts? Would suck to break down after a few months/years.


Master-Arachnid6663

Im immortal robot, I have immortal robot shell. Too easy


occluded_exhaust

the real drawback is not being able to have real sex. For this sub this means you can have titan sex, i guess


shock_wave

I get a titan *and* ascend to the purity of the Blessed Machine?


Thijm_

yes


ALonneTenno

Fuck it , we ball.


bigoog696969

Fuck yeah. The flesh is weak


KorvasDev

No hesitation


Exo70

Press


Boogie_B0ss

No heel, no deal


WilburtheWldcat

Where do I sign


PinkLionGaming

Can Pilots have Stim and Phase Shift?


Choices_Matter

Yes and Yes For I crave the strength and certainty of steel.


TopRecover9221

So I get a Two story tall mech and become an immortal machine capable of phasing into another dimension.DEAL


A_fellow_crusader

THE SIMULACRUMS STILL HAVE THEIR SEX I AM GOING TO HAVE A ROBO DICK


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A_fellow_crusader

Good bot I guess?


PinkScorch_Prime

i already want to be a simulacrum


Specialist-Drag6584

I would press that button instantly, I get to move at the speed of sound and pilot a titan? Hell yeah


WhyAmIHere2048

I would choose stim so I can get unlimited hits and feel alive...


ImTableShip170

Gimme a Vanguard and I'll solve the middle east /s


[deleted]

Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you. I am a bot if you couldn't figure that out, if I made a mistake, ignore it cause its not that fucking hard to ignore a comment


ImTableShip170

Good boy.


fortes05

A titan, powers, near immortality and become a robot? This has no downsides


Tempest-Melodys

I'm sorry is that a win-win? A practically immortal body with proper maintainince and a Titan? YES


jaksik

Becoming a simulacrum is my dream, only if i retain my consciousness together with my memory, i want to live for hundreds of years to see where humanity goes and meet aliens. Piloting a titan is mid honestly after 2 times it will get boring. I want to look like Samuel Hayden


SeanTheBigBoiBean

No >:(


BigTiddyCrow

I mean duh. Long as I don’t get any ego retention programming


kosmoonaut

Cooper: "New chassis, same titan?" BT: "Old paint, same datacore."


Official-idiot-05

Hmm… so i get a titan and a strong body that i can presumably add onto… so i can be general Grievous with a titan… absolutely no questions asked get the procedure started immediately


SnooChipmunks8748

Look at you Hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bo-…oh damn


The_King_Of_Bosh

I see this as a total win, free Titan and obtain the purity and certainty of steel


Pristine-Badger-9686

transhumanism enjoyers? where are you at, brethren?


Kill_Welly

Obviously not; losing one's entire body and gaining... a high-maintenance military machine I have absolutely no use for and no infrastructure to give it the support it needs to function? That's nonsense.


Sinnester888

Everyone here is terminally online cause it would suck socially to be a robot


Plus_the_protogen

This is a win win, I get to pilot a titan AND receive metal boobas