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Wouldnt it be interesting if it was kind of both? Both nanobots and a kind of biological component, for interfacing with and rewiring of neural tissues. Ricochet the AI (as named in another post) could go for the fever kill switch, brain meltingly high fever. And for extra flavor,, why not say the AI has some kind of wireless broadcasting? If he is decepticon made for intel, then they’d need a way to send the intelligence back.

Here is where Ricochet makes a mistake. If youve seen No Way Home with that one nanobots scene that let peter control the arms? Thats kind of what i’m getting at, but to the left. Ricochet decides to broadcast (via his wireless bluetooth magic) Jazz’s thoughts to Prowl. Why not get a little bit more torment in as they both die together?

It’s horrifying for Prowl at first, having Jazz’s slowly decaying fear and confusion as his brain quite literally melts, be projected into his systems. He can barely comfort Jazz at all, Jazz can hardly understand whats happening at this point, so deep in the fever.

Until.

Prowl realizes the connection is two way.

While Prowl wasn’t necessarily built to send signals or link with things not of his own systems, Ricochet and his fancy shiny new technology had found some bypass for that. Maybe someone had patched a comm into Prowl at some point, so that he could directly talk to and hear what was being said over those comm lines. And that was what Ricoxhet had been able to connect to.

ANYWAY. Prowl realizes with that tiny little two way connection, he can attack Ricochet’s code. Unfortunately, defending against a cyberattack causes Ricochet’s nanobots to generate even more heat. Prowl wins eventually, overpowers Ricochet’s coding and takes control of it perhaps because the decepticons had never considered a counterattack like that could be possible. It wasn’t supposed to be. But Jazz has like, really bad brain damage at this point.

Hm. Too bad nobody has any nanobots that can rewire -or recreate existing- neural pathways. Oh, wait. :)

The ethical dilemma.

Nobody knows yet what is happening. Jazz’s vitals are concerning. His brain activity is all over the place, but definitely not normal for a, you know, alive person. Prowl has an extremely limited time to make a decision, before jazz’s death becomes irreversible.

He uses the nanobots to rebuild Jazz’s brain.

He salvages what he can, leaves as much untouched as possible. The scans he had managed to take prior to and over the course of Ricochet’s attack prove to be invaluable. His vitals stabilize, slowly, and then all Prowl could do has been done. He uploads a collage of all the previous scans, patched together for the most accurate possible recording of all of what makes Jazz who he is.

All thats left to do now is disconnect from the nanobots, let them go dormant, and wait for jazz to wake up. Hope Jazz could forgive him.

It felt like vertigo, like seeing double. Twisted in a funhouse mirror, where one layer was weirdly crisp but jumped in places like an old edited recording. The other layer was streaming color and sensation, a melting mind’s last attempts at coherency bleeding away into nonsense and nightmares.

Jazz wakes up.

Okay even after the autobots find out Jazz's mind got infected, they still need to get whatever turned jazz evil out of him somehow, and whatever is in the driver's seat won't go down without a fight. They might have to keep him tied up in a medical area and away from the portal gun while everybody is trying to figure out how to fix it. And meanwhile, the person in control of Jazz's body is using his voice to taunt everyone else

OUGH. Smiling like a maniac perhaps. Telling everyone that Jazz’s brain was completely wiped. Or saying that “oh you wanna talk to your precious friend? I’ll let him tell you how he’s doing I feel generous” and then skipping two seconds before starting to scream and trash frantically.

And. You know. I think the entity can try to do as much damage as possible but if there’s absolutely NO way of getting free? The entity decides that the most damage will be caused by killing Jazz.

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What if they try to sedate him cause. If neither Jazz nor the entity are allowed control over the body then Jazz isnt winning the fight but the entity cant force him to harm himself either.

And everyone thinks its working right, it seems to be a valid way to buy time to figure out how to get rid of the entity, but then. The fever.

Fevers are the body’s way of protecting itself from foreign bacteria and viruses. It activates the immune system to fight back, as well as making a worse environment for the virus to survive in. If the immune system is failing to kill the bacteria or virus, the body will basically start a game of heat chicken. Either the virus dies, or the body gets too hot for its own survival, and the brain starts becoming damaged.

The entity, realizing it is a lost cause, triggers every single corner of the ‘make fever hotter’ parts of the immune system, and sits back to watch. If fevers get to or over 106° for too long, it’ll start damaging the cells. Jazz is dying and Prowl and Jazz’s friends can’t do anything else about it. Sure theres medicines to lower fevers, but what side effects do they have? Does prowl even have them, or the materials and equipment to synthesize them?

If Jazz dies, is it ethical to reconstruct whatever of his brain they can, and redownload Prowl’s scan of Jazz when he was still healthy and not virused?

Okay even after the autobots find out Jazz's mind got infected, they still need to get whatever turned jazz evil out of him somehow, and whatever is in the driver's seat won't go down without a fight. They might have to keep him tied up in a medical area and away from the portal gun while everybody is trying to figure out how to fix it. And meanwhile, the person in control of Jazz's body is using his voice to taunt everyone else

OUGH. Smiling like a maniac perhaps. Telling everyone that Jazz’s brain was completely wiped. Or saying that “oh you wanna talk to your precious friend? I’ll let him tell you how he’s doing I feel generous” and then skipping two seconds before starting to scream and trash frantically.

And. You know. I think the entity can try to do as much damage as possible but if there’s absolutely NO way of getting free? The entity decides that the most damage will be caused by killing Jazz.

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The marionette thing, but what if it wasn’t just one string of code? What if it was so many puppet strings to saw through, and at first its just prowl pleading as he feels parts of himself shut down, but then. He starts getting glitchy. Jazz isn’t even halfway through the instructions, theres so many things to do, and at the end, the final line to reset Prowl and turn him off, he already looks dead.

Prowl’s speakers turned to static then silence, his body gone limp or frozen in place, lights dimming and flickering out. No fans run, there is no sounds of distant machinery and shuffling walls. How long would Jazz have to sit there typing, disassembling Prowl, miserable, knowing prowl was probably watching him do it all, voiceless and incapable of movement, feeling as Jazz limited over and over again how much processing power he had access to?

The last thing to turn off with the code is the little red light on the lone camera in the control room. Stationary, not at an angle that could have seen the instruction paper. But the whole way through, Prowl had been watching.

How much would he remember upon being restarted?

MAN the moment when Jazz hits the sequence to shut Prowl down without killing him. Would Prowl recognize what was happening or would it feel just like dying?

For the drama purposes? I think he should believe that Jazz decided to kill him. Because evil Prowl doesn’t know about the backdoor. The only thing he knows is that Jazz found the kill switch and now all his systems are shutting down. Which is. For a robot? Basically dying.

Bonus points - imagine if it looks like cutting strings of a marionette? Like his movements become weird and twitchy and chaotic, then his lights go out and finally the big metal “arm” that kept him kinda levitating just gives up and he falls on the floor like a puppet.

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OK—But wait— What if Buran did return back to “normal”? What if Loaf tried to bring him to life?

Loaf, holding the nose of Buran kneeling, resting his face against him, “Don't worry. You're just deactivated.”

“You can be fixed.”

You're just deactivated you can be fixed____

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Snins

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On conservation and survival

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When will my son (ao3) come back from the war (system maintenance)

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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hey, which horror subgenre are you?

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Happy let Papyrus say fuck day!

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fanfic writers what font do you write in

i know on ao3 it's all in verdana but when you're drafting the fic in word or docs or whatever

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Oh no, you got isekaied into the last media you read/watch. You are now a background character dead center in the plot. Are you surviving.

Yes

No

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The desire to tag things with "ping pong ball" or a variation of that, but knowing that no one who actually understands the specific context of what I mean is on Tumblr and therefore using the phrase as a category/signifier is basically useless

Guesses as to what it means are welcome, encouraged even. It would be so entertaining

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Edge of cup. Three firm taps around the middle with a little space between them, creates seam for easy splitting. Thumb nails grown out and sharpened so i can shove them into the middle tap’s gap and pry the egg shell into halves. Very rarely gets shell into the mixing cup. Very effective.

can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical