powerplant suspiciously empty

sent a few more drones over

really give the place a good scouting

make sure it actually is safe

before i wander on over and fall into an underground hive or something

inevitably

waterfactory still bursting with ants. crawling with the things. not interested in me. more interested in whatever's over the river. not thinking about what is over the river. because it is probably. people. being hassled by ants. butnotmyproblem. this is all theoretical anyway. what evidence do i have. bullets. ants could totally invent guns. not even invent them. i bet there are guns lying around. probably just some enterprising young ant was all like 'oh yeah man i could totally use a human boomstick' and picked #4 for target practice. yeah that's the ticket.

speaking of pathological distancing from humanity, roboarm stuff is going well. bulked her up. properly this time. no cheaty antigrav weightless stuff. just good old fashioned robowonking. took off some lasers. still like three on there. scrapped multibladearm project. kept the aggby. not powering anything. just sitting there waiting to emergency eject at any moment. have not got tired of that. still funny. every. time.

anywa. roboarm felt a bit lonely with zero sword/blade/claw options so installed some antblades. just two. not going overboard. some good moments when testing. got them hooked to like a retractable thing so i can extend them and have like swordclawblades and slash stuff all to bits. overengineered the mechanism just a touch. first time i activated it they just went shooting straight into a wall. straight. in. there. adjusted down. they work now. keeping the powerlaunching option too of course. just in case i ever need to shoot swords out of my arm. i mean i can think of at least four scenarios when i'd need that. that's just off the top of my head. definitely a useful function.

also increased grip strength. just kept pumping it up until i could crush ant chitin. figure that's about where i want to be. then doubled that. then doubled it again. i mean when you're on a grip strength kick why stop the bus. accidentally destroyed my favourite mug during testing. crushed the microportal in it too. now i got this cute little dimensional tear in the middle of the room. permanently leaking perfectly brewed hot tea. set up a little thing around it. put a portal underneath to send the tea back to the tea dimension. i call this latest piece

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anyway that is what's going on with my robot arm. now for my human ant bionetic hybrid chitin arm i can report the following:

did not wake up with a big pulsing organic mass growing on my arm

have not experienced alien arm syndrome ie my new human ant hybrid arm trying to strangle me

have not had any weird ant dreams where i'm an ant or where a hive mind talks to me with like this cool echoey voice-of-the-many effect

have not looked in a mirror and for a second it's like my reflection has an ant head or antennae or whatever

have been very itchy around chitin graft area

have had side effect reaction to anti-rejection drugs in the toilet department. nuff said bout that.

in conclusion human ant hybrid experiments are v mundane. disappointing. maybe i should plug an antennae into my noodle or something. start tuning in to radio free ant. what if i hooked a giant ant antennae into my empty socket optic nerve area. i mean that guy isn't even doing anything. just wasted space.

or maybe i should work on that robot eye. little flying robot eye. so cute. so utility. how to make it fly though. little propeller. turns into an eyecopter. slices my face all to donk on its way out. i forgive. he do his best.

or work on that microteleportal surprise eyesocket bag of holding deal. anything that can fit through an eye socket-sized hole can be mine at any time. like. hotdogs. i could definitely shoot hotdogs out of my eyehole. frozen hotdogs for added ice element damage. and of course. also. the element. of surprise. nobody expects eye hotdog launcher. nobody.

life creation experiments continue to fail. i lose hope in this project. i mean i'm not even at the abomination of nature stage. haven't created any little whining piles of organic nightmare. all like 'killllll meeeee' when i walk past because i gave them a mouth and vocal chords for some reason. staring at me with all their baleful little eyes. all i got are a bunch of floppy nerve signals that die as soon as i cut power. can't even make a basic nervous system. what kind of a sad scientist even am i.

drones still haven't finished scouting that power plant. should do something while i wait. eye stuff maybe. get something in there at least. roboeye. anteye. antennae eye. teleportal eye. i got options for sure. hard to choose.

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