welp couldn't make a flying eyecopter. the disappointment is palpable. i mean i tried. i tried real hard. i superscienced my little heart out.

but in the end i just had to accept

that eyecopters only work

in cartoons and stuff

i know i know

'what is the point of superscience if you can't do cartoon stuff'

i am right on board with that junk. that junk is where i live. it is my garbage houseboat.

but even so

no eyecopter

had to just make like an eyespider instead. climbs out of my socket with its little legs and scuttles all over the place.

i mean it's pretty good

cute and useful

but it's just not an eyecopter. oh well. scientific progress marches on. one day maybe we will have caught up to my dreams. my dreams of having an eye that can fly around. for now i must be happy with an eye that can but scuttle.

also it's not technically an eye yet

forgot to do anything with my actual optic nerve connection thing

got too caught up with minimech fun

so yeah that's definitely next on my to do list. actually make my roboeye into an eye. instead of just a robot spider that lives in my skull.

i mean yeah the spider has an eye. little camera thing. just doesn't hook into my own optic nerves. so haha. yeah. i guess for now i could do some kind of autofeed back into my scouter hud. is that going to work or is it just going to make me puke instantly. well only one way to find out.

the other thing is i had to put this like battery pack on the side of my head. you know something about the human head? it does not have a lot of real estate. for a bit i was like 'do i really need two ears' but then i was like. jin. don't go hastily hacking bits of yourself off. the ants will take care of that for you. let's keep it a surprise. i wonder what i will lose next. maybe a knee.

i mean i wanted to telepower the thing but one important thing about eyeball-sized robots is that they are the size of an eyeball. and eyeballs are not large. and as much as i pride myself on making the world's smallest teleportals there is such a thing as markovian degradation. long story short you can't make a teleportal small enough to fit inside an eyeball robot. physics can be such a harsh mistress.

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so yes. has to be a battery pack. teeny battery inside the thing that gives it like half an hour of freescuttle time. heavy little battery pack as part of my scouter rig that lets it recharge while it's resting inside my skull. bff computer's been working on antbloodbattery efficiency. doing a pretty good job i gotta say. got them batteries down to head-wearable size. still heavy though. probably doing spine damage. oh well what price progress etc. i mean sure i could put it on my shoulder or back or arm or something but who wants ugly clunky wires all over the place. wires! i reject that retro aesthetic.

oh yeah i finally got around to doing something with those fireant gems. had them just sitting in my in tray for i don't even know how long. months probably. time is relative. i have no idea what year it is even. i should have a birthday sometime. i'm sure i've stored up enough days to cash in.

anyway fireant gems. turns out those things are really good at cooling stuff down. i know. total shocker. complete reversal of expectations. i mean the flipping things are glowing volcanic red. and they're hot! normal antgutgems aren't hot. they're just kind of. warm. pulsating. but yeah i guess what happens is that fireants get really hot and they need something to counter that? because they're definitely not heatproof. fireants i mean. you can burninate those things right to death just as easy as any ant. so they got these cold gems to make sure they don't just like combust.

haven't actually figured out what to do with these new cold gems yet. make a fridge i guess. i mean of course naturally my mind went to freezeray but i dunno. would i actually even use it? i feel like it's a thing i'd spend ages making and then i'd freeze a couple of ants and be like haha cool and make some ice puns and then throw it in a closet and never think about it again.

hmm but wait a second. there could be times i need to cross water. and i might not want to build a bridge or whatever. if i could just freeze the water instantly then i could walk right over. so what i should do is invent like a freeze grenade.

jin you are so practical today

meanwhile chitin arm still chitining. less itchy now. my body accepts this alien addition. not sure where to go next. i have hit a wall in the area of ant human bodymodding. a wall made of. nonexcitement. i really thought i'd be at least getting those ant dreams. but nothing. nothing. just itchiness. guess its gotta be the brain huh? can't expect just your arm to start linking you in to ancient giant ant hivemind mysteries.

then again it's probably not gonna be like how i think. i'm over here going ooh baby gimme those sweet enigmatic alien voices. all like be one with us jin give us the direction only your superscience genius human brain can provide. together we will be many. together we will be one. submit to the hive and fulfil your destiny.

but i bet actually it's just like eat eat eat eat eat makemoreants eat eat eat eat and that could get pretty boring pretty quick

so maybe i shouldn't be thinking about hooking in to hiveminds

i should be more focused on

dominating hiveminds

so really what i need to do is more antvestigations. learn more about these chitinous suckers. do they even have queens or whatever? princesses? could i be an ant princess? do i want to be an ant princess? or do i just want to make myself a little crown. that can control ants. i think that's the one. i don't want to be a princess. i just want an antdomming crown.

okay good. good to have a focus. current plan is fix this eye so i can see out of it and also reduce puking to a minimum. then go out and find a hive and kill a whole bunch of ants and find out what controls them and then use that controlling thing to become antboss. &also invent freeze grenade.

good plan jin

hop to it