Hey Jason!
Boo boos: People’s with pronouns…
Peoples is a plural, no need for the possessive apostrophe. OR make it Persons. Still a plural, but prob more fitting.
Depends on your locality.
I’m loving where this is going! And you’ve picked up a little bit of speed.
And WHO doesn’t just love the menacing comedy do that is The Grins? (Reminds me a bit of the two guys in Tad Williams’s City of Light series. I can’t remember their names; my hubs and I called them Fatty and Skinny.
“i feel like getting a new arm might be like an emergency root canal.”
“It doesn’t take long if you don’t do it right.” — Long ago from a Flash animation. Or maybe that is wasn’t hard if you didn’t do it right. I can’t quite remember. So if whoever didn’t do Smirk’s surgery right, it didn’t take long, and it wasn’t expensive. After all, there’s experimental arms now that tap into nerves. In the future, I can easily imagine something like Lee press-on limbs, but the better ones get screwed into the bone.
It’s not like a culture was taken, and a new arm was grown. I can see that happening, too. Lose an arm, months later, a new one is ready to be attached. Or maybe like an old science fiction book I read, they slap a cast on you, and a new arm regrows in the cast. The protagonist lost a leg, and the medics slapped on a big chicken leg as a “prosthetic.” Later on it fell off, revealing his actual new leg underneath.
given enough time, the only restriction will be what you can think up. and if it’s cheap, and easy, losing a limb will be a major inconvenience. but i think having it done, and done so it looks natural will be something reserved for the rich. then again, some plastic surgery done today is done so that people know you had something done. that false look is worth extra money to some people. so i might be wrong.
i think having it done well, and natural looking will be something reserved for the wealthy. then again, some plastic surgery these days, is done in such a way that’s clear that you had ‘work done’, as a status symbol. so i might be wrong.
This is going to be a stupid question, but did Smirk get surgery or did the robotic arm get slapped on like nothing? How did they even afford it unless the arm is really that cheap or something. No worries if you don’t feel like answering. I was just curious.
there’s no stupid questions! but i might have no intelligent answers…. well, i didn’t make a scene out o’ it, cause i didn’t feel as thought it drove the story forward. if something is boring, or if i feel as though the reader can fill in the blanks, i let it happen. we already had a scene where smirk was getting his arm looked over, and that was some character building, and it tied in nicely to what was going on at the time so i thought it worked. but not twice.
so, did he get full on surgery again….? i don’t know… i mean, i assume, yes, to some degree. in this world, i feel like getting a new arm might be like an emergency root canal. it sucks, you can do it, it’s way expensive (or cheap, if you’re a cheap ass), but no one is going to cover it in the story of your life in detail.
Hey Jason!
Boo boos: People’s with pronouns…
Peoples is a plural, no need for the possessive apostrophe. OR make it Persons. Still a plural, but prob more fitting.
Depends on your locality.
I’m loving where this is going! And you’ve picked up a little bit of speed.
And WHO doesn’t just love the menacing comedy do that is The Grins? (Reminds me a bit of the two guys in Tad Williams’s City of Light series. I can’t remember their names; my hubs and I called them Fatty and Skinny.
I wish I could edit. Posting on my phone sucks. I don’t get to see the entire post.
DUO (lol)
“i feel like getting a new arm might be like an emergency root canal.”
“It doesn’t take long if you don’t do it right.” — Long ago from a Flash animation. Or maybe that is wasn’t hard if you didn’t do it right. I can’t quite remember. So if whoever didn’t do Smirk’s surgery right, it didn’t take long, and it wasn’t expensive. After all, there’s experimental arms now that tap into nerves. In the future, I can easily imagine something like Lee press-on limbs, but the better ones get screwed into the bone.
It’s not like a culture was taken, and a new arm was grown. I can see that happening, too. Lose an arm, months later, a new one is ready to be attached. Or maybe like an old science fiction book I read, they slap a cast on you, and a new arm regrows in the cast. The protagonist lost a leg, and the medics slapped on a big chicken leg as a “prosthetic.” Later on it fell off, revealing his actual new leg underneath.
given enough time, the only restriction will be what you can think up. and if it’s cheap, and easy, losing a limb will be a major inconvenience. but i think having it done, and done so it looks natural will be something reserved for the rich. then again, some plastic surgery done today is done so that people know you had something done. that false look is worth extra money to some people. so i might be wrong.
i think having it done well, and natural looking will be something reserved for the wealthy. then again, some plastic surgery these days, is done in such a way that’s clear that you had ‘work done’, as a status symbol. so i might be wrong.
This is going to be a stupid question, but did Smirk get surgery or did the robotic arm get slapped on like nothing? How did they even afford it unless the arm is really that cheap or something. No worries if you don’t feel like answering. I was just curious.
there’s no stupid questions! but i might have no intelligent answers…. well, i didn’t make a scene out o’ it, cause i didn’t feel as thought it drove the story forward. if something is boring, or if i feel as though the reader can fill in the blanks, i let it happen. we already had a scene where smirk was getting his arm looked over, and that was some character building, and it tied in nicely to what was going on at the time so i thought it worked. but not twice.
so, did he get full on surgery again….? i don’t know… i mean, i assume, yes, to some degree. in this world, i feel like getting a new arm might be like an emergency root canal. it sucks, you can do it, it’s way expensive (or cheap, if you’re a cheap ass), but no one is going to cover it in the story of your life in detail.
i hope that answers the question!
Just gotta say, I like the amount of action and plot development that is happening recently. Good stuff.
Besides, always love seeing Grins in the spotlight. They are comedy gold. In the dark, merc-ish, murdery kind of way.
oh good! i’m never sure how things are being received. well, it’s an investment. if you like the ride, you’ll enjoy the payoff. thanks for saying so!
Silencio, you’re spot-on, I think!