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Post by #1! on Jul 28, 2015 4:25:49 GMT
We're in different worlds from you; hair doesn't mean things like that in other places. Well, if it comes right down to it, you can always tell by model number!
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Post by lurkingkobold on Jul 28, 2015 4:31:26 GMT
Most of us don't have those, either.
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Singer
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Post by Singer on Jul 28, 2015 4:53:17 GMT
Lizzie Some of this stuff is voice activated, which would definitely mean you'd need a work around for the language issue, which can be done but is again expensive. Others work via motion sensing, like with devices stuck to doors and drawers to open them and stuff. A few voice activated things are available in forms that are mentally activated, though some of those are still language dependent. Usually people rework an animal's throat a bit while awakening to allow them to speak, though some of them still need devices to amplify their voices afterwards otherwise they are hard to hear. It's not something we can do for an adult animal though. These days it's usually done through genetically modifying embryos. Sometimes it doesn't work at all like with the octopi and then they need a computer to talk with most people. But it worked with all the land animals people have done it on. The bats were kin of tricky because they didn't want to mess up their echolocation. I know about that because we have some bats who are friends with us and live nearby. Also some of my people helped when they were doing it.
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Post by lurkingkobold on Jul 28, 2015 4:57:35 GMT
Singer: Are there any other problems with doing that magic for an adult animal?
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Post by Singer on Jul 28, 2015 5:25:00 GMT
lurkingkobold: Well they probably won't learn very fast if they are already adult unless you use other magic to handle that. Also if they breed the kids won't be smart unless the embryos get modified separately. Though if you are just asking about one and don't want a population that's probably not an issue. Awakened animals are modified so that they aren't attractive to regular animals because that would be weird and gross. That should still work on an adult, and if the standard method used on awakened animals doesn't work, there are other methods. They might need to be renewed occasionally though, or require an item to hold the spell or something. I'm not an expert on this stuff. If you actually want this done I'd have to ask the biomagic specialist here if he knows how to do this, it's kind of an extremely specialised specialty tho so I wouldn't bet on it. And finding somebody else to do it would be super expensive, especially if you prefer not to be identified which would probably be easier under the circumstances. I don't know if you have that kind of money in a form I could convert into something I could pay somebody with.
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Post by Lizzie on Jul 28, 2015 5:46:55 GMT
i think any1 who moves 2 ur world is going 2 want the assistive device. iiii don't think any1 is going 2 want any modification done 2 them if that were even possible.
we can probably pay 4 the assistive device somehow, and depending on how exactly it works we might want some 4 ppl that aren't moving 2 ur world.
in our world we have simoleans u get them from sacrificing stuff and u use them 2 instantiate stuff and we have a lot b/c transfiguration. also i make potions which u can't instantiate and i can trade them 4 other hard-to-get stuff. there is probably something that we can get here that would b valuable in ur world. unless we can transfer simoleans 2 u directly? u can't transfer them between planes here unless u r also transferring a household, so we could send some w/whoever u took in when they left. unless ur world is weird. ur world sounds weird.
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Post by Singer on Jul 28, 2015 6:24:44 GMT
Yeah, instantiating things with magic is /really hard/ here, unless you cheat by transmuting a pile of junk or something. Sending objects is probably a better bet.
And I can totally get you some motion sensor openers for doors and drawers cheap. Although I am not sure how to send them, except through the OTC, and I don't have any of their currencies..
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Post by Mozee on Jul 28, 2015 6:37:41 GMT
I believe I could make Portals to your worlds to help you trade, if you wanted, sweeties.
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Post by Meletiti Entelecheiai on Jul 28, 2015 7:31:38 GMT
As an alternative to assistive devices, we might be able to just give telekinesis-reliant species more finely-controlled telekinesis, which'd basically just give them the opposable thumbs they need to operate existing devices. Don't even need alethics for that - I betcha mage hand could do it!
--ChibE
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Post by Ahrotahn on Jul 29, 2015 4:00:22 GMT
Well, if it comes right down to it, you can always tell by model number! My managers aren't models! Do your managers have model numbers?
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Post by #1! on Jul 29, 2015 5:05:59 GMT
Well, if it comes right down to it, you can always tell by model number! My managers aren't models! Do your managers have model numbers? Nope! They're uniquerer.
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Post by Tyche on Aug 1, 2015 2:44:05 GMT
Lizzie: I only just saw this (I have been too busy even to spare a me for keeping an eye on the forum, let alone responding, and am currently catching up), and lurkingkobold seems to have this managed (which is good, because my best course of action would be to dump this on one of my coworkers, if we're both still around when this is over, and he would probably not appreciate that). In any case, most of my normal responses to situations like this are useless here. We do have a lot of technology for helping uplifts without fine-motor ability, but most of it depends fairly strongly on having mesh inserts, and even if they were willing to be modified the R&D to get anything with direct neural hookups to work for them would likely be nontrivial. I will see what I can do about getting you specs for our assistive technology that is not strictly mesh-insert controlled. (Even if it was low-bandwidth enough to fit under our current comm restrictions, I would not want to risk something else getting through)
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Post by Lizzie on Aug 1, 2015 4:14:24 GMT
help w/assistive devices would b gr8, but maybe u should focus on not dying??? wait what do u mean, "something else getting through"?? do u need help? this sounds a little more pressing than assistive devices
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Post by Tyche on Aug 1, 2015 4:26:19 GMT
I would have some comment about death not being particularly relevant, but if we lose backups aren't going to matter. Thorn made a thread about itThe other mes are working on making sure we don't all wind up not existing, but they don't have anything for me at the moment and if something happens on the forum again we want to know. Responses don't take long, and I really don't like people being treated like non-people.
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Post by Lizzie on Aug 3, 2015 4:17:04 GMT
Tyche: that is gr8 of u but also rlly worrying! we have some other options for assistive devices that probably do not contain terrifying mindcontrol viruses, so i hope you'll understand if we don't jump right on that? plz let us know if there's anything we can do to help w/the terrifying mindcontrol viruses, though Mozee: that is rlly nice of u! i'd like to do it maybe? there r some ppl here that i rlly don't want 2 inflict on unsuspecting universes and i'm actually trying to keep the whole forum thing on the dl, idk how small ur portals are/how precisely you can aim them? Singer what do u think?
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