new lung is not actually a lung

had a look and decided

this is extraneous

who needs two of these things

i'll just make the good lung twice as powerful

take out this damaged one

and put in like

a cupboard

no wait it's a chest

a chest chest

i can store secret things in there

like minicomputer's little brother

tinycomputer

had to take out a few bones and things but eh

bones am i right

those things barely do anything

antweb based reinforcing lattice structure is way more efficient and practical. also turns out accordion motion antlung substitutes have some pretty efficient oxygenation stuff going on. first time doing major organ stuff but i only technically died for like three minutes consecutively and seventeen altogether which isn't that much really. over the course of a lifetime. probably good for you. give the whole system a bit of a rest. bit of a reset. a little technical death never hurt anyone. drones v helpful for this kind of thing btw. don't perform self surgery without a backup team of robots is my advice. when you're in the middle of fiddling around inside yourself and you suddenly die it's definitely helpful to have a robot there to just be like whoops better bring her back to life. because if you don't have that then how are you gonna do anything? you can't, is the answer.

kind of babbling there. been a bit lightheaded lately. had a few blackouts. couple of random fugue states. probably just ptsd or something. not to worry.

anyway while i was fiddling around with lung and respiration stuff i did think about fully converting to anaerobic respiration but. kind of a hassle. breathing is pretty. y'know. convenient. oxygen is everywhere. so i just shoved like a backup thing in there. just in case oxygen suddenly becomes. not everywhere. i don't know. i mean i was messing around in that area anyway. so yeah. superlung. chest chest. backup anaerobic plugin that should keep me going for like ten minutes or so if oxygen isn't available.

feeling pretty good to just be doing some solid superscience again. self surgery much more fun than. the other kind. did a bit more chitinskinning while i was mucking around. covered up my back and sides mostly. really flipping itchy but well. hopefully that'll pass.

in weapon news yeah i got a thing happening. it's pretty bulky. managed to get the weight down with some antweb tech. don't have any left now but. well. it's worth it to have a weapon that doesn't rely on biscuit fort being here. kind of mixed together all the stuff i learned from all my weaponing. uses chitinshards for ammo. but bigger than the other ones. bigger to hold explosive cannonball mixture. so the shards explode. getting stuff to actually shoot out of the thing was an issue for a bit. bulletguns use chemical reactions but. well. initial experiments in that direction just resulted in the whole gun exploding. not exactly what you want in a combat situation. so i tapped into some teleportal pocket dimension stuff and got this air pressure vacuum situation happening where the explodoshard kind of gets sucked out the front of the gun. it's hard to explain but it works really well. makes this fun noise. like. shwoop. fiddled with different stuff for getting a new shard up ready to get sucked out but. well that's a pretty tricky part of a weapon to be honest. like you can shoot one ammo or whatever. but getting that next ammo ready takes some work. human bulletgun uses this weird springloaded bulletcatch thing. seems pretty. janky. i mean it works. but. i just don't like it. instead i whacked a drone inside the thing. a little one. with tinyhands. and the drone's job is just to put an explodoshard in the void chamber if it is empty. drone can hold. many shards. and can replace them. quickly.

so now i got a big chunky explodoshard rifle that does not rely on teleports or on biscuit fort. it does need a pretty constant supply of antgutgems and antbits but well the only thing i use weapons for is to make antcorpses so. the problem solves itself. also explodoshards are 100% organically sourced from all natural antcorpse farming. no external materials necessary. every ant can make. like. hundreds of explodoshards. and it only takes one or two explodoshards to kill an ant. unless i miss a lot. in which case it can take. more. but anyway you can see the economic efficiency in play here.

one nice surprise from computer. once again past jin told computer to do something and present jin has no memory of past jin's actions but is reaping the rewards. anyway it cracked the mareo copy protection drm nonsense so now i can make another mareo. except i can't because mareos need a bunch of weird stuff. who would have thought a matter reorganiser could be so complicated. well anyway the practical application means i can make an ammofactory. in my gun. i just need to feed it antbits and antgutgems and it makes more ammo automagically. so self sufficient. so satisfying. decorated the gun with sparkly purple glitterpaint and also rainbow decals. rainbows are my new thing i have decided. because i like this top the humans gave me. with a rainbow on it. even changed my facechitin to be rainbowed. instead of black and white. is that some kind of statement. is that. symbolic. no. i just like rainbows now. so anyway both my face and explodoshard gun are v style.

haven't gone out with it yet

feel weird about shooting ants that aren't actively trying to eat me

but i mean

it's just a matter of time. right? doctor ant isn't keeping these things around my base to help me. it's like. i don't know. some kind of standing threat. all like. yeah he can make these ants not eat me. demonstrably true. but that also means he can make them. eat me.

so

better to just kill them all before problems happen

the jin method of trouble prevention

and oh how convenient

what a coincidence

i just happen to have a big fun new gun i want to test out

hehehe