We’ll just all assume that every person who gets this would make themselves early twenties with flawless skin, perfect organs, appendages and functionality, and no excess weight.
My question is, would you change yourself from your genetic baseline, and if so, how?
Make myself taller, of course. Probably adjust my wingspan a bit too, tweak my good cholesterol, things like that
But when everyone’s taller, no one will be.
All the more reason to do it, no?
No. The actual benefit stops as soon as you can reach the highest thing you regularly need to.
Being shorter keeps away a large amount of shallow people who seem to think 6 feet is a magical number.
Sure, but I want to get taller for sports reasons. I’m not really considering dating.
Honestly if this scenario was happening, how long before they standardized what your height must be to participate and rebalanced games in relation to that?
But I forgot about sports. I never got the draw and I never will.
Tbf you can kind of see this standardization happening with what’s available today, like rhinoplasties or PEDs.
If we get to the point of making it easy to just have whatever body you want at any time you want, then I’m totally ok with athletes being required to use Sports Mode"
People will probably (FINALLY) get bored of sports in general and we can move on as a species.
I’d remove my personal need for sleep, making it completely voluntary. But I wouldn’t tell anyone about it. I could use an extra eight hours of free time every day.
Ooh, I’ve always wanted this. I’m basically useless if I can’t get 10 hours sleep
I’d improve the efficiency of my uric acid processing, decrease cardiovascular pressure, and throw in a cat’s spine just for fun.
I would have 4 arms
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fix my heart and make myself cis. no “improvements”
I’d be a head shorter and make myself a cutie lol
I’d also want to get rid of my mental illnesses, and reset my weed tolerance. And, if possible, give myself an eye for art. I love to draw, but I sssuuucccckkkkk. And be smarter. Cause I have a severe case of the dumb.
I also would ask to not be asexual since it seems like everyone else is having a good time and I wanna be involved lol
Assuming you are in a position to do so safely (given the mental illness stuff), stop smoking/vaping/eating weed for 3 to 6 months and I can almost guarantee your tolerance will reset.
But then I have to deal with the world sober for 3 6 months and I’m weak 😩
Weed tolerance varies over time and isn’t something genetics couldn’t change. Overall sensitivity maybe, but not tolerance.
A girl can dream 😤
My girlfriend calls becoming sober “taking a tolerance break”.
I also would ask to not be asexual since it seems like everyone else is having a good time and I wanna be involved lol
honestly, idk about you, i’m having a great time myself (though im also asexual) so that’s probably the autism speaking lmao.
Oh, I don’t think being Ace equals a bad time, but I don’t understand the concept of romance or sexual attraction on a personal level (I understand it in media). I feel like I’m missing out on that sort of stuff. But I’m otherwise happy with my cat 🙌🏾
I’m also gross and I think if I can’t put out, no one is willing to hang out with me. I feel like if I at least put out I’d have something to offerpersonally i don’t understand it on a personal level, and i don’t find it appealing in media either, as its just an extension of that. And i prefer genuine human interactions to hee hee hoo hoo sex scene, look these characters are intimate and close, because more often than not, it’s just shitty writing unfortunately.
I’m also gross and I think if I can’t put out, no one is willing to hang out with me. I feel like if I at least put out I’d have something to offer
personally i just operate under a very specific pretense, and either inform people of it, or fuck with them because they aren’t expecting it. I have oddly specific and weird standards for a “prospective partner” so it’s not really something i think about or actively worry about, it’ll either happen or not, and i’ll be perfectly happy either way lol.
friends are weird though. I like having acquaintances more than friends, i think. I’m not sure that’s related to being ace, or some flavored autism bit, or perhaps something spicier, but it’s definitely something. Friendships are hard bro.
Ignoring the obvious “change myself into a magical wolf man which ends up getting dissected by some government agency”, probably just a tune up.
There’s a lot of mostly minor and cosmetic stuff I’d fix. Removing the need for glasses. Fixing my teeth. Ridding myself of a genetic thing my chest does. Fixing that weird pop my toe does every one in a while. I’m not really interested in being mr muscle strongman who people think women flock to; it’s just not me.
Mentally though, I’d like to see about removing my depression/anxiety stuff, although I’m not sure if that’s allowed or not by the rules. That’s honestly probably the biggest thing holding me back. I’d keep the autism though; being neurodivergent isn’t a crime.
I assume that at the very least you would walk away with as healthy of a body and brain as a human can have, so if you were still depressed at that point it would not be due to your own genetics but as a reaction to your lived experiences and the environment you find yourself in.
Hopefully things will get better
Just gimme the character creator and a super long time to work with it.
I mean, is this easily repeatable? I can think of lots of things I would try out, but a much smaller number of viable options if it was a once in a lifetime thing.
When I was considering this concept as part of a story I was working on I did consider the possibility that people would start out with having their ideal body but undoubtedly there would quickly grow a subculture of people who go for increasingly wild and interesting alterations, assuming that there are no side effects.
So in my story world, I came up with the idea that you would be molecularly unstable for several years after a change and therefore not eligible to change yourself more than once every 7 years.
totally change stuff. remove the miopia. give me the ability to tan. anything else I could do what is clearly improvements. I would keep the overall look the same. like I would not change anything that could not do better practicality wise. I would not just change for looks.
There is some stuff you can buy called Melanotan that will give you the ability to tan.
It’s what Rachel Dolezal used to impersonate a black person
Apparently it also makes you super horny but this is highly suspicious and it go to evidence at best
I doubt taking it orally will get it into my skin.
You have to inject it.
yeah. thats not going to be happening.
A good way to increase your risk for melanoma as well.
I wonder if that’s true because it increases the amount of melanin in your skin which makes you 10 quicker which increases your resistance to UV radiation, so it seems like it should decrease your risk for melanoma.
Lots of changes. Not much on the outside, but fix breakable/broken stuff, be more efficient, this kind of things. Not having to worry about your own body betraying you seems like a good idea.
would you change yourself from your genetic baseline
Yeah, I’d get rid of Celiac’s for one. There are other potential inherited conditions that I’d enjoy not having as well (colorblindness, etc.).
I think I’d keep aphantasia since the opposite (and the inner monologue that is actually heard) seems like it would be hell.
The neurodivergence I’m not sure. I would probably want to keep it even though it does sometimes (often?) cause pain.
Physically, I’d repair a lot of damage done to my body (metal rods and plates hold together parts of me, among other things).
I’d completely change everything and end up being a perpetually horny sex doll
Mood
If I could change, I would jump at the opportunity.
Balls the size of peas and a cock fat as a cigarette. That oughta get the guys and gals going
