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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

i mean yeah, i'll take just having the same body but made of nanites please. There are just no downsides to that: i'd be immortal, impossible to damage since the nanites would just flow back into place, i could reconfigure my body at will, and extremely cool shit like extruding tools from my body (either made of nanites or effectively 3d printing them).

nanomachines son

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Taller and have a deep voice that can command a room.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can I use the button multiple times? If so, I have several experiments / experiences to do / have.

If it's a one time thing, I'd probably stick with the same genetics. I got pretty lucky, and I'd hate to make a change that I later felt negative about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Once every 7 years. You have to wait that long for your body to stabilize after using it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hmm. That's a long commitment for something I can't try out. Still, yeah, if it can restore any "youth" I might lose during that seven years, I'd experiment. Lots of changes I'd be curious to experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Other than the assumptions OP mentions in the prompt, I would actually add a prehensile tail... I think that would be a super fun and useful appendage to have hehehe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Well, aside from the obvious "make myself my fursona" bit...

I'd get rid of my ADHD, or at the very least get rid of its interaction with food and exercise. It's been such a burden, to the point where it's singlehandedly prevented me from taking up new hobbies (because I know I won't stick to them and can't afford to waste the money), kept me from focusing on new certs (because I suck at self-directed study), and it's the single biggest reason why I'm overweight. I fucking hate it. ADHD superpowers, my ass. This is a fucking debilitating disease, and even with medicine it still sucks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Make my spine double jointed and I'd never leave the house.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Become monke that way I don't have to think anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

how many of us would be furries? Statistically speaking, i want an answer.

i love fucking with people, so it's an obvious choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ye Ye body that stays perfectly healthy with no maintenance. Would be sick. We are all alive so of course I want me my body to be better at being alive. I want to be able to be poor and "malnourished" but thrive despite that and keep living my vest life without having to participate in capitalism to depend on my wellbeing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

estrogen from the get go, the rest can do whatever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Balls the size of peas and a cock fat as a cigarette. That oughta get the guys and gals going

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Everyone would make changes you fucking snowflakes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'm in the process of getting all my teeth pulled for dentures.

I would make changes.

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