pretend i posted this on 11/16, i'm just impatient

[frostythehitman]

hey retrospec
i got another message for you this time


[ He switches over to a video that shows him holding his phone at a selfie angle. There's a whirring noise and slowly, an arm rises into sight. When it comes to the highest angle possible, the whirring stops. ]



[ And then the whirring starts up again as the hand does a full 360-degree rotation. Once it completes, James just says: "Fuck you." ]

if anyone knows retrospec's mailing address lmk
because i got a ton of medical bills from this thing for them to pay off
or maybe i'll just send it to them through their mailbox again

Comments

[usurpers]

i’ll say
so how hard can you punch with it

[frostythehitman]

literally the first thing they told me was not to punch anything with it

[usurpers]

what come on
it can’t take any impact?

[ HE THOUGHT THIS WAS 2017, HE THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA ]

[frostythehitman]

idk
they didn't exactly have me punch things when they were training me how to use it
all i know is the user manual has a whole list of things i shouldn't do with it if i want it to keep working right

[usurpers]

can’t leo upgrade it

[ he’s obviously a good friend that makes responsible decisions ]

[frostythehitman]

idk does leo know how to work with mind controlled robot tech

[usurpers]

i’m pretty sure leo knows how to work with everything if you let him look at it
if it’s bad ass now imagine after
jailbreak your hand

[frostythehitman]

[ His initial instinct is to go "HELL YES, DO IT." But a quieter, but more reasonable voice tells him not to. That mucking with the hand would screw SOMETHING up somehow and his dad would be furious. And after all the crap James has put his dad through lately, he really doesn't want to add to the pile. ]

i'm not gonna break my hand right after i just got it
i'm not supposed to be fighting anyone at all anyway

[usurpers]

[ whoa, where's james

just kidding— it even takes an extra read for eren to realize that not everyone has their pockets full. he seems to forget, sometimes, and not only that: james doesn't live on his own. his family worked for that. it's a completely different situation.

hmgmn. ]

how much did it all cost? roughly.

[frostythehitman]

like $11k

[ granted, most of it's being covered by insurance (he thinks), but it's still a pretty chunk of change. And, now that Eren has him thinking about it, he's pretty sure that if he has to get a replacement after intentional tampering, he'd have to foot the full bill himself.

Yikes. ]

[usurpers]

good call

[ eren has cash, but with a new bike and a car still being fixed, plus the extra bills, it’d be stupid to readily hack up another 11k for a friend. he’d go broke.

but. idea. ]

so you can take this one off when you want to right

[frostythehitman]

well it's not permanently attached if that's what you're asking
i can take it off when i want but it's a whole process
there's like a whole harness i gotta undo the straps for and everything