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

[longwei2go]

Real cathartic I'm sure
I'm kinda jealous
Wish I could have chucked my arm at the fucking lawyers in court when they tried to worm out of paying damages

Real talk, I don't think I could've done either of these things

[frostythehitman]

it helps when you have the arm right there and a mailbox to shove it in
makes it real easy to go from point a to point b

[longwei2go]

It still takes a lot of guts


How's the pain? They got you on anything good?

[frostythehitman]

no pain
not from the arm anyway
never had any
the doctors said i was like three months healed out of it even though it just happened overnight

[longwei2go]

So wait
Can you still feel it sometimes?
Like it was still there...

[frostythehitman]

god you have NO idea
i keep trying to do stuff with my left arm and getting mad when nothing happens and then remembering like
oh yeah of course it didn't work i don't have anything THERE any more
but the doctors said that it's good
bc the way this prosthetic works relies on me having that feeling still there
or something

[longwei2go]

Yeah because it's myoelectric
I recognize the brand from some pamphlets
Doctors tried to get me in one years back
Couldn't afford it until the lawsuit settled
By then I was so used to being without it

Good for you though
I hear it's not easy

[frostythehitman]

yeah we had to convince the insurance companies it was medically necessary
and after that they HAD to cover it
like all of it
mostly
however the hell insurance works i don't actually know
and then i had to spend a month training on how to actually move the damn thing
it sure as hell took a while

[longwei2go]

Insurance is bullshit
Then again so are lawyers
You thinking of suing too?
Though it's hard to prove Retrospec is actually behind any of this I guess
So fuck us, right?

[frostythehitman]

they actively monitor any method we have of making them pay
the police filed paperwork on them for mailing me a body part and it just disappeared like it never even existed
go figure

[longwei2go]

Fucking wow
I wonder if they know I submitted my arm to CSI to check into
You know, make sure it wasn't a bomb, or try to find where it came from
No luck, as you can bet

[frostythehitman]

oh they definitely know
but they won't do anything about it unless csi tries pinning the blame on retrospec for whatever's in your arm

[longwei2go]

At this point they can't have it back even if they wanted it
Not unless they trade
Like for your arm or something
Seems fair

[frostythehitman]

you'd trade in your fancy retrospec arm for me to get back my regular arm?

[ IS HE READING THAT RIGHT???? ]

[longwei2go]

Well yeah
I haven't needed it for years

But don't get your hopes up
They might give yours back as-is

[frostythehitman]

i set mine on fire and chucked it back on them
i don't think i want it back now