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Title: Cider Cyborg by JetWaveAlternative title: Apple Metal. A new piece where I experiment with coloring specifically, using a more cleaned up version of the gritty style I’ve had going before. I imagine her taking a cider or a beer for whatever reason, as she hangs around during nighttime. Something like that. There’s isn’t much of a story to it really, or at least not right now.Oh god, I made something not FoE for once. Feels good actually. Also damn, I feel ashamed that I haven’t uploaded any art of best pony until now. I should slap myself. What woke me up though? I had huge inspiration from this piece by DimFann:
Interface by DimFann
Fucking gorgeous. That metal and that mane touched my heart and I had to draw the design myself. I most likely fudged the hair on my pic, but other than that I’m very satisfied. In total it took about 10 hours to do.. which it seriously shouldn’t have, but getting the pose right in sketch phase was a real struggle. If I hadn’t put The Sonics on repeat I would’ve never gotten through it. Really satisfied. I might make myself a print or something in the future if my critical eye doesn’t set in too soon.You guys see that resolution? No I don’t know what I was thinking either. SAI hated me towards the end and refused to co-operate, so I had to switch to Firealpaca for the final touch. I like to imagine it was worth it though. For our future computer screens. Here’s a 1920p version for whoever is looking for it, just in case a picture that is over nine thousand wide becomes too much.I hope you all likey. :P
Depends on how much you’re willing to pay, how long you want the battery to last, etc.
You’re right, though, when it comes to the top-end stuff.
The only circumstance in which I find that to be true is when comparing a mechanical heart to a real one.
High-quality motors and metals can make a mechanical leg be superior to an organic one of the same size.
It’s interesting how people always assume that robotic means stronger. That’s really not necessarily the case, though, and often isn’t.
Applejack was caught in a horrible accident that completely destroyed the right half of her body. Perhaps her brain might have been the only thing that was spared due to the angle.
So, to save and restore her life, Twilight used her astronomical royal pension to build a robotic replacement for that half of Applejack’s body and attach it to her via a complex and horrendously expensive surgery.
While most of her new body is made of stainless steel with an anti-rust coating, the right half of Applejack’s face is overlaid with a special latex mesh that’s designed to look and feel like pony skin/fur. It was attached to the robotic muscles underneath, which respond to her brain’s commands much like normal facial muscles would.
Applejack is now about a hundred kilograms heavier, but it was worth it. Her robot limbs are incredibly strong and sturdy. She had to re-teach herself to buck because she kept ripping the trees out of the ground.
Her right eye is robotic and has a special computerized laser targeting system that improves her already-scary accuracy with a lasso and/or her shotgun.
Though, to aid in proper cooling, vents had to be installed on her organic left side. They blast out hot steam whenever she overheats. There are also vents on her robotic half.
Twilight performs maintenance on Applejack’s hardware and systems every three months.
Shotgun accuracy +100%.
“Wha-what!? APPLEJACK!?”
“Don’t worry - she’s all-right!”
EVIL GLARE
“Actually y’all, I’m all-left…”
most of the existential problems in cybernetics i know is usually over in a few seconds after coming on-line (they kill themselves) that i don’t classify it as a problem of the cybernetics but more of the ‘user’ (you can dull the pain with booze,drugs but that is more in the realm of psychology/psychiatry , and i doubt there are shrinks for that or shrinks good enough to condition them before they go on-line) .
Really? I thought the most common drawback was supposed to be angsty, pseudo-existential whining about losing some vague and useless sense of “humanity” (or in this case, equinity).
The long-term drawback, that is. In most settings the first, more substantial drawback is having your body parts ventilated or lopped off, since cybernetic augmentation usually isn’t done just for performance’s sake. That’s what I was referring to when I assumed something bad happened to AJ.
ah! like i mentioned, most common drawback writers tend to attach with cybernetics is they’re usually painful and need some sort of method to dull the pain. since there’s no apparent drawbacks, the increased performance is definitely a plus.
Of course she’d be cool with it. She can probably buck twice as many trees with those augs.
And you KNOW what that targeting reticule in her eye does. No pests are going to live long enough in the Apples’ orchard for Fluttershy to come to their rescue anymore.
Good luck keeping up, sugarcube.
but from her expression, she’s like totally cool with it. unless she has a morphine injector for the cybernetics
Well, you know what they say: sometimes things have to get worse before they get better!