Becoming a supervillain after the university yanked funding for my plan to wire a bunch of human brains into a massive literal neural network, because I insisted on calling it "the human sentiepede".
Their actual quibble was that this name is not all that actually descriptive of a parallel processor. I offered to revise the schematics to more of a serial arrangement but they said that if I had to force the joke it wasn't funny to begin with.
So now I have to decide if I'm going to be a robs-banks-to-fund-dubious-human-research villain, or a lethal-prankster-because-they-said-my-jokes-weren't-funny villain.
Academia is a scam. Don't fall for it.
I mean, I have time to think about it. Realistically this is not the best financial climate in which to show either those fools or them all. I'm supposed to compete with a pandemic and fascist kleptocracy?
For now, I'll just work on some deathtraps that could go with either theme. Maybe get into rays. I don't know.
Hmm. Well, I was trying to make a computer out of brains, so in honor of the first modern digital computer, ENIAC, I will call myself... BRAINIAC.
*checks*
That's taken. Fine, I don't have to be the first. I can be Brainiac II.
*checks again*
SON OF A
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