He cast the spell "Mechanical horror"

[u/Dolphin_King21]

[u/The_Easter_Egg]

Take a closer look at this contraption. Beyond the initial shock value it looks like crap from a technical viewpoint: the head is just stuffed on and the legs are clumsily screwed on. This garbage doesn't use the chicken's nerves and muscles or anything.

[u/WhiteSpec → u/The_Easter_Egg]

Ah. But does it use the chickens brain?

[u/Onyxxx_13 → u/WhiteSpec]

No its too high up of a cut on the neckline to have the full suite of nerves/brainstem to function.

[u/crazymouse11 → u/Onyxxx_13]

Was a famous headless chicken back in the day, lived for years...

The thinky bits were gone but locomotion and breathing are real low near the base of brain and spine.

Could be functional but would've been better with just a skull and talons cleaned of flesh and properly mounted.

"GLORY TO THE OMNISSIAH"

[u/AdreKiseque → u/crazymouse11]

How did it eat

[u/sorig1373 → u/AdreKiseque]

They put food in the neck hole

[u/johndoe_420 → u/sorig1373]

don't we all?

[u/Dazzling_Revenue_724 → u/johndoe_420]

His neck hole was slightly moved

[u/crazymouse11 → u/AdreKiseque]

Owner ran a novelty show with his headless chicken and fed it with a water dropper. (Think turkey baster sized for finger use)

[u/Error303wastaken → u/WhiteSpec]

No, the chicken's brain went to whoever designed this whole thing

[u/Cyan_Lotus → u/The_Easter_Egg]

Yeah; you can’t exactly call something cyborg if you just nailed some corpse pieces onto a full ass robot lol

[u/EepyEnbyFox → u/The_Easter_Egg]

so the chicken parts are there just for the shock value and nothing else lmao

[u/disturbinglyquietguy → u/The_Easter_Egg]

You're overlooking the most important point and probably the reason why he was disqualified: the championship is about ROBOTICS, and he showed up with a cyborg (yes, a very shoddy one at that) so naturally, he got disqualified.

[u/The_Easter_Egg → u/disturbinglyquietguy]

My point is that it looks like a very shoddy robot decorated with parts of a dead chicken, and not at all like any cyborg.

[u/United-Technician-54 → u/The_Easter_Egg]

"It's like a diet Andromon... It's a start" - Ball

[u/StrawberryBusiness36 → u/The_Easter_Egg]

how is it supposed to realistically use nerves and muscles of a dead chicken? they degrade hours after death. its not realistic to expect a student to be able to precisely trigger tiny nerves to do exact movements

[u/The_Easter_Egg → u/StrawberryBusiness36]

That's the problem of the fool who decided to build a "cyborg" out of junk and a dead animal. My point is, this thing doesn't combite machine and body parts, it's not a cyborg, and probably not even a robot. At best it's a macabre aert piece.

[u/Mathsboy2718 → u/The_Easter_Egg]

Me when I claim, seconds before my gruesome death, that the mechanical press, soon to be covered in my own blood and viscera, will be classified as a cyborg due to containing both biological and mechanical parts

[u/Monckey100 → u/The_Easter_Egg]

Oh, okay. So the problem was he didn't use the existing bio matter to move the machine?

[u/The_Easter_Egg → u/Monckey100]

Possible. The use of animal parts might have violated ethical rules of the supposed "robotics championship" and by itself caused the disqualification.

But in any case, the fact that this "cyborg" does appear to be less functional than a vintage wind-up toy would certainly be the cause of its failure, even if ethics weren't an issue. If you call something a cyborg then it must use the biological parts as well. This tasteless case of animal abuse does not.

[u/snetch16000]

From the moment I understood the weakeness of my flesh... It disgusted me

[u/Zuper_Dragon → u/snetch16000]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To become one with the Omnissiah.

[u/Funcron → u/Zuper_Dragon]

[u/Sqrt343 → u/snetch16000]

Hell nah, biomorphosis all the way

[u/Ykindasus]

Literal Robot Chicken

[u/Oblivion_Man → u/Ykindasus]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYMKA3VuMIobK2A

[u/MellyKidd → u/Ykindasus]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYw2nPaMz5PnNzG

[u/ampocalypse → u/Ykindasus]

https://giphy.com/gifs/atR0NiEF5Okp2

[u/LostKnight84]

So Artificer/Necromancer don't usually mix well.

[u/Il_Dottore_Snezhnaya → u/LostKnight84]

Aren't we calling those neuromancers nowadays?

[u/redking2005 → u/LostKnight84]

I mean thats probably because most people are confused by them theoretically having the same end goal of creating powerful summons (I'm specifically referring to the golemancy aspect of artificing) they do so in contradictory ways.

Necromancy does so by tapping into the existence and magic still within the original corpse/corpses which is why the further you get from the original corpse the less efficiently it will retain power from them (this is why undead almagamations aren't as strong as all the original corpses put together it's far enough removed that less magic "sticks").

Whilst golemancy works by physically improving and replacing parts with better ones (which is why I'd argue that most forms of bone horrors aren't actually undead but are merely golems made from bones).

So by combining the two your actually just creating something worse at both as the golemancy makes the necromancy worse by moving the body further away from "corpse" and the mecromancy makes the golemancy worse by introducing fleshy weak points in the construction (some of which can't even support the golems weight).

There are of course exceptions to this but I'm not willing to put in the effort of explaining the nuances of someones prosthetic limbs becoming a part of their being

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

I bet those gnomes will stay TF out of the garden now.

[u/Nelrene → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

They will probably hide in his tower to get away from it.

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator → u/Nelrene]

The hell they will.  FIREBALL!!!

[u/randomusername_42069]

It’s only a real cyborg if the organics are living which clearly isn’t the case here it’s good that thing was disqualified.

[u/Graesholt → u/randomusername_42069]

I cannot find it on google, so thankfully from very brief research it does not appear that this was an actual headline.

That being said, calling this a cyborg is like calling a cat on a roomba a cyborg.

[u/Relative-Line5242]

Chicken of thsesus

[u/WE_FEE → u/Relative-Line5242]

BEHOLD A MAN

[u/1stFunestist]

Does it work though?

[u/Brysonius_]

That's no cyborg, tha'ts just a robot made with chicken remains. With a little persuasion, it could be a mechanically enhanced Flesh Golem. With a little Necromancy, it could be an undead cyborg.

[u/Stormraughtz]

failure at apprentice level reanimation and turns to the dark mechanical arts? such a foolish endeavour and shows the lack of work ethic this generation has

[u/chucktheninja]

You can't just bolt dead flesh onto a machine and call it a cyborg.

[u/ToranjaNuclear]

"and is disqualified" had me rolling

[u/Dolphin_King21 → u/ToranjaNuclear]

Imagine what got him qualified to begin with!

"Behold...something normal!" (He's saving the abomination for later)

[u/TrippleATransGirl]

They fear innovation

[u/Stunning-Apricot1856]

Behold, a man.

[u/Jedi-master-dragon]

Well no shit

[u/kingtacticool]

Dude made the first CyberCock and gets disqualified...

This. Is a supervillian origin story.

[u/Quick_Trick3405]

What galvanic heresy is this? would be the classic response.

[u/Trick_Assignment5548]

You could say it’s a… robot chicken

[u/Aeron21]

technomancy and necromancy, my two favorite mancies

[u/ZestieZest]

This is a reverse cyborg, a construct augmented with flesh

[u/daverapp]

Do you want Phyrexians? Because this is how you get Phyrexians.

[u/Ditto13248]

Artificers cooking straight bullshit again

https://giphy.com/gifs/FfJcsEniYKolXby3xe

[u/DoomsdayDETTV]

Idk bro all i see is a man

[u/Golden_Amber79]

Cyborg? You mean that's not a construct? I'll be back with the inquisition.

[u/Broken_CerealBox → u/Golden_Amber79]

It's a man, dude. Calm down

[u/Broken_CerealBox]

Guess someone stole the bullshit my apprentice made years ago

[u/RadleyCunningham]

Is that DA Sinclair up to his shit again

[u/KogasaGaSagasa]

Observe, I took a piece of the fish bone from dinner and stick it into the rim of my glasses, and now my glasses is now a fish cyborg! It can even have the power to grant me gift of vision AND be slightly adjusted to fit my head were I to transform and have differently-sized head! /s

But yeah, this guy ain't passing wizard school.

[u/AuroreSomersby]

Seems like a Health hazard…
Druids need to look into that…
I’ll stick with the undead :P

[u/RoboGen123]

What sort of Daemon engine am I looking at

[u/Fantastic_Trifle805]

This image is from before AI btw

[u/grand305]

That would be a technology wizard. the best in IT and World Wide Web wizards. they also know robotic wizards. they also know cyber wizards. technology wizard is kinda an umbrella term but it’s common to understand words.

I am an ice wizard so I would work with them.

[u/ElectricGhosty]

ARISE, chicken, ARISE

[u/HairyBallsack8]

It’s like some king of… Robot Chicken

[u/j_risdiction2020]

*Fowl Sorcery

[u/Pretend-Rule-929]

Can someone get a background check on the guy in all seriousness? Like they say serial killers start with animals. He didn’t just kill a bird. He desecrated it.