Sense of balance, sense of direction and sense of temperature comes to mind. In the more abstract, there is are allegedly some senses of propriety, order and decency, among others. Also popular: common sense.
I'd have my memories to rely on; people could describe things for me and I'd have a frame of reference. Life would be terribly boring without taste and smell. It would break my heart to never be able to hear the voices of people I love again. And it would flat-out kill me not to be able to touch.
(The text message initially comes in a bit garbled and glitchy, but fortunately Xanadu intervenes and cleans it up in place.)
Hm. Tricky. Let's see... Sight and hearing are fairly readily replaceable with cybernetic stuff -- at least in my universe/time -- but that's probably cheating under the circumstances, so they're out because they're both pretty vital for my multiversal adventuring purposes (i.e., "noticing enemies and shooting them before they can shoot me"). I like food too much to lose the ability to taste. Touch seems like an obvious solution, given how much time I spend in all-enclosing armor, but no, it passes touch sensations back to me, which is good so that I don't accidentally crush things, so that's out. I think I'd have to default to smell, even with how it connects to taste and food, as the relative best of a range of bad options
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That's the kind of service we like to provide, here at Blood Gul--- wait, no, that'd be the Black Mesa Defense Facility for the time being.
Mind if I ask just why you were asking? I'm glad that someone else already got assurances of not trying to take them from us, but I'm going to guess there's more than just idle curiosity here, if only because that's more interesting.
I'm sorry to say, but it is mainly idle curiosity, but the long and the short of it is, I do not have access to the normal senses humans possess and I would like to understand them and thereby better myself.
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If you don't mind me continuing to ask more, which do you value the most? Which do you use the most?
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I'd have my memories to rely on; people could describe things for me and I'd have a frame of reference. Life would be terribly boring without taste and smell. It would break my heart to never be able to hear the voices of people I love again. And it would flat-out kill me not to be able to touch.
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Why is touch so important?
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Touch is important to me. It's how I connect with people, often. How I give and receive comfort.
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I'd give up my taste.
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And what's an AU-Rogue?
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Hm. Tricky. Let's see... Sight and hearing are fairly readily replaceable with cybernetic stuff -- at least in my universe/time -- but that's probably cheating under the circumstances, so they're out because they're both pretty vital for my multiversal adventuring purposes (i.e., "noticing enemies and shooting them before they can shoot me"). I like food too much to lose the ability to taste. Touch seems like an obvious solution, given how much time I spend in all-enclosing armor, but no, it passes touch sensations back to me, which is good so that I don't accidentally crush things, so that's out. I think I'd have to default to smell, even with how it connects to taste and food, as the relative best of a range of bad options ( ... )
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This is very much the sort of answer I had been looking for.
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Mind if I ask just why you were asking? I'm glad that someone else already got assurances of not trying to take them from us, but I'm going to guess there's more than just idle curiosity here, if only because that's more interesting.
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Could you please tell me the date, sir?
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My calendar shows September 10th of 2010
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