theneverfox

I do too... But I wouldn't say they don't stand a chance

Their dad got shot while encouraging gun violence. That might instill some strong opinions in them

The kind of strong opinions that will likely be buried and come out later in therapy

But it could go either way

The holy Roman empire fell centuries ago. The power it held was distributed to organizations we generally refer to as "the West"

The Pope has immense power... But soft power. The only army they can move is the Swiss guard

I don't know what to tell you, other than it's already happening. Once the first robot builds a second, it's over. You can buy one that can physically do light tasks for $8k, this summer Amazon started using robots for deliveries and has been using them for packaging for longer

It's not science fiction, it's now an engineering problem, one that is progressing quickly

And if the machines are the ones building new parts, that, like many other things, goes out the window. They can even recycle and refurbish parts

I mean, being able to instantly turn into a bird instantly is still pretty crazy, it's less OP than teleporting for escape, but still really powerful

Since you don't want the time based transformation or to give up flying, maybe a skill aspect? Like, you get the body of the animal, but not the instincts. You'd have to learn how to move each new body, you'd have to teach yourself to fly with a breakable body and learn to run on all fours, but you could do it with

But you also are capped between 25-100% your normal mass... That will let you get some of the larger flying birds, as well as a bunch of larger cats, but nothing so big you can tip over cars or anything

Hey, yeah...I forgot they never actually fixed the Tik Tok situation over here

I like hugging sticks

Political violence is a symptom, not a cause

We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment

And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways

The overhead on the robot is mostly maintenance, which is a humanoid skill. If the robots can maintain each other, or build each other, someone just won capitalism

I think you'd need more limits... Maybe if your mass stays within 20% of your actual body weight?

That would still be extremely strong, but not reality breaking. You'd be very limited in what animals you could turn into, but you could turn into a cheetah, a wolf, an orangutan, a swordfish, and plenty of others. The heaviest flying bird is 88lbs, so flight may or may not be in the table

I don't mind about the coloring so much, I'd say you can pick between always bring green colored and the light and sound of the transformation, both of those give the game away in different ways

I'm sorry, what time period do you think we live in exactly?

The Ku Klux Klan is absolutely a political group...

When you do things in an effort to change society, that's political. It doesn't need to be coherent