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suppose I am writing some code that will take a god object containing all the state of an emulator, move out several key components of it, reset their states, and then place them into a new god object that's meant to be almost indistinguishable from a completely fresh one. what's a nice, horrifying metaphor for this. i want a word that conveys the idea of like, organ harvesting from a perfectly healthy subject or something. or some kind of spiritual thing.
oh, “salvage” isn't disgusting but has the right kind of feel to it
it would be cool if it's disgusting though because I do feel dirty for writing this. it's not necessary on any good operating system but, alas, I have to do it on Android
@hikari bloody_harvest
@hikari makes it sound like a ritual too,, which i think is cute
@hikari reincarnating sounds too positive… reanimating?
@hikari Brain transplant? Or possibly, identity trans(plant/fer)?
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ingest_and_regurgitate ?
@hikari I like the idea of just calling it "refactoring". Think of it this way: Imagine refactoring a person. Teasing apart their psyche with a dissonant pair of sine wave binaurals and a few choice words over sessions lasting hours, their concept of time dissolves as you shunt their inputs and outputs. The entirety of their being is now committed to what you deign fit; your elegant solution has borne a physical form.
@hikari extraction could work
@hikari Evangelion
@hikari Haruspex... Frankenstein... Osiris... though maybe you need a verb more than a noun
@hikari The Kefka gambit
@myhf this sounds cool but I don't want to spoil myself by looking up the details (is this about the FF character?)
@hikari yeah, a shogun from Final Fantasy VI who famously rearranged some god objects
@hikari Well that's pretty much what (having spent 9 years doing it for KVM/Qemu) I'd call migration; but I think transplantation is what you want there for gore.