{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "If I can get rocks stuck and visible beneath the skin of my ankle for decades at a time, how come they can't implant tension...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187727778108/", "html": "<p>If I can get rocks stuck and visible beneath the skin of my ankle for decades at a time, how come they can&rsquo;t implant tension bands there to compensate for over-sprained and weak ankles?</p><p>Eh, I know they&rsquo;ve got professional and college league money behind sports medicine, if there was a solution it&rsquo;s not for lack of my input, but still, <i>ligament surgery</i>? What is this, <i>1982</i>?</p><p>The John Romero-riff minor antagonist in <a href=\"https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0456554/\" target=\"_blank\">Grandma&rsquo;s Boy</a> was supposed to be read as pathetic for wanting to get robot legs but fuck it, I want robot legs. Got a friend who got a MGSV\u2026 minus maybe 2, so MGSIII\u2026-level leg off a car crash, and you see all the stuff coming out of the sandbox wars</p><p>I&rsquo;ll take the Essence hit, my real concerns are self-maintainability and blood cell production if I give up too many long bones</p>"}