So after some deliberation, I ordered the beginner's kit.  It came today.  And now I've started learning how to do genetic engineering myself.  Edit: What could go wrong?

Lord Inar wrote on Jun 8^th, 2022 at 5:02pm:


Lol!  I'm not going to "self-medicate"!  But the creator of The Odin (Dr. Josiah Zaynor) actually *did* inject himself with some kind of concoction that was supposed to reduce the "muscle-limiter" protein in his body as a publicity stunt.  It didn't work, but it didn't cause harm, either.  In a later interview he said that he probably didn't inject enough into his system.

In my imagination, I would expect that making it work would require a similar setup to the one that they used on Captain America in the "Captain America: The First Avenger" movie (ie: inject at several points along the body).  But that's just my overactive imagination trying to create a plausible scenario.

When I tell people what I'm doing, they inevitably ask me why I'm doing it.  I always answer that I'm going to use it to cross-breed a grizzly bear and a chihuahua to try to "up the game" for the little guy.