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That Black Mirror Tickling Episode

Added 2022-09-22 16:00:10 +0000 UTC

Do you remember an episode called "Black Museum" from Black Mirror? There was a prisoner who had his mind uploaded to a computer and became a hologram and people would visit a museum where they could electrocute him over and over again for years.

I was thinking the same thing, but with a big feet getting tickled.

In the future, museums will have holograms of famous people exposed with a copy of their real minds uploaded so visitors can really talk to them.

A Basketball Museum took this idea further: there was famous player called Jimmy McGargon who passed out five years ago and he was not only known by his performance but by his height, reaching almost 3 meters. His feet was so huge it granted him the nickname "Bigfoot". Before he died, they copied his mind and uploaded it to computer that cast a hologram of his younger self when he was in the peak of his career. Not only that, they made a advanced robotic copy of his real giant feet whose movements were extremely real, covered in silicon skin so well made you could mistake it for real skin. Those feet were covered in receptors which could be felt by the athlete's trapped mind.

What was supposed to be just a way to homage the player became a funny attraction to the museum because no one would expect that Jimmy "Bigfoot" was extremely ticklish on his soles and the sensitivity passed on to the machine. One day the staff tied his big toes back so visitors could enjoy tickling the giant better. And Jimmy? He enjoyed so much he asked to never turn the computer off. Maybe it was a glitch in the system...