Snuffman posted:

Too much Helldivers 2 is poisoning my brain but also caused me to dimly recall a sci-fi short story that I'd like to read again:

Humanity is fighting an endless war against some lizard people and the story follows a marine as he rises through the ranks.

First he's a soldier, then he becomes a pilot but to be a pilot they saw your head off so you take up less space, then they take his brain out cause the head is a waste of space and all you need is your brain hooked up to a computer at the current rank. All along the commanders keep repeating don't worry you'll get X body part back when the war is over.

And it goes on and on until he's talking about how he's now an AI doing vast calculations where on some vast level to win this huge abstract war they're controlling a race of lizard people who are fighting these hairless apes.