Lodging a brain in a 100ft thick reinforced concrete bunker would do the job better than a puny glass case.

Points are valid, your brainbot is usually used in a bunker. Unless you are an unfortunate newbie who have to use it in actual exploration.

Also, I've heard that a future feature of the game would be switching the head of a robot with your brain jar on the ceiling, to form a crude escape tool which is the brainbot you see now.

Baaagh, msot of you are not getting the point. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON TO USE GLASS. Force fields, Steel, Titanium, ALL would be better choices than GLASS. Unitec has a Force Shield Brain Case. Now THAT Is what I would make a brain case out of. Something that requires a ridiculously excessive amount of force to break it.

Most of us don't need to get the point. Sure, it doesn't make sense, but it's an age-old science fiction trope and it looks cool. It really doesn't matter that much about realism, but if you insist on things making sense then I'll make something up to settle your mind.
Glass got really cheap.
Everything else got expensive.
People going to the planet are poor.
Tada!

That's all there is to it.
Stop being a realism jerk, hyperkultra, it's a freaking 2D videogame.

What does realism have to do with plain old logic that when defied would stop pretty much all scientific progress?

You can afford guns that can heavily molest entities easily, and you can't afford glass?
It cost less to make a metal plated robot, than to metal plate the glass?

The universe is infinite, you can afford a squad of heavily armed, and a modest bunker and a few interplanetary vehicles, BUT NOT ♥♥♥♥ TITANIUM PLATED GLASS!!!

Brain is sick and bleeding.
Brain is metal plated glass jar.
Other people cannot see.
Brain dies.

Brain is in a glass jar.
People can see.
Brain is treated.

Other people would also be metal-plated brains linked to an almighty version of the interwebnets. I.e. they won't need to see the sick brain to know it's hurt.

yes but once the brain is out of the jar it is dead, at least that is what we have seen

Newsflash: brains die anyway once out of their shell (biological, in our case), and seeing one fall out won't allow you to save it, because there's no way in hell you'll be able to reach it in time.

Maybe Data did it JUST TO PISS YOU OFF.

Your avatar is very fitting, Ex. Also, granted, that could be true, but we're discussing the logic of placing brains in spherical fishtanks.

Should I refer you to the video about the dog's amputated head being maintained to live and be responsive until two weeks later after they pulled the plug?

Oh, and here is an idea, you hook up all of the circulatory system of the brain to and artificial life support machine, place the head inside a jar of preservative, and carefully remove the shell.


There is a thing called logic.

Brain is sick and bleeding.
Brain's life support/monitor detects problem.
Brain is healed.

That wasn't the brain by itself, it still had the shell, and it resulted from surgery. On a battlefield you'd never be able to do that in time with a brain.