...Of America. Giving freedom to California is kind of counts as dismantling the display case of capitalism too...
Reminds me of a writing project that was focused around a protagonist whom had gained wetware memory banks and processors to, instead of a "cure", create a workaround to their CP. It piled up heavily into the protagonist's difficulty to reconcile with the identity issues of whom they were before the surgeries and whom they were there and then, and what it meant to be dependent on an often impersonal and difficult-to-humanize corporate sponsor for what is essentially their grasp on the rights of a person.
I wimped out on the project. I straight up couldn't. I found it impossible to reconcile between the merits of "just another cyberpunk short story" and the fact that it was toying with a hope those suffering of the condition today are unlikely to see in their lifetime. And that there is still an innocent child behind the dehumanizing veneer of the disorder, one often already so sidelined in life that the idea of "profiteering" for popularity on their lot made me feel like the lowest grubby carpet bug in the deepest cesspits of the planet. As such, kudos to anyone at CDPR with the confidence to work with the subject.
I wimped out on the project. I straight up couldn't. I found it impossible to reconcile between the merits of "just another cyberpunk short story" and the fact that it was toying with a hope those suffering of the condition today are unlikely to see in their lifetime. And that there is still an innocent child behind the dehumanizing veneer of the disorder, one often already so sidelined in life that the idea of "profiteering" for popularity on their lot made me feel like the lowest grubby carpet bug in the deepest cesspits of the planet. As such, kudos to anyone at CDPR with the confidence to work with the subject.
This is technically possible in CP2077's universe. It leads to a mental disorder called 'cyberpsychosis' where you disassociate yourself with humans; your sense of self becomes more akin to that of a machine.
There's an interesting opportunity here for CDPR to tackle the concept of mental illness from an in-universe perspective.
I find this topic quite interesting, given the fact that many disabilities could possibly be removed with cyberware.
It is a quite unsettling thought to remove a part of yourself.
Would I exchange a part of my body in order to neutralize a disability?
Matter of fact, I did.
Like many other people, actually.
Long story short, I was very sick in my childhood, spent a lot of time in a wheelchair and while I'm on my own two feet nowadays, recently the sequelae of past medications caught up in form of a cataract that was on the way to take my vision.
So now I got an artificial lense in each eye. First one eye, then the other one.
Pro: I can read the chalkboard at my university again. Negative: I have to use several glasses because the plastic lenses can't focus like organic ones.
Strange thing: I feel the inorganic components in my eyes and sometimes it's unsettling.
Just in the hospital where I got them, they carry out around 50 of those surgeries per week.
Sucking out a part of the eye and replacing it with a self-unfolding polymer-lense isn't exactly a cyberlimb, though.
It is a quite unsettling thought to remove a part of yourself.
Would I exchange a part of my body in order to neutralize a disability?
Matter of fact, I did.
Like many other people, actually.
Long story short, I was very sick in my childhood, spent a lot of time in a wheelchair and while I'm on my own two feet nowadays, recently the sequelae of past medications caught up in form of a cataract that was on the way to take my vision.
So now I got an artificial lense in each eye. First one eye, then the other one.
Pro: I can read the chalkboard at my university again. Negative: I have to use several glasses because the plastic lenses can't focus like organic ones.
Strange thing: I feel the inorganic components in my eyes and sometimes it's unsettling.
Just in the hospital where I got them, they carry out around 50 of those surgeries per week.
Sucking out a part of the eye and replacing it with a self-unfolding polymer-lense isn't exactly a cyberlimb, though.
That is interesting, I've heard of amputees having phantom pains, but not so much an unsettling awareness of their inorganic prosthetics. I always kind of questioned the philosophy of Cyberpsychosis and wondered if it was based on game balance, technophobia, and/or biological purity bias, it is kind of cool to hear that at least some people experience an eery sense that might be magnified if greater portions of the body were replaced. Sorry to hear about that, it sounds like it kind of sucks, don't want to just marvel at your discomfort, but thanks for talking about it candidly.
They exist, they are just dead people, because in that world you cannot be both weakened and poor and expecting to stay alive.
That said I think they should make the guy on the scooter a Net runner, I think they should make him a valid NPC too interact with.. in my opinion that guy on the scooter is one of the most interesting characters in the game so far. yea you can have trans people in the game too just don't rub it my face. let the interaction be voluntary.
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I was advised in early 2013,that such surgery would make my vision worse. I know this much when I go out with My CNIB ID, and my white cane I am treated fairly well,but without that white cane,I am treated like anyone else,even though my eyesight is just as shitty. Most people assume your physical condition with that cane,heck with my cane I often get people bumping into me with their cell phone glued to their faces. Get priority seating on the bus when I need it? Most people and especially millennial,are incredibly rude and use that seating when they can stand. For elderly or me for that matter.
I think it depends a LOT on the person.
Some folks never quite reconcile themselves to the fact that they lost a limb. Others accept it and just make whatever adjustments are necessary and carry on.
I think millennials are just the evolution of the Yuppies of the 90's, the assumption that the rest of the world only matters for what it can do for you.
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Nah. They're mostly just angry the things prior generations could take advantage of, like reasonable cost of living and college tuition not putting you in debt for life, are no longer available to them. Doesn't help they've also grown up with "the world is doomed!" as the environmentalism message being constantly pounded into them, they're being forced to watch as science slowly unravels as people become aware just how much scientists don't follow the scientific method, or that they're pretty much forced to choose between near-Soviet socialists or near-Nazi fascists for their leaders. They've also grown up being constantly told that benefits like Medicare and Social Security will never be available for their generation, and as a consequence more than a few are perfectly willing to see those go away. They're more than a little bit bitter about the whole mess they're inheriting.
So, uh, yeah. Be hopeful these people grow up to be like the yuppies. That's a less dark path than the one they're currently on. I kinda suspect CP2077 is going to be one of the best possible outcomes as far as disabled people are concerned, given current trends.
but what happens if you have some brain damage like i have part of the balance part of mine messed up things like a inner cyber wear would not fix that at all and a auto correct exto skeleton would be fighting you all the time i mean grafting new parts on to the old and such would only go so far you would still need to learn to walk run and every thing so the only thing i can think of is a chip set that kind of takes over for you but then you would need a range finder eye with inner ear balance with a gate chip set all wired to your nerves system
Brain damage is a problem.
If for instance the Temporal Lobes ( the part of the brain that's responsible for hearing) is damaged then cyber-ears aren't going to do you any good. You need a brain and essential nervous system (the spinal cord) to attach cyberware to (with some exceptions). As good as technology is they still don't have anything remotely resembling a human brain sized AI (AIs, of a sort exist, they're full sized computer networks).
It's, of course, possible, to an extent, to use undamaged parts of the brain to perform certain functions. Say the way Stephen Hawking used his cheek muscles to select words and phrases for his artificial voice.
Yeah it would be amazing to see people in wheelchairs because they don't get much screen time unless it's a X-men movie.
I've only skimmed this thread, so, i may have missed someone mentioning this, but, your ripperdoc wears glasses and has a bald spot ... all in an age, and in a profession where those eyes could be easily replaced, and synth-skin, or whatever it's called could give him all the dum-ta-dum hero hair he ever wanted.
There's a story there.
Glasses and balding don't really peg high on the disability spectrum, but, the presence of such when easy and cheap solutions for those very things are available could speak to much more where we will indeed encounter folks that can't, or won't "fix" a disability for any number of reasons.
There's a story there.
Glasses and balding don't really peg high on the disability spectrum, but, the presence of such when easy and cheap solutions for those very things are available could speak to much more where we will indeed encounter folks that can't, or won't "fix" a disability for any number of reasons.
There's always the matter of cost, personal preference, and things may not be as simple as they seem.
Those glasses the Doc wears may not be mere glasses. They could well be a HUD used to monitor his surgical devices and the patient, and have microscopic functions.
Ooo...here's a twisted thought:
What if someone like a netrunner figures out that by intentionally removing their arms, legs, natural heart, etc., they can free up more of their brain to handle more load while using the net. Introduce the idea that characters may intentionally cripple themselves in the real world to maximize their virtual presence.
What if someone like a netrunner figures out that by intentionally removing their arms, legs, natural heart, etc., they can free up more of their brain to handle more load while using the net. Introduce the idea that characters may intentionally cripple themselves in the real world to maximize their virtual presence.
10-30+% of our energy expenditure is on JUST digestion, with a dedicated plug I would readily
Remove the energy production center of the body in attempt to optimize maximum energy available.
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