Mankind Divided had some hilarious bad ignorance of class struggle when it tried to make rich assholes with cybernetic implants the new disadvantaged minority (yes, some people in HR had to get implants to continue working, and had to keep making payments for Neuropozyne, but most of that was dropped and not really talked about again after that game), and did it with such a brazenly bad presentation that it pulled the "look! Minority of the present is discriminating against the transhuman superman! Except the player! The player can't experience any of that firsthand because that may be upsetting." :so-true:
yeah, human revolution did kinda sorta toy around with cybernetics putting working people into debt or out of work, since they had to get the latest brain implants to keep up with their competitive peers. I think one of the prostitutes in Hengsha mentions she previously had a job she became unqualified for because she couldn't afford an implant? Maybe I dreamed that.
I don't know. The first game gestured in some kinda interesting directions. Then Mankind Divided just went full "wot if there was an apartheid for people who have gun hands"
She was in an argument with her employer because he was trying to get her to get augmented to have a vibrating :kitty-cri-screm: , which it's also made clear is a form of debt trapping that pimps are deploying since it would have made her on the hook for the anti-rejection drugs.
Mankind Divided had some hilarious bad ignorance of class struggle when it tried to make rich assholes with cybernetic implants the new disadvantaged minority (yes, some people in HR had to get implants to continue working, and had to keep making payments for Neuropozyne, but most of that was dropped and not really talked about again after that game), and did it with such a brazenly bad presentation that it pulled the "look! Minority of the present is discriminating against the transhuman superman! Except the player! The player can't experience any of that firsthand because that may be upsetting." :so-true:
yeah, human revolution did kinda sorta toy around with cybernetics putting working people into debt or out of work, since they had to get the latest brain implants to keep up with their competitive peers. I think one of the prostitutes in Hengsha mentions she previously had a job she became unqualified for because she couldn't afford an implant? Maybe I dreamed that.
I don't know. The first game gestured in some kinda interesting directions. Then Mankind Divided just went full "wot if there was an apartheid for people who have gun hands"
She was in an argument with her employer because he was trying to get her to get augmented to have a vibrating :kitty-cri-screm: , which it's also made clear is a form of debt trapping that pimps are deploying since it would have made her on the hook for the anti-rejection drugs.
Yeah, the prostitute thing did happen.
Anything that HR did badly, MD likely did worse.