more of a self dunk than anything

source for title claim: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/225000-americans-died-covid-19-start-2022-viral/story?id=90339579

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    2 years ago

    Wow dark brandon is porting Cyberpunk to real life!

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This is bullshit, he's only bringing the bad parts! I can't even get outpatient procedures to install laser pointers in my eyes! :wojak-nooo:

      • huf [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        you can let :melon-musk: torture you with brain wires or whatever. cyberpunk. what the fuck did you think cyberpunk was gonna be like?

        is it time for a butlerian jihad?

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I mean yeah cyberpunk as a genre is dystopian and a warning of the ways things might go, I was making fun of the people who only see the "cool" parts of cyberpunk and think it's aspirational.

          As for the Butlerian Jihad, if we could organize a movement powerful enough to destroy all computers I'd rather just use it to destroy capitalism instead.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Cyberpsychosis makes me so angry. Using a wheelchair does not make you in to a murderous monster!

          • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I really like this alternate take on cyberpsychosis I heard once. Basically more implants don't make you "less human" or whatever, but more implants means corporations were able to take direct control of heavily augmented individuals

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Recently it's gotten a fair bit better. In the latest edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG rules, only cybernetics that would give you superhuman abilities cause you to lose Humanity (if it drops to 0, you become a cyberpsycho), the idea being that you're viewing yourself less as a person and more as a collection of different meat parts to swap out. If someone can't walk, they could get cyberlegs no problem, and it also specifically calls out gender-affirmation surgery as not costing any Humanity. You also lose Humanity for other traumas (eg witnessing a gruesome murder, living in poverty), and can recover what you've lost (though not all of what you've lost to cyberware specifically) through therapy. It is also now (don't think it was before) possible for a PC to come back from being a cyberpsycho.

            2077 (the video game) has a whole series of missions where the idea is to take in "cyberpsychos" alive so that they can be treated.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I don't even get out of bed until I can have eyebrow sunglasses Deus Ex-style.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Looking forward to the Dark Brandon AI / Adam Smasher ticket in 2024