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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I don't see what the big deal is about having no pulse. I mean, I get that with early adoption there will need to be education and some way of signalling that someone has one of these hearts so they don't confuse no pulse with them being dead, but that's pretty normal for new technology.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Whyther wrote: »
    I am making this post from the future in the future we can time-travel the internet it's pretty cool here in the future

    I'm a little bit worried that there aren't more time machine accidents. Just a couple of assholes in a flying telephone booth land in a busy intersection and get nailed by a semi.

    Never happens. Makes me worry about the history of time travel that will happen

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Druhim wrote: »
    I don't see what the big deal is about having no pulse. I mean, I get that with early adoption there will need to be education and some way of signalling that someone has one of these hearts so they don't confuse no pulse with them being dead, but that's pretty normal for new technology.

    My first thought was "How are they going to get the turbine pumps to speed up and slow down in response to cardiovascular requirements?"

    Then I realised that they must already do that with common artificial hearts. Now I want to know how...

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    This Cyberpunk enough for you?

    http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-offers-hope-of-new-lease-on-life

    You have no pulse.

    Probably in the next generation or so, we're likely to start hitting some early transhuman ethical concerns.

    Fuck

    Yes

  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    transhuman ethical concerns?

    i say bring em on

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    i want a robot arm with a sword and a gun in it.

    sure, i would probably just keep it on the coffee table as a conversation peice, "why yes, with an arm like that i probably could rob a bank single handedly. ho ho" but i still want one.

  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    transhuman ethical concerns?

    i say bring em on

    I'll be the first to duck registering my built in weapons with the state!

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Speaking of transhuman shit, I want there to be a way for a medical professional to do that magnet-in-the-finger thing so you can feel electric fields.

    Because that seems awesome to me but the idea of a tattoo artist with a bottle of vodka for anesthetic implanting things into me just... puts me off a bit.

    Steam | SW-0844-0908-6004 and my Switch code
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Know what's awesome?
    I still have this:
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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    haha whoops. Not that. This:
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    But you know what's not awesome? These are the only books inside:
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    No clue where the core book is.

  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    how do you guys feel about CDProjekt's Cyberpunk game they're working on, what little we know about it so far

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Cautiously optimistic

    Also Hi Favlaud.

    Uriel on
  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Cautiously optimistic

    Also Hi Favlaud.

    This is basically my stance on any product nearing its release date.

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Worst case scenario, it isn't very good and i won't care.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Well I just really think cyberpunk games could use another shot in the arm.

    What with Deus Ex 3 having very little of meaning to say on the subject of trans humanism beyond "shoot guys better"

  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    Worst case scenario, it isn't very good and i won't care.


    Best case? It's good and I can't afford it. See? Not worth getting worked up over.

  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    We all know about NASA working on a warp drive, right?

    Gibson's right. The future as we know it is obsolete.

  • FavlaudFavlaud just straight up awful Registered User regular
    hi uriel!

  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    We all know about NASA working on a warp drive, right?

    Gibson's right. The future as we know it is obsolete.

    Not NASA. One dude that works at NASA.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Friday Night Firefight sounds bad as fuck

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Friday Night Firefight sounds bad as fuck

    Goddamn kids these days, nothing to do.

    Well I'll tell ya what we did on the weekends! Firefights!

    And then I'll shake my cane which is also a gun

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Much as Cyberpunk is a classic

    these days I prefer Eclipse Phase

  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Much as Cyberpunk is a classic

    as much as it is, I've never played it.


    Of course, back in those days they didn't have a d20 system so playing the game was like slamming your metric dick into a 12 threads per inch internally threaded, schedule 40 garbage disposal.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Well, Cyberpunk aint the best system now or then

    and I'm not a d20 twenty fan either

    prefer my classless hippy socialist pinko point buy systems

  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Us commies got to stick together

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    I've played Cyberpunk a couple times...

    mostly it consisted of dudes getting shot in the leg and dying of shock.

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    as a red blooded American I

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    As a green-blooded Neu-Latvian I

  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    As an AI construct that exists to subjugate the human race, I refuse to tell you anything else

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    as a nime club president

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    As captain of this ship I

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    As a meat popsicle

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    As an abominable almalgamation of corpses I

    Have no clue what this is about

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Antimatter wrote: »
    This Cyberpunk enough for you?

    http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-offers-hope-of-new-lease-on-life

    You have no pulse.

    Probably in the next generation or so, we're likely to start hitting some early transhuman ethical concerns.

    Fuck

    Yes

    For the most part, I'm okay with cybernetic enhancement and upgrades. I'm a huge fan of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell, and I think cyborg integration into society would be something really awesome. And that's the cool thing about Shirow's universe, no one gives a crap even though a good portion of the population looks like this.
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    Three eyed, pointy headed borgs in combat exoskeletons wearing Hawaiian shirts and working with local police. Nothing to see here.

    When the human lifespan doubled it wasn't greeted with gasps of horror. It was encouraged. It's the stuff like brain copying and effective immortality that is going to be, really, really, unsettling for some. Me included.

    Living a few hundred years, sure. Why not? Effective immortality? Yeah... that I find unsettling personally.
    Druhim wrote: »
    I don't see what the big deal is about having no pulse. I mean, I get that with early adoption there will need to be education and some way of signalling that someone has one of these hearts so they don't confuse no pulse with them being dead, but that's pretty normal for new technology.

    In some parts of the world, especially tribal and developing nations. Not having a pulse means you are a zombie. The walking dead.

    As in, you are prime burning at the stake material.

    That is an ethical concern.

    manwiththemachinegun on
  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    eclipse phase seems rad as hecks

    i've got the sourcebook but no friends sufficiently nerdy to play it with. i run darwin's world games for my buddies every once in awhile but that's substantially less complex / it's setting is somewhat more accessible

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I still need to run that Eclipse Phase game on the forums

    There was a whole bunch of interested people and I wussed out, of course

  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    @manwiththemachinegun, have you read Battle Angel Alita? The first series goes into the brain copying thing a bit, might be up your alley.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    I think I read the first volume, it had some interesting concepts but the art didn't really get my attention. I'm a bit shallow like that when it comes to comics. :p

    Still makes me sad Appleseed is the bastard stepchild to Ghost in the Shell, because there are so many little facets of Olympus that make for cool sci-fi. Like planting a small bomb in a cyborg's car to wreck his expensive equipment as a revenge prank.

    "Our Father who art in Heaven... please let this cost him fifty grand."

  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    As in, you are prime burning at the stake material.

    That is an ethical concern.

    I move that we arm anyone with any kind of prosthesis so that they can defend themselves from superstitious primitives.

    A metal heart in every chest! And a cap in every ass!

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