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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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
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
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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...
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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."
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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
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...
Fuck
Yes
i say bring em on
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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.
I'll be the first to duck registering my built in weapons with the state!
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.
I still have this:
But you know what's not awesome? These are the only books inside:
No clue where the core book is.
Also Hi Favlaud.
This is basically my stance on any product nearing its release date.
What with Deus Ex 3 having very little of meaning to say on the subject of trans humanism beyond "shoot guys better"
Best case? It's good and I can't afford it. See? Not worth getting worked up over.
Gibson's right. The future as we know it is obsolete.
Why I fear the ocean.
Soon.
Not NASA. One dude that works at NASA.
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
these days I prefer Eclipse Phase
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.
and I'm not a d20 twenty fan either
prefer my classless hippy socialist pinko point buy systems
mostly it consisted of dudes getting shot in the leg and dying of shock.
Have no clue what this is about
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.
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.
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.
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
There was a whole bunch of interested people and I wussed out, of course
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."
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!