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If commercial cyberware became available, what organ/limb would you be willing to replace by a synthetic counterpart first?

#Cyberpunk

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

liver lol

But seriously, nothing. I don't trust those fuckers to make anything good or to support it.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

it isn't such an easy question for me to answer. At first I might say my skeletal system, but every action has a consequence to it and what might happen to a body if a skeleton were replaced? I've already had my eyes enhanced (LASIK), but maybe the ability to see different light spectra outside of normal human vision would be a boon worth taking.

Raroun doesn't like this.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@renedario it's real though, there is no universal time, it has been (kind of) proven already. And even beyond physics time _observation_ is also non-constant, so your sense of time may (and does) speed up and slow down almost constantly.
So it works. (A Sandevistan helps anyway.)
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I remember at least one research where they checked the healing speed of patients in various mental state and happy, relaxed, well fed and slept people heal faster, while stress make it heal slower. Sure, probably it is related to the energy balance but it seems that your biological process can be sped up or slowed down as well.
But yeah, slow acclimatisation makes time crawl.
in reply to grin

โ€ฆ"feeling time slow" reminds me a description of a weapon in the mentioned Cyberpunk2077 (namely the Caretaker's Spade):
"it is not lethal but they will wish it was"
in reply to grin

@grin That's why I like non-lethal takedowns and weapons in video games. On one hand, it spares innocents that cross my path, and it feels like a punishment worse than death for the guilty.
@grin
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

except in said game non-lethal weapon animations aren't quite thought out so it's possible to shoot someone with a non-lethal gun and their limbs will cover the whole area yet they're not dead, only stunned. ๐Ÿ˜†
in reply to grin

@grin I have on occasions took out a chunk of people's head with a "non-lethal" weapon. It wasn't even a sniper rifle, just a pistol, but I consistently do 800 damage critical headshots from stealth with it. Made me feel slightly bad each time. I even tried to use a pistol with a lower base damage stat just in case.
@grin
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I'm laughing, I had exactly the same feeling, like, "god man, I do not want to kill you, why don't you get the hint from that I only use my fists?" The game don't support non-killing instincts.

The opposite was Metal Gear Solid V, which is (by default) a sneak game and disprefers killing, but for me it was too hard to sneak... (I haven't even finished it for that, even that it was very well done.)

in reply to grin

@grin Have you played Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2012)? Stealth is also encouraged, although it is punctuated by a few annoying boss fights where stealth is useless.
@grin
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I had some other Deus Ex but I did not like it at all, apart from the fact that it required more GPU power than I had. But yes, it was also kind of stealth. I usually prefer point&click adventures ;-)
Still, I liked the three Tomb Raider game due to their beautiful graphics, but it was a killing spree. ๐Ÿ˜•
in reply to grin

@grin At this point you have to be really specific about which Tomb Raider games you are referring to, as well as Deus Ex games. Both series had an older run and a younger run.
@grin
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

True.
DE: mankind divided (had to check in steam ;-)
TR: plain?, rise, shadow (same series)
Probably the youngestest runs.
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Hypolite Petovan
@Peter Amthor Ah no, it's too easy, I'm asking about replacing perfectly good organs/limbs by potentially better synthetic counterparts.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

NSFW?
Anyone else thinks this post needs dick upgrades thread? :)
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard I mean, I should have known that my audience is mainly corpo-sceptical luddites in poor health, I'm not sure why I'm surprised nobody's excited about IRL cyberware.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Well, if possible, then of course a full body replacement like in "Ghost in the shell" would be interesting.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

My knees. It would be a new experience for me, not having constant pain in that area. And if that worked out well, I would next replace my hands.
in reply to Michael Vogel

@Michael Vogel Knee replacement is already available so it doesn't feel in the scope of the question. And what more do you need to do with your hands that you can't do right now?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

A painless use of my hands would be nice. I always have to be careful with task like for example screwing a screw or opening a jar. I had two surgeries at hands because of a Carpal tunnel syndrome. After that I haven't got constant pain anymore, but still I have to be careful with some specific tasks.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I'm living with this now for many, many years. My knees are hurting for more than 30 years and my hand issues started around 20 years ago. So it's not, that I'm getting old, it's just that I had been built with very crappy parts :-D
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

CW: Medical

The liver. If your heart fails, you die, sure, but if your liver fails it's gonna be a long painful agony (I'm talking months if not years) before you kick the bucket (you can guess I have some associated trauma about this).

So liver it is.

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

No I mean the Tyrell Corporation Replicant from project Nexus, ideally the model Nexus-9 with better HW and unlimited lifespan.
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