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
An already overtaxed medical system found itself inundated by a series of plagues that swept the planet. Aided by easy and rapid transportation between countries, densely packed urban zones, and a willful tendency for the broken governments of the period to ignore or downplay the effects of medical emergencies, the "hot zones" spread like fusion-fed explosions, devastating entire continents.
- from the Cyberpunk Red core rulebook
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:
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?
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.
Cyberpsychosis makes me so angry. Using a wheelchair does not make you in to a murderous monster!
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
corporations were able to take direct control of heavily augmented individuals
Aw fuck, :my-hero: is dm'ing racist memes to my brain.
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.
I don't even get out of bed until I can have eyebrow sunglasses Deus Ex-style.
Falling through the ground when I walk outside my apt
Looking forward to the Dark Brandon AI / Adam Smasher ticket in 2024
Mike Pondsmith may be a galaxy brained lib most of the time, but when he's on point he's on point.
i'm just reading through the history section and damn are these takes all over the place.
It's a system that's working exactly as designed. We're just unlucky enough to be affected by it.
We’re just
unlucky enough to be affected by it.cursed.
When I said "nothing will fundamentally change," I meant it, Jack.
-Joseph Robinette Brandon
Remember, there’s one big difference between the two situations:
Biden did that even with a very effective vaccine widely available, along with much more effective treatments developed since the start of the pandemic.
He's just fucking with us and gloating over it all right?
The tweet is from before he got elected. He proceeded to get elected and then didn't bother to do anything :brandon: :mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2: :amerikkka-clap:
