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

#Cyberpunk

@:akko_angery: Kingu You work in software quality, you aren't afraid of bugs/viruses affecting your sight? Imagine ransomware but for your vision?
I did not put enough consideration in the "commercial" part of your post ๐Ÿ˜€

liver lol

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

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.

@Renรฉ Dario ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‹๏ธ For me, a full skeleton replacement is completely out of the question just given how invasive such a procedure would be. Whether it would be done in one operation or multiple, we're talking of being in excruciating pain for at least several months. Is it worth it outside of a very specific use (like fighting crime in spandex)? I think not.
@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.)
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.
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"
@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
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˜†
@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

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.)

@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
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 ๐Ÿ˜‰
Still, I liked the three Tomb Raider game due to their beautiful graphics, but it was a killing spree. ๐Ÿ˜•
@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
True.
DE: mankind divided (had to check in steam ๐Ÿ˜‰
TR: plain?, rise, shadow (same series)
Probably the youngestest runs.
@Peter Amthor Ah no, it's too easy, I'm asking about replacing perfectly good organs/limbs by potentially better synthetic counterparts.

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Eyes, first and foremost. My flesh ogling orbs aren't that swell to begin with.

@elShoggotho Sure, and how do you deal with the additional questions I asked someone else who gave the same answer in https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029-1665-9c21-0148-8dc523056588 ?


@:akko_angery: Kingu You work in software quality, you aren't afraid of bugs/viruses affecting your sight? Imagine ransomware but for your vision?

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.
@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?
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.
@Michael Vogel I figured it would be something in this vein, I'm sorry about that.
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 ๐Ÿ˜
A new kidney would be cool.
@Hypolite Petovan so my obvious answer is "damaged ones" but you don't like that do you
@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.
Well, if possible, then of course a full body replacement like in "Ghost in the shell" would be interesting.

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Eyes, back, ears, skin, hands, feet.
Could we move just our brain to the new Nexus 6?
@Andrej Do you mean the new Torment Nexus 6? ๐Ÿ˜‰
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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