As for me. My answer was yes when I first watch Ghost in Shell and SAC over 20 years ago, and still yes after playing Cyberpunk 2077. If any part of my body started failing, I’d replace it in a heartbeat if I could, possibly with a Second Heart. I don’t mind getting old, hair going gray, wrinkles. I do mind slowing down and losing my mobility. Not too thrilled about possible mental decline either. If I could modify my body in any way to counter those things, I’d do it. Bit on the fence about cybernetic eyes though.
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I would…and probably in all the ways.
Only if I had the choice to have outgoing signals only and anything that needs to come in would be with physical connection, I don’t trust wireless standards to be secure enough to put in my brain.
I would just get double jump and probably sum preem kiroshis
Eyes, limbs, cancer proof organs.
You bet ur ass Im gettin that black market borne, sketchy, questionable and completely gonk Mr. Studs
If I had the money, full body conversion into something I actually liked. This bundle of flesh no longer entertains me. Never has.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Metal is better than meat. Rip out as much as I can handle and build me a body worthy of humanity’s greatest technological leap in history. Carve the cutting edge of Arasaka’s finest homage to the gods of death and war into my very soul. Rip my mind from me and store it in Mikoshi so I can be copied endlessly into Alpha Class Full Body Conversions slotted into the latest DaiOni ACPAs.
Human feet are an evolutionary disaster — I’d replace them with some metal stuff that improves run, jump or whatever. And since I’ve worn thick glasses most of my life, I’d definitely swap in some cool optics. Strictly for local network use, tho
I probably wouldnt, unless I need them for a job or something. Certainly not for the funsies. My job doesnt require me to have anything like this, and hacking off a limb seems quite a drastic measure to take.
Weirdly enough, a few years go in my adolescence I would have KILLED for Adam Jensen’s arm augments. Matter of fact, I’d still kill to have access to Barghests arm and leg cyberware in Cyberpunk.
God no, imagine how many AAA batteries you would go through… that just sounds annoying.
The only one I’m sold on would be Kiroshis or alts because I have terrible eyesight already. I imagine it is similar to tattoos in that once you get one, you can’t stop so likely I would keep going.
I’m chippin in
I definitely would because I have very vivid dreams I love to talk about them and I wish there was a way to just take the dream out if my brain and shove it into others heads so they can see what I saw xD I’d probably also get some eye inplants so I don’t need to wear glasses anymore. Idk if that’s because of the doll chip or some other implant but Evelyn changes her hair color several times during her story and I want that lol
I will be the first documented cyberpsycho with how much i will chrome up
would be fun but I wouldnt want Jeff Bezos to turn off my eyes and limbs because I didnt pay for amazon prime that month
If go for *one* cybernetic eye. My left eye is kinda faulty, I have photophobia and it’s much harsher on it so a kiroshi with incorporated shades. Then, I’d also get cyberhands for better guitar playing when I get older and arthritis riddled. Perhaps also a superkidney since I got kidney stones frequently even despite diet and lifestyle changes.
I’d be like Lizzy Wizzy
I just want the collective of their medical technology ( artificial limbs/organs/bio-monitiors/cybernetic eyes, etc ) for they have effectively ended human disability more or less. In addition to this there genetic tech as well.
This increase of Quality of Life would STICK IT to all those lobbying S.O.B. in the higher echelons of society
Yep, and well on my way to cyber psycho
replace the spine (fuck all those bones that can fuck up in various ways and screw your nerves).
deffo a brain shell of some kind.
Pain regulator (not for it to be consistently on, but it’d be nice to still be able to move in extreme circumstances and/or to get a restful night of sleep when things are fucking up or you are ill).
Whatever I’d need transition wise to feel happy in my body.
Optionally legs. Otherwise whenever something fails or breaks.
Gorilla right arm, mantis blade left arm
Cyberleg for boost jump
Reinforced joints & spine
If cyberpsychosis wasn’t a factor, even a sandy
In terms of affordability i doubt many of us could just get some, but if that’s out the window then borderline syberpsychosis
I don’t think I would ever feel 100% comfortable with a deck/something jacked directly into my brain, but I would absolutely be riding the edge of cyberpsychosis otherwise. Second heart, reinforced ankles, as many durability mods as I could handle
Likely just arms and legs. Part of my work requires walking for about 10 hours each day with minimal downtime, occasionally carrying heavy stuff too.
Give me cyber titties and gorilla arms to lift them
I am a nearsighted asthmatic. New lungs and eyes would be superpowers for me.
I’d get my eyes fixed, I’m sure you can do that without full change to cybernetics and probably strengthen all my joints. No more pain and new kidneys would be great. No lease or contract though. Full purchase for these things.
To a degree, yes. As much as I enjoy the cyberdeck in game, I’d have concerns over being hacked IRL, but the Kiroshi optics, the ability to double jump and the addition of epidermal armor would all be fantastic. A couple of other things like the biomonitor and the blood pump would also be cool addition.
I told my buddy i want to be the first ripperdoc when things kick off. But, yeah, id get chipped, and it would 110% be a busted ass sandevistan just like david got. Im tryna see what basejumping feels like when i do it at like.. a quarter of a mile an hour, in real time.
It has the most practical uses, imo, as im not really here to go taking out people’s property with any netrunning; i just want to be able to grab my phone, before it hits asphalt, if i drop it.
Also gooning
Man, just make my knees and back not hurt. I’ll deal with everything else.
Well my buddy is always bitching about not having sub-dermal armor.
I’d get optics for sure.
I would very quickly end up dancing with maxtac with the amount of metal id shove into my body
I would for sure get kiroshi eyes. That seems like the best overall implant to get so you can analyze your surroundings and people on a whim. But Vic did hook up V with the NCPD crime report thing, so us average Joe’s actually wouldn’t be able to analyze people and get a status on them. But maybe we could connect to Facebook/other social media and it has facial recognition tech?
Aside from that I would want the double jump or charge jump legs. Optical camo would be really cool too. Idt I need a cyberdeck, maybe the processor that boost your cyberware capacity so I have no threat to reach cyberpsychosis.
Yes. We all would, that’s the point of the genre really. Cyberpunk exists in a world of runaway capitalism, you can’t even get a corpo job without enough enhancements and drugs to keep you working 360 days per year. Don’t wanna be a corpo? No problem, you never had the chance anyway. If you want a hard labor job you’re gonna need to chip into this gray market Militech walker that may or may not cause you to have a psychotic break.
Eyes, mine are crap
Outside of organ or limb failure, I’d have a few conditions :
– it need to be completely airwalled, except for maybe a solid physical connection. I am not taking my chances with having my heart hacked.
– it need to be fully open-source. My own limb isn’t property. Not mine and certainly not a prosthetic company’s. It’s pretty much the only way to make the users free from the company going bankrupt, choosing to discontinue support for their prosthetics or that kind of things.
I absolutely would replace so much of my body with cold steel. I love wearing silver and gold because I wish it would melt into my flesh and lend me its shine.