These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.

  • @BlackNo1
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    1961 year ago

    you better start believing in cyberpunk dystopias

    YOURE LIVING IN ONE

    • JohnEdwa
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      1 year ago

      Can’t wait to have to get a mandatory firmware update before my eyes or legs or something like that works again. I just hope Microsoft doesn’t get in on the cybernetics business or it’ll randomly happen while driving on the highway or forcefully fill your vision with blinding light for half an hour when you are trying to sleep.

      • @[email protected]
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        361 year ago

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        • Lev_Astov
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          121 year ago

          We have altered the terms of service. Pray we do not alter them any further.

          • @RGB3x3
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            51 year ago

            Somehow, Microsoft has returned.

        • OldQWERTYbastard
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          21 year ago

          Still might want to practice on a hot dog or something afterwards though.

      • @Burn_The_Right
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        241 year ago

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      • bruhduh
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        1 year ago

        I have some pretty bad news for you, Elon musk is doing cybernetics business with it’s neuralink

        • @ChewTiger
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          41 year ago

          I’d take Microsoft shot over anything Musk.

      • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒
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        It’s not like all chrome is as sexy sleek as V or Rebecca.

        There’s one lore pickup that sticks with me. It’s the “top employers” in Night City. The people who are employed by these 5 comprise the middle class.

        spoiler

        Arasaka offers the lowest contractual obligation to work for at 20 years.

        Biotechnica offers six vacation days a year (current Americans average 11 PTO days at 40 hours a week)

        But the above is small potatoes when you read Nightcorp: ONLY(!) 80 hour workweek. For family focused people!

        Not being pedantic but also as you walk around look at the lifestyles of the charachters. River and Judy are successful legally employed people, and look at their home situation. Their houses and how much chrome they afford. Their weapons comprise of the very basics. How much tech do they have that wasn’t illegally obtained or had their job pay it off? Judy works mosly with chrome as far as BDs go. River is ex-NCPD, and he only affords prosthetic arms that are reminiscent of Gorilla Arms but it doesn’t have skin or look great - they’re functional. In addition to a prosthetic eye that doesn’t even try to be humanlike, like V’s Kiroshi Optics.

        The average citizen puts in an assload of work for their chrome and its hard to sustain yourself. I know they respawn but how many times do you just see Maelstrom on a sidewalk? How many out-and-about Valentinos? Most people can’t afford the nice chrome, or healthcare (as shown by David’s mom) and get by on their bills through theft or violence. Maelstrom chrome is a hack job. Rebecca funded all her work through being part of a successful criminal enterprise. Maine being the reason they even have the connection and payments with Faraday. Compare the Edgerunners chrome to the average Tyger Claw, and it’s easier to see that they are the ideal gang, not the average.

      • bruhduh
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        Ez in cyberpunk you have to pay lotta money to stay alive as was showed in anime cyberpunk edgerunners if you’re average human going on average job then you fucked and it’s much much worse than today’s America healthcare

    • @lando55
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      11 year ago

      Read this in Scare Tactics voice

    • @scottywh
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      -21 year ago

      Not likely for long enough to acclimate …

      Joke’s on you?