I check my watch and ask you for the time

he/him | Writer/College Student | I post about games, my hobbies, and occasionally music I listen to.

[bitchi4mwillywonka]

learning how to react less because why should i have to lose my mind just to be understood

[1gmoney]

real

[greelin]

(guy who is wearing all yellow voice) Boy i sure hope no one looks at me in a noticeable way

[greelin]

like can we be serious for a moment please. Use our brain

[yeahawvampire]

How's Curious George doing btw

[greelin]

hey. That was devastating

[antlerpunk]

I WISH I WAS A LITTLE BIT BALDER

I WISH I WAS A WALTER

I WISH I HAD A LAWYER NAMED SAUL BETTER CALLER

[notatzimisce]

You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.

There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

It's more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that "losing your humanity" does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works

[alpaca-clouds]

I mean, ironically I can even see the classical Cyberpsychosis working if people actually did some worldbuilding with it.

See, anything cybernetic you put onto you needs to interface with your brain. That is why Elon Musk was so obsessed with those stupid brain-chips that he killed monkeys for. Because while you can get a basic prosthesis to work in very basic ways without interfacing with the nervous system, if you want the prosthesis to do all this shit they do in a cyberpunk setting, you would need to create an interface between the software, hardware and the nervous system.

And cyberpunk is a capitalist dystopia. So the most of those things you have interfacing with your nervous system, the higher the chance that one of them loads malicious data, gets overwritten with a virus, or some other kind of shit.

Possibly, too, a lot of companies in this capitalist hellscape would make it a point to make it so that their ware does not work well, when the user has ware from another company installed. (Shadowrun had actually rules for that. If your entire equipment was from the same company you paid more, but lost less essence for the same ware.)

Actually going into that makes it from: "using prosthesis = bad" to "company abusing medical needs for their own gain". Which is a whole lot more sensible.

[twogoatseatingsilverware]

[rcktpwr]

easy pete you son of a bitch, there isn’t a sign on this earth that could deliver you from my fury

[exeggcute]

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

[screenshotsofdespair]

[kingedwardsapphires]

@ominous-signs

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[josukespimphand]

Makima art I recently finished. Had the original wip collecting dust for a few years and forgot about it....

[qosic]

you and I were fireworks that went off too soon

[hungwy]

[foxfaer]

Growing.

[targetedknowledge]

[keithstack]

[orteil42]

terrified of unwittingly enjoying the shadows in the cave. the song you didn't know was a cover. the movie you didn't realize was a parody. the game you never knew was a bootleg port. and then even after you find out, there's something in you that still likes the shadow better than the real thing

[tlirsgender]

Sometimes a creative outlet is a fun little hobby and sometimes it's a lifelong affliction. Like I crochet because making little woven animals sparks joy and I'm a writer whether I like it or not because I'm tormented by visions

[tlirsgender]

Me crocheting: I made a duck ! ^_^

Me writing: pacing around talking to myself compelled by forces beyond my comprehension

[animentality]

[softwaring]

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]