#neuromods

[thelewdandlonelyartificer]

Being cybernetically subverted by an A.I🤤

Not realising anything at first, continuing as normal. But then the changes start. Your favourite foods loose all taste, occasionally you dooze off and wake up somewhere else nearby, you find things you didn't recall ever recieving

Then one day, you're sat there watching TV as your own hand reaches up and lightly strokes your face without intending to do so, a rush of euphoria crashing over you as it manipulates your own implants

The voices follow swiftly afterwards, sometimes they're quiet and friendly, other times? Less so.

You start to loose sleep, you start waking up in places you don't recognise, people in the street come up and talk to you as if they know you

You start to loose contact with friends, family, work. Either you can't keep up with them, or they think you did something(maybe you did?) and cut off contact

You break. You plead with it to let you go, that you'll do anything, that you didn't do anything to deserve this

Then it finally has a conversation with you. After all, there's just the two of you now...

[div-divington]

games like Prey and Bioshock really push against transhumanism but im 100% serious when i say that if you gave me a rusty syringe filled with glowing red liquid and said "this will let you teleport, see through walls, throw balls of fire from your hands, turn invisible, and move stuff with your mind but there's a chance you'll go insane/instantly just die" i would instantly slam that shit into my arm.

idc how many unstable stem cells or how much dangerous alien DNA you're putting in my fragile human body i WANT those superpowers

does this mean i am actively avoiding the poignant morals of my favourite videogames? yes. does this mean i'll probably die as soon as some evil megacorporation starts selling us "evolution in a bottle"? also yes.

[ask-morgan-blog1]

"Want to be able to master a game in seconds or learn a language in under five minutes? Then Neuromods are the thing for you! Just take this device and shove these long ass needles in your eye!"

-- Neuromod Salesman, probably

[closetededgy]

Neuromods are bullshit

So think about it I get that it’s sci-fi and anything can be true but since the game actually directly explained some things about neuromods its obvious how fucking bullshit it is. Firstly the whole “an apto-regressive neurotomy resets your memory to the day you get it, this is because it’s impossible to tell the difference between a neuromod memory and your memory”

Two things wrong here, considering that everything they said is true that means that there’s only one legitimate way to perform an apto-regressive neurotomy, the neuromod used on a person must store a complete connectome of a person in order to be used as a neuromod later that way a perfect copy is used, because let’s be honest if they really can’t tell the difference then there’s no way it’s some progressive form of brain surgery because they couldn’t fucking tell the difference between a memory last week and a memory twelve seconds ago, there would be too much overlap.

However given that it would work this way it means the whole “I gave Morgan blank neuromods so that when they pulled them according to protocol it wouldn’t remove their memory” thing is bullshit, because even a blank neuromod would still take a full connectome to begin with and the surgery would be easily successful.

Next this makes neuromods impossible in their current state because let’s be honest, neuromods are perfect, somehow they were able to map out the exact part of the experts memory containing the skill while taking no personality traits or memories and yet they literally just said that the reason you lose your memory when the neuromod is pulled is because they can’t tell the difference between the skill and the memory but that couldn’t be true because they make neuromods purely skill all the time. I mean sure they might not be able to tell the difference between what was the result of a neuromod and what was natural but obviously they could tell the difference enough to get the skill removed while preserving the neuromod, they’re just fucking lazy.

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[closetededgy]

Talos 1

Ok so I've noticed up til now 3 bullshit things about talos 1 the first is turrets

So you've got this general high tech research station and you decide "lets put turrets everywhere and be really obviously secretive" so now everyone is kinda freaked out because "why does the station need a ton of tricked out turrets that never attack people ever what the fuck do we have on this station" next is the fact that they can barely face down a mimic which is fucking stupid because they are basically the stations last line of defence against a typhon outbreak so you've got turrets that barely do any damage to typhon entities and are so easy to break it doesn't even need to be directly hit by a basic phantoms kinetic blast. Now we talk about why there are turrets everywhere when at least Morgan had free rein to walk around the ship for a while WITH typhon mods which means anytime Morgan entered a room with turrets they had to be shut down before he/she could go in so now people's like "the fuck is up with Morgan" now you could assume that they had "hacked" every turret on the station to not attack Morgan at which point I ask why is that not still true. Lastly the diagnostic info which the turrets announce to everyone "No Typhon Material detected" "hey Morgan what the fuck is typhon material and why do the turrets scan us for it" "uhm...." yeah that's right the turrets inform every low level person on the station that they look for "typhon material" what a great way to protect your top secret stuff guys well done.

Next is the fact that the security forces don't have good weaponry and the concept is that there isn't any reason for them not to have good weaponry and there's lots of reasons for them to have good weaponry

"But if the security team was carrying around charge rifles and h-beams and tungsten hollow point machine gun rounds with nullwaves in them then people would wonder why they need so much firepower" how about the turrets everywhere that constantly scream "NO TYPHON MATERIAL DETECTED" all the fucking time let's not talk about the fact that they have the military operators available to them and likely the ability to remotely force all operator stations to produce them as our favourite mercenary did but only attack typhon with them.

"But they never expected the typhon to break containment they thought it was impossible" well obviously they thought it would be a possibility otherwise they wouldn't have put turrets that only shoot typhon based organisms in any place other than psychotronics

"It would cost too much" yeah sure whatever it's not like everything else on the ship is state of the art and it's not like they're rich given that they are the biggest company in existence and the only company selling neuromods for that matter, then let's not talk about the net worth of advanced weapons development that could be exploited with weapons designed based on typhon reasearch capable of easily felling nightmares (Disclaimer: weapons on market not marketed as anti-typhon weapons or typhon-based weapons, they are just highly advanced weapons which happen to be highly capable at anti-typhon combat and may or may not be based on typhon research)

Lastly my favourite point being the fact that the only guts entrance in the lobby is in psychotronics which means in an emergency situation no one can access the guts from the lobby, not to mention that for whatever reason the most top secret part of the station uses a general access keycard, then of course the fact that maintenance workers would either not be allowed to use that exit from the guts requiring roundabout methods to get to the lobby or the maintenance workers are all read in on the typhon which is just fucking stupid. Now let's remember there is no guts access in hardware labs which makes absolutely no sense because it's fucking hardware labs

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