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Pre-dating the manga GitS by a year, the Cyberpunk PPRPG from R Talsorian ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber
by ethbro 9y ago
Pre-dating the manga GitS by a year, the Cyberpunk PPRPG from R Talsorian ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020 ) was a surprisingly well put-together and interesting world.
One of my favorite features was cyberpsychosis. As a gameplay element, it was an answer to "Why don't you just buy godlike cyber replacements for your body?"
But as a lore element, they bored down into the question. If you've got your neural processing running at multiples of human normal, or have a bulletproof body capable of lifting cars, then how do you relate to all the unmodified people around you? Musn't your relationship with them fundamentally change? And doesn't it seem logical that the amount of change would be related to the extremeness of your augmentation?
- firasd 9y agoThat's interesting. I recently learned about a philosophical thought experiment that may apply here, it's called "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F