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Dumpshock Forums _ Shadowrun _ Used Bioware
Posted by: Fiddler Aug 18 2013, 02:39 AM
Used bioware creeps me out much more than used cyberware. Something about a mutant organ from someone elses body just screams horror trid. What does everyone else think?
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Aug 18 2013, 02:40 AM
Used bioware is more or less an organ transplant.
Posted by: SpellBinder Aug 18 2013, 02:55 AM
Posted by: Umidori Aug 18 2013, 09:09 AM
Ghoul Kibble.
~Umi
Posted by: Wakshaani Aug 18 2013, 12:49 PM
Recall that ordinary Bioware is made from Type O genetic material and, as such, is perfectly happy to work in whatever bod you stick it in.
CUltured Bioware, in contrast, only works for the person whose genetic material it was created from.
So, you can always grab a secondhand SYnthcardium, but a used nervous system is right out.
Posted by: Fiddler Aug 18 2013, 02:28 PM
I guess i can't get beyond the mutant organ thing i've never been into bioware so i am biased.
Posted by: Sendaz Aug 18 2013, 02:36 PM
well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_(2008_film) about transplants causing problems don't help. 
Posted by: Fiddler Aug 18 2013, 02:49 PM
And now for boware urban legends... I knew a guy who knew a guy who got an adrenaline pump, he was enjoying his Neil the Orc barbarian sim when it kicked in from the excitement, something went wrong and his heart couldn't take it he was found on the floor of his living room dead.
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Aug 18 2013, 06:03 PM
More likely he was assassinated by Runners and it was made to look like an accident.
Posted by: Fiddler Aug 18 2013, 06:30 PM
I guess you don't believe in AI infested cyberlimbs either.
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Aug 18 2013, 06:57 PM
No, that's actually entirely possible, it's just not very probable, since a cyberlimb would be a very, very poor environment for an AI to set up in. They want something with much more processing power.
Posted by: Voran Aug 18 2013, 08:15 PM
There's a sex joke in there somewhere....
Posted by: Sendaz Aug 18 2013, 09:17 PM
What? Not having enough RAM?
Posted by: Sendaz Aug 18 2013, 09:17 PM
DP
Posted by: SpellBinder Aug 19 2013, 12:59 AM
Posted by: DeathStrobe Aug 19 2013, 01:46 AM
Ah man, that's seems like it will be true. That's lame. Having to make friends with an AI so they can move into your commlink to optimize the system was one of the sweetest uses of AIs in SR4.
Posted by: SpellBinder Aug 19 2013, 02:08 AM
Honestly it had amazed me that an AI could be in something so small in SR4. In another sci-fi game setting, which is set several hundred years into the future, an AI can only reside in a mainframe that requires at least a small automobile to make mobile, and even then it's probably taking up two seats.
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