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Jesus Freak ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 22-June 02 From: Parts Without Member No.: 2,897 ![]() |
My initial response was, "in a heartbeat," but then it struck me: what if I have the gift?
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Winston Salem, NC Member No.: 1,359 ![]() |
yep, that thought struck me as well, in about the same order.
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Chrome to the Core ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 ![]() |
Being a computer geek: Yes. I couldn't give a frag less if I Awakened/Goblinized (causing much stress on the 'jack). The benefits far outweight (at the moment) the drawbacks.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 881 Joined: 1-May 04 Member No.: 6,295 ![]() |
I have to say I would do it as quickly as we could be sure my brain wouldn't explode. after that, as quickly as I get the money, who needs that essence anyway.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 6,294 ![]() |
Hell, we might not even need to go under the knife. I'd be quite happy with just 'trodes...
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 ![]() |
Offcourse you are not poling a random sample of the community. RPGrs are high on the geek scale and so are datajacks.
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It's worth the risk.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 807 Joined: 9-October 04 Member No.: 6,741 ![]() |
Yes. The risks are worth it. Unless I'm a mage...
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Manus Celer Dei ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 ![]() |
I don't care if I'm a Mage or not, give me the damn datajack. Give me two, maybe even four.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: 30-April 04 Member No.: 6,294 ![]() |
So you use a little magical ability. Big deal.
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 ![]() |
Speaking of which, the solitary 'no' vote came from a friend of mine. I'm not very happy with her right now. |
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 23-August 04 From: Guelph Member No.: 6,590 ![]() |
I'd get one, but I'd probably end up getting something stuck in it.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 22-June 02 From: Parts Without Member No.: 2,897 ![]() |
Yeah, a datajack sure sounds nice until you develop your first case of jack itch. ylech.
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Decker on the Threshold ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 ![]() |
Heh, I voted "No" as well, and I'm a geek at heart. So much so that I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the keyboard is the One True Way, and all these newfangled inventions of convenience, like mice, will only serve to make people lazy. :P
No, not really. I've just been under the knife once in my life for unnecessary surgery already, and I refuse to do it again until they can do it without having to slice open my head again. Trodes are fine until then. :) |
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Dragon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 ![]() |
Do you mean to say that you've already had your braincase cut open -unnecessarily-? :eek: |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,070 Joined: 7-February 04 From: NYC Member No.: 6,058 ![]() |
Is this a question of whether I'd get a datajack if SR was reality, and it was that easy and simple, or whether I'd consider something equivalent in real life?
If the former, then probably yes. If the latter... I'm more or less a biologist, and I took enough neuroscience to say "Are you out of your fucking mind?" to that... Unless I end up a quadruplegic for some reason - in that case, cut away... |
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Decker on the Threshold ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156 ![]() |
No, just my eyes. I have albinism, and one of the complications of that is a thing called nystagmus, a condition where your eyes move back and forth uncontrollably. The root cause is something to do with the optic nerve, but back in the 80s one of the treatments was to rearrange some of the muscles in the eyes. Studies showed later on that the surgery doesn't really help all that much. Hence, unnecessary surgery where my head was cut open. :P Essentially, I'm just saying that brain surgery is a really *really* big step. To do it for something as cosmetic and unnecessary as implanting a digital I/O device I pretty much relegate to the realm of fiction, probably forever, but at the very least for the next 50-100 years. By then I'll be too old to want *anything* in my head, let alone a piece of superfluous hardware. :) |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,049 Joined: 24-March 03 Member No.: 4,323 ![]() |
In real life, I doubt I would get a datajack until such time as there were lots and lots of compatable things that I could control via DNI, in which case it would be sufficiently cool.
However, one thing I can say with some certainty is that, if I had the money to do so and had read enough to know that the risks were minimal, I would *totally* get a sleep regulator. |
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 12-February 03 Member No.: 4,083 ![]() |
Heck yes! Give me a proto-Cyberdeck and watch me go.
Of course, I'd probably wind up a drooling idiot from some unseen complication... |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 ![]() |
Heh I voted "no" myself. I'm big into audio engineering and music - don't really need the equivalent of the Matrix yet...and with me tapped into the artist side of things, I have a feeling I'd be a Mage :)
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 ![]() |
It's not an "unseen complication" if you've ever seen someone playing Everquest or any of the other MMORPGs. How someone can spend 8 hours camping a spawn spot looking for the dropped item so they can finish a decorative chair continues to elude me. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 278 Joined: 28-September 04 From: The Smoke Member No.: 6,709 ![]() |
I'd get a datajack in a heartbeat. If I turn out to be awakened, well so I've lost something I never knew I had.
Would I get a cyberarm? Yes. Would I get wired reflexes? Yes. Would I get pretty much anything and everything I could? Yes. There's a line in Robocop 2 where 'Johnson' turns to 'the old man' and says "I've never met anyone who'd want to be a robot." Well, that's cos he never met me... and I am deadly serious. Flesh is weak, so long as I have my mind, science can replace the rest. |
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 16-September 04 Member No.: 6,670 ![]() |
I recently went to a lecture on this topic in Pittsburgh. Seems the only real problem now is how long the probes placed into the brain can stay before the brain walls them off. Top time in monkey subjects who control robotic arms is only 3 weeks!
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 ![]() |
I'd sell my right arm for a datajack. Then I'd get a cyberarm with an internal cyberdeck!
Seriously, I've told my wife she can get a tattoo when I can get a cyberarm. I would accept a datajack in its place. |
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