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Old 08-26-2017, 02:27 AM   #13
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Default Re: Best Near Future game background - what is it?

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
That seems like an issue unrelated to the specific technology. People, I think, are just as unlikely to amputate healthy limbs in order to replace them with transgenic ones. That PCs in RPGs will do this with both cyber and meat is probably because they are paper men and games generally don't model any of the reasons why you don't want to do this very well, while quantifying the plusses you get for doing this much more precisely than any benefit is ever clear in real life.
People do kill their immune systems to replace them with transplanted ones IRL, though. Not that it's a common occurrence, but it does happen.
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