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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
It will allow quick determination if you're seeing actual water reflections or mirages, sun position when obscured by clouds, and probably a couple other uses. It would have perk level advantage.
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01-22-2018, 06:23 AM | #62 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Juvenal Tastebuds in human infants there are tastebuds in the top of the mouth. Extra tastebuds in odd arrangements could be a quirk or a perk.
Similarly children have different prefered tastes before and after puberty in most cases. An adult with tastebuds and tasting reactions like a prepubescent child would have a deeply annoying quirk.
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01-22-2018, 06:46 AM | #63 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Accessory: Thermometer. A much more accurate sense of temperature by touch. Note that this does not provide any protection!
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01-22-2018, 01:09 PM | #64 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
In fact, I wrote that exact perk up in GURPS Powers: Enhanced Senses, on p. 26.
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If everyone's like that, then of course it's a feature. But among humans, it will often cause problems and a sense of alienness among both sides. With temporary cluelessness/immunity to overt seduction attempts. I know a couple of 100% asexuals and they have had some problems with others' assumptions and how sexualized pretty much all cultures are.
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These individuals would basically have a short period of Lechery in their cycle, it could be a monthly or a yearly cycle, then the rest of the time they'd be eunuchlike. They'd have no sexdrive or capassity to function sexually. Like the average eunuch, they'd know what sex is, but they'd be out of the game.
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01-23-2018, 02:47 PM | #69 |
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Eunuchs are very different, because their brains were never sexual.
Becoming asexual after puberty is quite different. I had a cat that was castrated as an adult, but he would still perk up his ears whenever he heard a distant cat in heat. He didn't want out, but looked almost like he was reminiscing. Of course this hypothetical species may have social taboos about displaying sexual knowledge or attitudes outside of breeding season. Effectively making act like "eunuchs" in polite company.
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That story has an interesting synopsis. But yeah, like most things psychological, sexuality is a spectrum.
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