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[Roamingmachine]

This, btw, is the short film in question:

[Donk]

This, btw, is the short film in question:

 

Just curious, are you pro or anti-transhumanism?

 

I've always been fascinated with it but not sure how I feel about it.

 

Edit: I thought this was gonna be a documentary. Now I'm laughing my arse off at the robot boobs.

[LightningPoodle]

This, btw, is the short film in question:
-snip-

 

Interesting...

[Dieb]

Just curious, are you pro or anti-transhumanism?

 

I've always been fascinated with it but not sure how I feel about it.

 

This issue is as simple as most similar ones.

 

I wouldn't want to be changed, but I am not making decisions for other people.

 

Live and let live... longer and more efficiently.

[Roamingmachine]

Just curious, are you pro or anti-transhumanism?
 
I've always been fascinated with it but not sure how I feel about it.

Pro. Thus my comment on stupid meatbag luddites Limitations are there to be broken.

[Roamingmachine]

This issue is as simple as most similar ones.
 
I wouldn't want to be changed, but I am not making decisions for other people.
 
Live and let live... longer and more efficiently.

[LightningPoodle]

Just curious, are you pro or anti-transhumanism?

 

I've always been fascinated with it but not sure how I feel about it.

 

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Sure, it would be cool, I guess, to be a living "machine" (when I was a kid, I always wanted to have a robotic arm fitted with loads of guns ), but eventually, it would just get out of hand. Have you seen the movie Repo Men? It's not based on transhumanism exactly, but it has a similar theme I'm trying to get across. Basically, people would pay to be enhanced. When they can no longer afford the payments, someone is going to reclaim that property, whether you like it or not. Could be a leg. Could be a heart.

[Donk]

This issue is as simple as most similar ones.

 

I wouldn't want to be changed, but I am not making decisions for other people.

 

Live and let live... longer and more efficiently.

 

Best way to be.

 

 

Pro. Thus my comment on stupid meatbag luddites Limitations are there to be broken.

 

I love the idea, especially if used to fix medical problems. But on the other hand I can see plenty of potential for it to be abused. But that's like anything, really.

[Donk]

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Sure, it would be cool, I guess, to be a living "machine" (when I was a kid, I always wanted to have a robotic arm fitted with loads of guns ), but eventually, it would just get out of hand. Have you seen the movie Repo Men? It's not based on transhumanism exactly, but it has a similar theme I'm trying to get across. Basically, people would pay to be enhanced. When they can no longer afford the payments, someone is going to reclaim that property, whether you like it or not. Could be a leg. Could be a heart.

 

That's actually a lot of my concern in the previous post I made. Good old capitalism

[Dieb]

This makes me sad again that the game Remember Me didn't live up to its amazing art design & clever premise.

[Ashaantha]

*wanders back to the common room of the tavern rubbing a bruise growing on her left temple from where Cabot hit her with something for getting into the food*

 

Well, War table op finished.

*waves lazily*

[Dieb]

edit:

 

The premise of "Remember Me" being:

 

A company in Neo-Paris selling people lives, in the form of memories & the mere feeling of identity. Some used it to immortalize themself as donors, rich bored people bought the lives of adventurous awesome people to feel better. On a smaller scale, people could buy the memory of an amazing and relaxing holiday to the place of their dreams (relaxation and pleasure is 80% psychological after all), or having done some thing they could never do themselves, financially or physically.

 

If everything, including the absolute conviction that this is / always has been truly you, could change for the better, would you do it? After all: It isn't fake if everything that can possibly determine what fake is, plays along.

[Roamingmachine]

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Sure, it would be cool, I guess, to be a living "machine" (when I was a kid, I always wanted to have a robotic arm fitted with loads of guns ), but eventually, it would just get out of hand. Have you seen the movie Repo Men? It's not based on transhumanism exactly, but it has a similar theme I'm trying to get across. Basically, people would pay to be enhanced. When they can no longer afford the payments, someone is going to reclaim that property, whether you like it or not. Could be a leg. Could be a heart.

You already are, poodle. What is biology if not squishy machinery?
Anything and everything will be abused. Ultimately, I find fear to be an unacceptable reason hold back humanity. It's understandable, sure, but not enough.

[Tragedienne of Heavens]

*wanders back to the common room of the tavern rubbing a bruise growing on her left temple from where Cabot hit her with something for getting into the food*

 

Well, War table op finished.

*waves lazily*

Oh Ash that doesn't look good, this salve should help. *Runs to Cabot and kicks him in the nuts* *giggle*... always wanted to do that.

[LightningPoodle]

You already are, poodle. What is biology if not squishy machinery?
Anything and everything will be abused. Ultimately, I find fear to be an unacceptable reason hold back humanity. It's understandable, sure, but not enough.

 

You know what I mean. Metal plating. Copper wiring. That sort of thing. 

 

Where would we draw the line though? Where do we say, "Lets let evolution do it's thing"?

[Al Foley]

I reckon.

 

This scenario would have been better: The elder one's identity is kept secret until the very end. The Inquisition devotes its time and efforts uncovering elder one's true identity. Some time after the events of Mythal (defeating Samson/Calpernia who at that point is the perceived antagonist) You drink from the well of sorrows, Flemeth speaks in riddles and gives you a dragon, and Skyhold is attacked by none other than...... Solas!

 

Due to other factors the scenario wouldn't work but you get the idea imagine the shitstorm!! Especially for a female elf who romanced him.

...no, just no.  Maker I am so glad they didn't go this route.  Ah well...i mean the problem is how in depth do I go in my OP, do I lay out all my thoughts, or do I post a brief synposis and let the others go with it? 

 

People like different games for very different reasons and all of them valid.  Look at Minecraft, now I've never played it but I have friends who love it and it's never gonna get rated on it's graphics 

 

 

Sometimes it is not the destination but the journey that proves the most rewarding 

 

Well sh*t.  I've got to go and finish poodle off.  Should get him up today ..... 

 

And sometimes its the destination.  

 

Well, ****, I was gonna thank you for that quest help.  

 

Oh yeah.. not interested in Minecraft either for the same reason   looks creative though.

 

 

 

He may not show.. I hear he's been polishing Beren's sword lately

 I was laughing so hard it made it nearly impossible to press 'like'.  

Speaking of like I was laughing SO HARD playing Gwent just now.  I was playing a monster deck and was all   .  But then its special ability triggered for the third round and...my spy card was the one that stayed out and I was like 'you poor bastard'.  Anyways liberated a person, played two rounds of Gwent, started 'Hunting a Witch,' and got killed by Jenny o' the Woods.  I am gonna leave that for later I think.  And If ****** hate Wraiths. 

[Roamingmachine]

If everything, including the absolute conviction that this is / always has been truly you, could change for the better, would you do it? After all: It isn't fake if everything that can possibly determine what fake is, plays along.

<---is currently playing Remember Me.


This, I've found, tends to unnerve people. Being reminded that our "reality" is electrical input filtered through perception and remembered and that neither is entirely truthful. I've talked to bystander eyewitnesses who adamantly claimed that what they are telling is absolutely true even though the events that actually happened were vastly different. And none of them were lying. I've had witness stories change after a witness overhears another version of the events and the kicker is that even then the witnesses weren't lying. Their memory of the event changed to fit the collective narrative which, by the way, rarely has anything to do with the truth either.

Whoa, we're going in to some heavy stuff here.

[LightningPoodle]

...no, just no.  Maker I am so glad they didn't go this route.  Ah well...i mean the problem is how in depth do I go in my OP, do I lay out all my thoughts, or do I post a brief synposis and let the others go with it? 

 

 

And sometimes its the destination.  

 

Well, ****, I was gonna thank you for that quest help.  

 I was laughing so hard it made it nearly impossible to press 'like'.  

Speaking of like I was laughing SO HARD playing Gwent just now.  I was playing a monster deck and was all   .  But then its special ability triggered for the third round and...my spy card was the one that stayed out and I was like 'you poor bastard'.  Anyways liberated a person, played two rounds of Gwent, started 'Hunting a Witch,' and got killed by Jenny o' the Woods.  I am gonna leave that for later I think.  And If ****** hate Wraiths. 

 

Isn't Jenny of the Woods the one people seem to have the most trouble with?

[Al Foley]

Isn't Jenny of the Woods the one people seem to have the most trouble with?

*shrugs* IDK but man she was a ******.  Was trying out Yrden like I remember from the first Wraith I fought in White Orchard...except this time the wraith wouldn't stay in the trap but continued floating about making it so much harder to actually whack it there, and my sword was doing NO damage when it was outside the trap.  

[LightningPoodle]

*shrugs* IDK but man she was a ******.  Was trying out Yrden like I remember from the first Wraith I fought in White Orchard...except this time the wraith wouldn't stay in the trap but continued floating about making it so much harder to actually whack it there, and my sword was doing NO damage when it was outside the trap.  

 

Check to make sure you weapon holster hasn't swapped out for a basic sword. For some reason, I have no idea why, every now and then, my weapon would swap out to a really basic sword that deals almost zero damage.

[Al Foley]

Check to make sure you weapon holster hasn't swapped out for a basic sword. For some reason, I have no idea why, every now and then, my weapon would swap out to a really basic sword that deals almost zero damage.

Pretty sure it wasn't.  When I had her in the shield my silver sword was still doing over 100 points of damager.  I think I may have even seen a 160.  

[Roamingmachine]

Where would we draw the line though? Where do we say, "Lets let evolution do it's thing"?

Why would we need to draw a line? Evolution gave us the capability to go beyond it in to an existence where we ourselves can guide our own development instead of the slow and random biological evolution.

[Al Foley]

Why would we need to draw a line? Evolution gave us the capability to go beyond it in to an existence where we ourselves can guide our own development instead of the slow and random biological evolution.

Khan Noonien Singh or Telemachus Rhade? 

[LightningPoodle]

Why would we need to draw a line? Evolution gave us the capability to go beyond it in to an existence where we ourselves can guide our own development instead of the slow and random biological evolution.

 

We'd lose more than we gain. If we removed ourselves from all the natural forces of the universe, we'd lose who we are in the process. We'd become nothing more than mindless drones simply built to seek out the next improvement. We'd no longer need to eat, sleep or breathe. We'd no longer need to do the simply human functions that have governed us since we were nothing more than bacteria. We would no longer be human, if you cut out the very thing that made us what we are.

 

I feel like Javik right now...

[Roamingmachine]

Khan Noonien Singh or Telemachus Rhade?

They were not transhumanists. They sought human enhancement, but they did not seek to go beyond the human condition.