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The hero beats up this heavily modified combat cyborg, and it’s supposed to be this triumph of humanity. But the reason he can win is because he has unexplained durability that lets him shrug off all the times he gets shot in gameplay. There’s nothing within the narrative framework that explains how he can possibly live through this fight. It reminds me of that post about how Star Trek stacks the deck so normal humans can win against heavily modified and ostensibly “better” humans.

There are four faction leaders in Eden’s Last Sunrise: a genocidal religious leader, a blood-soaked imperialist, a dangerous idiot, and a transhumanist who wants to upload everyone to computers. The transhumanist is my adorable autistic waifu, and I think she’s the only possible party member who could be described as a good person. (I don’t think you can still call yourself a good person if you side with the religious leader or the imperialist, which most party members are capable of doing.) After I got the (stupid) true ending, I asked some questions on the forum. Apparently, I was supposed to think the transhumanist was playing God. Fuck that.

To the extent that the widely spread, widely varying Tinkers have a distinct culture, it’s one that’s lost track of its ability to respect and see value in people who are different. Parasites are the “other” who enslaved the Earth, so if you’re also considered “other,” you’re liable to be viewed as part and parcel with the enslavers. Even Tinkers can be “other” to Tinkers who see them as having modified in the wrong way.

Tinkers are defined by their embrace of cybernetics, and older or more radical Tinkers are barely recognizable as human.

To some extent, these traits counter each other.

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I don’t often say this, but “skill issue.” Hertzfeld thinks a person is a statue that crumbles, but I think a person could also be a braid. One string ends, and another begins. You don’t become smaller, just different, and being different isn’t inherently bad.

Those posts about how heart surgery is transhumanism and vaccines are transhumanism have me tempted to claim abortion is transhumanism.

Transhumanism is a chrome supremacist ideology.

I just tried to read Noor. I bounced off of most of the preachy stuff, but I grudgingly respect a book that takes “are you fully human if you have cybernetic augmentations?” and responds “full humans tried to beat my face in because the artificial organs that keep me alive are ‘unnatural,’ so humanity can go fuck itself.”

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