| From: | Michael Ford <fordmd@*******.CC.PURDUE.EDU> |
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| Subject: | reply on cyber-psychosis |
| Date: | Sat, 14 Mar 92 16:09:06 EST |
The one problem with using this cyber psycosisis that the game
cyberpunk uses a rating Shadowrun does not have which is empathy. And
simply stated empathy is emotional related how you deal with interaction
and your own emotions. In cyberpunk you can have a 10 to 0(0 only in empathy
all other scores must be above 0) with a 10 being a highly emotional
and characters with a zero are usually cold fish who prefer computers
as company than humans. If some one does get cyber psychosis to an extreme a
friendly person with a 0 you are a cold fish and prefer computers to humans.
If youdo reach zero and you go cyber-psycho they call out this specialized
police force called the cyber-psycho squad to terminate the person (they
get really big guns and they seem to be almost cyber-psycho them selves)
Now here is the problem as I see it I always felt essence was a body related
attribute and not a mental one. I have read the books and people with
alot of cyberware are not described as having the above problems. Which
points that essenceis a body thing and not a mental one. Then again I could
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* Me I just live in the Chaos. *
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