I'm in and thanks again for another chance for a great GOG game.

Thank you for your generosity.
Count me in.

body modification: sharingan contact lenses!!!

and nano-augmentations when they become available.....

I'm in. Thank you !!

Thanks!! I'm in!!!

I don't really care for tattoos and such but cybernetics I would be all over. However people can really do whatever they want to their body as far as I'm concerned.

Please count me in. Thanks members of the Sigil.

Count me in for this week please.
Its funny you mention body modifications. While I have none, I was mindlessly browsing the web earlier and came across this - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/human-barbie-reveals-beneath-heavy-makeup-article-1.1753501.
(The fourth picture is especially unnerving).

Well, it does make sense considering her stomach is long gone.

Plastic surgery icks me out for me personally, and I'd really rather not ever want to have it.

Tattoos are really cool, and are beautiful if done right, which is why people should save up enough money to go to the right artists.

Piercings are a bit eh for me. I like 'em in ears and lower lips, and maybe the nostrils, but otherwise they don't look right to me personally. A belly button piercing can look gorgeous, but they get infected so easily.

Cybernetics? If it ever comes to that in my lifetime, I'd prolly question them and fear that it might take someone's humanity away a bit if they go overboard with the possibilities, but if it would enhance the human experience and one's capabilities without compromising one's humanity it would be an awesome thing that I may well go for. Maybe not if its too intrusive, because part of why I don't like plastic surgery is the intrusiveness, but otherwise I'm highly interested in where it would take me.

Count me in for the giveaway, and as always, a big fat one to you!

(That is, a + one. Not... not like the other kind. Unless you're into that. :p)

Here's my entry.


The actual problem with cybernetic implants, once they reach the consumer market, will not be the question of how much humanity is left. That will be discussed, of course, but it'll probably only get some real relevance once we begin tampering with our brains, which might take quite a while longer than simply replacing a limb. A man losing a leg and henceforth wearing a prosthetic one doesn't make him cease being human, after all.

No, the actual divide will be social. The divide between "advanced humans" and "naturals". You don't have to play Deus Ex to see that. And I can't imagine prothetics that are so good that you'd be willing to replace healthy limbs with them will come at prices being affordable by everyone. Just imagine the job market in such a scenario.


On tattoos... Well, they are not an option for me. For one, I have too many melanomes in the way, which if disturbed by needles may well turn cancerous. But, being a social phobiac, I'd be too shy to get one, anyway, even though noone would get to see it, which in turn would make it pointless to boot.


In closing, to everyone interested in the topic of transhumanism, of which cybernetics are a part, I'd also like to recommend the Transmetropolitan comics (DC). Quite the radical view on possible consequences of certain technologies. For example, reanimated people that had their heads cryogenically frozen at some earlier point in time, waking up, disoriented, shocked by how much the real future deviates from their earlier chrome-plated imagination, housed in asylums, where they eke out the rest of their sorry existence. Or take this gem (only communicated via a poster ad in a single panel of a street view): We can clone human body parts now? Then why not do away with the taboo on cannibalism?

i have to admit im amused by the idea of cybernetics still being a deus ex / "future tech" / sci_fi scenario for so many of you.
since the turn of the millennium, my own mum has classified as a cyborg due ro a pain relief device hardwired into her nervous system.
she actually put that as her ethnicity on the last census - as have two disabled friends with different cybernetic implants / prosthesis (one a squaddie). they still await official governmental recognition as such, but the physical proof is irrefutable.
i dont mean to belittle anyones posts btw - i appreciate all of your views / experience and knowledge, but I am ( as i said) tickled by quite a few with the facts at home.
:)
...will have to make my mam read it actually...

well while we all know that theres prosthetics and implants used for medical treatment since a long time, but in the way they are used in deus ex, like enhancing a human without medical or other situation that really needs one i think thats still pretty far in the future as most of those enhancing augmentations will first only be used for the military only for atleast a couple year before the mere mortals get their hands on them :)

As a former regular entrant in Ian's and Xyem's weekly giveaways, I do not know why I haven't noticed these weekly giveaways yet. But then, I have been taking a break from entering giveaways after winning one of Ian's last ones (and I'm just too shy to use the forums that regularly anyway). Thanks to the Sigil for the giveaway, and giving me an excuse to finally change my GOG forum avatar, after sketching one to use on my blog. (In for the giveaway)

I generally don't care too much about physical appearance, so long as I don't look ugly. I'm not really a fan of the idea of body piercing. While I don't have anything against (tasteful) tattoos, I would never get one myself due to the fact that they are so permanent.

Thanks again!

I'm in, thanks to Sachys and The Sigil.

Not into any gratuitous body modifications. Reminds me of the quote about your body being a temple, why would anyone want to deface it?

Thanks as usual, Sachys (+1) and The Sigil!

I'm in again.

I hope I'm not an airhead by having already entered this!

Anyway, thanks to all those responsible for the great giveaway, #25 at that!