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Sithdarth 05-01-2004 09:47 PM

A question of Preference
 
So basically the question is which do you think is best. Here is a few facts about both, even though they have sometimes been taken to mean the same thing:

Cyborgs have Mechaincal body parts humanoid in appearence. They are attached to and controlled by fully human body parts. Most of the time just the brain however sometimes other body parts make the cut. Cyborgs are basically robots with a human brain instead of a cpu. They lack the ability to exceed the limitations wihtout a costly and complex upgrade. A power supply is needed to power the mechanical parts. Depending on how the human parts are intergrated it my be possible to survive wihtout Oxygen and food.

Bionic enhancment intergrates mechaincal parts with human tissue on the cellular and near cellular level. The body basically retains its form. The strength boast from this is often a lot less then being a cyborg and your fleshy parts are still exposed limiting potental damage. Limitations can be exceeded and increased through training of the human muscle. No power supply needed but you are still limitled by a need for food and oxygen.

Or you can choose to remain your pitiful human self.

(This is not a vs theard about whou would win simply an opion theard on which you would most like to become or if you would prefer to remain as you are.)

Stover 05-01-2004 10:00 PM

Mmmm....biased answers....yummy.

Jack of Spades 05-01-2004 11:09 PM

I have to go with being bionically enhanced. It gives a meld of both man and machine.
The advantages granted by your mechanical implants raise your abilities above that of the average human but you still need sleep and food to survive. You may be physically weaker than a machine but you still maintain your humanity and aren't affected by an EMP.
The ability to gradually improve yourself is a huge advantage over cyborgs. While you can train and improve yourself the cyborg has to wait for DeathMaster 2.0 before he can get better.

Sithdarth 05-02-2004 12:22 AM

It seems that most people like bionics. And my few things about each I'm not considering hard facts they are debateable if you think I made a mistake.

IHateMakingNames 05-02-2004 12:23 AM

What kind of cyborg things do we get? I would prefer cyborg arms with guns in them and cybrog eyes with different types of vision in them over some nano technology inside me, or staying normal.

Sithdarth 05-02-2004 12:30 AM

You can go as far as a brain in a robot or just replace parts you dont like.

Bionics can enchance any body function from healing to vision. I'm pretty much going on movie tech I've seen and I'm pretty sure there was enchanced vision. You could also bring Jake 2.0 into this but thats almost not the bionics I was talking about. I was thinking more intergrated into the living tissue and stuck there preforming their assigned task.

DarthZeth 05-02-2004 12:36 AM

my grandfatehr got a knee replacement. is he a cyborg?

IHateMakingNames 05-02-2004 12:37 AM

I'd definetly take mechanical parts then. Just have some super batteries put into place, then get rid of these crappy human arms and makes them into cyrbog (So there is still some human there) metal arms with guns in them, then get some cyrbog eyes and metal plating on the chest (Usually where attacks are aimed).

Sithdarth 05-02-2004 12:39 AM

Actually by technical definition anyone that uses a computer or other human controlled device is in a small way a cyborg. But lets stick to things permanetly attached, so the knee counts if thats all you want but its kinda in the gray area.

Forever Zero 05-02-2004 12:40 AM

Depends on the situation.

If it's just regular old me, sitting around the house being lazy and on my computer, what is the point of cybernetic enhancements? Just something wierd about them and I see no need for them if they aren't necessary.

However, if it is a futuaristic society in need of mercenary soldiers (Which I would join up for), ala Shadowrun, then sign me up for Bionics immediatly. That would be awsome to gain superhuman speed, rip apart cars with my bare hands, and be able to take bullets to the chest and shrug them off.

I don't ever see myself going all out Cyborg. Just something too wierd about that overall that repels me...


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