ARKwats0n

The Vines of Mars is up on Amazon in full now! It has a shiny new cover too.

ARKwats0n

Just finished some edits to Part 3 of The Cyber Exorcist. No major changes made, just cleaned the dialogue a lil and (most importantly) clarified what a Post-Human is. To catch you up, a Post-Human is someone who has uploaded their conciousness from their body into a digital state. So they are basically as immortal as the internet and have some pretty cool abilities. I'm still fleshing out what that list of abilities could be though. In different cyberpunk stories I've read there have been a whole range of diff abilities a posthuman can do. What are your favorite cyberpunk superpowers? Tell me and I'll add them to my list and maybe even work them into the next scene

JeniceLumo

I am really enjoying your Cyber story ARKwats0n. What do i want to see written next? 
          
          I want to know how having cyber limbs became so common... World building, some views or opinions on the present cyber culture.
          
          I want to know why the priests calls his cyber parts "little innocent pieces of me" 
          
          I want to know how the girl became "possessed" 
          
          Perhaps a background case of a guy claiming to be framed by being bugged, tied into the murder? (Free Will and technology and responsibility vs Free Will and demonic possession)
          
          But mainly...What brought on the wave of cyber parts being so common and accepted? 
          
          Oh wait I got it, it  was my Hero Academa fans with a lot of money wasnt it...;) 
          
          Any way, I am really enjoying your writing here. I want more!!

ARKwats0n

@JeniceLumo ahhh I see. Inthink the line sends a message I didn't intendnfor this character then. I will cut it. But it might be useful for a different character to say.
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JeniceLumo

@ARKwats0n 
            I suppose with the free will and technology, I was thinking of the distinction between [Liability] and [Moral Responsibility].
            
            One has to do with insurance, law, contract, consent, knowing rights under the social law ect. The other with personal choice and moral consequence, and how or if technology or cyber inplants can lessen or increase the personal culpability.
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JeniceLumo

@ARKwats0n 
            Hi! Do you mean...the free will and responsibility part or the fleshing out how cyber becam so acdepted?
            
            I still think that while true an inannimate object has no soul so it cannot be innocent or guilty, it is confusing to place that comment there unless it is to show an underlying conflict. Perhaps people uncomfortable with thier body and those who see the fleshy desires as the cause of grievious social ills, do actually see the flesh, the body as gulity and the inorganic manmade parts as innocent. 
            
            Its the opposite extreme of Ludites in a way, but what better solution to eliminating the evils of the physical created body, than to replace it with a 'shell' where you can be pure spirit?
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