The Roboticist's Dilemma

[Waffleloffle]

And yes we will allow guns and batons and such to be attached to the cyborg arms. But remember by doing so.. is like surgically adding the tool to someone's arm.

absolutely not lmao can you fucking IMAGINE a world where borgs with actual weapons are allowed?? you'd get hordes of validhunters with all access wiping out any Nonhuman Threats they can detect. it would be utterly miserable

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with regards to borg self-sufficiency, I tried to word the original post to not target it as Something That Needs Fixing. most forms of borgs being able to do things for themselves are quite good (the only one I feel is kinda Much is self-healing, but at the same time I can also see the need for it) and I agree that, yeah, arbitrarily removing the ability for borgs to do x, y, and z just so a roboticist needs to be called over to spend a few seconds doing it is not Good Job Design. roboticists are tied to borg wellbeing, but I think the current shallowness of borgs themselves is a pretty big gate towards the potential of the roboticist role in turn. it's easy to say "I would love to see this expanded" but it takes a lot of time, effort, and ingenuity to actually expand these systems meaningfully, I suppose. there's been some pretty good prospects so far, though