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It can totally be stopped. It'd just suck for all of us rather incredibly hard, and most macroscopic life on the planet might not be there anymore shortly thereafter.

You could probably mod one in pretty easy. The hands thing is irrelevant if they've got misc slots and a sufficiently powerful EF forger, though.

Hey, better performance in something still playing like AI War. Everything else aside, I can get behind that like a steam powered sodomy train.

I'd be terribly surprised if there wasn't at least one out there with mansteak in the title. Know I've seen the line "The Man Diet" before.

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you can go through all of the hoops to make sure you get the cleanest supply, and still get messed up, so why bother.

Strictly speaking that applies to pretty much any source of meat.

More like just about anything, period. There's not much that doesn't have the "get safest supply, can still get messed up" caveat.

Hey, I'm sure a few ended because whoever was being mourned turned out to not have passed. Someone or another has to have dug their way out a time or two.

Yeah, but more than two people remember Gargoyles

... some folks don't, though :V

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For what it's worth, apparently genetic engineering in ST verse goes horribly wrong something approaching 100% of the time. It wasn't just incidental the primary examples went off the rails, but a consequence of the process itself, which is why it's largely opposed (apparently even after related technology advanced beyond that original batch). In-universe, you can probably blame it on Q. Though you can probably blame just about everything on Q, so that may be something of a cop-out :V

There are some transhumanist elements that aren't strictly negative (The Doctor, la forge's eyes, data, recovered borg, probably other stuff), but yeah, they don't get much attention. Probably mostly due to storytelling/audience concerns more than anything particularly intentional, if I had to guess. More trouble than it's worth (vis a vis that whole "profit" thing) to really work out how a cast of functional immortals would play out, basically.

Though now I kinda' want to see someone try that. I know there's been the occasional basically!immortal that's actually lived well-beyond-human-lifetime in sci-fi, but I can't recall of many that were part of the main cast, and even fewer that were particularly benign or relatable. _{well, I can't recall any at the moment, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it once or twice}