You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.
There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they’re both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren’t Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you’ve patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You’d have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they’ve got.
It’s more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that “losing your humanity” does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works
every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know
