![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to hack into people's minds to steal, impose or re-arrange information, memories and senses like they were lines of code. I want stealth, sabotage, mystery and intrigue. That's the Ghost in the Shell game I want. In another episode, a mostly-unaugmented character dismisses AI-controlled tanks as mere things, to which the tanks respond angrily, with one going so far as to label him a "bigot." It sounds silly, but in a world where you can be a human sentience living in a completely inorganic prosthesis (a "ghost in the shell" if you will), it helps to see how blurred the line between man and machine has become. It's a quiet moment that the characters take to reflect on what brought them to this point. And when the truth comes to light, there's no grand battle of running and gunning. It is only through a long period of careful investigation (which, being a cyberpunk mystery, naturally includes morally-bankrupt megacorporations, government conspiracies and the like) that his identity is revealed. ![]()
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