Ok don’t clown me if I’m wrong but I was playing cyberpunk 2077 and I walked up to the bartender on the afterlife mission and saw this on her!! Is this just advanced tech or is it an insulin pump? If so, the subtle inclusivity in a video game would be amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video ga
For street chooms maybe, but if you got some cred its waaay easier to just put some chrome in that does the job of the pancreas.
But yeah, i cant deny some resemblence
I love calling my pump and CGM “chrome” to my chooms
Haha that’s funny I’m stealing this
This character is notable for refusing to have any cyberware implanted at all (it's specifically mentioned in one of your conversations with her), so it's not impossible that this is an external medical device.
But yeah, as others have said, it's more likely to be gear she uses for her gear mechanic work in some respect. I've seen it referred to as (maybe) an OBD scanner.
Pretty much perfect response here
Is that chrome in like "adreno"?
Retro-futurism. It's a music player.
A lot of people toughed my pump was a music player :D
On the one hand, I'd be glad to see inclusivity...on the other, I'd be pissed there isn't a cure that far in the future.
Just five more years though
Came here to say this, but you beat me to it. It's a sick joke at this point
Would be in line for cyberpunk tho, there is a cure, but that makes less money
A cyberpunkreas, then, whynot?
It also rings true in real life.
It would be absolutely on brand if there is a cure but it's only affordable for the elite.
Whenever this topic arises I like to start a discussion about what a cure really is, and encourage people to mention a disease we have cured where the "cure" isn't:
Damn, you seem fun.
And also, why ISN'T "eradicating all the problem causing bacteria" or "cutting the problem causing part" a cure? Is your definition of cure only something that is perfectly non-intrusive without any side-effects?
MY definition of a cure is just: After the process i won't have to deal with my disease, or other chronic-sideeffects ever again. I don't expect damage caused from the disease or the procedure to cure it to magically go away.
So in the case of diabetes, if i never have to deal with anything related to my BG again, and i don't have to take immunosurpessants or get a new pancreas regularly then i consider it cured.
right? what a cynical sad comment from the person above you
Your definition is fine, and It's not that those aren't cures, it's that those are basically the ONLY ways we know of curing anything. The only other cures we have for diseases are:
Antivirals for Hepatitis C (around 95% success rate).
Antiparasitics for Malaria (if caught early).
Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) for antibiotic resistant C. difficile
Edge cases: CRISPR/Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease is sometimes called a "functional cure"
CAR-T Cell Therapy leaves some 10+ years survivors without additional medication.
I don't disagree yeah, it's certainly not many things we've fully "cured", and there certainly is a distinction between a functional cure and a true cure (For example, if we had a magical in-body insulin pump that never needed charging and held enough insulin for a lifetime, that could be considered a functional cure, even though you obviously still have diabetes).
And since we're talking about cyberpunk: They do have a bunch of implants that allow them to precisely release chemicals and hormones in that world automatically, so that would essentially be the magic pump i'm talking about.
That being said, for reallife, i also wouldn't be discouraged. I'm not saying a cure is near, but we're making progress, in so many things. Even AIDS has been fully cured in 5 or 6 People now. Of course t
Exactly, best any chronic disease gets is a better treatment.
Do people also expect cure for bipolar or ADHD or Parkinson's?
those 5 years went all the way to 2077 and still counting huh
Can't add images, but this pic shows the thing from an angle that shows the end of the cable there. Since it's a cable that ends in what looks like an oldschool VGA connector and considering that she's a gearhed techie/engineer/mechanic I'd say it's most likely an older style external/non-implant cyberdeck, like the one Spider Murphy uses in the memory flashback just maybe not as old a model.
Thorough inspection. I like :)
She used to be a Militech engineer before meeting her husband iirc. Makes sense with everything you've said.
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Look at Adam Smasher. If they can replace that much of your body, I HAVE to imagine that a pancreas would be easy.
That being said, I wouldn't be at all surprised if their artists took inspiration from medical devices like insulin pumps when coming up with ideas.
Same guy who calls you a cut of f-able meat or smth like that on that one mission? hahaha
Yep. According to official lore, he is 96% cybernetic. Of course it also mentions that the remaining 4% includes his brain and "parts of his endocrine system", so he MIGHT actually have a pancreas.
A robot like THAT has more of a functioning pancreas than I do. Heart breaking.
Imagine THAT being the only unchromeable thing in the future
It’s a preem cyberdeck, choom, Claire’s running clean, no chrome under the skin. Wish it was a pump too, but no dice
The only video game I’ve played with diabetes inclusivity is the sims 4. I love giving my sims a cgm lol
Long cord wound up, probably to plug into something else, some sort of hacking device?
That never occurred to me but as far as I’m concerned my insulin pump means I’m chromed out irl
It's her Cyberdeck, she doesn't use any implants. I did have the same thought my first playthrough though
Nah it’s probly something way fuckin cooler, they have created some kind of inhalable substance that cures diabetes in one go by now diabetes doesn’t exist anymore it’s an obsolete affliction
LMAO you’d think they’d find an inhalable cure by now
If the medical companies can bury you in monthly subscription fees they would never actually sell a cure instead.
Yeah but some netrunner just made some crack patch that rewires your immune system not to attack your pancreas and voila don’t need to pay your glucofix subscription anymore
SuperDuper MiniDisc..?
Doubt it. Think about it, if you can literally replace any body part with cybernetics, why would you pick to use an old fashioned pump of all things? I'd understand if it was someone from those religious groups that reject any implants, but she's not one of them, and judging by her garage, car etc., she is not short on eddies. So nah, doubt there was any thought put into this being an insulin pump.
Besides, take note of the knot tied with the wire, not to mention it's black and not see through. With old school tech like that you wouldn't go half old-school half modern (i.e. some sort of super pump that cannot have air bubbles or get clogged by tying the tubing in a knot)
Funny my brain didn't jump directly to insulin pump my brain jumped directly to spygmominometer And then my brain went why would a person wear that normally outside of testing
In the story, people get advanced body augmentations. Some people get their arms, spines, parts of their brain, and other things replaced.
An external pump would be beneath the standard of medicine in this time.
But, I may be wrong. This is a fantasy world. Heck, why not. It could be a pump, kidney, pancreas, and whatever else it needs to be.
I mean, you know this already, but a microchip rebuilding your body to become Silverhand? That's sci-fi.
Insulin pump with an electrical cord? Probably not.
So...How about, for tubeless pump users, a cover that resembles that to go over their pump. Would kinda look cool.
If I can pay some filthy dude in a garage to replace my spinal column with one that slows down time, I REALLY hope there's an artificial pancreas.
Chrome me the fuck up.
I think it's an agent. Vic has one too. Both him and Claire have little or no internal chrome.
I feel like you could just get a synthetic pancreaa in Cyberpunk 2077... Considering you can get a cybernetic organ of any other organs and appendages
No way they haven’t cured it by 2077 but they can save your soul in a chip
They also have CGMs & insulin pumps in The Sims.
She’s the worst
