Oh I know, but this is a story in an alternate timeline that isn't connected to our world at all. That's where my confusion comes from, equating a fictional story in a fictional setting to real life things is... strange to me.
I guess the American equivalent joke would be like two hillbillies from slightly different towns being like "what do you mean?! I'm not from Crackerville, I'm from Crackerton! We'e 10 miles away, and totally different!"As an American hermit who lives in the middle of nowhere I honestly didn't get the feeling there was a joke. At least not one I'd ever really understand. Of course my personal demographic isn't every reader.
My claim is precisely that the world of the author - transferred the state in the real world - as part of the canon. Whereas according to the canon, the USSR did not even collapse.
I didn't get that feeling either. And I'm living in Western Europe right now.As an American hermit who lives in the middle of nowhere I honestly didn't get the feeling there was a joke. At least not one I'd ever really understand. Of course my personal demographic isn't every reader.
Sir, I do not know when you immigrated, but it seems to me that you accept the views characteristic of a purely immigrant environment - as general.
I'm very specifically trying to avoid even thinking about the state of the real world, especially that part of it, at the present time much less include it in my writing.
I don't even know what that means.
Or for me when I say I'm from a rural town in West Virginia and people ask me how far Richmond is from there.
Uh, you realize while the USSR is still a thing that like the US states, each Union Republic is still its own 'State' within a greater Union. Thus, Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics. (USSR) So having tensions and rivalries amongst the 'States' of the USSR is a thing in Cyberpunk-verse, and the Soviet Republic of Belarus is separate from the Soviet Republic of Russia. Something true of our past USSR, and the Neo-USSR of Cyberpunk.
I thought about that but how would that work with other optic type implants? It's not like she goes around and nobody can see her face. Ergo, I suspect that it only works on things the optics detects as a camera, somehow. People can take camera snaps through their optics at will, so either she would have to always be blinding everyone she saw or that functionality wouldn't work on other cybereyes, just actual cameras.
There's a similar situation with the Hitman trilogy where 47 can just type a few things on any surveillance computer and it will fry itself while erasing every recordings.
I remember Vik or someone talking about why it doesn't work on Optics. Something about while Optics are cameras, they're also plugged into nerves rather than a surveillance network like cameras usually are. Which are pretty different from each other.
I mean said person was also wearing one of the Scav masks that distort faces and editing a guy's face out is something said Scavs would do anyways before putting said XBD out to market.
I'm pretty sure those scavs use a physical device for this, like this guy:
But its plausible I suppose something similar could be built into someone's eyes I guess?
The idea that it can be triggered on and off probably makes the most sense out of anything, I'd say.
Yeah. I remember reading that there is this sweater that is carefully designed to defeat the current algorithm that identifies a person in most cameras, therefore it defeats facial identification technology that China uses for example. i was like: 'Ok, they're going to patch the cameras in a couple of months and then detect this sweater specifically and then send anyone who wore it to outer mongolia or whatever the China equivalent of Siberia is.'
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Yeah. I remember reading that there is this sweater that is carefully designed to defeat the current algorithm that identifies a person in most cameras, therefore it defeats facial identification technology that China uses for example. i was like: 'Ok, they're going to patch the cameras in a couple of months and then detect this sweater specifically and then send anyone who wore it to outer mongolia or whatever the China equivalent of Siberia is.'
Render Yourself Invisible To AI With This Adversarial Sweater Of Doom
Ugly sweater season is rapidly approaching, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ve always been a bit baffled by the tradition of paying top dollar for a loud, obnoxious sweater that …hackaday.com
