throwaway2903

Yeah. Work for a summer as a manual laborer some time. Grueling, backbreaking work, unless you have the "in" (and five years journeyman experience at no to little pay) to be a plumber/electrician/heavy vehicle operator. Every time I've tried working in laboring I haven't lasted a month, usually less than two weeks (till paycheck). Carrying sheet rock, digging trenches, general haul this go over there. People come out of manual laboring either built like a professional wrestler, with severe muscle-skeletal problems, or both. No one wants to work those jobs because they're so terrible.

The whole point of the cyberdeck was that it was a way to see VR in your minds eye rather than with a screen. Hence the no screen. I always thought the decks themselves would be rather boring looking - the keyboard would just be a black rectangle. Only Case could like the aesthetic in any way that was meaningful, which was why Armitage had to have his approval. To anyone else it just looks like a plastic brick.