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>Actually, I'm surprised that using BDs doesn't come with a Resist Torture/Drugs test, since they're canonically very addicting.
Getting into the nitty gritty here. I would argue it's how the BD's are "tuned". If you're using a BD to go on a beach vacation or travel to space, and the sensory settings are on default, that's no more addictive than doomscrolling or an occasional indulgence of drugs. If you're tuning it to flood your brain with dopamine and give you hyper-sensations, that's going to have some negative effects tied to it.

If it comes down to the interpersonal factor, you can share BD's with others (my character does that at a joytoy club). Even if you're doing it with a bot, you could still treat it like a human if you wanted to simulate that social connection. My argument is, pro-social healthy behaviors with humans and AI would boost your humanity. Being anti-social and deranged would lower it.
>Then again, what if your character is a complete psycho who feels absolutely nothing?
Adam Smasher mindset? I'd discuss it with your ref. Here's an idea
>Start with a negative humanity score.
>If your humanity hits 0 (from positive interactions rather than negative ones), you lose it and go cyber psycho.
>This means you constantly need to be murdering, doing hard drugs, and being an absolute sociopath.
>This will get you in trouble with the law, make it so only the most deranged fixers will work with you, and generally put a target on your back by everyone you piss off along the way.
>On the plus side, chroming up actually makes you stronger; you're actively encouraged to chrome up more to keep your humanity in the negative.
To balance it out, the ref may want to institute some negative humanity decay system where you gradually gain humanity. You always have to drop some Adam Smasher lines in combat like, "No one escapes the Slaughterhouse! Not alive!" and other deranged shit.