"It boggles the human mind to see something like this, " he said.

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Biologically, the middle-aged human body does not look like something being left to slowly decay.

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Tonight he was shrewd enough to use them, and human enough to make it feel like something other than a gimmick.

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Happiness is a raw, human emotion not something that can be tracked like calories and purchases.

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From their constant human-like murmuring to their upright stances, there is something comforting about meerkats.

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That's a lot of fast number-crunching: Microsoft figures there are something like 10 to the 23rd power "degrees of freedom, " or possible positions, for a human body.

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The focus of the game is augmentations, mechanical enhancements to the body which provide basic services like restoring lost limbs to the injured, but also serve to weaponize the human frame into something terrifying.

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