Alter
Alter verb - To make different in some way.
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- Mike Liberty's anti-Terran Dominion documentary is shot in full holo instead of 2-D specifically because full holo is much harder to alter or fake.
- Doubtfire, Daniel Hillard's nanny alter-ego pretends to be and speaks with a fake accent from Spain, to mirror the fake Britishness of the alleged nanny in the original American version.
Source: Keep It Foreign - It's mentioned earlier in the series that, because of their Cyber-Brains, full-prosthetic cyborgs can alter their brains' perception of how the "fake food" tastes, allowing it to register in their augmented brain as having the same taste as the real thing, which is presumably what Batou is doing.
Source: Fake Food
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Fake and Alter. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alter/fake
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