Does Benny (I think his name was) in the story not count as humanoid? He's a transformed human, but clearly still remains self-aware, and is considered human by his friends.
Yeah, I think he went much further with the whole ape thing in the short story which had the other problematic issues as well. He was kind of just crippled in the game which made sense as a lot of his self image was based on his physical strength as an army officer.
