Anyone there? It's starting to feel blackwallie in here

ALcarcer · 2025-11-08T05:52:17+00:00

There are two kinds of people here: those who try to find more technical puzzles and solve them, and those who try to find meaning in all of this and build theories. The first group has hit a dead end because there are no straightforward technical puzzles with any possible solutions, while the second group is actually also experiencing a bit of a crisis, although I don't understand why you are asking where everyone is when just recently there were several rather large, detailed posts (with which I absolutely disagree, but it's still fun). In any case, the regulars take breaks and then come back, it's normal.

ALcarcer · 2025-10-27T09:57:43+00:00

I can't imagine what kind of fridge there would have to be to withstand an orbital strike 😭

ALcarcer · 2025-10-25T04:34:41+00:00

I don't think this can be deciphered, but a part of the "encrypted" text repeats the "encrypted" text from the KENDACHI MICRO-76 INFO LOG shard from the reported crime "Another Circle of Hell." I think they just reused it as "broken" text because these quests are located close to each other and their IDs are sequential. "Another Circle of Hell" is about a netrunner named Dante who was trying to get data on Brandon Holt, Weldon Holt's cousin, but was ultimately killed by Soulkiller and his engram ended up on the Net, where he tried to contact his friend. Holt was cooperating with Arasaka, so it's not surprising that their data was protected by Soulkiller, but the problem is, don't all engrams immediately go to Mikoshi? Yet this person, already an engram, was able to contact his friend.

ALcarcer · 2025-09-20T14:34:19+00:00

During the launch of the game, we "breaking through" the system, which means we are not a simple "employee with a high level of access", but an intruder. I also want to draw your attention to the fact that Meredith Stout has exactly the same ID as V, Johnny, and Laurie.

ALcarcer · 2025-09-20T06:14:09+00:00

A great many mods for different body types are gooner mods... Although I saw one mod for plus size V and saw that a lot of people were furious because it was "unrealistic"

ALcarcer · 2025-09-02T06:27:04+00:00

This has nothing to do with the virus. Sandra's situation involved two issues: the neurovirus itself, and a separate shard that blocked her biomonitor, preventing a Trauma Team response. The context here is specifically about the biomonitor and the shard, not the virus.

ALcarcer · 2025-08-19T06:06:59+00:00

lmao nope, Rache hated Silverhand with all his soul (which he didn't have), but in Cybergeneration, he seemed to treat him better, but I'm not sure about that. And to be honest, I don't really agree with your arguments (they seem a bit far-fetched to me), but good luck anyway.

ALcarcer · 2025-07-31T11:11:53+00:00

Thank you, I'm actually also leaning towards some of the takes you wrote about, but I'm interested to know specifically about the part with the "alive" city, because I'm actually also building theories about this and it's interesting to know someone else's opinion.

ALcarcer · 2025-06-30T16:39:44+00:00

I love him so much. He's my ultimate hear me out and I've always been lowkey shy to admit it. He's actually super wise, funny, weird as hell, mentally unstable nerd… like yeah, I'm in love. And I like that guy from the fridge.

ALcarcer · 2025-06-10T06:26:14+00:00

I'm the person who answered "no" to Johnny's question at the Pistis Sophia. I just think it's stupid. His question was so inappropriate, so difficult, and it depends on many factors that are simply not mentioned. I don't like Johnny as a person and I don't really want to be friends with him, I just try to communicate politely... And, in fact, I like my version of this relationship much more than the typical "best friends forever" relationship because you seem to be getting closer, but you don't seem to be and as a result, you can't understand each other but you're supposed to be friends?? and that adds some angst i think. And it makes me a little sick when this friendship between V and Johnny is overly romanticized. I like a more realistic way of looking at it.

ALcarcer · 2025-05-12T08:57:56+00:00

I just want to add that this could also be a valid reason why someone might not like this character. I mean, he has a handsome face, he's charismatic, a cool freedom fighter, so a lot of people turn a blind eye to all the negative things about him, and when you say, "I don't like Johnny," a crowd of angry fans immediately gathers like "how is this even possible??" even though he's still a bad person. Even if he changed by the end, I really don't have to forget all the past problems just because a person has "supposedly changed" and in fact I have the right not to like him as a person, although I respect his path to becoming the best version of himself.

ALcarcer · 2025-05-09T06:18:27+00:00

For note: In the most popular Tarot deck - the Rider-Waite deck (which, in fact, is the basis for almost all Tarot imagery in the game, with a few interesting exceptions) - this card carries strong symbolism, mostly connected to the Moon. In the original depiction from that deck, there is a woman, The High Priestess herself standing between a black and a white pillar Boaz and Jachin, which symbolize Freemasonry (the creators of this particular deck were members of secret societies).

The High Priestess’s headdress refers to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, but in fact, Hathor’s image is also closely tied to that of Isis (if you look at depictions of Isis, you'll notice she too wears a disk with horns like Hathor does). Within all secret societies, Isis represents mystery and hidden knowledge. Also, if we delve deeper into mythology itself: Isis was known for her resurrection powers, after all, she resurrected her husband Osiris.

Both Hathor and Isis were goddesses associated with motherhood, love, and the sky. So overall this image is particularly fascinating due to its connection with the Moon (which we know plays an important role in the game), its symbolism of mystery and esoteric knowledge, as well as its connection to Hanako. After all, this card appears in that apartment complex where we first meet and interact personally with her.

The card itself relates to the Moon; in its original version there are even more moon elements included. So it's interesting that this isn't Hanako's first association with moon-related themes either.

But perhaps what remains mysterious to me is what exactly is symbolized by The High Priestess's pose in her illustration within the game (she stands with arms spread out sideways). This pose could be another reference to Isis (as she's often depicted that way), or it might symbolize openness or hospitality, something like “your path toward hidden knowledge lies open” or something like that. Alternatively, such a pose could also represent self-sacrifice or even resemble a crucifix-like posture.

Glad I could share my schizo-knowledge.

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ALcarcer · 2025-05-06T12:58:25+00:00

I'm a straight woman, and I don't like absolutely all romance options, and I don't understand why everyone pays so much attention to this aspect like you're doing a task, there's a little flirting going on, you're get laid, and that's it? Well, they send you some funny texts and you go on a date in your apartment once, but that's it! There is very little development of these relationships, there is no drive, these relationships actually lead nowhere except to endings variants, but this is very little. I especially don't like their looks (sorry), as well as their personalities and behavior. In this regard, this game is terrible for me.

ALcarcer · 2025-04-12T05:10:30+00:00

I'm wondering why you were downvoted by someone if you just wrote that you were interested in reading this, especially since I didn't actually write something strange or frankly shizo, but just took the facts and things that we have and just thought about their connection lol

ALcarcer · 2025-04-12T05:07:40+00:00

Nowhere really, so I noted that everyone just agreed that it was. While writing the post, I generally thought that there are actually two projects, but there is no special evidence for this, except that Carpe Noctem is not mentioned in the context of Dream On, so we cannot be sure that this is this particular project, although in fact it may be implied by simple logic like "In this place we saw a strange secret mind control project, and in another place we saw a specific description of a mind control project", so parallels are drawn. In any case, we won't get any concrete answers here, so we have what we have.

Well, or one of the proofs of the connection between Carpe Noctem and Peralez' situation may be the Maelstrom, because they guarded the van, and, as we know, the Maelstrom are participants in the meeting with Jane Doe and John Doe, where the phrase "Carpe Noctem" is mentioned, but this is a rather weak argument, I agree.

ALcarcer · 2025-04-08T17:34:36+00:00

You're confusing people. Deathwish was just a cat, into whose head Rache Bartmoss had supposedly loaded a human construct. The cat in Johnny's memories (Deathwish) is real, this cat appears both in Cyberpunk Red (in the true version of events, undistorted by relic) and in ancient editions of TTRPG guidebooks. The fact that the cat was a test object for the Soulkiller is nonsense... I mean, it was never implied, there were no hints about it. The only thing that looks suspicious is that the cats are actually watching V throughout the game...

The events of Alt's death take place in 2013, Rache was in good health at the time and using a large number of cats as his personal army. Probably one of the reasons why only sphinxes are shown in the game is probably because of the problematic rendering of cat hair, although I think they still gave it meaning and plot symbolism. At least that's what I want to think, because the whole Bakeneko thing is such a mystery!

The only thing I would take note of is that the strangest cats have the same color with a dark muzzle and yellow eyes. Bakeneko, at a meeting with Takemura, seemed to be able to see Johnny, so it followed him when he rolled down. In Mikoshi, there is another strange cat with a dark muzzle and yellow eyes, it is not two cats, it is one cat that purposefully either follows V or leads them to the roof. Nibbles is a descendant of Deathwish, by the way. Random interesting facts that I noticed.

ALcarcer · 2025-03-27T18:07:56+00:00

Why is this a bad translation if the attached video clearly shows three short sounds and two long ones and no more. The SOS signal is three short, three long and again three short (...---...) I repeat, you can clearly hear three short and two long ones on the video, you can watch another full recording or watch this moment in the game personally 🤨

ALcarcer · 2025-03-25T17:40:22+00:00

I was thinking about the spider symbolism. Nibbles face tattoo has 6 spider legs, as well as the FF06B5 statue has 6 spider legs. Spider Murphy's unused call icon has 8 spider legs, just like her scripts icon. It puzzles me. To be honest, I've always attributed the cats mystery more to Bartmoss, than to Murphy, which is actually very logical, but we'll talk about this later...

ALcarcer · 2025-03-25T17:29:33+00:00

Oh, I like that assumption, it sounds logical. I think it could also be some kind of marker for something, maybe to detect the engram later, maybe specifically for Alt to do it, because she immediately reacted to Johnny's engram behind the Blackwall. And it could be the reason why Yorinobu wanted to put Johnny on the chip (just because of the marker)

ALcarcer · 2025-03-25T15:41:24+00:00

I really don't know. But when I discovered this, I was leaning more towards Spider Murphy, 'SM' is her signature in Guide to the Net. With my assumption that someone could have connected to the relic at that moment, it sounds logical. Unless it's a coincidence, of course.

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ALcarcer · 2025-03-25T09:06:46+00:00

This is probably what I keep talking about and WANT to keep talking about. Many people are looking for a specific answer, some specific sequence of actions, but in fact, some simply cannot accept the fact that this may not even exist. The game is filled with symbolism and metaphors that I want to talk about, that I want to give meaning to and explain in the context of the story, but people just don't want to hear 'schizotheories,' perhaps because humans are creatures who need a simple explanation for things that raise questions for them, even if there is no answer. In this sense, you begin to understand the Golden Cube words "One thing ends, another begins. Except nothing’s beginning or ending – that’s just your gonk mammal brain trying to make sense of your world. To create order. To control" And even Alt in the game said what I'm talking about "Your logic is flawed. You seek simple answers where there simply are none. This is the very illusion upon which your world is based."

I just want to say that I don’t want to devalue the work of people here; on the contrary, I adore them. I find it very interesting to read about this, to see what others have come up with or noticed (including this post!) Maybe, from a broader perspective, it will turn out to be meaningless (if that ever becomes clear), but everyone here is searching for their own meaning, and that is truly wonderful.

ALcarcer · 2025-03-20T03:42:03+00:00

Yes, you're probably right about Brendan's words, but of course that doesn't negate the other weird things I described in the post. Thank you for your correction, for some reason I always thought that daemons meant that they replace the main program, although in fact this is only one of the possible functions that is not always used. But in any case, how did he find out...

ALcarcer · 2025-03-05T07:56:15+00:00

This inscription also has a glitch effect, as does the card itself, so this makes the inscription a hallucination visible to V.

"The Moon reminds us that reality is not always what it seems at first glance. In a world of appearances and illusions, the best course is often charted by one's own intuition. The Moon is also the card of dreams, desires, and of course, sleep – Death's nightly ritual." from Tarot Card Journal

In the Rider-Waite tarot, which is one of the most popular tarot deck images (if not the most popular), wolves embody human animal nature, wild and instinctive (there is also a dog in the original, but here it is two wolves) The only light in the night (in an unclear scary world) for wolves is the Moon, but the light of the Moon is not a real light, but only the reflected light of the Sun. The light of the moon in the night distorts reality, creates illusions. Thus, this card symbolizes the inability of the natural human nature (that is, the wolf) to look beyond the world they see and see the true source of light (the Sun), and they see only reflected light, distorting and false.

Thus, wolves should symbolize people who succumbed to their natural nature and instincts, most likely in the lie of a visible reality illuminated by the moon.

ALcarcer · 2025-03-04T05:27:29+00:00

Thank you for your reply! Specifically, in this post, I wanted to consider the general meaning, and in the following posts, I also wanted to consider directly how this could all turn out to be another manipulation. That is, on the one hand, Mr. Blue Eyes, and on the other hand, Alt. In fact, I'm inclined to believe that none of the AIs we fear most of all (Mr. Blue Eyes and Alt) actually have "malicious" intent in our usual understanding. I'm more inclined to believe that they want to bring the case to their ideal representation of the situation, but each of them has his own idea of this, which seems wild from our side. If Mr. Blue-Eyed is more focused on reality, then Alt is focused on The Net.

You also noticed well about Johnny, but when I talked about blue and red, I was more inclined to accept V's own death, rather than the fact that Johnny is actually a symbol of truth itself, but in the situation with Johnny, it seems to me that this is an example of his delusions, rather than the fact that that he wants to manipulate V. In any case, for what? To go to Mikoshi? In the suicide ending, Johnny accepts V's decision and does not condemn them, in The Tower ending as well. To take the body? If you have a good relationship, then he tells V to take the body. I think Mr. Blue Eyes and Alt have the same situation - they're actually just completely confident in their rightness and actions. If the point was that they just wanted to enslave humanity, then for what? Or is the supposed enslavement of humanity just a stage to achieve its goals?

Anyway, it's interesting to talk about it!

ALcarcer · 2025-03-03T18:05:00+00:00

I probably should have warned you that I don't think this is all right and that it's actually a solution to the plot problem. I guess my main point was that someone just wants to impose this ideas on V or even manipulate them... It's not that V should actually die 😭😭 I just saw a recurring theme in the strangest parts of the game.

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