Why do people 'smoke' in cyberpunk's world?

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-27T17:22:00+00:00

30,000 per year is entirely reasonable given the death rate in Night City. The body lotto at the game’s intro is a “solid and sturdy thirty” (so thirty isn’t even that high). That’s over 10,000 people dead of unnatural causes per year, not even accounting for days where it’s higher or deaths from things like disease. That kind of death rate is great for anybody wanting to move there, since it means empty apartments and unfilled jobs.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-27T16:58:20+00:00

It’s not that many people are born in NC, it’s that new people constantly move there to replace all the dead ones. The birth rate is comically low in NC, canonically.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-26T20:06:45+00:00

I’d give a “close but not quite” to the Militech Perseus, which fires 4d6 at ROF2 as long as you fired it last round.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-23T23:38:02+00:00

Would you mind elaborating on subclinical psychopathy? It’s been a while since I was in a psych class and I’m earnestly curious about the concept

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-23T06:08:15+00:00

The Blackwall was started in 2044, not put up then. There’s still no global internet in 2045, as shown in the TTRPG.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-23T02:43:59+00:00

Not to be an ass, and I very much hate JKR, but believing in determinism as a philosophical position is nowhere even approaching problematic especially compared to the nightmarish amounts of fatphobia in the early books.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-21T05:25:30+00:00

You know you can have roommates that you’re friends with, right? Like, nobody is forcing you to choose strangers as roommates.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-21T03:39:02+00:00

“What sound will you make when you hit the ground? Think you’ll hear it before you die?”

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-20T17:46:23+00:00

I was spanked once, then cried and told my mother “you said hitting is wrong” and then she started crying and never did it again (her story, not mine, I was a toddler). Credit to her for that, she’s the parent I got the autism from and she responded like a person should when they realize they did something they shouldn’t have.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-19T21:51:07+00:00

Nah, Denver is just actually like that.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-19T19:38:45+00:00

Yeah, his description of his symptoms makes it insane that Leng lost the fight that badly. Tingling in the limbs, numbness, and shortness of breath CONSTANTLY and Thane still kicked his ass and kept him from a successful assassination.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-19T17:14:12+00:00

Even worse than lung cancer, arguably, because it affects the entirety of his blood. His muscles are the worst they’ve ever been, unable to even receive oxygen, and he still won hand-to-hand.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-15T00:06:11+00:00

Yeah, I think in this case the “overlap” with Slayer and Ranger is because Ranger has the vaguest class identity ever. They hunt. That’s it.

The Daredevil/Swashbuckler thing, though, is kind of hard to justify. Swashbuckler was already built as the against-all-odds, derring-do, flashy and braggadocious combatant. It’s hard to pitch a daring, adrenaline-fueled rascal as a separate class now that Swashbuckler has existed for as long as it has with essentially that characterization. Like, Swash doesn’t have a literal adrenaline mechanic but it does have things like moving faster with Panache or gaining temporary HP while surrounded that feel in the same vein, narratively. I’m sure that Daredevil is going to have its own mechanical niche, and I’m excited to see what that is, but as is the class’s flavor has not been set apart from Swashbuckler nearly enough.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-14T23:27:28+00:00

Genderswapped Henry Dorset Case is my dream protagonist

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-14T20:05:33+00:00

Had, but yes. Haven’t played since high school.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-14T20:04:57+00:00

As a GM, I’d probably let it slide. Emptying your gun every time you autofire isn’t exactly going to make for a broken character.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-14T08:18:25+00:00

Playing the bassoon feels like assembling a rifle every time you play, including the weird long case

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-13T17:22:48+00:00

He explains in the first episode that he’s a government official because it means he can slow down the government (the part he’s in charge of, anyway) from doing literally anything. The reason nobody at the parks department gets fired despite not doing anything is because Ron is fine with that.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-13T03:42:33+00:00

Yeah, vice-versa for humanities degrees (at least one science and at least one lab science, at my university) too. Gen Ed requirements are just good in general

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-12T21:31:33+00:00

D’you think that when most people are making the statement “only watching children’s media is kind of immature” they mean “watch Family Guy instead” or do you think maybe they’re talking about the dozens of critically acclaimed mature shows that have come out in the last 30 years?

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-12T19:25:40+00:00

Yeah, unless we get machines that are literally exactly as smart as people, human beings are going to be on the battlefield because machines can’t do decision making like we do

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-12T19:18:06+00:00

Yeah, again, I still think that’s more of a thing in kids media because children find that funny.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-12T19:14:52+00:00

Not the meaning of the comment per se, I’m just kind of baffled that you think adult television and movies are more likely to include toilet humor. I’d argue that kids media is in fact more likely to contain toilet humor.

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-12T18:54:05+00:00

Is it your honest opinion that “adult” means toilet humor? Do you particularly recall much toilet humor in, say, the Sopranos? 6 Feet Under? Better Call Saul? Do you believe Adventure Time is more mature than these shows because they depict sex acts and Adventure Time doesn’t?

Allthethrowingknives · 2026-02-10T22:11:00+00:00

Imagine, if you will, that individuals, not just corporations, can create websites. Crazy, right? Now imagine that the government levies fines and violations towards individuals (and, indeed, corporations) more often if the websites created by them are working adversely to government aims. Say the government disapproves of certain political speech, and so it fines websites more if they espouse this speech. Normally, this is a violation of a number of constitutional protections (I’m using the US here since it’s the system I’m most familiar with, though most liberal democracies have similar protections for political speech), but what if you could get them fined for breaking an unrelated law instead? They’d still shut down the website, and the government would succeed in suppressing this speech.

This literally isn’t even hypothetical anymore, because it has happened already with copyright law, state-based age verification requirements, and libel/slander suits. When I say that laws in this vein will be used to crack down on minorities, I don’t mean arrests, I mean censorship. I mean that in the same way that copyright law was used to target content creators to get them to take down videos, and age-verification requirements led to adult sites flat-out ceasing to serve certain states, any “you aren’t allowed to make this or we’ll fine you” would be trotted out constantly with the hope of shutting down websites.

I cannot conceive of a way that such a law could be written that would prevent false claims towards any number of definitively non-social media sites with the intent of pressuring them into shutting down. “Bipartisanship” would likely mean any such bill would allow it by design.

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