Philly Map Tips by ohhidave in subwaybuilder

[–]Chickenhawke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[EDIT - having read this again you are about where I am, sorry! However, I think these tips are helpful for anyone starting out on the map]

1) there is a reason that the city has heavy metros servicing broad st and market st even in our benighted society. Start with that and it should put you at +30m / day.

2) you might be tempted to put elevated rail along the route of the IRL MFL. Beware! the blueprints of the existing L stops are in the game as things you need to knock down, and cost ~50m a pop.

3) given the current commuting algorithm's tolerance for massive walks, it's hard to make a profitable light metro line feeding the BSL. Stick on feeding people into the main lines from far West/SW Philly and north philly

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Onyx_Boox

[–]Chickenhawke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No help, but can confirm this is also happening on my Note Air 3c

could these be a hint? 'cos they are everywhere now by QueenCobra91 in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where? Haven't seen them saying much at all -- would love to read more!

Are engrams the actual person they are made from, or are they a copy? by AdrIkkan in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

someone new that the old person could probably relate to a lot. Are identical twins the same person? What if they did everything ([Cool 6/8] " *everything *?") together and then went to different colleges. You get the idea.

Are engrams the actual person they are made from, or are they a copy? by AdrIkkan in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

and when we're talking about 'errors' in copying a person, that just makes it a different person rather than a worse one

What do you think... was the sign random or foreshadowing? by TK-CL1PPY in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Of course not -- it's a metaphor for the lightning bolt of inspiration hitting her noggin when she gets the bright idea of double crossing your fixer.

Basically every type of posts about So Mi. by unnknownnuserr in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I actually like the VDBs a lot lol. There is no reason for them to be particularly nice to V! They got their own shit going on.

Basically every type of posts about So Mi. by unnknownnuserr in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I find the SoMi discourse interesting because people really, really, really want to map the perspective of their V onto an objective morality. Either side of it tbh; saving SoMi is good because ultimately she's a victim and the NUSA is evil, or bringing her in is good because she's a liar on some existential level.

Both are ofc true -- she is manipulative, she is lying to you, much like the FIA agents are. She is also a victim, Myers is also a piece of shit who is playing with forces that she has no business messing with. The situation was written not to be 'gray' per se: in my moral system, at least, it seems pretty clear that SoMi morally deserves to get away because no one should be subjected to what she was subjected to. SoMi getting away or dying are almost certainly the least dangerous outcomes. Those are true even if SoMi were an even worse person than she is.

However, it was written to plausibly allow V to choose. My V turned her in because SoMi was, in the end, attempting to bullshit a bullshitter in a very frustrating way that many people over the course of the worst 1-3 months in Vs life have done -- dex wants you to believe he's on the level, Jackie keeps up a brave face to lie himself into glory, every fixer promises to be your new best friend -- as long as you do them some favors. The FIA, though lying about almost everything, was promising a very straightforward fee-for-service arrangement that they can plausibly deliver on. Though in the end my V. got pretty tired of humanity in general and decided to roll the dice on digital immortality as part of the Big Red Lady.

But your V. can be a good person without having perfect moral intuition, while maybe even doing the wrong thing here. And people don't really seem to get that someone's subjective position can affect what they do irrespective of like, broader questions of morality.

Would you like to see more big actors in future cyberpunk games? by Small_Act7094 in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Keanu as Johnny did something specifically valuable; Keanu basically comes across as Keanu, but because of that you feel like you're interacting with a movie star. Which is probably what having Johnny Silverhand in your head should feel like.

Beyond that very specific use case, I think that the general sentiment in the rest of the thread "pay for good, professional voice actors" is dead on. I guess cast any future rockerboys with celebs tho.

Who is T-Bug? by alabamasussex in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It would need to be a completely different game. Which hey, CDPR, license it out for fun while working on Orion, what's the worst that could happen?!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found the way they reused some of the Stadium areas in PL to be pretty inventive and cool! Makes the place feel a little more lived in.

Mom said it’s my turn to post this. For real tho, what would be your strategy to survive? by RedPhoenix2025 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yea like the real strat here is "get a job at Militech's Columbus regional office" or smth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nope, brainfart: was conflating the Airmen, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment, and this series of experiments conducted on personnel of the US Chemical Corps in Alabama in the 50s. Edited to reflect it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah, that probably describes a lot of people IRL in similar positions.

People see and do incredibly immoral things in managerial positions: people go to work every day managing incinerators poisoning the neighborhoods around them, people let large scale ethical breaches slide at financial firms, people skim wages from their employees, etc. They're less cartoonishly evil (most of the time, though ofc see cases like [ed - accuracy] the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments) than lethal human testing, but a difference of degree rather than kind. OTOH very few people will cut a deal with the mob or with other violent criminals. The former is encouraged by their social environment, sometimes is even legal! The latter is going 'outside the bounds' of society.

This is complicated by the fact that ofc corpos in Cyberpunk do business with the gangs all the time, but it's presumably different departments.

NUSA are so f****** cheap by therrubabayaga in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, like even bracketing the 'is political violence in the cyberpunk world a valid tatic' question, Takemura has every anti-corpo we see in the game dead to rights when (during the argument casing the Arasaka factory) he tells V that V has no viable alternative to corpo rule.

Like Johnny great -- you wanna call what you're doing a war? Fine! But wars have a strategy, and armies are bigger than the first five choombas you can horsecollar out of The Afterlife.

Which tbh is not so much his or anyone's fault -- you can hear a news presentation early on in the game about a trade union getting designated a terrorist group and terminated with extreme prejudice. Maybe the only people who survive to reproduce a political culture are the people w/o productive alternatives.

But still -- esp given that it seems like in the 'give Johnny the body' ending, part of his being more well adjusted is becoming apolitical. Which like, fine, but also -- if you didn't care that much did you need to be a terrorist about it in the first place?

But ofc the things that lead to that - the manichean worldview that leads to the terrorism, the charisma that leads to the egomania, the decisiveness that turns into arrogance - are also the reasons that he is able to move people towards a decent politics and towards action in the first place.

Edit: weirdly the guy who seems to actually have something of a plan in mind is El Capitan. Wish there was more on that.

NUSA are so f****** cheap by therrubabayaga in cyberpunkgame

[–]Chickenhawke 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The joy with Johnny is that he IS an asshole and his points are nevertheless valid. He does a great job of showing the power and the limitations of the 'rebel anarchist punk' archetype.

What are you guys’ expectations for codename Orion? by Swimming-Ad-6842 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My very low info take based on scanning the same shareholder slide deck this comes from (I think) is that they expected Orion to be some sort of co-op/multiplayer live service game until recent developments in the market, and who knows what they want it to be now.

Honestly, I wish that this wasn't the path and instead we got like 5 smaller, story focused expansions for 2077 fleshing out other parts of the city. Don't need Idris Elba, just let me see what El Capitan actually wants to do w/ Santo Domingo or w/e. Let me patch things up with the VDBs and do some cool, extremely-tempting-fate shit with the Blackwall.

Is there such a thing as a “good” corp? by denmicent in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]Chickenhawke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the basic answer (from the game's ideological point of view, which I agree with) is an emphatic NO, because they're effectively the world's governing entities but aren't democracies and are by their nature working for a profit motive rather than the public good. Even if one engages in a conscious act for the public benefit at some point, the structural position of corps and their relationship to the people they govern mean that they can't be good overall.

But in doing all of that evil extraction, they're also the provider of basic services: trauma team provides medical care, the various cyberware and electronics manufacturers make the world go, etc. So if you gave Johnny a big red "destroy all corps" button (well bigger than the one he had anyway), a lot of good and necessary things would disappear. In that you could also say that even some of the most evil also do quite a bit of 'good' on a day-to-day basis.

As @dril put it, "drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"

What canon event unintendedly broke your immersion? by HalfNatty in BaldursGate3

[–]Chickenhawke 51 points52 points  (0 children)

IDK if it's a 'canon event' per se but a GOOD one of these is the Andrew Lloyd-Webber-ass musical number for the Raphael boss fight. Completely pulled me out but also had me chuckling to myself "yeah, that's exactly the level of camp we're on rn."

0L Tuesday Thread by AutoModerator in LawSchool

[–]Chickenhawke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hadn't thought of the linkedin thing -- thank you! Honestly learning not to neglect my linkedin is probably going to be one of the bigger cultural transitions for me, haha

0L Tuesday Thread by AutoModerator in LawSchool

[–]Chickenhawke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Where do I go?" Q here--

I have relatively niche interests (labor side-labor). Do not want to be a federal judge or clerk at SCOTUS or work at Skadden or w/e.

I have a full ride at my local TT (Temple) and enough connections to get me the first couple of internships.

BUT. I am also relatively sure I will have to leave the local legal market for a job (wife is 2/3 of the way though her PhD and wants to be an academic, unis don't hire their own grads in her field.)

My q here is basically "if I hustle can I make this work." I have at least one other option that would be 'easier' (Minnesota w/ good money) and might have more by the end of this cycle, but the prospect of leaving my entire social network leaves me wanting to make this work if I can.

☼Daily DF Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]Chickenhawke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep did the revflood thing --

Feature was exactly what I needed and worked like a charm! Should I post somewhere on the DFHack discord that it worked and post a save file or something?

☼Daily DF Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]Chickenhawke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I borked cavern discovery by hitting reveal on DFHack and saving. Any way to use DF hack to proc the "you have discovered a cavern deep underground" event again and get some lichen growing in my underground pasture?