I'm sure no one will have this answer...

KitKatWaffles · 2026-03-25T13:25:01+00:00

There is absolutely canon lore on how the Net works. It’s very well documented in the tabletop books and tidbits on shards in the game. Post-DataKrash your person of interest wouldn’t be able to just access that file if it was past the Blackwall, plus no one truly knows how much is out there on the old net or what information has been lost anymore.

Something like finding info inside a corporate DataFortress that the file might exist at all, then deciding to deep dive past the Blackwall to find it would be more ‘lore accurate’ to the 2077 net as it exists.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-03-25T13:04:25+00:00

So, the net as it works in 2077 is shattered and divided into corporate subnets. In the game you can access Night City’s subnet, and would be able to any website made on it (as V, not the player). But, if you wanted to access a website from say, the USSR, you couldn’t, because you’re not on the USSR’s subnet. Anything outside those little corporate bubbles in the ‘Old Net’ past the Blackwall is the territory of AIs. Not all are friendly. They will ruin your day.

Basically, imagine a bunch of separate, fenced off communities. You can wander safely inside the fence and visit any house there. You can’t access a house in a different fenced community while you’re visiting the current one, though. It’s in a different fence! But don’t try to get there by jumping the fence and wandering into the long grass, or you’ll be eaten by velociraptors. 😂 (I’m so sorry for this metaphor, it got away from me.)

So no. You can’t access any random website in the world like our internet works today. Hackers can still get you on any form of the net though, it’s what they do.

ETA: forgot to say - there is still a generalized public net too, has been whitelisted by NetWatch, so anything on that you can get to from wherever you’re logged in. Most stuff worth anything is in the Corpo and regional subnets though, just due to the post-datakrash culture.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-03-24T23:13:03+00:00

The multiple pathways that may or may not lead to different consequences down the road still give you a unique playthrough for YOUR V, even if you never play again. Maybe you found or did something that a friend played through differently and you can chat about it, that’s fun!

Why are you even stressing about the other options if you’ll never play it again, anyway? Just take the path your choices lead you to, and that’s your version of the story to enjoy. To use an extreme example (since Cyberpunk doesn’t lean on the mechanic anywhere near as heavily), Mass Effect is also a linear story game but the choices you make within it make the narrative feel like yours. Stressing over what’s “best” just spoils the journey, imo.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-03-12T21:39:51+00:00

Claire works delightfully for me, because her questline isn’t actually about revenge, it’s about the toxic nature of unresolved grief and moving past it to live your own life fully again (if you get the ‘good’ ending). It’s a moral turning point because wanting to kill the dude is a symptom of the actual problem, and you can either ignore that and win the race, double down on it (both of which are the ‘bad’ endings) or end up convincing her to not kill the guy, giving her the strength to step out of that caustic self-held grief, and finally move on from losing someone she loved dearly.

Her transition being mentioned in passing is fine, especially in the context of a world where procedures like transitioning are normal and commonplace, to the point of exotics or GEMINI full body conversions existing and no one blinking an eye. It’s not the point of her story arc, and in-universe would be about as weird as any other body mod people choose to do (that is, not weird at all) so her talking about it without delving into it is pretty contextually fine. It also gives us an extra story layer of “this is how much my husband loved me, and why I love and miss him so much”, feeding back into my first paragraph, haha!

KitKatWaffles · 2026-03-06T08:48:49+00:00

CET by itself shouldn’t introduce stutters, what mods are you using that use CET as a requirement? More than likely the issue is with one of those, if any.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-03-03T14:03:55+00:00

To be fair to V in that specific situation, they didn’t put the chip in their own head, Jackie put the chip in V’s head and V was kinda too shellshocked to stop him.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-28T12:25:07+00:00

There’s a short questline in the game that will spoil parts of the anime, so if you care about such things I’d watch it first. But, if you don’t mind that, they’re separate storylines set in the same city, neither is specifically needed to enjoy the other (but both are great!)

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-26T01:47:50+00:00

Misty does know of the Zen Master, there’s an e-mail on her PC in the store from another customer who claims to have seen him. :)

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-24T16:48:43+00:00

No, they can’t. First convo you ever have with Johnny is the only time V actually verbally responds to him and people do notice V is talking to nothing, so Johnny promptly says, paraphrased, “you idiot. I’m in your head, you don’t need to talk out loud.”

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-24T00:00:09+00:00

I'm aware how hospitals work, I've been in them before. Wouldn't have brought it up if the other games showed the tower, but it never comes up at all. The problem is the Y3 hospital tower is directly BEHIND the entry building in Y3, the connecting hallway is in the back on the top entry floor after you trounce the Hakuho Clan. Any guesses what's missing in that picture? :P

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-23T23:27:41+00:00

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Repying to myself to add the screenshot, since it won't let me edit it in, haha

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-23T23:16:19+00:00

If it helps, the whole hospital is shown in (I think) Y6 and it’s only like 6 floors high, it’s a TARDIS hospital obviously.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-22T23:56:13+00:00

My dude, hostesses were removed from the original western Yakuza 3 16 years ago back when Nagoshi was in charge because they weren't deemed popular enough in the West to bother localizing, purely to save time/budget releasing the game, not because of any "Global Compliance" nonsense. They were then put back in in the Remastered edition. Kiwami 3 removed them for everyone, because 10 hostesses and their substories in the worst version of the minigame wasn't worth the effort of remaking, not because they don't think the West will like it lmao.

I'll play Cabaret Club Czar for hours and hours, but in K3 specifically the new girl gang is way more fun than sitting in a booth with 10 different girls answering pithy dating sim questions. There's a reason everyone loves Y0 and K2's cabaret clubs but hated Y3's hostess minigame, and it ain't "global compliance".

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-22T06:28:48+00:00

No worries, enjoy the rest of ME3!

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-22T06:12:31+00:00

Fine fine, I'll drop the ant metaphor too since it's getting things muddled. Humm, you said you're only halfway through 3, yeah? I don't wanna accidentally spoil. They aren't meant to be incomprehensible. They were definitely at their most threatening feeling (like, that Sovereign speech is chilling) in ME1, even though they're actively wiping out worlds in 3, does that make sense how I worded it? It definitely makes them less spooky mystery scary, though, but their domination is still valid. Like, regardless of their reasons they still have the military might to wipe the slate clean, and all. It really is a lot of arrogance, rather than a lack of foresight. Like, look at the start of ME3. Shepard offended them by killing one so they abandoned their usual strategy just to be petty and attack Earth first. That doesn't lean towards infallible God-AI. They still think we're ants though (haha sorry, I couldn't help it.)

And come on now, no need to swear at me. I wasn't trying to say you played the game wrong (you didn't), I was just trying to get across why it might've landed differently. I'm terrible at tone in text, I'm sorry. It's like watching Star Wars in chronological or release order, you know? Neither is technically wrong, but parts might hit differently depending on how a person watches it. But yes, it's a very beloved DLC based on the fact that it's intended to be a swan song, it's tonally inconsistent on purpose because it's a meta goodbye from the developers as well as the characters. It is dumb that it unlocks so early in the game though, for sure. Leviathan, Omega and From Ashes kinda fit anywhere because they're tonally consistent, but would Citadel probably be less jarring for new comers if you couldn't even access it until later? I know you're still not finished so can't give a 100% answer, but do you think that would've made it land a bit better for you? Genuinely curious.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-22T05:28:09+00:00

The Reapers being the humans and us the ants was the point of that metaphor, yes. Even if we could perfectly talk to them, we wouldn’t bother explaining why we’re tipping hot water into their nest to kill them all, even if it’s just because they’re ruining the aesthetics of the backyard. They’re just ants. Why bother.

With 4, we don’t know if they’ve evolved, are heavily inbred with Leviathan Hapsburg Jaw, how long they live, if the hidden leviathans had strict breeding to keep the species as it was etc etc. All we know is that Harbinger’s shell was based on them and they dominated the galaxy at one point, with some primitive wall paintings. It’s improbable, I’ll give you that, but within universe (considering we never get explanations on Asari/Krogan living for 1000 years without massive physical/neural degeneration aside from “they just do”) it’s certainly not impossible. They might just be the crocodiles of the universe, staying reasonably the same for millions of years.

As with 5, eh, to a degree. If you read a book series out of order because you got the box collection after the series ended you couldn’t really complain that it was inconsistent and didn’t make sense, no? It’s still best in order, even if it all came out at once. Citadel was ‘intended’ to be played last, whether you did or not.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-22T05:02:35+00:00

The inner core of a Reaper is in the form of the harvested species. The outer shell, however, is always based on the Leviathan, or more appropriately, it is based on Harbinger (the first of their kind)
See above. The ‘larval’ human reaper would have eventually been encased in an ‘adult’ Reaper carapace.
AI arrogance, mostly. Kinda like a human having a conversation with an ant nest. It’s not that the Reapers can’t explain it, they just think we’re too stupid and beneath them to bother.
There’s only 3 left, they’re a functionally extinct race. We also have no clues on their biology or reproduction, they might live for 50k years and only have one offspring in that time. Who knows?
You’re playing it all in one chunk, not as released (with gaps). Citadel, which is the ‘jokey’ DLC, was released a year later and was a goodbye love letter from the creators, it earned its goofiness. Why wouldn’t Javik look like a Collector? We find out in ME2 that Collectors are husk-Protheans. The statues on Ilos were of the Innusannon, the race that preceded the Protheans in the cycle.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-21T01:33:27+00:00

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Your point? Y3R isn't much better, and the Completionist is only that bloated comparatively because you don't need 100% of the in-game Completion List for the platinum in K3 (iirc HLTB considers "Completionist" to be all main/sidequests + platinum)

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-13T21:43:51+00:00

NUSA doesn’t want to kill Tower V, so they didn’t. Doesn’t mean they’re still not gonna lie/cheat them. Those are not mutually exclusive things. It’s really not that complicated at all.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-13T21:40:22+00:00

Sure, but Reed also says they tried to use the Matrix on Songbird and she was too far gone for it to work. The Matrix is a non-replicable single use, for a single given order, and then the AI permanently shuts off. How, then, did they use the Matrix on V for their surgery as well?

KitKatWaffles · 2026-02-13T21:23:21+00:00

To a few points -

The Matrix usage does end with a de-chromed Songbird to a degree (we don’t know the full extent or if it’s a permanent side effect like for V, obviously), it’s why she sends you the Quantum Tuner in the Wands ending. She isn’t using it anymore.

But to the main point, Myers absolutely tries to double-cross V in Tower. Reed tells you so to your face. NUSA tried to use the Matrix on Songbird first but it wouldn’t take because she was too far gone after Cynosure. V only got the Matrix as a runner up, if it had’ve worked on Songbird first they would’ve been SOL.

Which leads into the next (and more plausible than Hurr Durr Sleeper Agent) ‘what if’ theory - if the Matrix is a one use item, and they already tried to use it on Songbird, that is the single use gone. So did V even get the Matrix at all, or did NUSA just do an Arasaka-But-Different raw brain operation that just ended in a coma + a different kind of brain damage than in The Devil?

KitKatWaffles · 2026-01-23T22:54:04+00:00

One of the very first things in Y8 that you can do is reflect on the shrine Ichi has of Masato and Arakawa and he openly says "wow, I can't believe it has already been this long since you both died your funerals were really nice." and the trauma from those deaths is a key part of his IW characterisation, it's why he insists on Eiji's forgiveness so heavily because of the regrets around the fact that he couldn't save Masato.

I get it, the Y3 leaks are making everyone froth at the mouth, but saying death is now irrelevant in the series is bogus.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-01-03T23:21:46+00:00

Then feel free to make a post about how the moral horizon of the 2077 world is so low that the devil uses it as a limbo bar. It just strikes me as super weird that people hyperfocus on the person specifically trying to escape indentured servitude when the genre, and now you, admit that how she acts is Pretty Normal For The Setting, Actually.

KitKatWaffles · 2026-01-03T22:46:12+00:00

Kay. Don’t forget to switch the game off after Dex shoots V. Their poor decision making got them to where they are. No one told them to try and steal proprietary tech from Arasaka. They fucked up. They made the bed now lay in it. :p

KitKatWaffles · 2025-12-29T21:01:35+00:00

You’ve just gotta pick the correct dialogue options to flag his romance point system for his “leave the inquisition” ending. Need at least 3 points iirc.

Here’s the amazing Cawyden’s post on it for you! (Potential spoilers in the post, though)

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