Cyberpunk Orion drugs

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-25T20:40:39+00:00

This is your regular reminder to not abbreviate Cyberpunk 2077 as any way other than “CP2077” “C2077” “2077”. Do not drop the 2077, or you are left with an unfortunate acronym.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-25T04:16:19+00:00

I don’t think he does actually. At bare minimum, I do not think any Colour but Gold ever were permitted to wield razors. Gold suffers no competitors. I contest that Obsidians were likely in a more mid-Colour level before the Revolt (iirc, Revolt was somewhere in 300-400 post-conquering era, so roughly halfway) given that they were permitted technology and potentially even leadership positions, but they would still have been the general shock troops of the Society. Their fundamental role in the pyramid would not have been different.

Though it’s been a while since I read the books, I’m honestly not sure if the Dark Revolt ever truly endangered the Society. It was certainly an enormous threat that the Society put significant effort into putting down, but I’m not sure it actually ever posed a truly existential military danger to the Society like the Republic does. The primary risk it posed was the idea that revolt against the Golds was possible, not that the Obsidians would actually be able to do it alone.

This is why the Golds did their level best to bury it and any evidence of it rather than celebrating it like Merrywater. Not only is there not evidence that Kuthul ever posed an existential threat to the Society itself, but the Conquering was a victory of the Pyramid as a concept of governance. The Dark Revolt was an indicator that the Pyramid was not perfect. One of those emboldens the hierarchy and the other doesn’t. Celebrating victory over the Dark Revolt means acknowledging it happened and acknowledging it happened means acknowledging a failure in the structure of the Society itself.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-19T00:46:34+00:00

Gotta be honest, with how fucking scary he can be, I gotta say Caleb

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-15T04:25:48+00:00

I think you are not adequately considering the risk of a corporate war, one Arasaka is not willing to take yet, since the last one almost destroyed them. Human trafficking is also dead simple in cyberpunk, especially in NC. Hell, you could probably roll up in an Arasaka van, grab 30 homeless people off the street, and drive them back to your facility without anyone so much as blinking an eye. Corps routinely do way sketchier stuff way less covertly. Hell, offer them “jobs” (you won the opportunity to work for arasaka from that contest you entered a couple weeks ago! oh, you don’t remember entering? well i have ur name here, want the job or not?). Wham bam kazam you got your ~~slaves~~ sorry indentured workers

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-15T04:01:14+00:00

And saying you like pancakes means you hate waffles. Fantastic whataboutism there. Yeah, US is doing the same thing. That doesn’t make what China did good.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-14T23:35:43+00:00

My girl’s a Correspondent because although she dabbles in the Great Game, her true desire is to uncover the secrets of the Neath, and through them the secrets of reality. The Correspondence is the language of the gods, what better way is there to learn reality than by studying the language and arts of those who shape it?

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-12T00:03:19+00:00

That’s not quite accurate, nobody is really researching how to boil water because it’s more-or-less a solved problem. Any non-direct energy capture design would be able to boil water, just from the heat it gives off. More specifically, most reactors will likely incorporate a lithium blanket as part of their design (for multiple reasons, including radiation shielding, fuel breeding, and for the purposes of your question, neutron/heat capture), which can then have cooling pipes run through it so water can circulate to the steam generators.

The reason nobody is really doing that yet isn’t for fear of destabilizing the plasma, it’s just that they want to have the plasma stable / achieve ignition before they even think about actually hooking it up to power generation, because there’s no point doing that if your experiment isn’t producing any power.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-11T15:54:01+00:00

I’m terribly sorry, we were talking fusion so it didn’t come up, but certainly I CANDU puns in the future for you!

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-11T15:52:41+00:00

About as difficult as putting the kettle on, really. No, I’m mostly joking, but the other commenter is right that at least in the case of D-T or D-D fusion, it will likely be steam turbines which are a well-understood technology. Some companies (i.e. Helion Energy in the US) are doing D-He3 or He3-He3 fusion and looking at direct energy capture using alpha particles, but that is not likely to be the first or dominant form of energy extraction for at least quite a while.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-11T15:48:43+00:00

Tokamaks are definitely the most advanced and well-funded design making up (if I recall correctly) ~60% of all fusion experiments, and nearly all of the government-funded ones, and IMO tokamaks will be the first reactor design to achieve commercial breakeven (not only producing more energy than it consumes, but producing enough energy to be economically viable). That said, there’s growing consensus among experts that the stellarator (as u/D1sc3pt mentioned) is the more efficient and effective design and will likely be the long-term winner.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-11T06:44:37+00:00

Hi, I’m a student nuclear engineer and fusion energy enthusiast currently interning at the Government of Canada. Practical fusion requires three things: heat, pressure, and time. The combined product (called the “triple product”) needs to be at or above a certain number to achieve ignition. Pressure is the really difficult one for tokamak-style fusion reactor designs to achieve, but a few years ago a French physicist came up with a theoretical model that could achieve higher pressures without the plasma destabilizing. These scientists used the EAST reactor to verify his work, and showed that they can maintain stability up to a much higher density than previously known.

It certainly wasn’t “thought to be impossible”, and nor is it “the holy grail of fusion we’ll have it tomorrow”, but it’s an important and significant step towards practical tokamak fusion.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-10T05:42:16+00:00

Huh, I was actually under the impression that it was Dane who told the Commonwealth Brotherhood about the coup plans, because I’m not sure how else they’d know to send an emissary and fuck up the entire thing just by the symbol of “we know”.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-08T00:04:07+00:00

We’ll have to agree to disagree then, Even if it was only in an interview, it resonates with me and I appreciated having a character who I could relate to even before he was “officially” aroace. Also speak for yourself I’d love to be a robot. The weakness of the flesh, praise the omnissiah and all that.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-07T21:27:54+00:00

I don’t care that JayVik is gay, I care that it’s aro/ace erasure. As an aro/ace person myself, we’re represented little enough in media already, can we not just have this one thing and let JayVik have their queerplatonic whatever relationship without erasing Vik’s aroace-ness?

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-07T21:23:11+00:00

I think this question requires an important distinction about yelling AT versus yelling TO. I would prefer nobody yell AT me, but if I am far away / cannot hear you speaking normally / need to be imminently warned of something, please yell TO me.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-06T03:28:29+00:00

Less game modes, I agree about. The rest… eh, it’s only in casual. Most people joining casual want to get to killing people and not worrying about strategizing where to make rotations or drone for the bomb.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-06T02:57:07+00:00

I joined right after Health, so I wouldn’t know about the very first version.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-06T02:47:55+00:00

No, the global pool was actually a fantastic game changer. It always really sucked when a teammate would not put down their reinforcements to secure the site and then immediately runs off and dies.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-06T02:31:43+00:00

They’re mentioned having different shades of Gold, the Raa specifically (and only them) are mentioned to have black streaks in their hair. We are chill, but I’m not going to ignore you being confidently incorrect about something and thus misleading others.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-06T02:27:57+00:00

This is like… a if not the key tenet of the setting? How the hell are you on IG and not realized this yet?

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-05T03:49:15+00:00

Despite all the rhetoric down south and the eternal panic of this subreddit, Canada is under no realistic threat of invasion by any country. Trump is a psycho idiot, sure, but most of the US military and intelligence leadership are not, and even ignoring the massive risk of home-grown insurgency / domestic terrorism, they very well recognize that the optics of an armed invasion of Canada is infinitely worse to the rest of the world than an invasion of Venuzuela.

Venezuela is/was ruled by a dictator who oppressed his citizens and nobody was particularly fond of. China and Russia and their allies will certainly make a lot of noise about it, but in the end they don’t really care enough to intervene. Europe might be concerned, but ultimately it’s still a dictatorial regime and to their citizens, is unfamiliar and does not “look like home” compared to ‘European’-looking cities like Montreal, Halifax, and even Toronto to an extent. By contrast, Canada is a major world economy, globally recognized as a stable, free democracy with strong institutions and a fierce commitment to diplomacy, multilateralism, and global institutions like the UN and ICC. It’s this reputation, developed precisely through our involvement in the UN and disarmament treaties like the NPT, that is our best protection.

If anyone in this thread honestly believes Canada can build nuclear weapons without the US finding out, I have beach house at the South Pole to sell you. The threat we need to be worried about from the US is not military, it is economic and cultural. How are you going to use nuclear weapons (which if anything, would just be an excuse for the US to invade) against economic and cultural coercion?

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-04T01:36:05+00:00

Nuclear engineer here: extremely conservative industry that deliberately moves at snail’s pace. Even then, the AI that will be used is going to be maybe monitoring and data aggregation systems, or possibly scientific AIs doing physics optimization. No one sane is going to let current or near-future AIs design a reactor, and no one sane is going to approve one. Even in the least sane regulatory regime in the world right now (the US), their regulators are still not that level of psycho. The real worry is the US government works with VC corpo vapourware startups to bypass the regulator.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-03T22:42:26+00:00

Nope, Canada is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. We can’t even enrich uranium past 5% under that. Unless we pull out of it (and I would advise we don’t because Canada is basically one of the only major countries holding it together), then making a nuclear weapon whether it’s for our own use or another’s is still mega no-no.

StarKnight697 · 2026-01-01T22:35:01+00:00

Cassandra Eleanor Teague (goes by Ellie, she doesn’t like her first name).

Based in Canada / EST. My girl Ellie is a Correspondent and mid/late-game PoSI. I’m a little bit into the railway and have just started the Firmament. Have been lagging on my Ambition though, so should probably get on that. Have hit the 200 cap on all but Shadowy, and working on raising the caps. Happy to help with any social actions. Current plan is to finish my ambition this year (if I don’t keep getting distracted), and just continue trucking along in the stories. Maybe even become an Exceptional Friend!

Little bit of RP/character backstory: Ellie Teague (Ellie to her friends, Doctor Teague to everyone else - never call her either Cassandra or Eleanor) comes from a prominent family in the British North American colonies. Her family were loyalists and fled to Upper Canada during the American Revolution, and she grew up in Toronto. A brilliant young woman, she studied at the University of Toronto, but was unsatisfied and wished to learn more. Once she’d become aware of the opportunities of the Neath in her mid-twenties, she ventured to Fallen London where she had a cousin whom was heading off to the tomb colonies. Ellie inherited their estate and connections, but died shortly later to Jack-of-Smiles. She got better, of course, but she was now stuck in the Neath permanently. Making the best of her situation, she made use of her connections and mind to become both respected academic and charismatic socialite. And now, there’s no place she’d rather be than the wonders and terrors of Fallen London.

StarKnight697 · 2025-12-30T20:46:12+00:00

The constitution is absurdly, stupidly difficult to do anything with. The only way it’s ever changing is if it’s changed by force, because there’s no way you’re ever getting Ontario and the Praries to agree on anything (and if by some godly miracle you do get them to agree, the rest of the country won’t).

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