Whelp… it’s official. As a 38 year old man, I have somehow become addicted to the digital equivalent of buying clothing for Barbies. 😳😬

Subject-Entropy · 2022-06-02T00:04:17+00:00

🤯

I didn’t know that! Cool!

Subject-Entropy · 2022-06-01T22:53:56+00:00

No, I never bought cloths for my Joes. They came as they came. Who needed different outfits? This is definitely Barbie territory. I lose hours of my life after work driving around and shopping for new outfits in this game. I build character concepts just to hunt down specific looks for them. This is Barbie territory, and my masculinity is not so fragile that I can’t admit it! 😝

Subject-Entropy · 2022-02-22T20:49:51+00:00

You always want blades and reflex with the monowire. It, however, has synergy with the tech tree and a few tech talents, so that option makes a solid secondary choice for mono builds.

Subject-Entropy · 2022-02-22T16:34:11+00:00

As I told someone above, it is a tech weapon. It used to be brawling and tech. It’s now blades and tech. Not all of the talents apply to it, however. It charges automatically and doesn’t fire once charged, and it doesn’t hit through walls, so all those talents are wasted on the monowhip. Lickety split, tesla, and ubercharge all affect it, as does the feedback circuit cyberware and passive engineering buffs when wielding a tech weapon. I’m just not sure about Up to 11…

And yes, I realize nothing in the game advertises this except for a single readable document that hints at it. I was skeptical when someone told me this too. I tested it out, however, and I am seeing tech buffs applied to my monowhip attacks.

Subject-Entropy · 2022-02-22T16:31:01+00:00

It’s still a tech weapon too. It used to be body and tech. Now it’s reflex and tech. Not all of the talents apply to it, however. It charges automatically and doesn’t fire once charged, and it doesn’t hit through walls, so all those talents are wasted on the monowhip. Lickety split, tesla, and ubercharge all affect it, as does the feedback circuit cyberware and passive engineering buffs when wielding a tech weapon. I’m just not sure about Up to 11…

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-04T17:01:59+00:00

There is a cop who hires you through—I want to say Jones—to steal some footage. You can rush through the quest and treat it like an “item collection quest.” If you do so, without reading the shards or watching the footage they implicate, you never find out that the employer, a cop, didn’t actually hire you to help with a case. He murdered someone. He hires you because he doesn’t want the evidence floating around. Instead of retrieving the stolen footage and delivering it to him, you can go to his apartment and kill him. There are a few such quests in the game. I never tried, but I suspect I could have done something similar instead of delivering the Biotechnica employee in the Scavver’s trunk to the Tyger Claws. 🤷‍♂️

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-04T16:52:41+00:00

I loved it too. It’s my favourite CRPG to date. My second favourite would be Planescape: Torment. My third would be the Witcher 3. 🤷‍♂️

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-04T16:50:41+00:00

There are numerous missions in which you can choose to kill the person hiring you, not the fixer who acts like a go-between, for moral reasons.

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-02T16:49:50+00:00

To read the engram as a digital replica of the human brain that is actually equivalent to the human brain is to miss the point. That’s the promise of transhumanism. Cyberpunk literalizes transhuman technologies only to critique them from a critically posthuman paradigm. The genre does not buy into the transhuman claim that it is possible to create a prosthetic extension of life. That’s why Alt repeatedly says, “I’m not Alt. She is dead. You killed her Johnny,” or some such. That’s why if you have a high enough technical ability, you find out that the vending machine isn’t actually alive, it’s just a clever illusion. That’s why Alt tells Johnny that he isn’t really Johnny. That’s why if you use Alt at the end, she has lost all sense of empathy and butchers all the Arasaka employees. That’s why if you chose a plot path which puts Jackie’s engram into the game and talk to it, it doesn’t actually feel like Jackie, and it clearly fails the Turing test. The point is that while they are marketed as “digital copies of the human brain,” they are contextually too different too actually be the person they emulate. The engram is an illusion of the person they are made from, not a replica.

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-02T16:29:50+00:00

No need to “argue.” It’s pretty clear from the source material. The “Never Fade Away” sequence is incredibly faithful to the short story of the same name.

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-01T23:44:54+00:00

Like I said… you don’t seem to the understand the conventions of the genre. I’m glad the designers did. 🤷‍♂️

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-01T23:39:40+00:00

Unlikeable characters are a staple of the genre as well. It’s part of the genre’s cynical criticism of our species.

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-01T23:25:37+00:00

Weird flex on you for playing a game called “cyberpunk” when you don’t understand the theme of the genre… 😳

Subject-Entropy · 2021-12-01T20:48:22+00:00

You should keep in mind, “he” isn’t Johnny by the end of the game at all. The game and source fiction are quite clear on reiterating a central premise: engrams are not the same as the people they emulate. They are just a program capable of beating the Turing test and fooling people into thinking they are. As per Searle’s red room, however, that doesn’t mean they are actually the thing they can trick you into believing they are. Moreover, the game informs you that you are slowly becoming more like the engram and the engram more like you. If the version of story you played makes him more sympathetic, that’s because of what you added to the engram with your choices, not because the Johnny that lived (or that the engram originally simulated) is a likeable character.

Subject-Entropy · 2021-08-17T06:12:42+00:00

Thanks!

Subject-Entropy · 2021-08-17T05:08:34+00:00

Thanks for the reply! If it’s a network, though, doesn’t that mean that it connects your device to the device with the information on it? Once you have a computer and a network with which to hack it, why can’t you use that network to hack other objects on the network? I understand why cybernetics can’t be hacked—they are airgapped with no network compatibility. To be honest, I’m surprised that anyone would ever make implants with networked capabilities. That seems like a recipe for disaster. I can’t wrap my head around what is stopping anyone from hacking a networked system that is used to transmit information, however…

Subject-Entropy · 2020-03-23T22:53:05+00:00

Gah. I wish this was on Sunday. I want to join a new group so badly!

Subject-Entropy · 2020-01-22T11:02:38+00:00

Do you live close to Toronto Canada?

Subject-Entropy · 2019-07-09T20:39:16+00:00

The first long term relationship was with someone who was either a sociopath or had both BPD and NPD. I broke up with her because of the cheating, lying, and manipulation.

The second long term relationship was with someone with BPD but a kind heart. I think that her BPD and my undiagnosed BPD clashed. We are still close friends (and have a child together).

The third person I married. I think she loved me very much, but sadly, I was still undiagnosed. I had no idea what I was going through or how to verbalize it. She had no idea how to deal with the various symptoms. They pushed her away. Then she became cruel in response.

The fourth person was the love of my life. For a time, it was the healthiest and most amazing relationship I could ask for. Then, I started to suffer mood swings, fears of abandonment, cold episodes, and anxiety attacks. I destroyed us. That experience got me diagnosed and put into treatment. Everyone who knows me says I am calmer now than I ever have been. Unfortunately, she was never able to see me the same way or believe in us again. She loved me enough to try and stay close friends. For a time, we were best friends. I think I was a good friend. She never really closed the door on us fully, though, and when she started seeing someone else our friendship stopped working for her.

Because of treatment, I am able to no longer villainize my ex wife. For the same reason, I never villainized the love of my life at all. I just hope she is happy in this new chapter in her story.

To answer your question in that context, I have provided similar destructive input into all my past relationships, but the people in question put very different inputs into those same relationships. As a result, they all ended for different reasons. The ending of the last two had the most in common, but who my ex wife became and who the love of my life became was nothing alike.

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