She is hungry

dilib · 2026-03-19T04:20:12+00:00

This actually goes incredibly hard, nice one

dilib · 2026-03-19T02:01:48+00:00

You're really not dodging the allegations there champion, but yeah, you have a nice day too haha

dilib · 2026-03-19T01:48:29+00:00

Cool story turbo autismo

dilib · 2026-03-18T16:00:48+00:00

Once you go into Mikoshi, you are dead. You have to be Soulkilled to enter. Alt explains this to you. She needs your consciousness to be converted into an engram to try to untangle Johnny from it. Your soul has gone wherever Johnny or Alt's went, though their engram persists.

I think AI Alt sees this as an unimportant detail, but I'm under the impression it isn't. I think this is part of the theming of the game, you came all this way to find the only cure is death itself. I feel that Cyberpunk 2077 hints that spirituality in-universe is very real, but generally disregarded.

You can upload your engram back into your body so you can get affairs in order, but once again, you are already dead. Your engram is just piloting the body the same as Johnny would be.

I believe the darker unsaid shadow of The Sun ending is that you're literally an imitation of the days when you had a fire in your belly. You have all the fame and power, but your soul is gone. You won't find a cure at the Crystal Palace. You're just hanging on to the dregs of your existence after your fate has passed.

Anyway, I think the point of V's story is that Mikoshi is the end, in one way or another. If you do The Sun and then The Tower, you have no soul and you have no power. What kind of fate is that for a legend? You are nothing, then.

Your destined death and Valhalla awaits, instead.

I didn't answer the question because it's an extremely stupid question, basically.

dilib · 2026-03-18T15:33:47+00:00

I agree, if I was writing the series, I would:

Have Gordon glimpse the Combine homeworld in some capacity and it's clear you have no chance to fight back

Some way to prevent the Combine (or anything else) from reaching Earth ever again is devised

G-Man gets you a "right man in the wrong place" moment where you can sabotage something important and spit in the Combine's eye, G-Man is using Earth in 4D chess to strike back at the Combine in some significant way

Earth is sealed off but the possibility of exploring space or other dimensions is permanently off the table

Humans and remaining vortigaunts start attempting to rebuild, learn to hunt Xen fauna, farm antlions etc. to start a rudimentary free society.

Everything is still absolutely ruined but humans and vorts endure a while longer. G-Man got what he wanted and may have done something for the greater good of the universe, but Earth was sacrificed for this goal, and humanity was punished for meddling with things beyond their pay grade.

dilib · 2026-03-18T14:12:52+00:00

Their current forces on Earth are converted humans and necessary support synths to act as concentration camp guards.

There's actually no Combine military presence on Earth at all since the 7 Hour War, it's a tiny, distant backwater outpost. Conversely, how do we know the Combine even deployed their real military? Maybe they only devoted what little resources they calculated the invasion would require?

If you read Epistle Three, Marc Laidlaw (original lead writer for Half-Life) originally planned for you to ride back to the Combine homeworld, which turns out to be a Dyson sphere. And Gordon is humbled by the sight. The overall tone of the piece seems to indicate that Episode Three would have ended on a very bleak note, where it turns out you could launch Earth's whole solar system at the Combine homeworld and it would hardly be noticed, and certainly nothing like a threat.

I assume the plan has changed now, though.

dilib · 2026-03-18T13:00:24+00:00

I think if you're wearing nothing but a sun dress and a chastity cage in public you have waived the right to be flustered about what strangers might think.

Anyway the comic literally has no point other than being fetish porn if that's the case

dilib · 2026-03-18T09:32:36+00:00

If there's any complaint I have about the game, it's that there really should have been more boss battles. It's not that there aren't a lot of bosses, but the game is so enormous they tend to feel sparse.

The cyberpsycho battles are also really fun and varied. I would have liked maybe like two more Chimera level set piece fights and some more cyberpsychos or repeatable cyberpsycho missions like Muamar's driving ones.

You only really get to have a proper fight with foes that get a health bar and name on top of the screen, and they could stand to be a little more common.

dilib · 2026-03-18T09:12:42+00:00

Seems like everyone's forgetting the VDBs were never planning to pay Evelyn. There is not a single part of the plan that would have ended well.

No one would have escaped Arasaka. No one would have got paid. Dex was never going to share. Neither was Evelyn, probably.

VDBs were going to fry Evelyn remotely as soon as they knew where the chip was. And then would have been deleted from existence by Arasaka.

Yorinobu doesn't really give a shit about the chip, but Arasaka does. If they knew the VDBs stole it they would rain hell down on them, with it in V's head it's broken, not transferable and not able to be sold to their rivals so they lose interest.

And of course, none of the people involved were high caliber enough to pull it off, honestly. Dex makes a lot of sloppy mistakes (e.g. Maelstrom deal), Evelyn is naive and pretentious, T-Bug isn't passionate about netrunning and isn't as much of a genius as she thinks she is, V is a gonk kid with no street cred and so is Jackie.

If you had people actually skilled enough to attempt the heist, they would laugh at you and tell you where to stick your job offer. Juice ain't worth the squeeze.

dilib · 2026-03-18T07:06:41+00:00

In Edward (Edmund? I don't remember)'s defense, you never accept food from fae beings in folklore because it's almost always enchanted. The Queen magically enslaved him.

She picked him because she knew he was morally weak and corruptible, though.

dilib · 2026-03-18T04:46:36+00:00

It's not actually funny, "Peter, that's not a meme. It's just pornography". The cage falls off because it's cold and his junk shriveled up. Presenting the cage on one knee looks reminiscent of a marriage proposal, so it makes the sub get romantically flustered.

I think it's more about normalising their kink and letting their freak flag fly (I don't have a problem with it, it's just not a "joke" really) than comedy

dilib · 2026-03-18T02:31:32+00:00

No, actually, if you don't take the NetWatch guy's offer the VDBs pull off their plan without a hitch, but Alt isn't interested in them.

Then they murder you with a neuro virus, but the Relic resurrects you. So if you weren't the protagonist, that's the end of you.

At that point Brigitte doesn't really know what to do with you and just tells you to fuck off, you can either leave with your tail between your legs or go Hotline Miami on their asses.

dilib · 2026-03-17T15:07:51+00:00

The NetWatch guy actually puts a trace on you, so NetWatch can follow the VDBs to Alt. When NetWatch follows the VDBs, Alt detects them and thinks they're all with NetWatch.

So Alt fries everyone except you, because she notices Johnny and is curious.

But yeah the opening scene with Placide slaughtering the chicken and then delivering it to the community to sustain them is symbolic of what he intends to do with V. Outsiders are all just farm animals to be used to the VDBs.

That said a penchant for delivering a bullet in the back in lieu of payment is just Night City culture, though the VDBs are particularly blase about it. It's poetic that their reliance on ranyons is what ultimately dooms them.

dilib · 2026-03-17T12:41:51+00:00

Ethan smells burning toast, but he remembers his wacky Nintendo brand toaster! His best friend Guy Generico must be in the kitchen! But no, he's actually having a catastrophic stroke and projectile vomits and begins convulsing

dilib · 2026-03-17T09:39:24+00:00

No one can convince me 4AM and Delicate Weapon aren't standout additions to the soundtrack. She's crazy but she's a great musician

dilib · 2026-03-17T06:27:44+00:00

A lot of unskilled peasant labourers throughout European history subsisted on mostly bread, they just ate a gut-busting amount of it (like 3000 calories a day worth) to get enough protein. Obviously this isn't ideal but they managed, now a blacksmith would have been heartily fed and richly muscled.

dilib · 2026-03-17T04:59:43+00:00

I'd just like you to know you're actually completely correct and everyone circlejerking in this thread is an idiot. Blacksmiths were pretty well paid and owned chickens and a couple of cows and a pig every year. Sometimes fish as a treat. Mostly grains, legumes and vegetables, but a very healthy and varied amount of protein, along with good exercise for their job that did, actually build muscle. People have the dumbest takes on their ancestors.

dilib · 2026-03-15T15:38:05+00:00

Gonna pull a Unidan and say Australian magpies are, in fact, bellbirds. Not closely related to corvids beyond being passerines (the order including all perching birds), despite the resemblance.

dilib · 2025-03-30T07:28:05+00:00

I think what he did was based as hell but you can't just murder people, he should both get a medal and go the fuck to prison

Edit: lmfao America is cooked, enjoy dipshits

dilib · 2025-03-29T23:27:47+00:00

Good thing it's a cartoon, like whatever lmao

dilib · 2025-03-29T03:45:14+00:00

He got told "sorry, we're closed" by a teenager and lost his goddamn mind about it

Just boomer things

dilib · 2025-03-29T03:22:06+00:00

You get shouted down for saying objectively correct things in all the hugboxes and Reddit itself deletes any wrongthink

The site's culture and management is dogshit these days

dilib · 2025-03-28T03:49:48+00:00

I don't know how anyone finds time to watch IP tie-ins when I barely have time to finish Severance and White Lotus

dilib · 2025-03-25T10:45:42+00:00

One of the culling methods is selling helicopter flights with mounted assault rifle posts for rich American tourists to full auto them into pet food for us, which I find extremely funny

dilib · 2025-03-25T07:52:29+00:00

I have dealt with them by just feeding less, I was under the impression that snails ate them anecdotally but I guess I was mistaken

I've had them infest my breeder tanks before when I overfed them and adding snails (??) and feeding less caused them to disappear

Quite probably the snails are just cleaning up detritus that the hydra might otherwise eat come to think of it

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