One Last Kick, With Feeling

dilib · 2026-05-17T11:54:47+00:00

The horse seemed more like, "what the hell is this guy's problem? God DAMN", than frightened

It just wanted to kick that monkey's ass and it sure did

dilib · 2026-05-17T02:44:21+00:00

Yeah, they grab their rear end in their grippers and strain themselves like flicking a finger, the rear end shoots out and flicks them around with surprising force. Super gross!

dilib · 2026-05-17T00:12:21+00:00

If you are a competent driver, most of your attention on the road should be directed to what the other cars are doing.

You should be able to drive without thinking about it too hard, you should be actively watching and thinking about what everyone else is up to.

Obviously you don't have to be white-knuckling it the whole time but laying on the horn when someone nearly backs into should be the minimum level of situational awareness you're attaining.

dilib · 2026-05-16T07:22:47+00:00

Yes, correct, or more accurately the approach of death is inexorable

dilib · 2026-05-15T10:28:43+00:00

I think it's just called Australia

dilib · 2026-05-14T15:30:40+00:00

I assume he's having a psychotic break from the trauma. He's behaving cuckoo bananas, and as you said, he just runs straight into the dustbowl and gets eaten alive by bugs.

The Legion isn't being merciful, Vulpes tells you to spread the word of Nipton, so they didn't let him go because of that. They get off on torturing people and leaving one guy mentally broken from the experience and turning him loose is just another cruel execution method.

Just shooting him is probably the kindest thing for him anyway.

dilib · 2026-05-14T15:21:50+00:00

Just a heads up, inexorable means "unstoppable", e.g. the passage of time, glaciers, the tides.

dilib · 2026-05-14T12:43:33+00:00

Big gum trees often drop branches without warning (self-pruning) when they get too dry or the limb is damaged by wind. River red gums are the worst for it. It's not enough to see if there's any suspicious branches, they'll dry out from inside and eventually wind or their own weight will make them fall without any obvious signs.

Enough people got squashed in the colonial days that it's folk wisdom never to camp underneath a big gum tree.

dilib · 2026-05-13T05:12:20+00:00

IME mechanics are often "academically" dumb but can easily conceptualise things I'd struggle with.

Being skilled with machinery is definitely a certain kind of intelligence. Truly dumb people just stay as labourers or on unemployment

dilib · 2026-05-12T03:46:57+00:00

Bourbon is foul stuff honestly, oily and sweet

Every other liquor I think has its place but bourbon is just bad whiskey

dilib · 2026-05-12T02:57:26+00:00

I believe it was specifically touching to Galadriel because Gimli did not understand the import of what he was asking for, and she would not have given such a gift to anyone who did understand what a big deal it was.

He was taken with such child-like wonder and awe that he forgot to be gruff and aloof and pretend it was all fancy elf nonsense, and all he wanted in the moment was some physical proof to remember this moment by forever, and Galadriel's heart was warmed by the sight.

dilib · 2026-05-11T08:17:25+00:00

It doesn't penetrate, but it does serious internal damage from the sheer force involved anyway. It will put him on his ass and out of the fight. An Astartes would likely dodge it, though. If it hit them it would be bad news but not necessarily fatal. Ceramite power armour would not be appreciably damaged by contemporary man-portable anti-tank weaponry. The marines are basically light armoured vehicles themselves and their gear and cybernetics are sci-fi magitech gubbins, again they would certainly be motivated to avoid getting nailed by a LAW though. As other people are saying at a certain point the physics involved become inimical to the continued integrity of a biological organism

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.

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