@sapphire
Also, copro starts deactivates your bank account and software locks your chrome, so I don't think that leaves you much left.
@sapphire
That would change a lot, if apartment (maybe rented), a gun and an old car puts you into 0.001%
Do you have any source (I mean even lorewise mentions) implying this?
Spoiler for the big heist in CP 2077
@tomie
I love the scene in the begining of the mission, where Jackie is just talking about the heist with me inside of an AI car. In real world, the AI would send the recording straight to Arasaka. Yet in the game, even AI can be trusted more then in real life :D
@tomie
They literally mentioned education, healthcare etc. Also, Anime story dows contain a relatively stable and trusting "family", and in game, I get to meet many groups ready to accept me. So, even the social cohesion seems to be much better then now.
So, what kind of social progress do you want?
I am so insanely tired of woke big brain takes.
> orphan crushing machine
Yes, this is the level of intellectual concepts they use to justify their world view. So, you might wonder. What is a purpose of this thought experiment? It is to say: I don't like the results of this system.....
And they couldn't think of any less hyperbolic name for such bullshit.
@beardalaxy
Damn... You have the best girl 😍
@mischievoustomato @bigtony @Griffith
Weird... I didn't find most women in Cyberpunk hot at all, but obviously there are some exceptions.
But the anime did a fucking number, so I cannot complain :D
@NirtyDigger
Sure, but what is the chance of them living long enough to use it?
@beardalaxy @alyx
I was just thinking about it, and I do not believe, that it's so much forgetting as it's all about the focus.
I have seen both corpo psychopaths and the street thugs in my life, so I do know, that they are depicted quite accurately in the game. I also do know that nothing can stop that kind of a person, and that if you get into the middle class lifestyle, you can avoid both of them literally 99.99% of your life. But, most people who were born in the middle class safety bubble do not know that. On contrary, when you play the game, you cannot live middle class safe zone character (for obvious reasons), and you get to interact only with the two kinds of psychos.
So, imagine never seeing these kind of creatures, and then having both classes in the game. It would in fact look like a total distopia.
@alyx
> some kind of augmentation psychosis
That only happens to people, who replace more of their body, then they are capable of. It is a rare condition even in lore, and could be compared to organ failure from steroids. (although, you are the one killing others)
@beardalaxy @alyx
I really do get your roommate, and I kind of agree with him.
Obviously I get, that for instance, their lower back had to be dying in their 30s, but my issue is, that even with a so called 100x potential, you cannot choose to use only part of it.
You cannot possibly get a house, small garden and food for family on 2 part time jobs. So, the potential isn't there, if 60% goes to the state, 20% on rent, and you are left with 20%, that you must use on lawfare. You cannot even go most places on foot these days. Cities are not built for people walking from A to B.
But yes, the lost purpose and family expectations are a tragedy, that I cannot get over either.
@LukeAlmighty Thing is... as bad as things are today, someone from medieval time would think living anywhere in Europe today would be epic.
We've lost perspective of how much life has improved because of technology, and I'd wager it makes sense in universe that people in Cyberpunk consider it a dystopia, because they also lost perspective on things and focus only on their present day issues.
I had a sobering though a year ago. Back during the days of Mozart or Beethoven, these people weren't composing music for the wider audience. Entertainment was a thing solely for the rich. But today, a homeless person in America can listen to any music he wants on a pocket sized computer.
Or Tim Pool likes to make the argument that the original oil baron had worse dental care than an average american has today.
People are free to complain about wealth inequalities, but they should also take a second and appreciate that they probably have access to the same, if not more, life amenities than the richest of the rich from not that long ago. That is bonkers to me.
So yeah, any realistic fiction set in a much more technologically advanced future, is gonna have some of the things we care about solved thanks to technology, while also introducing new unique problems that make it a dystopia.
I haven't played the game, but my understanding was that the dystopic element was some kind of augmentation psychosis and people losing their humanity.
@cowanon
Seriously, if you didn't get an alt contact on your friends the second you heard about this issue the first time, then you are the problem.
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