Cyberpunk: Some Cyber, No Punk
Added 2021-05-06 23:30:37 +0000 UTCI’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: m
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Shame, but a totally understandable one. Though on another note, while I'm definitely not 100% happy with how CDPR turned Johnny Silverhand into a narcissistic dad rock poser leftist I can at least take solace in the Johnny Silverhand of the original Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG who stood up for the rights of cloned humans and people with full conversion cybernetics, started a housing Co-Op specifically to provide next to no cost housing for struggling artists (where the price was more or less just: do your art and we're square), and saying ACAB as often as possible at free concerts for Night City's houseless population.
Josh Moberly
2021-05-09 11:42:32 +0000 UTCYeah, I had a lot of this in an early draft and had to cut it for time
Sophia is pretty sure JFK's head just kinda did that
2021-05-09 08:29:52 +0000 UTCFun fact, in Cyberpunk 2077 there are multiple (minor) mentions & appearances of Union workers. The first comes from an in-game tv news broadcast calling unions terrorist organizations that should be reported to the police. The next several come in the open world street crime missions in the Santo Domingo district, where they appear as corpses, the victims of execution by firing squad murders carried out by either the Proud Boys parody 6th Street, or a mysterious mercenary group hired to deliberately target union representitives. One such incident involves the mercs cleaning up & patrolling around a warehouse after having just slaughtered every employee there for the crime of their going on strike. The final reference to worker's unions in the game comes in the form of the side mission "The Union Strikes Back" where Johnny's ex-girlfriend turned night city underworld powerbroker, Rogue, hires you to kidnap/kill the head of the mercenary group that's been killing union members. Throughout this guy's base there are notes you can find about how he and his men are going around killing union workers for having the gall to fight for better working conditions. Also the guy is named Vic Vega, a direct reference to Michael Madsen's character from Reservoir Dogs...for some reason. It is completely impossible to save any of the unionized workers, they only appear as corpses, usually piled corpses, the only belongings on their bodies being datafiles talking about how good and important it is to join a union. So yeah, if that isn't a fucked up message that says everything about how CDPR feels about unions, I dunno what is.
Josh Moberly
2021-05-09 05:23:06 +0000 UTCLooking forward to it massively!
Petter Ericson
2021-05-07 20:46:45 +0000 UTCoh this is gonna be GOOD
Kenza Breton
2021-05-07 15:50:12 +0000 UTCThat is a 15k word script. Incredible. I just wanted to shout out cloudpunk. That is probably one of my favorite games ever and i dont say that lightly. The plot and voice acting is some of the best I have ever found.
Benedict Holland
2021-05-07 02:49:26 +0000 UTC
