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Oh god, please don’t make me talk about myself.

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This is not my beautiful ship!

This is not my beautiful number two!

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It can’t really be surprising from the series that tends to go above and beyond in their diversions. I can’t think of a Yakuza/Judgement that didn’t have half a dozen other Sega games, shogi, mahjong, cho-han, blackjack, hanafuda, collectible card games, cabaret club management, and slot car racing, to name a few, each with their own powerups and rewards.

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BISMILLAH NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!

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“Up and atom!”

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But why? He’s just a li’l guy?

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This is a good reminder of both why they take you out of the cockpit forever if you so much as hint that you may have any sort of mental/emotional issue, and why we need better processes in place to solve the problems that lead pilots to that breaking point.

It shouldn’t have gotten to the point where one wobbly Jenga brick in the stack kept 83+ people from dying that day.

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The same thing that’s been happening for the last decade or so - they throw all the money at marketing and marketable assets and then they try to shove the shit back into the horse with the pittance left over for everything else. Then they tell their customers it’s a hardware issue when the game inevitably runs like triple ass on their PCs because nobody can afford a dev machine to play the damn thing.

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I hope the dev gets some serious mileage out of the engine they built because that game is one of the precious few that makes the act of ‘getting from A to B’ a hell of a lot of fun. The shmoovement is real.

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You can’t say that and not show your work to the class.

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I think almost all of them can be answered with “It’s an AI-generated image.”

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3a8437f8-1092-4d55-8691-e582f5dc3fb3.webp

Look up ‘Gumbo Slice’ for more.

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I mean, it’s bad, but it’s not nearly the worst of the firearms industry’s sins. Look up the Bushmaster ‘Man Card’ ads - Really outlines how the confluence of toxic masculinity and gun culture is a key factor in the prevalence of school shootings in the states.

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Fucking me over here thinking this is the setup for a joke.

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I think it’s a fair criticism, not necessarily one I agree with, but the quantity of content available for the asking price certainly isn’t proportional to the base game, although it is quality content, bugs notwithstanding. I think maybe the only game that would come close to it on those terms would be Fallout: New Vegas.

I would hazard a guess that a large part of the pricetag probably isn’t just for the DLC though - It’s been three years since release and ostensibly the CP2077 dev team has been hard at work fixing the colossal fuckup the game was on launch day, and then some. There’s a lot of work that’s been put in to the systems overhaul in order to make the base game more functional and enjoyable, and I believe a lot closer to the original vision the team had before the marketing and hype (and death threats) nudged them to push out a rushed product, and all that’s getting packed in as a free update for a game that was probably underpriced at the typical $60 anchor point on release in 2020.

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Yeah, cause wine bottles have necks that wide and metal squeezes so well into glass. Who tf do they think they’re fooling? And follow-up question, what in the ever-loving fuck?

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“Oh Lisa, that’s a load of Evard’s Black Tentacles.”

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The Tribe of Nova music festival in Israel was attacked by Hamas militants. There are at least 260 dead, and hostages have been taken. OP’s joke is in poor taste, considering.

apnews.com/…/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-music…

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The only thing I don’t like about Cyberpunk’s writing is that everyone seems to be deathly allergic to pronouns, even when it would clearly make the dialogue flow better.

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I’m talking more about the dialogue between V and other characters where they just adamantly refuse to begin sentences with the words I/me/my/etc. It begins to wear after a while.

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I mean, it really doesn’t have anything to do with V’s gender, it’s literally just that they start every sentence like, for example, “…Thought” or “…Look like” instead of “I thought” or “You look like,” even when the VO is enunciating in a way that sounds much more emphatic than the dropped pronouns would imply? It makes the dialogue feel kind of disjointed at times.

Granted, I’m using the female V voice, I have no idea if the male VO runs into the same problems, but I imagine they’re reading off of the same script, so it seems likely.

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I definitely thought they were talking about Amazon the company and not The Amazon.

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Counterpoint - PCs are special and unique by necessity. The vast majority of creatures in whatever world your DM runs do not engage in the adventuring lifestyle. Many are happy to live quiet lives settled in relative comfort and peace. When you create a character, one of the things you need to think about is the impetus that sets them apart from those other people that don’t delve into musty old tombs and dank caves looking for trouble - otherwise, as soon as the PC gets their hands on a sizable sum of gold, they don’t really have a reason not to split and live like a king with the fortune they’ve amassed. Additionally, characters with class levels are de facto exemplary, and the intro blurb on each class description that everyone skips over to get to the meat of character creation includes questions that probe why your character is interested in sticking their neck out.

That’s not to say that you, personally, can’t play Johnny Hayseed, the Human Fighter 1 who signed up to be in the army with all his buddies and has no distinguishing features, traits, or characteristics that set him apart from the average person, but as a good player who facilitates the story the rest of the group is trying to tell, you will need a reason to travel with these weirdos who are all strange and different, and that’s going to be the thing that sets your character apart.

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‘Again’ implies I stopped the first time.

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In 3D

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Tell me about it, ever since I heard it I’ve APPROACH THE 5G TOWER got this odd tic HAIL JOE BIDEN in my left shoulder. I hope BUY BIRKENSTOCKS it goes away soon.

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Don’t forget the shitty political views that fucked up the environment and the economy. If my parents want grandkids they can adopt, I can’t afford any of that shit and I won’t put someone else through this hell if I can help it.

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Interesting, but as always, the issue is scale. A suitcase-sized device that can produce 4-6 liters a day ‘cheaper than tap water’ is promising, but I’m skeptical because the infrastructure for tap water already largely exists. If you can either hook it up to the pipes localized to a dwelling, or if it scales up to the size of a plant that can distribute it along the pipes in place, maybe. Even then, it relies on sunlight and evaporation to work, which means variable, possibly insufficient output in the colder wetter months.

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I mean, that is effectively what’s happening to workers now, in a sense - worker wages have stagnated to the point that they are receiving much less of a share of overall profit than they were in the 70s and 80s, while executive compensation has skyrocketed.

The reason executives can’t do what you’re suggesting is because workers are already just scraping by. The wages as they are now are unlivable, if they’re reduced any more, people will walk off in droves. I suspect if by some miracle it passed through both houses and the executive desk without a billionaire yanking it, and land were taxed to hell and back, they’d probably just eat it because it would still be more profitable than letting it sit fallow.

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That’s when you tip yourself for your diligent work bagging groceries by not scanning a thing or two.

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Man, that would have been great 20 years ago.

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This is mostly just me being a doomer, paraphrasing from The Newsroom.

youtu.be/pNYp6oc37ds?si=_H3udWpx7PrNzvzy

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Admittedly, I am one of those people taking a plane well over once a year, although I really rather wish I weren’t - I haven’t had a personal trip in over four years, it’s all onsite implementation.

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Can you name a few? I’m looking for one that scratches the mage itch of hitting a bunch of mobs with chain lightning without the expectation of online participation, or item refinement.

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Smartest mugger in the history of D&D.

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I’m guessing it was the goal but it didn’t work as well as they’d hoped. I’ve got a couple of the freebies but I’ve stuck mostly with Valve because most of my games are already on Steam and they haven’t seriously fucked up yet.

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Honestly they’ll have money as long as people keep playing fortnite, kids are throwing stupid money at skins and shit.

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I’m guessing here because I don’t sit on Epic’s board of directors, but I would imagine their angle for consumers was mostly to grab new markets with the appeal of free games, which would also establish a library that would be a pain point if they ever wanted to move away, coupled with some of those one-year exclusives that would peel people away from Valve if they wanted to play them day-of.

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Quality shitpost

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Jesus Christ, is that why you see so many pensioners at casinos? That’s even darker than I thought.

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Nah, he just knows he’ll be the next test subject if he stops.

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I love it now, everything feels punchy because you’re not gated around finding new weapons every level. I’m sticking almost exclusively with the iconics that can be upgraded, but as far as I can tell the only difference between generic weapons is the tier they’re in, the damage appears to be the same no matter what level you find the weapon at. Some other changes:

  • Armor is tied primarily to cyberware now, which has a limited capacity based on level and a handful of perks that increase the cap.
  • Cyberware has impactful changes to playstyle, granting new bonuses like higher melee attack speed, increased RAM, or restoring a portion of stamina on kill
  • Perks have drastically increased effects that often come with conditions that encourage active playstyles (e.g. 50% faster grenade recharge if you have no charges left)
  • Healing items and grenades have a pool of charges rather than being single-use.
  • Natural healing is faster, but healing items are less immediately accessible (No more sucking down inhalers in the middle of a firefight)
  • All the Skills have been consolidated into just five that correspond roughly to the five attributes’ associated weapons, and they level quickly. Every five levels grants a bonus associated with the attribute (Netrunning (Quickhacks/Smart Weapons) increases max RAM and RAM recharge speed, for example)
  • Weapon upgrades are no longer gated by Tech
  • Clothes are almost entirely cosmetic. Any that grant mechanical benefits (Armored vests, for example) can be worn under outfits comprised of any clothing you have in your closet.
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So pre 2.0, all the weapons, armor, cyberware, etc. had a level assigned to them in addition to the rarity that determined how big the numbers were, and it forced you to go through your vendor trash each time on the off chance that the numbers were better on any particular weapon you found. Now, every weapon of a particular type has the same parameters depending on rarity tier (white through gold) so if you have a higher tier of the same weapon, it’s explicitly, if marginally better, and this keeps you from having to sort through 20-odd weapons every time you go sell, which drastically speeds up the process. Even more so if you stick with the unique iconic weapons, which can be upgraded with materials up to tier 5.

As a side-effect of this, the marginal increases can’t boost the legendary item’s damage that much higher than the common rarity, so even the most common weapons still deal adequate damage, so enemies aren’t spongy like they used to be.

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Each tier gives a marginal improvement over the last, but as far as I can tell there’s only ten tiers (Five colors, each with a normal and ‘+’ tier.) I can say combat feels pretty good with melee weapons, pistols/revolvers, shotguns, and grenades. I haven’t tried the other weapons a whole lot but I imagine they feel just as good. Only thing that’s a little weak maybe is Quickhacks, but even then I’ve got a few that will kill mooks outright.

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Correct, and you’re more likely to get higher rarity tiers as you level.

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I assume it’s all part of 2.0, released last week. If you own CP2077 you have it, it’s separate from the DLC.

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I did, right around release date, and all the equipment was a lot more vendor trashy - I think it was built directly on Witcher 3 code, with items having leveled attributes and some having level requirements the same way that game handled equipment.

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Trust me, you don’t want to be in my brain.

Seriously though, this is all my opinion/interpretation of how the game plays now vs in 2020.

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I mean if you check the steam page you’ll probably get as much from the discussions.

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