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V: *Puts the Braindance on.*

Johnny: *shows up quipping*

Me: "What the fuck are you doing here???"

V: "What are you doing here?"

Me: "Yeah exactly!

Johnny: "It's my brain too, isn't it?"

Me:

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Welp. Uhm. Poor Joshua.

I don't really know how to feel about this. I still feel like its wantless, unnecessary cruelty.

But he's going on doing what he feels he needs to, and Johnny feels like he's a revolutionary for it.

Would've loved an option to fully talk him out of it instead of him just being a bit more scared of what was to come but. again. he's already made his decision.

Right after the quest I summoned the 911 Turbo Cabriolet to go meet with Regina to wrap up the end of the Cyberpsycho's quest, and as I get in it's only about a minute before Johnny materializes right in the passenger seat beside me. For the very first time, he doesn't say a word as he does, instead just staring out at the road ahead of us. So I, the player, out loud, decide to take one of his phrases and aim it at him this time. "How ya feeling, Johnny?" I asked, softly.

He turned his head away.

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Panam is. So cute, man. I genuinely like her a lot, and I'm glad I was able to convince her to come back to her family.

Saul. I get where you're coming from but everything I've seen so far indicates that a Nomad clan pairing up with a giant corporation is a BAD IDEA.

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Kinda regretting just being fully on board and supportive of Claire after the previous race, if I knew there was a way for me to talk her down once we actually got to this point and succeeded in ensuring she didn't kill him, I feel like that might've been a lot better for her psyche than what we ended up doing instead.

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I really should go to bed but this sounds like it should be a quick and easy mission, sure okay we're going to go murder a mass murderer convict who somehow got released from Death's Row with some corpo deal.

*plan goes very very pear shaped almost immediately due to the guy who hired me being an idiot, now somehow the guy I was hired to kill is begging for me not to be shot by the NCPD*

what. is happening.

*Johnny flickering in*

"I don't know but finally! Instead of being dragged through another snoozefest something exciting!"

If it were just up to me I'd just. Walk away. I think. I don't want to know anything further about what's going on, and I'm clearly not getting paid anymore unless somehow Wakako was holding onto all of the money. But as I'm once again requested to enter the vehicle, and Johnny is just delighted hanging up top the roof, he says to me

"V, if you don't get in that car, I will never talk to you again."

Which. I'm sure would be a threat that would backfire on him for a V that absolutely hated his guts and would be delighted at the thought, but I get the impression he probably wouldn't be featuring so prominently if we'd already established that version of a relationship. So. I got in the car.

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Johnny. Bro.

I really do feel this one dialogue choice even though V didn't exactly word it the way I was thinking. She got pretty dang close though.

"I don't think you know what you really want. You're angry, you feel so much rage towards the world around you, especially now, seeing everything you tried to accomplish amounted to nothing. Everything you hated and wanted to stop just got worse and worse and for us today it's just normal. We're desensitized, expect it. And that's horrible. You're falling back onto something you already tried because it's the only thing you can think to do. The core of it isn't Arasaka, though. The core of it is that you want the world to be a better place. You want to be happy, but not just yourself. You want that world for the people around you. That's a pretty selfless and wonderful thing. But you don't think you can be happy, do you?"

He'd probably hurl some insults at me still because he is not the type to really be receptive to this kind of communication, I feel, and since he still feels kind of antagonistic despite us working together.

Especially as he devolves into a rant towards the end of how "if I have to take your fucking body to do it, I will." while he just, paces around and makes frustrated gesticulations with his arms. So much progress between these two and yet, none at all.

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*Walking up to a pissed off Johnny as my V is NOT doing so hot*

"Sons of bitches!" he exclaims, par for the course yeah yeah Johnny, except as I'm reading through my dialogue options he next blurts:

"Gonna leave me, drop me, forget me like you did Jackie Welles?!"

n-no?? I haven't even forgotten Jackie, what do you mean??? You're worried about this???

Then we just. Don't address it apparently holy hell.

I'm not trying to drop you and forget you I'm trying to make sure my sense of self isn't completely overwritten.

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Takemura arriving to do his own interrogating and saying "You know me V, I'm reckless," which damn I would not normally ascribe such a description to someone of his standing but he really is, huh!

And as I'm leaving and clearly having another Relic Error Bad TimeTM just hearing this exchange in the background.

"I'm parched out here in the middle of the desert." - Hellman "V did not offer you any water? How inhumane! Unjust. You will see I am very different. For I will provide you with buckets of it."

(clearly sounds like a waterboarding threat jesus christ.)

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Why is it not a surprise that this was technology being invested in so that Saburo could live forever?

… wait if this was being tested on cadavers are there offshoots of this relic that have their own versions of Johnny uploaded to them and were killed at the end of each trial???

That sounds horrific and I'm not sure if it had actually panned out that far or if I'm just conceptualizing a possibility for how this would've gone done in the future.

Or, with the thought process that they didn't actually get to the trial stage yet, considering how very new and experimental this all was, being a program would Johnny just. remember each time he was uploaded and forced to absorb the life of the person whose body he inhabited, feel his death over and over in bodies that never even got to fully feel like his?

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Similar to it NOT being a good sign if an EMS responder is freaking out, the visceral horrified reaction this corporate inventor had without even caring about me as a human being is very clearly a bad sign.

Love how Johnny, in the middle of us trying to pick each other's brains in an attempt to get what we want out of the situation, just went over to the bed in the corner and flopped down, occasionally raising his head in our direction when something piqued his interest.

Also also I love the little interaction where Hellman is trying to insinuate that Johnny is getting influence over my decisions (which. I mean. He is, but by convincing, not by actually rewiring my brain because he can't really do that to me, the player.), after I voice that he can have a different opinion but has no control over my choices, Johnny just piping up with this mix of frustrated and I want to say proud? tone of voice starting off with "damn straight" before describing how annoyingly stubborn I am.

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Full video: Secretary Bird hunts in Kgalagadi Trasfrontier Park - South Africa and Botswana, Safari ADV

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it's good that we're saying "i don't feel guilty about pleasure im not Catholic" but we also need to start saying "i don't feel self-righteous about being overworked I'm not Puritan"

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STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

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As an aside to all my queued "bit of play experience" tagged posts, I just wanted to note here in real time that the thing that finally prompted me to post all of them is because what I am currently playing is Baldur's Gate 3. And I really, really want to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 and flood everyone's dash with fanart from that game. Honestly I could just do that instead and let my Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay thoughts stay in their file on my computer, but I like posting my gameplay thoughts onto my blog for me to look back on. So I made a deal with myself where I could start talking about Baldur's Gate 3 once I finally put up onto my blog the thoughts I had from the previous game I was playing.

And in that time. Two different people I follow have picked the game up out of nowhere, it seems. One I believe is new to it and found out about Durge and Orin (ouroborosreilig if you don't know the characters yet DO NOT LOOK THEM up I'd love to see you going through this game blind. ish.), the other had been making fanart when it was initially released and just got the game to work for them again, which they were very excited about.

I just find it a bit funny so wanted to share, both with others and for future me looking back.

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God that sucks so bad… rushing in to try and help people, only to be gunned down without a moment's thought, of mercy or hesitance or anything… I'm sorry, Panam. I'm glad at least we were able to save Mitch, but it feels like a hollow consolation of her being grateful for that when our plan for my gains is what caused so many of her family to die in the first place.

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Long haired character with the hair falling like liquid all over them as they’re hurt and on their knees

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*after helping Panam overload the power station*

"Johnny you- you doing okay there bud??? I'm sorry, I'll never do anything like that again, jeez…"

Him glitching uncontrollably like that and then disappearing mid-sentence actually scared and worried me for a second there.