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how come you only become aware of how tipsy you are in bathrooms

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By Andrew Giovannini / [email protected]

i think it's important to get deeply emotionally unironically involved in a bad piece of media whilst fully aware that it objectively sucks ass. like for your health or whatever

TOP 3 TRAITORS:

3. Brutus 2. Judas 1. Printers when you are in a hurry

Bringing this back because guess what happened to your boy this very morning.

Were you stabbed by Brutus?

I'm kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn't colonizer bullshit, it's what everyone does. It's just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

"Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A's word for thing. Say, what do you call it?"

"Oh it's [language B's word for thing]."

"Got it, it's [language B's word for thing] variety [language A's word for thing]"

The human race just naturally moon moons itself

Bread Bread

In general this tends to be used to indicate the manner and origin in which something is made.

this is what kept me up at 2 am last night

Have there been many posts about the Tarot and their relationship to where they find them and the characters? Because Cyberpunk is def not the first to do this, but i still love it everytime.

The first card where i realized that the tarot location was a givaway for who the card was related to was finding The High Priestess so close to Hanako. Takemura is associated with the Chariot and is found outside the dinner when you talk for the first time, Evelyn (or possibly Judy but the card def suits Evelyn more) is the Magician found outside Lizzy’s bar, and Rogue is the Empress (god damn i love that card for her so much) which is found outside the Afterlife.

Then there’s the two i really want to focus on in debt right now and i might come back to the others later; V and Johnny’s cards and how they break my heart with the ending. V’s was the first i noticed, and assumed was associated with the but wasn’t sure just yet. Similar to how the death card is often missunderstood, so too is the fool. Based on the name it might be assumed to be negative, but this is not the case. The fool is the card associated with youth, naïveté, a beggining, dreams, and asperations. It’s the first step on a journey and fate yet undecided and infinite possibilities. Most protagonists start off represented by the fool as it is also a transitionary card, and is most known for meaning that the individual in question with go on a journey or will be faced with a challange that will make them grow and change them. It thustly comes as no surprise that V is The Fool.

Johnny’s card and it’s location also both do and do not surprise me. He is the Hanged Man. This card is found on the water tower in the oil fields. With all the moments you speak to Johnny, it might come off strange to find his card all the way out there at first. It might make more sense to have it near the Sunset motel in the badlands where you have two important cutscenes with Johnny and V having a heart to hear, or at the Pistis Sophia where you two have another heart to heart where he tells you he would take a bullet for V and will die if it means V will live and gives V his dog tags. Instead The Hanged Man is found closest to Johnny’s resting place in the Oil Fields. The hanged man is a card of sacrifice and martyrdom. The hanged man does not struggle, for it is his choice to endure pain and suffering as the toll for enlightenment. There is no halo in the Cyberpunk interpretation of the card, but it is an important feature of the card as it reinforces that the hanged man finds his peice in his surrender and sacrifice for the greater good. He has accepted that his pain and his death means new begginings and rebirth for others. The Hanged Man also represents being frozen in time, and Johnny really IS literally rozen.

Stuck perpetually stuck at 32 years old in his scraped, brused, and dirty body. He accepted death long ago if it ment taking down Arasaka, and freeing not only Alt but the rest of Night City from the corperation’s grasp. He even outright says this. That death ment nothing to him. If you had any doubt that Johnny was telling the truth when he said he would give his life for V then his association with this card should put that to bed. He’s been a martyr before, and he’ll sacrifice himself again if it means even saving just one person.

From the tarot’s pov it makes sense that Johnny would come back. He dies not having learned to trust others, addicted to nicotine, pills, booze, and anger still living his life as fast and hard as he can without introspection. His first death is not one of acceptance, but of fire, anger, denial, and an attempt at atretribution. He had not reached enlightenment. It’s through meeting V and being forced into staying still that he learns his lesson, grows, reconciles, and truely comes to peacewith not only death, but his life. Johnny could not be more representative of The Hanged Man.

CDPR really went from “fuck the womenz as Geralt to get the sex cards” to “shower with your gay rockstar bf as he slaps you on the ass before heading off to rob a space casino” wow

you can’t tell me that johnny wasn’t doing this in his head.

Romancing your favorite cyberpunk characters is easy, all you gotta do is take a thousand photos with them, constantly call them on the phone, visit them when you should be doing important quests, replay the same conversation over and over, and hope to goodness something changes.

ouch

I finally played the River missions and the dinner was so awkward with everyone going “oooh he likes you” and “who thinks River and V would make a cute couple?? ME!” and the whole time my V is like..

Johnny and romance as memes 😂