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I want the Trigger ending to Cyperpunk Edgerunners where it's revealed that cyberpsychosis is a corpo plot to keep the workers/humanity down and you can defeat it by going beyond the impossible and kicking reason to the curb.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is disappointing that they made cyberpsychosis an actual disorder caused by cyberware instead of just what happens when someone with an increased capacity for violence snaps and starts lashing out. Cyberpunk 2077 itself managed to have a better take on it than Pondsmith himself does, where every "cyberpsycho" you run into was someone suffering from chronic problems with their implants, often someone with an already violent background or who was literally being tortured, who had no way out of their situation, and who was existing in a society that revolved around violence and death. Like there's a homeless veteran sniper with malfunctioning implants and no healthcare to deal with the constant, agonizing pain that causes who just starts shooting cops one day, there's a construction worker who was coerced by his boss into receiving shitty strength-boosting implants that cause him constant pain and that make him into a debt slave for his boss, who kills his boss and starts wrecking the worksite, that sort of thing. Meanwhile in another plot a character with a near full body replacement kills someone in a fit of rage but doesn't go on a rampage because she's completely insulated from the consequences of her actions by her wealth and status and so can just have someone else (the player) deal with it while retreating into rationalizations.

It's made abundantly clear that cyberpsychosis isn't a real thing, it's just a propaganda term for people who are suffering lashing out in the way that society expects and practically worships, and then doubling down on it because they're afraid of the consequences and they've been propagandized into believing that they're inevitably going to become a monster anyways.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cyberpunk 2077 itself managed to have a better take on it than Pondsmith himself does

Cyberpunk Red more or less has the same take as 2077.

And obviously at the end of the day it was just a quickly slapped together excuse for there being a limit on what can be installed so that every PC doesn't get six grenade launcher arms.

Also for what it's worth imo David's descent into "cyberpsychosis" is also parallel to a descent into regular psychosis due to having increasingly bad things happen to him (everyone he loves dies or gets kidnapped etc). In addition, the cyberskeleton seems to basically kill its user, which more or less matches up with the 2077 way of doing things. The characters in the show just don't know it because they're also subject to the propaganda and think "oh it's cyberpsychosis". Obviously this is all inferred and may be too generous to Trigger.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Preventing me from getting six grenade launcher arms is fascism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For every grenade launcher arm you install, I have to give the cops two more to maintain balance. Please reconsider ooooooooooooooh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Curious how the cops don't get this "cyberpsychosis" from too many grenade launcher arms but I do. Very convenient for the state monopoly on violence.