Reminds me of the Scarface game that tried to explain Tony Montana's ability to absorb copious amounts of trauma as "Latin Rage"
I feel like this meme format has strayed so far from how it began lol
On the real though, the burn-out of youthful ambition was really well done. Surprisingly good series. It was also super sad that young people in Night City don’t see a single viable future. It was actual real-ass cyberpunk dystopia. I thought was it was just going to be a cash-in a hot IP.
The show is good, fwiw, but of course it is because it's Trigger and all they do is gratuitous fanservice and put out bangers.
I mean...it does. It's explicitly a soft prequel for the game, set in 2076 (the TTRPG its all based on was set in 2020), and significant promotional content was added in the last update.
Anarchist Berlin is one of my favorite settings. It would rule so much if anything based on dragonfall ever gets made.
It would rule so much if anything based on dragonfall ever gets made.
Wasn't there a full crpg game made called Shadowrun: Dragonfall? Was it good?
That’s what I was referring to because I forgot the name for in-setting neo-Berlin.
It’s my personal favorite of the shadow run CRPG trilogy.
Real deckers use a stealth tag modded to have a persona.
:pika-cousin-suffering: paying 200K nuyen to have a deck
:pika-pickaxe: paying like 5 nuyen for a fancy RFID chip that can do matrix actions.
Yeah, the 5e matrix stuff in general is weird, and only vaguely starts to make sense in the later-revealed context that the matrix is literally a bio-magical horror built from technomancer brains stuffed into vats on a space station (actual canon lore as of 6e).
Like the old school "plug the deck into the thing you want to hack" stuff is still there as the strongest option you can take since it means only the object you're connecting to can make defense rolls against you, but then on top of that there's all the nebulous weird shit with icons and infinite range instant hacking where distance may or may not actually matter because hosts are locationless meaning two people on opposite sides of the world are treated as having no distance separating them in one (because again, literal magic).
It's still funny that RAW you can use an RFID chip as a budget deck, though.
Shadowrun's also a bit weird in that it's more or less intended for characters to be broken in some way. Like in D&D 3.5e, if a character were to leave chargen with a stat at 20 and an AC of 30, that would be some absurd powergaming shit, but in Shadowrun it's expected that everyone leave chargen with at least one stat above maximum, and a combat-focused character should be throwing at least 30 soak dice. Like rolling 12 dice in a check is what's supposed to be the absolute best someone can naturally be, but mundane PCs should be rolling 16-20 dice in their role and it doesn't become real powergaming until you get to 22+ which takes some real shenanigans.
There was a Shadowrun manga in Japan but it was a bit sanitized of personality and cyber-pop. Some of the art and designs were excellent though.
https://imgur.com/gallery/p9JzW
Whats with hexbear people making posts that are basically "i will not watch this trash, unlike you garbage people"
Being contrarian over media is probably the most fundamental core of socialism.
It's not hexbear people, it just me
It's a way to read about something that seems meh but gives me curiosity anyways. Like Evangelion.
Plus I hate anime cuz redditors love it.
Redditors love a lot of things like Atheism for example. Doesnt mean Im suddenly a devout christian just to spite them...just feels a bit weird but you do you.
When a LOT of :libertarian-approaching: love something, I rather avoid it.
Plus I simply don't like it.
Plus I hate anime cuz redditors love it.
The reason I've never watched Breaking Bad is because people won't shut up about how I should watch it. Every time someone reacts incredulously to the previous sentence, I want to watch it even less.
Same, plus it always sounded like it's about a similar meth and heroin ravaged rural hellscape that I grew up in, so I'm already too familiar to find it at all entertaining, just depressing.
Its a pretty good watch would recommend. Fair bit of gore, guns and nudity in it.
I've just realised that fr means for real and not just strange fr fr noises. But anyway, Edgerunners is pretty good. But it has its issues, which are really the problem of cyberpunk as a genre. More aestethics than substance. It will give you a powerful escapist fantasy, but with an nihilist perspective. There is nothing you can do, corporations will always win, so why not join a gang and live fast and die young.
Yeah you're right that that's the core problem of the genre. But I think you're misinterpreting the theme a little bit. Yeah it's nihilistic in that the setting is so totalizing and soul-crushing that there's no real way to change it, but overall the series is about still resisting that regime to the bitter end, even in the face of hopelessness, and finding real meaning and human connections on the way.
idk at least they gave it a go
someones gotta win against corpos eventually
The preview was nothing but people shooting each other and things blowing up without a hint of plot or character so I skipped it.
prob some generic bollocks about how corporations bad or something
edit: found it
first trigger show that was actually any good, fite me
seeing as you're 8 days old, I'll assume you're a wrecker. real leftists like Kill la Kill
please tell me more about how real leftism is liking the uncomfortably horny show where
cw: SA
the underage protagonist gets super powers from being sexually assaulted in the first episode
and soy facing at the anime equivalent of marvel movie action
I don't wanna get involved in some crazy hexbear drama shit (but lol me coming here from the mod log) but if they're talking about kill la kill I think they are referring to
spoiler
the scene where Senketsu forces itself onto Ryuko which I could reasonably see as being seen as a metaphor for sexual assault
oh shit I was being illiterate, thought they meant Cyberpunk. Yeah dunno anytime about klk
Tbf David is explicitly stated to be 17 and sleeps with Lucy who is presumably an actual adult. Don’t know the age of consent in night city but I thought that was a really odd choice by the show creators
i'd suggest that you might want to watch it again, but it's gross garbage
ha ha i was only joking about liking the rapey pedo anime ha ha
Holy Crap Lois, this is worse than the time I got called a pedo for liking Kari from Myth Busters
Do you actually believe I think a wrecker would try to stir up trouble by criticizing an anime studio?
ha ha i was only joking about liking the rapey pedo anime ha ha
:logout: Sorry, I'll go with darling in the Franxx next time i make a joke about trigger anime being revolutionary.
wait this was made by trigger? why are they wasting their time with this?
They were signed onto it before the game released, back when expectations were high. The money was probably good too.
I've actually heard some good things about this series though. Trigger are consistently good so that's not surprising.
