Be Unmoved

“Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.” - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

[feyspeaker]

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[cybershock24601]

I like to imagine the ambidextrous perk in cyberpunk being a result of Johnny (who is a leftie) taking over V’s body and now V can use their left hand as well as their right hand. The only catch is whenever they use their left hand to do something, they do it like Johnny would. For example when V writes with their left hand, it’s in Johnny’s handwriting.

It's honestly pretty unsettling for Rogue and Kerry because V will be acting like normal and then arbitrarily reach for their drink with their left hand and for just a moment it's like Johnny is sitting there right in front of them. It's especially apparent when V's using the Malorian because not only do they shoot like Johnny but their entire stance and body language changes when they use that gun only for V to switch weapons and suddenly they're back to being just V and not the ghost of Silverhand's past.

Idk, I just like to think about all the small innocuous ways that Johnny is slowly overwriting V and how unsettling that must be for the people that knew V before the Relic and the people that knew Johnny when he was alive but everyone that has only known V&Johnny wouldn't even notice because to them that's just V even as they slowly lose themself to Johnny more and more everyday.

[mythalism]

one of the most underrated but brilliant parts of cyberpunk that i have been admiring as i get close to the end of my second playthrough is how v's dissolution into johnny is so innocently integrated into the gameplay as a series of fun silly or mechanically powerful loot drops. on a gameplay level its a fun incentive to do side quests! look! you can get johnny's super powerful and sleek gun! how fun! you can get his unique custom paint job car! how cool! you can get a samurai replica jacket like the one v wore in the game's promotions! how silly! you can find his pants and shoes and glasses and look just like him! how sweet! he gives you his dog tags! you might not think twice about it as the player. it's just a bunch of cosmetic quest rewards, after all. but... in world? on a story level? what does it look like to vic? to misty? when v shows up for some cyberware upgrades driving johnny's car, in johnny's pants, in johnny's jacket, in johnny's glasses, in johnny's shoes, with johnny's gun at their hip and johnny's name around their neck? is that still v in there? do they even know what it looks like? do they even care? is that still v in there? is that still v in there? it seems like just a fun little easter egg but what does it look like to the people who are watching their friend dissolve into someone else in front of their eyes?

[harlanellisonsghost]

Drew this really stupid thing because I was bored. Recreation of this meme (flash warning)

[prokopetz]

I'm curious how many folks didn't get the pun in Adam Smasher's name until reading this post because we typically don't call particle accelerators "atom smashers" anymore.

[kirknstuff]

Panam, Judy and V by sanjadraws

[bomkii]

is this something

[crazy-brazilian]

[null-and-void-and-gone]

me when my disabilities disable me:

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I literally CANNOT read the words "supine" or "prone" in anything without thinking about that post that's like "supine is when you lay on your s(u)pine and prone is when you lay on your pronis"

[some-pers0n]

TWO FACTOR AUTHORIZATION

light thats not how the book works

MICROSOFT TEAMS

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[memewhore]

[iphigeniacomplex]

just got a call from the american psychiatric association. you old dogs, i said, picking up on the first ring. how many times i gotta tell you to lose this number. i don’t want you coming around here anymore. “listen, toots, we’ve been doing some thinking,” they says, and i says, guess there’s a first time for everything. “you’re a real funny dame, sugardoll. reviewing criticism, we’ve determined that the biggest issue with our previous diagnostic and statistic manuals of mental disorders is the anonymity of it all. we’ve been circling around a vague figure of the mentally well without defining the traits of a mentally well person. there’s no personality. what we need is a cute broad with a couple opinions to model the psychological norm.” so i’m saying back up and give it to me straight: i’m the new standard of sanity? can i get that in writing? and they say, “as the american psychiatric association we hereby state that you are the baseline and any deviations from your personality are deviations from the very concept of sanity, at least in the united states psychiatric system.” they’re making it public tomorrow. it’s a nice gig, if you really want to know. never thought they’d let a woman do it.

[segamascott]

[mjalti]

people be like. Do you live under a rock?

girl I’m TRYING, STOP telling me stuff