As a straight man, gay sex scenes have absolutely no appeal to me. They're actually really off putting, because I'm not attracted to anything happening but I'm obviously supposed to be. Also along those lines, I don't clinically examine every objectively attractive man I see, because I don't find them eye catching. Taylor's not straight. She might be bi, but she's not straight.
Fucking lmao. I wonder what Max Nader's is like without E88? I guess a corpo affiliated with NUSA? I don't remember if race supremacy is really a thing in Cyberpunk. It's more class supremacy, with the highest strata living in space and near immortal from advanced bio treatments.
Well considering we're like 11 years before edgerunners cannon, becca is very much still alive. David is still a kindergardener afterall.
This is the 'seatbelt effect'. People drive worse when they feel more secure. I've joked that if you want people to drive carefully, then instead of airbags and seatbelts there should be a sharp metal spike protruding from the middle of the steering wheel.
Your scheduled reminder that, while a decent person to work with, Wakako is not a good person. If, as she half expected, Taylor's treatment was ineffective those people would have been in for a bad time. Hopefully she chose biological bioweapons intended to temporarily incapacitate.
Also, Trauma Team has a good enough reputation for effectiveness and neutrality that any rando making a genuine effort to fuck with them would get annihilated in short order and nobody would bat an eye.
Dude, if you have the right cyberware you can HOTSWAP between input and output.
Just like dangly bits, color and shape can be easily changes by cyberware. Hell, it could even be changed by bioware. However, CULTURAL divisions still exist, hence the mostly-Japanese-but-really-Panasian Tyger Claws, the Latino Valentinos, and the Hatian New Voodoo Boys.
not really. There are whole youth subcultures who denigrate seatbelts, helmets, etc. and love to drive dangerously. The death toll doesn't stop them.
it's not that weird. The new guys are new to the job. They don't know shit about shit. Also security insurance is exxxxxpensive. They saved some Ks! They could argue custom built ICE built by themselves is better. Taylor convinced Jin when she said the company security is CHEAPER than custom ICE. Maybe his sysadmin tried to milk him for security services and demanded a big paycheck.
This bit sounds dangerous. Taylor claims it's safe. Who wants to experience burnt hands more than once? But a whore with fast healing would encourage frequent bruises and cuts and a dissociative disorder. It'll heal so what does it matter? Dolls are high class courtesans so the danger isn't that great but Taylor is an alien to this culture. Her understanding of the risks can be flawed.
Just because there are (were) subcultures of people who 'point gun at 🅱️enis'* doesn't mean that, on average, people aren't dissuaded from pointing loaded guns at things they would prefer to keep intact while ignoring trigger discipline. Spikes on steering wheels absolutely would make cars statistically safer for other cars and pedestrians (while very much less safer for drivers).
Also, this removes time off from the workers who have those clients. Which would likely be encouraged by the management. Meaning down the line some of them are gonna curse both the management and whoever introduced that mod. Cause workplaces often push for efficiency over worker morale.
When you go really high up in some corporations it becomes a thing, Arasaka Globally is very much a pro japanese centric company, Millitech should be a very pro-american one. This of course doesn't mean that only people with these nationalities can get into high positions, but you would be competing against ingrained prejudice if you don't fit with their corporate culture.
Aren't there skillchips for martial arts and the like, as shown off by that asshole corpo kid in Edgerunners? Those are really just Doll chips with a different name and no exterior connection (and maybe with less resolution where facial expressions are concerned), if you think about it.
Yes but the person is technically still in control, they can turn the Shard off. Tanaka Jr. shows this by still being able to talk shit while he beats the shit out of David. Where as the Doll chip just straight up puppets you completely, you say what it tells you say, move when it tells you to move etc.
Taylor also actually is CONCERNED about getting 'mastered' by braindance, and has gone so far as to modify all her stuff as well as disabling any software that looks shady to her. This is abnormal in-setting, and puts her in the same wheelhouse as doomsday preppers IIRC.
Sure, but that seems really more like a software setting and/or the aforementioned lacking connection to facial muscles, than an inherent difference in hardware. Even the skillchip would need to override all your involuntary muscle twitches and reflexive movement, or else you'd fall over every time you used it. And I struggle to think of a way to do that without also theoretically letting it override your conscious movement if it isn't specifically coded not to do that, code that can be altered.
poor sys admin also being lazy guess there will be a vacancy opening up soon 
