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** Not to mention Project Cynosure is significantly more then just a Soulkiller knockoff or even a refinement. It can serve that purpose certainly but it's possible applications are considerably more simply because it uses an enslaved wild AI to do whatever is needed. So it can reap the mind of an individual ripping their consciousness from their body, it can turn a simple janitorial robot onto a near unstoppable killing machine, it can directly counter the effects of any other wild AI let loose inside of government systems. The potential applications are almost literally limitless with the only limiting factor being that it requires the capture of a wild AI for each use.
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** Though come the 2.0 update with the revamped police system this is actually curbed quite heavily. The NCPD tolerates V shooting up criminals marked for NCPD subcontractor work but opening fire in public otherwise, even to save members of the NCPD in a shootout, will have them on your ass.
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** On the other hand, Alex has been in Night City for seven years, and Reed's dialogue regarding the safehouse explicitly states that The Moth didn't exist in 2070. [[NightmareRetardant Alex could have simply made a new behavorial imprint named Daphne and naturally made those connections.]]

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** On the other hand, Alex has been in Night City for seven years, and Reed's dialogue regarding the safehouse explicitly states that The Moth didn't exist in 2070. [[NightmareRetardant Alex could have simply made a new behavorial imprint imprint, named Daphne herself Daphne, and naturally made those connections.]]
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** On the other hand, Alex has been in Night City for seven years, and Reed's dialogue regarding the safehouse explicitly states that The Moth didn't exist in 2070. [[NightmareRetardant Alex could have simply made a new behavorial imprint named Daphne and naturally made those connections.]]
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* Something Panam actually points out in the "Star" ending: the team is running around in the crater of a nuclear explosion and it didn't occur to anybody that it might be radioactive as all hell until they were well into it, much less take precautions. Whoever ends up in V's body is probably fine because the Relic is basically magic for that kind of thing, but Panam should probably see the clan ripper after.
** Not realy. It's ben 50 Years sind the Nuke, the most fallout would have decayed decades ago. Ground Zero would be kinda safe to visit for short periods of time after a year or so, unless the bomb was intentionaly laced with realy nasty stuff like cobalt60.
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** Not realy. It's ben 50 Years sind the Nuke, the most fallout would have decayed decades ago. Ground Zero would be kinda safe to visit for short periods of time after a year or so, unless the bomb was intentionaly laced with realy nasty stuff like cobalt60.
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** V also resembles the inverted symbol for Delta, which is CP slang for "leave, depart". V spends most of the movie with their potential departure from life hanging over their head, and it's their probable or explicit fate in every ending.

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** V also resembles the inverted symbol for Delta, which is CP slang for "leave, depart". V spends most of the movie game with their potential departure from life hanging over their head, and it's their probable or explicit fate in every ending.ending. Even in Phantom Liberty, [[spoiler:Johnny dies if you side with Reed, and your life as you know it is over.]]
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* In ''Phantom Liberty'', the face-changing faceplate Alex (and later V) chips requires a behavorial imprint to work-- essentially an itinerary of an existing person's appearance, traits, and personality that the plate then copies onto the user. When you first meet Alex in The Moth, however, she's using the faceplate to stay undercover as a bartender named Daphne, and emails on her personal computer shows she has running relationships with the staff, the patrons, etc. It begs the question...''what happened to the original Daphne?''
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** Additionally, Yorinobu has no interest in recovering the stolen Relic, as he himself was attempting to give it away at the time of the theft. Having the chip be loose in Night City could only stand to damage the Arasaka corporation, which was Yorinobu's goal from the start.

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* "The Tower" ending is not just an ending for V but also for the players who've stuck with the game for three years since the release. Given how ''Phantom Liberty'' is the final piece of ''Cyberpunk 2077'' content, V going from a cyberpunk/edgerunner to "just another face in the crowd" very deliberately echoes the players saying farewell to Night City and returning to their boring old RealLife for the final time.
* "The Tower" is also a subtle callback to Dexter's question about whether V wants to live a quiet life or to go out in a blaze of glory. ''All'' of the game's original endings (except suicide) represented different shapes and colors of said "blaze of glory", while ''PL'' has finally given us a glimpse of what a "quiet life" would look like for someone like V.

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* "The Tower" ending ending, as depressing as it is, is brilliantly written on so many levels:
** First off, it is a subtle callback to Dexter's question about whether V wants to live a quiet life or to go out in a blaze of glory. ''All'' of the game's original endings (except suicide) represented different shapes and colors of said "blaze of glory", while ''PL'' has finally given us a glimpse of what a "quiet life" would look like for someone like V.
** Secondly, by setting a bulk of it after a two-year TimeSkip and V losing the augmentations that constituted their identity as a merc, it gives V a small taste of what Johnny was going through for most of the game, between coming back after half a century to find everyone he knew has moved on and losing core parts of his identity, like his body, his alcoholism, and his music.
** Finally, "The Tower"
is not just an ending for V but also for the players who've stuck with the game for three years since the release. Given how ''Phantom Liberty'' is the final piece of ''Cyberpunk 2077'' content, V going from a cyberpunk/edgerunner to "just another face in the crowd" very deliberately echoes the players saying farewell to Night City and returning to their boring old RealLife for the final time.
* "The Tower" is also a subtle callback to Dexter's question about whether V wants to live a quiet life or to go out in a blaze of glory. ''All'' of the game's original endings (except suicide) represented different shapes and colors of said "blaze of glory", while ''PL'' has finally given us a glimpse of what a "quiet life" would look like for someone like V.
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* "The Tower" ending is not just an ending for V but also for the players who've stuck with the game for three years since the release. Given how ''Phantom Liberty'' is the final piece of ''Cyberpunk 2077'' content, V going from a cyberpunk/edgerunner to "just another face in the crowd" very deliberately echoes the players saying farewell to Night City and returning to their boring old RealLife for the final time.
* "The Tower" is also a subtle callback to Dexter's question about whether V wants to live a quiet life or to go out in a blaze of glory. ''All'' of the game's original endings (except suicide) represented different shapes and colors of said "blaze of glory", while ''PL'' has finally given us a glimpse of what a "quiet life" would look like for someone like V.

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** This can be seen in V intimately experiencing Johnny’s flashbacks like they’re their own. Even going so far as choosing bits of dialogue that he would have plausibly said.
** This also extends to V subconsciously filling the blanks in said memories. Their mind likely putting in pieces of 2077 Night City long before they ought to be there (2013 and 2023) in the background, as Johnny wouldn’t vividly recall such details.

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** This can be seen in V intimately experiencing Johnny’s flashbacks like they’re their own.own, well beyond what they'd get from a well-recorded braindance. Even going so far as choosing bits of dialogue that he would have plausibly said.
** This also extends to V subconsciously filling While Johnny would vividly recall details like the blanks clubs he frequented, the alley he lost Alt Cunningham in said memories. Their mind likely putting and the interior of Arasaka Tower, stuff in the background would be the farthest thing from his mind. The pieces of 2077 Night City that pop up long before they ought to be there (2013 and 2023) are likely, then, V subconsciously filling in the background, as Johnny wouldn’t vividly recall such details.
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** Additionally even though Saburo is a staunch patriot of Japan, from what we hear out of Takamura Japan sucks nearly as much as the United States. Polluted cities, crime, deprivation, and children being effectively sold out of ghettos by their parents to the Arasaka Corporation in search of a better life. It doesn't make sense until you recall that Saburo is a patriot of ''Imperial'' Japan, not contemporary Japan. [[NaziGrandpa He hates what his country turned into]] and with no Imperial Japan to follow he effectively built his own in the form of the Arasaka Corporation.

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** Additionally even though Saburo is a staunch patriot of Japan, from what we hear out of Takamura Takamura, Japan sucks nearly as much as the United States. Polluted cities, crime, deprivation, and children being effectively sold out of ghettos by their parents to the Arasaka Corporation in search of a better life. It doesn't make sense until you recall that Saburo is a patriot of ''Imperial'' Japan, not contemporary Japan. [[NaziGrandpa He hates what his country turned into]] and with no Imperial Japan to follow he effectively built his own in the form of the Arasaka Corporation.
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** Additionally even though Saburo is a staunch patriot of Japan from what we hear out of Takamura Japan sucks nearly as much as the United States. Polluted cities, crime, deprivation, and children being effectively sold out of ghettos by their parents to the Arasaka Corporation in search of a better life. It doesn't make sense until you recall that Saburo is a patriot of ''Imperial'' Japan, not contemporary Japan. [[NaziGrandpa He hates what his country turned into]] and with no Imperial Japan to follow he effectively built his own in the form of the Arasaka Corporation.

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** Additionally even though Saburo is a staunch patriot of Japan Japan, from what we hear out of Takamura Japan sucks nearly as much as the United States. Polluted cities, crime, deprivation, and children being effectively sold out of ghettos by their parents to the Arasaka Corporation in search of a better life. It doesn't make sense until you recall that Saburo is a patriot of ''Imperial'' Japan, not contemporary Japan. [[NaziGrandpa He hates what his country turned into]] and with no Imperial Japan to follow he effectively built his own in the form of the Arasaka Corporation.

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