In the Philippines, it’s Juan and Maria dela Cruz, although those have fallen out of use due to the popularity of Western (aka US) culture. Interesting reading about every country’s own names for their everyman.

Same. I’ve stopped with Reddit since I’ve never posted there with my real name. No one knew me personally, and I didnt know anyone personally, so my switch to kbin was easy.

My real-life family and friends use Discord, Instagram, Messenger, Twitter, Viber, and WhatsApp, so I’ll continue to at least have accounts on those.

Part of the beauty and awe I get whenever I reread that famous excerpt from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot is the sense of how ephemeral and delicate our existence, and even the very human concept of “existence”, is. We are infinitesimally small and yet, through no fault of our own, our days, how we fill them, and the people we know hold some measure of importance to us. And it will all be gone - eventually. It’s a very somber note yet it makes me feel a certain sense of peace.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

The popular theory is that Edgerunners takes place in 2076, a year before the events of the game.

The other endings are definitely worth going through! Thematically, I think the secret ending is actually the most possible to be canon (i.e., going out for all time in a blaze of glory), but in terms of character development, I agree, The Star ending with Judy and Panam is the most cohesive.

At least until we get Phantom Liberty. From the trailers, it definitely looks like there’s gonna be a continuation or development in V’s story. And I don’t want to read too much into it, but if you remember the base game’s launch, almost all the cinematics/graphic banners featured a male V. But he was switched out for female V in the marketing of the game sometime during CP2077’s great fiasco. It’s been all female V, even up to now.

I’ll be honest I was kinda waiting for r/CyberpunkGame to do this, given the lean of the game (even if you went with the most Corpo-ish ending, it was still kinda anti-Corpo). Good on them for taking a stand.

There’s been talk that the upcoming expansion for the game (Phantom Liberty) will kinda overhaul some of the game’s systems a bit, and make them closer to what was originally intended or hoped for. If you’re still on the fence now, I suggest waiting a few more months, seeing if the DLC makes good on its hype, and grabbing everything then.

These are just my first 2 search results, but basically they all say the same thing:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/cyberpunks-expansion-totally-overhauls-the-original-game/

https://screenrant.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-changes-rework-overhaul/

And in order to stay rich, you have to play your role and participate in a society that oppresses the poor which in turn maintains your wealth. Are you really still capable of being a good person?

It’s a complex topic, but this is the crux of the matter I think. If we’re talking about today’s world, then I don’t think there is a billionaire who is not complicit with participating in a system that is rigged (for lack of a better term) in their favor, and profits in an unfair scale from the work of others.

On the other hand, I also don’t think you need to disown your material wealth and start living paycheck to paycheck to be able to qualify as a good person. So… in my head, there’s definitely millionaires who are good people, who earned their riches with authentic hard work and some genius ideas/inventions/services, and pay the people they employ well, or keep good relations with the people they work with.

Mark Hanna: Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody - and I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet or if you’re Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a fugazi is?

Jordan Belfort: Fugayzi, it’s a fake.

Mark Hanna: Fugayzi, fugazi. It’s a whazy. It’s a woozie. It’s fairy dust. It doesn’t exist. It’s never landed. It is no matter. It’s not on the elemental chart. It’s not fucking real.

https://youtu.be/wM6exo00T5I?t=108

As a forum user, it was absolutely crazy to me when I first signed up on Reddit a decade ago that the replies would be out of order and sorted by popularity. But I grew to understand that it was a crowdsourcing effort in most ways and that the cream rises to the top. It was really quite good to get the information you needed out of the thread.

Anything new is scary

Agreed. Most people just want to settle into something comfortable.

Oh man, I knew there were a lot but I had no idea.

I remember when Google Wave was demo’ed to a live audience, there were audible ooohs and aaahs from the crowd. It was such a mindblowing idea 14 years ago, shame it never really got off the ground.

I like it because it helps break my Coke addiction.

EDIT: Coca-Cola* addiction

Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there’s lots of instances to spread the burden.

Not a lawyer, but that’s defamation, isn’t it? Mr. CEO’s saying Christian is this and that bad thing, when Christian has proof otherwise. Mr. CEO repeats this lie about Christian, damaging his reputation. In Christian’s own words, it’s a “potentially career-ending lie”.