Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anon, you can't even save yourself.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What do you want, cyborg midget?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    NO ONE LEAVE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ALIVE

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >stomps on best girl like fricking super mario
      >rips a digital virus link out of his brain with his phisical hands
      what an absolutely based individual

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Muh super duper speed buff
        >Casually does it too and calls it rudimentary

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Muh super duper speed buff
        >Casually does it too and calls it rudimentary

        NO ONE LEAVE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ALIVE

        >You think you're special just because you're scrappy?
        My homie calling out literally every anime for the last 20 years

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So, was David actually not a super special chosen one? Was he really just some kid who was a little better at it than most people, but ultimately not the little god he thought he was?

          Because if so, I have a lot more respect for the show.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yes that was the point. He thought being abnormally resistant to cyberpsychosis and having a good pain tolerance meant immunity to cyberpsychosis. He also thought he was the baddest motherfricker in Night city. He was ONE of the baddest mohterfrickers in Night city but even at his peak he was nothing compared to a guy who was actually immune to cyberpsychosis and had decades of combat experience. I think ultimately he depended on the San Devistan too much and the second someone else could match or exceed his speed he was fricked.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Why was Adam immune to cyberpsychosis?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Because he has no humanity to lose

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                because he was a psychopath before he even got his first upgrade
                it's kind of like with the Crossed; some Crossed become batshit without any resemblance of clear thought, and then there are outliers who for some reason can keep their logical reasoning, which makes them even worse than the regular crossed

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                1. Because he's the one in a million that one in a thousands who think they're Naruto get squashed by.
                2. High end Full-conversion (what he had done) is actually less damaging to the psyche and nervous system than piecemeal replacement (what David did).

                He didn't cheat, or take shortcuts, or depend on his natural advantage. He didn't bootstrap himself with every ad hoc piece of shit he found on a dead guy and eat cereal bowls full of drugs every day to keep his brain from cooking itself.
                And he definitely didn't let a whacked out Hatian diddle around in his spinal column.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                He was mostly a badass who got lucky as the corpo saved his ass and decked him out

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I mean Adam Smasher literally demonstrates how irrelevant David is.
            He had a higher than usual compatibility with certain implants. Whoop Dee Doo. Being one in a thousand means there's thousands of other buttholes just like you running around all the time. There were ten thousand before you. There will be ten thousand after you.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No
            Your game character is

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ehh I would say he was "special" (even Arasaka sought him out due to his crazy tolerance for chrome and even Smasher gave him some respect), but he wasnt Adam Smasher tier who is one of THE top dogs.

            Maybe he could have gotten better and reached the real top rungs over time if he wasnt so wienery and went overboard.

            Also part of the issue with "cyberpsychosis" wasnt just the chrome, but just dealing with fricked up shit in general

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            He wasn't. He just developed a better tolerance thanks to having supporting friends and family.

            Literally, if he had started dating Rebecca or anyone who could support him more and didn't play mind games, he would have survived longer.

            All you need is good mental health to be inmune to almost all Cyberpsychosis, but this is rare in cyber punk.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              🙁

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So, was David actually not a super special chosen one? Was he really just some kid who was a little better at it than most people, but ultimately not the little god he thought he was?

          Because if so, I have a lot more respect for the show.

          Yes that was the point. He thought being abnormally resistant to cyberpsychosis and having a good pain tolerance meant immunity to cyberpsychosis. He also thought he was the baddest motherfricker in Night city. He was ONE of the baddest mohterfrickers in Night city but even at his peak he was nothing compared to a guy who was actually immune to cyberpsychosis and had decades of combat experience. I think ultimately he depended on the San Devistan too much and the second someone else could match or exceed his speed he was fricked.

          I mean Adam Smasher literally demonstrates how irrelevant David is.
          He had a higher than usual compatibility with certain implants. Whoop Dee Doo. Being one in a thousand means there's thousands of other buttholes just like you running around all the time. There were ten thousand before you. There will be ten thousand after you.

          Just assume that everyone who watch abs praises this have never been exposed to fiction outside of Edgerunners

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing was ever stopping them from leaving. Nothing ever forced them to keep going.
    It's a prison with no walls.

    You can't save people from themselves. They have to choose to live.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      David’s backstory makes it pretty clear that trying to make an honest living in Night City is likely to just make people like them wind up like Gloria.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        David is also in a unique position where even if he didn't drop out and got a corporation job like Gloria wanted, Arasaka would still have wound up using him up and throwing him away to test their cybersuit. His resistance to implants would have been discovered almost immediately after applying and from there, they'd have no problem sacrificing him for a few minutes of data.
        The cards were stacked against him from the start.
        Plus, Gloria wasn't exactly making an honest living either. She stole implants from her dead patients.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The cards were stacked against him
          homie it's cyberpunk of course they were
          That's the point of the setting
          That's the point of the genre despite the game and show failing to really focus on that theme
          Hypercapitalism mixed with transhuman tech results in a world with no humanity where life is utterly disposable and every human experience comes at a literal price.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Hypercapitalism
            Remember Bombrades, cabidalism is when something something Corborations.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >moron actually thinks cyberpunk as a setting/genre isn't about hypercapitalism
              Cope

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Wah my image of what was supposed to be a capitalist dystopia came out as a socialist dystopia... Again!
                Seethe

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What is socialist about cyberpunk?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Night City
                >Socialist
                I don't think you know what that word means

                >Corporate structure fused with government entirely
                >Cities are godless nightmare worlds filled with state enforced monopoly choking out all competition

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Oh so you want to becoming like China?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Night city is just China but everyone's got guns and meth.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >"Government" is for-profit corporation
                >This is somehow socialism and not anarcho-capitalism
                You are completely and utterly moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Capitalism is when the government is not interfering with free trade. If a corporate entity or corporations or any other entity become the government, and interfere with free trade, the system is not Capitalist, because the ruling structure is preventing free trade.
                Capitalism is not "something something buisness go up".
                No monopoly has ever lasted ten years without government assistance.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Capitalism is when the government is not interfering with free trade
                Wrong on several levels, what you're describing is an extremist form of lasseiz-faire or neoliberal capitalism
                >If a corporate entity becomes the government
                Then there's no government, just a corporate entity with a monopoly on force.
                >If free trade is interfered with it's not Capitalism
                Just factually wrong.
                >Monopolies can only exist with government assistance
                Irrelevant, wrong, and completely moronic

                Everything you think you know about politics and economics is very fricking wrong all the way down to your basic definitions. I can only hope you're so embarrassed by this fact that you pick up a book and learn to read.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the people running the country aren't the government
                Black person that's literally what the government is. If a giant squid sat on the capital and used magic to make everyone obey him, that's the government. If those commands include an interruption of free trade, the squid is anti capitalist.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, please, read a fricking book.
                You're embarrassing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The corporate structure isn't fused with government. The government is GONE, the corporations are just filling the void because they have all of the wealth and power. To paraphrase Lex Luthor, do you know how much power the CEO of Arasaka would have to give up to merely be president of the united states? The government is, on some level, still beholden to the people. The Corps in Cyberpunk are not. They are only beholden to their shareholders and the need for ever more profits at any cost.

                There is no 'state' in Cyberpunk. None. It literally doesn't exist. No one with any interest in being the state has enough power to do so.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the people running the country aren't the government
                Black person that's literally what the government is. If a giant squid sat on the capital and used magic to make everyone obey him, that's the government. If those commands include an interruption of free trade, the squid is anti capitalist.

                >Capitalism is when the government is not interfering with free trade
                Wrong on several levels, what you're describing is an extremist form of lasseiz-faire or neoliberal capitalism
                >If a corporate entity becomes the government
                Then there's no government, just a corporate entity with a monopoly on force.
                >If free trade is interfered with it's not Capitalism
                Just factually wrong.
                >Monopolies can only exist with government assistance
                Irrelevant, wrong, and completely moronic

                Everything you think you know about politics and economics is very fricking wrong all the way down to your basic definitions. I can only hope you're so embarrassed by this fact that you pick up a book and learn to read.

                To make all this as clear as humanly possible to the moronic /misc/ anon:
                Corporations taking over the functions of government is by definition anarcho-capitalism
                This is not open for debate

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Corporations taking over the functions of government is by definition anarcho-capitalism
                Commie moron, anarchy is the state of having no governing body. If someone takes over the governing body, you have a governing body.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anarchy just means no centralized leadership. Switzerland is Anarchist for example. AnarchoCapitalism is when multiple corporations like compete for control in the name of profit. There is no central power but multiple entities endlessly competing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anon
                He either already knows that or is incapable of learning it

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anon if there is an authority capable of making large scale decisions, it's definitionally not a situation of anarchy.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Corporations taking over the functions of government is by definition anarcho-capitalism
                Commie moron, anarchy is the state of having no governing body. If someone takes over the governing body, you have a governing body.

                The argument really should have ended here
                Don't bump the thread to argue with a moron
                Just call him moronic and sage

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The two commies on Cinemaphile are really sore over this one lol.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >The corpos aren't the government they're just the government but they sell things so something something Capitalism.
                Lol.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Loudly and confidently moronic
                Lol.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Go crash another economy or cut a kids dick off or whatever you people do when you run out of silly catchphrases

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                technically they have a government, but it is basically the big corps suck-puppet
                and if you played the game, there is an entire conspiracy behind it

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                This is what happens when you don't let Dr. Doom take over the world.

                Why are you confusing capitalism with socialism?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Night City
                >Socialist
                I don't think you know what that word means

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I bet you're gonna start directing us to vaush videos where he tells people to buy merch from his store next aren't you

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why would I care what a horsefricking pedo had to say lol.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You can't disentangle hypercapitalism from cyberpunk as a genre, as core to the themes. Hell, in the first episode of Edgerunners a woman is left to die in the street by the already on-site paramedics because she *isn't a client*. Didn't pay for the premium service? Get fricked.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Gee if only other services were allowed to meaningfully compete with the armed government sponsored mercenaries masquerading as EMTs.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Woman has no money
                >Medics refuse to treat her because she has no money
                >Another for-profit company would fix this problem!
                You may be literally moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Not allowed to compete with government sponsored armed men without being shot by the government.
                >Why would free trade do this.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Anon
                She has no money
                No for-profit scheme would help her
                How many times did you ram your skull into a wall as a child?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                In a situation where there were no government sponsored medical rackets literally slotting their opositon with sniper rifles long term payment of lower priced care would be exponentially more viable.
                You know Trauma aren't the city's actual replacements for doctors and hospitals right? They're a PMC.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Except trauma teams aren't regulated or consolidated, they're franchises that compete.
                At this point your ignorance on every single aspect of this conversation is well established. I may as well be arguing with a dog.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They are not government sponsored. There is no government.

                If there WAS a government, there would honestly be LESS of a monopoly because the corps wouldn't have impunity of force.
                Do you know what happens to independent startups that try to compete with Arasaka-backed ventures like the Trauma Teams? The moment the existence of the new business actually impacts Arasaka's own profits in the field, they send out hit squads to literally just fricking murder every single person who is a part of the new competing company. They don't even need to hide it, or pretend that it was somehow anything else but them cleaning house, because there *is no government to enforce the law against them*.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >There is no government.
                There literally is. The government is literally whoever governs.

                >Do you know what happens to independent startups that try to compete with Arasaka-backed ventures like the Trauma Teams? The moment the existence of the new business actually impacts Arasaka's own profits in the field, they send out hit squads to literally just fricking murder every single person who is a part of the new competing company.
                So a centrally planned economy, lol. What happens when you try to manufacture and sell goods outside the governments purview in a socialist state? Increasing force is used to make you stop.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I am completely moronic
                We know

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >They don't have a government they just have a group that governs.
                Lol

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The Americans healthcare service is complete fricking shit.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                As an American, I agree with that statement entirely. There's simply no excuse for us spending as much as we do on healthcare and getting so little in return. The only one who benefits from the current model are health insurance companies.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Anon there are millions of Nomads partying like it's 1877 outside the city.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      David was marked for death by arasaka

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Cyberpunk was a table top game turned video game turned tv show,become a comic,and book series hope we get more

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Awesome so was Lucy she lived at least a decade on Arisaka's doorstep and they wanted her a frick of a lot more than "potential test subject number 17274762738959", and that's just the two of them, everyone else was in the wind, but they wanted to stay and ride the ride till it killed them.

        Shit, Corpo V is marked for death by Arisaka in the fricking Prologue, she doesn't even change what bars she visits and is literally living with her only known fixer.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Fricking loved this show. Just a very well told 10 episode action sci-fi slowburn tragedy that never held back on the gore to overstate how dangerous the universe is.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I hate to e that guy but is an anime produced by a Japanese studio based on a video game really supposed to be discussed on this board?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's on an American streaming site so everyone thinks it's something else.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It was created by a polish man, set in a world created by an american and animated by a japanese studio.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Based. One of the few cases where Netflix is actually right to call it an 'anime,' but the story and characters still come from Polish writers.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's on an American streaming site so everyone thinks it's something else.

        I hate to e that guy but is an anime produced by a Japanese studio based on a video game really supposed to be discussed on this board?

        It's anime. Bad anime.
        Trigger doesn't make good shows anymore

      • 1 year ago
        Cirno

        Based. One of the few cases where Netflix is actually right to call it an 'anime,' but the story and characters still come from Polish writers.

        >Probably a result of being written by CDPR
        Some of the broad story strokes like the focus on cyberpsychosis came from CDPR's early draft, but the script for the anime was almost entirely written by Trigger
        https://automaton-media.com/articles/interviewsjp/20220914-219010/

        See, full anime so not Cinemaphile

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why do you care so much? Are you sad you lost your 40th pedo thread of the week?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That’s not an excuse unless it’s an on-topic thread on a board with off-topic spam. Never the other way around. This show has like six threads up on Cinemaphile at all times and the anons posting in them are clearly casual-friendly, so everybody who wants to talk about it has more than enough options. I enjoyed the show, but you saying “yes we also need one on Cinemaphile“ just makes you a homosexual.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why'd he do it bros? She was so hot…

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      She frickin' sprouted guns from her head, what else was he suppose to do?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He was an idiot punk who blamed the big companies that denied her mom medical care instead of the actual cyberpunks that caused the accident in the first place.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    But can anon save this thread?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >But can anon save this thread?
      Of course. I'm built different.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Ok I get it now

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hm

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wrong board

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Who's the best character and why is it Maine?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's because his fate hit the hardest

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Oh no cyberpsychosis who could have seen this coming
        >Better shoot this blob
        >Oops lol it was waifu
        Liek if u cri every time 🙁

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Best dad

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Please don't tell me you chooms actually skipped the theme song. This banger was required for EVERY EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gjpuBId3wg

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Survey for people that genuinely liked edgerunners:
    - how old are you
    - how many anime have you watched in the past
    - dear God why

    • 1 year ago
      Anonyrnous

      Are shonen anime with tragic endings really not as novel as I thought? Either way, I enjoyed Cyberpunk overall.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Edgerunners isn't shounen, though it's pretty immature for seinen. Probably a result of being written by CDPR
        Tragic seinen are super common and usually a lot prettier

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Probably a result of being written by CDPR
          Some of the broad story strokes like the focus on cyberpsychosis came from CDPR's early draft, but the script for the anime was almost entirely written by Trigger
          https://automaton-media.com/articles/interviewsjp/20220914-219010/

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Makes me wonder how bad the original script was
            Good for Trigger, refusing to just use someone else's script after the utter disaster that was Darling in the FranXX

            Now if they could just make a single show that isn't ugly or terrible or both

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Are shonen anime with tragic endings really not as novel as I thought?
        I want all tourists to leave

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Are shonen anime with tragic endings really not as novel as I thought?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'd post a picture of Gurren Lagann but I'd need a collage for all the tragic endings that series had.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Trannies back to your containment board

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You guys have any medsnyan?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any funny parody animations yet? I know people looove to cope with tragic shows via comedy

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Literally me

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do you fricking job mods

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You gotta admit, 'Adam Smasher' is a cool fricking name.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Adam Smasher is now in this thread

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >he "learned" economics from YouTube
    Yeah, that tracks.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The most famous foundational work on economics in history
      >N-NO it's wrong because there's an E-book
      moron all your red rags have E-books too.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like the kid is basically the one million dollar man, just put this sound in the show and see how well it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G0SVEQW8A

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like how they presented cyberpsychosis taking hold as your facial features glitching out in different directions SPECIFICALLY so that there could be that one scene at the end where Lucy holds David together in a literal sense. Actually great use of imagery set up in advance for a specific visual payoff.

  23. 1 year ago
    .

    >Polish show
    >Based on Polish vidya
    >Based on American tabletop game
    >Show produced by CD Project Red
    >Show distributed by Netflix
    Plenty of shows and movies have been animated in the east and are still discussed here.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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