trying cyberpunk - day 3

Testing,

testing. Hello, hello,

hello, hello.

Okay, let me see.

Hello, welcome back to a new livestream.

Hello, welcome back to a new livestream.

Um, see if that's okay.

Testing,

testing.

Yeah, I think it's fine.

Should be fine.

Okay, where was I?

For some reason my apartment Wi-Fi is not

working. It says connected but

no internet, so I've only got my iPhone

4G data,

so hopefully it still works good

enough. I'm also

getting hungry for some reason. It's only

10 AM.

What is he doing?

Oh, I thought

I did this already. Maybe I didn't save

Do you think the game volume is too loud

or too quiet?

Okay, where should I go?

I played it a little bit yesterday, but I

just did a few side quests,

and there was an update yesterday. They

said they fixed the problem where Entering

menus makes the game go laggy,

but it's still— it's a bit less laggy, I

guess. Still laggy when I go to

crafting. See,

it's still laggy. They said they fixed it.

They said reduced— they stopped the issue

where the FPS gets reduced when entering a

I got this sniper rifle, which is quite

Oh yeah, I got stuck on this bit last

time, didn't I?

Something about a shard.

I don't think they made any changes to it.

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

Damn, look at the bum. I don't like this

scope. Let me change it back

to the Prospector.

Uh, it changes the color. I want to see

It looks, looks like leather.

Yeah, there's nothing here. Where was I

going? To the cyberpunk— I mean, the

cyberpsychosis guy.

Cyberpsycho guy. I want to get $30,000

to get the— I'm gonna get the double jump

thing today.

The double jump should be good. I need

a car. You are missing— making reclamation

a difficult process. Further west,

Switzerland has officially become the

first nation committed to a fully

automated military by 2080. Already 90%

of the Swiss Armed Forces consist of

lobos, drones, and automated vehicles.

The officer corps makes up the remaining

10%. As the Swiss government faces I

don't know why I can't connect to the

Wi-Fi. I uploaded my Sonic video and

it was on the Wi-Fi here, and then around

70% it said connected with no internet,

and now I can't get back onto the Wi-Fi

here. Maybe they kicked me

off it for using it too much. Why is my

voice like this? Ahem.

I can't connect to any of the apartment

Wi-Fi.

Why am I in combat?

Who's trying to kill me?

Oh, what? What just happened? Why did I

That was weird. I just fell over for no

reason.

Whoa,

why do they start shooting me?

Okay, here we are.

I think I want to end an hour earlier than

yesterday because I don't want to get

surprised, jumpscared by my girlfriend

again. When she just suddenly came home,

I had such a panic attack. And then I was

really weird when she came in because

I had to quickly hide stuff. I must have

looked kind of strange.

Oh my God.

Someone knocked on the door.

Someone knocked on the door. I don't know

Oh,

okay. This one? Oh, I need

that today. So, right?

More water. More fire.

Afternoon, I come back. Okay, bye.

Okay, bye.

Oh my God, I can't get any damn peace and

quiet.

Something about a light bulb.

Can't I get any bloody peace and quiet?

Oh my fucking God. I don't give a shit

about a stupid light bulb.

I think my girlfriend messaged the

apartment people to— because one of the

light bulbs is not working in the shower

room. I think she must have

messaged them to come and change it. They

said they're going to come back in the

afternoon. How about just don't come back?

Leave me alone, thanks.

I can't relax.

Don't know how to change a light bulb

yourself? Well, I've never changed a light

bulb myself, but it's not my

responsibility because it's, it's the

apartment management's responsibility to

look after the place. I just pay the rent.

If stuff goes wrong, it's, it's their duty

to fix it, not mine.

But no, I've never had to change a light

bulb. Why would I have to change one?

It's like saying, oh, you don't know how

to do the plumbing, you don't know how to

do the toilet piping, you don't know how

to do the wiring. No, because that's not

what I know how to do.

Do I look like some kind of light bulb

changing peasant? As if

I would have to ever change a light bulb

myself. Idiot.

I don't know why I'm not getting many

viewers on this stream. Usually I get like

40 or maybe 30.

Maybe because I didn't do a girlfriend.

I got 21 now. Maybe it's just a slow day.

I don't know how much the title matters on

Twitch. I changed it now, but it started

off as Cyberpunk Day 3.

You call your viewers idiots? Yeah, cuz

you're having a go at me cuz I said I

didn't ever change a light bulb before.

You started it.

Look, I changed the outfit of Keanu

Reeves. I think I prefer the other one.

This one looks stupid.

Highly explosive. What happens if I shoot

it? Oh, blew up.

Interesting. Find the cyberpsycho.

Okay, why can't he just be outside so I

can shoot him? Oh, maybe that's him.

Whoa.

These cyberpsycho guys always really weak,

but they just fall over. I don't

even have to do anything. Maybe I'll use

some of my— I got some berserker drink

things. Where is it?

Oh, these drinks, they just increase

stamina by 10%. I'm sure I

had some kind of attack

boosting thing.

Where the— oh, I can organize it into

consumables.

Uh, hot dog. Increase max health by 5%.

Can't do that right now. Ah, who cares?

Can't find it.

Look, these are supposed to be challenging

enemies and they can't even do anything

because you can spam stun them.

Look, this is so stupid.

Oh my god, are you seeing this?

Did I overlevel? No, I don't think so.

Where's his threat level?

Doesn't really have a level.

He's got a skill shard.

I should have pressed learn.

Ram Jolt. How do I learn it?

Do you like my character? I got this cool

vest thing, got these cool pants.

I mean trousers. Why am I saying pants

these days? Stupid American.

Americanisms. Trousers, not pants.

I don't think I overleveled. I'm only

level 13.

What was that shard thing?

I lost it now. It was somewhere here.

Ah, who cares.

Have I been hitting the gym? Oh yeah, I

said I was gonna go to the gym yesterday.

I can't be bothered.

Maybe next time. I've got

more important things to do. Whoa,

look at his face.

The thing is, I got addicted to this

stupid game. Now I can't do anything.

Oh my god, look at all the bodies here.

Why is it on fire?

You don't stream much anymore? What do you

mean? I streamed like 7 hours yesterday,

8 hours last week. I need

to do a YouTube stream, but not if I can't

get back onto the Wi-Fi, the apartment

Wi-Fi, because last time when I streamed

just using my iPhone as a hotspot Kept

disconnecting. Now I've only got one

Wi-Fi— I mean, one data SIM card.

Search the area.

How? It's on fire.

Oh, I hate it when I get stuck like this.

It's so vague. Just search the, the area.

Oh, read the shard archived conversation.

Do I have to read it?

I don't even know where it is. They should

have a tab for quest items.

I don't know where it is, for God's sake.

Tells me to read something I picked up and

then I can't even find where it is.

Oh my God, oh, I got a machete.

Maybe in the journal.

I don't know where these shards go when I

pick them up.

Must be in the backpack. This is a shard,

isn't it? Maelstrom Cultist Shard.

Report. What does report mean? But you

can't do anything with it. Click on it and

then it just does that.

Uh, I don't know if it's like a glitch or

I'm just doing something wrong.

Oh, this lag. I hate that lag when you

come out of the inventory. Read the shard.

How?

Maybe Regina Jones.

See you around, Bazi. We went to some

Thai festival thing last evening.

It's called Loy Krathong,

something like that. Loy Krathong, where

they make these little floating things

with a candle and they put it into water

and then they light the candle. So we

went to the local water thing. It was like

a— not like a pond, but it's like a

swimming pool. But not like a swimming

pool. It was like a big square bit of

water, and there are loads of people just

putting these floating things into the

water, and it's

made out of this kind of edible thing that

the fish eat. So the pond's gonna be

full of crap, but the candles, surely

they're just gonna end up floating around.

No, they're made out of wood, so I guess

they rot.

Let's go somewhere else. I keep getting

bugged on these fight bits where you have

to read a shard.

Retrieve, retrieve the ping quick hack.

Maybe I'll try that. I need money.

I need $14,000

to get the double jump.

It was a nice festival. They had all these

little festivals. Booths set up selling

food, like in Japan, like a matsuri. It

was like a Japanese festival, reminded me

of that. I got some chips and I

got some fried chicken.

Reminded me when I went to this festival

with the chlamydia girlfriend. It's nice

going to these local festival things.

She made 2 of the floating things and we

put it in the water. Her one sunk.

It was funny. However, heads of

state in France, England, and Germany have

issued a joint statement in which they

preclude the option of government

intervention. The statement reads,

interference by government authority is

interfering— oh, this is a new area. The

disruption of natural market mechanisms

only serves to hinder the Optimal path for

solutions to current problems. End quote.

In other news, China has become the first

country in the world to formally ban the

use of human-controlled road vehicles. Oh

my God! Are the police trying to kill me?

How'd you get rid of the police?

State-validated self-driving vehicles. I

want us to help the police. I don't want

to be their enemy. I have to go.

What is this place? Looks weird.

What did the radio say? China has become

the first country to ban helium cars.

Oh, I got a scope.

Oh, that's a kid. How do I go up?

Oh yeah, T-Bug. I forgot about her. She

was that black woman in the beginning.

T-Bug sent me, said you'd have something

for me. So you are V.

I'm sure you heard what happened. Real

shame. She left a demon for you,

a gift from beyond the grave. It should

work on any third-gen deck.

Okay, glad to grab a demon. Always. You

could test it now. I have an access point

if you'd like. That is, you might extract

Extract some shim soft or subroutines.

Seems worth a try either way.

What? I have no idea what that means.

Oh, she's got loads of hacking things. I

don't really like hacking, it's a bit

boring.

Request backup.

What does that do? Calls over one enemy

squad member.

Sonic shock deafens the target,

jams the weapon. Target will move to your

current position. Why do you need like

cybernetics to whistle? Reveals enemies'

devices connected to the local network.

Forces a target to commit suicide.

What part of the game do I like most?

I like the wide variety

of weapons and playstyles. I think

that's what I liked about Elden Ring, the

way that had loads of weapons and

different ways you could play the game,

different playstyles you could apply to

different weapons. I like it when the game

lets you mix and match stuff. Stuff in the

Is there something missing you would like

to see? I'm not sure.

I've got to retrieve the ping quick hack.

Got anything Nova for sale? You can afford

it? Yes. Maybe it'd be cool if they

let you build your own custom weapons.

There was a game like that before where

you could create your own custom weapons.

What was it? For example, you could add a

bayonet to a gun or a chainsaw bayonet

thing or a grenade launcher, stuff like

that. Isn't that Fallout? Fallout 4, you

could have like custom weapon thing.

How's this work? Any punk off the street

can waltz in here, grab some— What did it

say? Equip the ping thing.

Where is it?

Oh, there it is. Is that it?

No, that's not it.

The annoying thing about this game is you

pick up quests— quest items, and it asks

you to equip it, but then I can't find

where this stupid thing is.

Where is it?

What do you mean equip it? Oh,

it was in the cyberware thing.

Okay, shady running soft. Upload ping to

the camera to find the access point.

What does it do? Pings the target's

networks to reveal all people and devices

connected to it.

Just watched your honeymoon trip. When you

showed your girlfriend's right side face,

I thought it was Jiro. This is so funny,

isn't it? I managed to get a new

girlfriend who looks like Chihiro. I

wonder if Chihiro would have been happy

about that, because she was so happy when

she thought the sex doll looks like her.

I think Chihiro was insecure that— about

whether I found her attractive or not.

I guess Chihiro was not bad looking. I

never said she was unattractive.

Ah,

his girlfriend has no ass. Well, most of

the women here don't have an ass, so you

can't really complain. If you want ass,

you have to go for white women. Or black

women. If you like ass, then you're

probably not gonna like Asian women. I

like Asian girls for a different reason,

but I do miss a good ass. Turkish girl had

a great ass. It's fun saying the word ass,

but I do find the buttocks to be the best

bit about a woman, obviously after her

personality, because that's number one.

Oh my God, stupid hacking minigame.

1C and then 50— where's 55?

I don't understand it.

BD. What? Did it work?

Use your personal link to connect to the

access point and hack it.

Oh, finally. I do not understand

that hacking minigame. You have to match

the numbers, but sometimes you can't click

on the numbers you need to match.

Did I get any money for that?

Oh, I found a Ripperdoc that sold stuff

that lets you slow time down,

but I think that whole time-slowing

mechanic thing is kind of cheesy.

Is there any good hacking stuff?

Suicide, maybe I could try that, but it's

4,000 credits.

Your girlfriend has the exact same skin

shade as you. Chihiro was slightly darker.

Yeah, we do have very similar skin tones.

We're both half Chinese, but she's half

Thai and Chinese. I'm half white and

Chinese.

No, I don't want any of these. I want to

save my money so I can get the double

jump. I think that'll make the game way

more fun. What's an easy way

to get some quick money? Maybe just do the

main quest. So I've been doing a lot of

side quests and they don't really pay

much. Give me the car. What do you

want from me? I want your car. What does

my V look like? I'll show you. I look like

this. I look sexy.

How did you get the girl to let you record

her? She doesn't even know I'm recording

most of the time. I just film

like short clips here and there if

something interesting has popped up.

And because my camera is so wide-angle,

it's easy to point— I mean, it's easy to

get her in frame without pointing it at

her. People don't realize how wide the

wide lens on iPhone is.

I never really filmed her from the front

though, so how would she know? I filmed

her from behind, behind her back.

So unless she has eyes in the back of her

head, she wouldn't know that I'm filming.

Seems like she's always on her phone.

Yeah, she's on her phone a lot.

Her sister and her mum messages and phones

her a lot. Are these enemies? Check out my

new sniper rifle. I think it does more

damage if I crouch and shoot.

Oh, I one-shot killed him.

The thing is— oh, there's loads of them.

Oh my God, I didn't think there's so many.

There's 2 many.

The thing is, after you get the first

ambush shots, it's hard to shoot

them because they keep moving around.

Who's doing that?

I can one-shot them sometimes.

Maybe I overleveled a little bit because I

did a lot of side quests.

It's annoying aiming.

Dead.

They're not doing much damage, are they?

Maybe they are low level.

Wow, chopped her leg off.

Look at it spouting.

What's that?

You coward.

Menpo with protective padding. That's

called a menpo, the little face mask

thing.

Is she still questioning your name? Not

really. She doesn't ask me anything about

drawing either, so maybe she realized

that I don't actually do any drawing now.

She doesn't ask me like, how do you make

money? I showed her the

stock market. I said I, I'm interested in

learning how to make money doing trading

and stuff. I should have just said that

from the beginning.

Well, there's— oh, there were 2 of them.

They humping.

If I could live in any fictional universe,

which would I choose?

I don't

know. I think the current one we

live in is quite nice.

I wouldn't want to live in Cyberpunk. Can

you imagine living in this world? Would be

so miserable. And as, as a sex addict,

I'll just be in those hooker bars

all the time, plugged into like sex VR,

and then I'd run out of money and then,

don't know, resort to prostitution or

crime.

Oh, I found one of the tarot things.

This is such a miserable version of the

future that could happen. Everyone's just

like degenerate and drug addicted.

Hey, oh,

this is the bar you go to in the

beginning. It's that woman.

Oh yeah, she wants to do street racing,

and I'm not really interested in racing.

Garage? I think you mean garage.

But I swing by your bedroom.

You know it. I lost everything. Let me be

plain again. Solve your own problems.

Clean up your own shit. Go fuck yourself.

Go fuck yourself.

Can you hear the, the game dialogue, or

should I turn up the volume? Volume a

Rogue wanted to talk. It's okay.

Hmm, not here,

not there. Who are you? Have I

met Thai girl's friends? I met her sister

and her cousin. Really her?

Fucking Rogue, just kicking it back on a

couch at the afterparty. Don't mess with

her, she's got MRIs, see right through

you. How does he know her? She must be

like 100 years old. Gotta track a guy

down. Mm-hmm. Anders Hellman. The

bartender is trans.

She looks pretty good though. Anders

Hellman. I don't care if they got a penis

or not, as long as her face is cute.

Thanks. Jump into— and they look feminine.

First, my help's got a price. Second and

third, she looks pretty old. Jackie

Welles, they all died. Multiple bells

ringing. We left a lot of bodies behind.

Death walks in your wake. Chalk that up to

bad luck. There's the bitch I know. Ask

her about Saka Tower, how they shot me up

right in Wanna go through old bits?

Really? Fine. Johnny Silverhand zeroed

inside Arasaka Tower before your very

eyes. Got more if you want, or we could

just talk. Got nads on you, girl. Don't

like that on every woman, but they seem

to— You would have to do anal cereal.

Feelings be damned. I wouldn't be

complaining about it. If you're with an

attractive person, you're both naked, and

you're really horny, I don't think I'm

gonna be complaining about putting it into

a smelly hole.

I don't want to pay 15K. I'm trying to

save up for the double jump.

How long am I streaming today? I think 5

hours. I want to finish at 4 PM because

last time she surprise came. Surprise came

home at 5 PM when I was still playing.

I've got to pay 15,000. God's sake,

I've only got 1,000 left. I'm never gonna

get the double jump.

Wait until Rogue is ready.

I wouldn't do anal with a girl because I'd

always rather do vaginal.

Why would you want to do anal when you can

do vagina?

Are these real people? Why are they in

these Tubes of liquid.

Here to see Rogue. Expecting me.

Hey Rogue, I'm back. What about Hellman?

I'm not gay. It's just a hole is a hole,

and the penis is designed to enjoy warm,

tight holes. Hope you found him.

Don't see that often. Determination. It's

like I enjoyed making love with a sofa.

Doesn't mean I'm sofa sexual.

I don't feel attracted to sofas.

Should I

drink it? Why does it give me these random

options. Does it actually matter?

Thanks, Nyx,

Queen of the Afterlife. Keanu doesn't look

great with that hairstyle. He looked

better with the other hairstyle. Let's see

what you got. What's with this open shirt

thing? Trying to look sexy?

Your Hellman's not on any payroll, not

officially anyway, but he does pop up in

GNT's confidential stacks. It's a Kang Tao

subsidiary, Chinese corp. What was the

weirdest thing? Kang Tao's been using them

for years. They're masked for more

sensitive operations. Probably a sofa.

It's pretty weird. Think you can

track him down? Getting a mark on him

ought to be easy. Actually grabbing him,

another story entirely. Decrypted map

of— one time I, I thought about using a

raw chicken, but it didn't really work.

Take a look at the specs on this. The hole

is way too big, you know, where the neck

is. No linked cargo manifests either, and

it's kind of gross. Sure. Kang Tao

sometimes transports stuff. Did I cum in

the sofa? Yeah, table, but multiple times.

Already approved in the system but too

low. Impregnated the sofa. But there's

a passenger list. Kang Tao security detail

plus one VIP. A loaf of bread? I don't see

how that could work. You know that food in

Japan called konnyaku? I heard Japanese

boys use that to masturbate because

konnyaku is slimy and firm,

doesn't break apart, and it's very

rubbery. Wasting my time. I heard they get

it and they roll it up and then they use

it like a Tenga. Look, Night City

airspace. All this.

No way to jack the transport without the

NCPD picking up on it. And here We're too

close to Kang Tao. We even give that AV a

dirty look, their backup hustle will be on

us. But right here's Jackson Plains,

narrow corridor just outside the city.

Seems like the stream is doing fine on the

iPhone hotspot. Dead zone. I'll grab him

there. Maybe Twitch just streams better

than YouTube. I get a lot of problems on

YouTube streaming.

No, I never actually tried the raw

chicken. I just thought about it, and then

I thought, nah, sounds like too much work.

And I don't see how it would actually

work. Mammoth, but they're quick. Plus,

they pack next-gen defenses. Can't take

potshots at it, not even with serious

firepower. Just won't work. It's not about

firepower. There are ways and people who

know them. Or who can at least improvise

on a theme.

What are my life goals? I wish I could

become a famous Twitch streamer. Know any

Hickmerks? Just one. 1,000 viewers.

She can't count on her clan. $2,000 a

month in earnings. Just playing Cyberpunk,

that'd be great. Won't have a choice.

Enticing comes at a price you can't

possibly afford. Can't possibly afford to

blow this chance at Nab and Hellman. Your

operation, your call. Do you think a whole

chicken that you can buy in a supermarket,

does it still have the a-hole?

I've never seen it. I've only seen the

neck hole where they put the stuffing in.

Why's Pan Am gotta help me? But does it

still have the anus? Pretty big one.

Occasionally Pan Am moves merch for me.

Last job, I should buy one for research.

Wasn't a good day for her. She ran into a

hitch. Complete bust, actually. Lost the

goods and her ride. Pan Am will do

anything to get the load back. Means her

dignity. I know her. Okay.

Guess I can try to help her, but if we

don't know where to look, I mean, we do.

Oh, come on. Fine, let me hear what you— I

found out what the skip button is. I had

to reassign it. I can read it faster than

they speak it.

Good luck.

Okay.

Hey, interested in some work?

Okay, what? A business opportunity.

I'm listening. It's simple. You go to the

Kabuki Waterfront. Everything except my—

collect quests. Don't worry, there's a

duty-free. Yes, but— yeah,

good. I need to rebuild all my money again

now. I just lost it all from this stupid

Till then, I guess.

Cool,

Penel.

Shouldn't have drank that drink. Hello,

Jam. Hang on just a little longer, Chu.

Hey, Penel. On the way. Got your number

from Rogue. Name speaks. Great, where's

that old— what's happening now? Might not

come after us yet. This thing between you

and Rogue, couldn't care less. Got a job

for you. What do you mean? You know I'm

overextended at the moment with the merch

in your car. Getting them back. I wonder

what inflation is like in Cyberpunk. The

rail freight yard on Bonita Street. 522%

inflation. See ya.

Meet with Panam.

2.7 km. Oh my God, it's gonna take me

ages.

Access shard authorization required.

What now? Call for backup. Crack some

heads open. Take the bodies inside.

How do I get there? 2.7 km. Let's say

ages.

Wow, he just walked straight over that

thing. What are they called? Give me

a car.

This one. Ow, he just

ran me over and I still stole his car.

It's funny.

It's a pretty cool-looking city.

It's a weird-looking city though. Why is

it all red? The road's all red.

Hey Judy, what's up? They like the color

red, I think. Can you come over stat?

No, I'm busy. Yeah, just come.

Both sides now. Is that about

being a lesbian? Maybe Judy wants to

experiment. Kind of busy right now.

Bro,

no. Killed him.

He's shooting me.

Do you like my driving?

Are these Police?

What the hell? Oh my god,

why are there so many enemies there?

They just blew me up.

Fast travel next time.

Yeah, I guess I should.

I can never find where the fast travel

things are. Is that one?

I think that's one,

but there's no fast travel point there.

The nearest one is this one.

I don't understand why they just suddenly

start shooting at me for no reason.

Berry girl, work together, only right to

say hello. Burger, call me El Capitan,

and they call you— see, no introductions

necessary.

Someone comes to me with beers, I take

care of it. Eat, sleep, and breathe

beers. Remember this. Aye aye, Captain.

While we're at it, need fresh wheels,

bikes? I got it all. Real good prices.

What's a good way to make money? I want

the double jump implant. I just lost all

my money on this mission because I had to

15K to

the woman. I nearly

missed my turn. I kept doing that on

driving tests when I was trying to follow

the sat nav. I'd just drive right past

where I'm supposed to turn. Because I

wasn't expecting the turn to come up so

quickly.

Here we are,

Rancho Corona. How'd you

say that?

Their phones are so funny, look how thick

they are. Okay, we're gonna meet with

Panam,

confirm the Farm money by exploits,

crafting, and selling guns. You need tech

skill tree stuff. Yeah, I got a lot of

tech tree stuff. Oh,

hello baby.

Oh, that's Panam. What if I kill her?

I wish there was a camera in the game. I

want to have a collection of Butts.

I just talked to a bum. Hey,

Pan Am. So you're V?

Where's my car? Up my buttocks.

Agree to help me? Is she good-looking or

ugly? Fuck no. You will not jerk me

around. Tell me where my car is.

Can I grab

Okay, what do I do now? Hey, come on,

talk to her. Calm down. Don't tell me what

to do. Fine. Know where to find the cargo

and your car? But you go alone, you won't

get him back. Can I jump on the bonnet?

So let's figure something out. I like how

you can see the legs when you look down.

One guy I gotta talk to.

Fuck. In return, info on your cargo.

Help in getting back what? I don't know.

All right, deal. But if you want your

thing done, we'll need to get my Thornton

back first. So where is it?

Cars in Rocky Ridge. You're supposed to

know where that is. Cars there, goods are

there. Nash, you dirt-eating bastard, I

will strangle you.

Rocky Ridge. Let's hang on.

She looks up at you, but her head's in my

crotch now. Yes,

we'll need backup. We have one brief stop

to make on the way. Want to tell me where?

Give me a sec, I should call the client.

Why is your character female? Someone's

superb at my character. Brave, I guess.

Foz, hey, Nash is gonna pass you the merch

in Rocky Ridge. The thing is, the

motherfucker screwed me over. Boss, I will

take care of it. I just need you to give

me— Boss, you have my— Oh,

come on, this dialogue is so long.

Boss, Vista Del Rey. Boss, I had no

idea you drive for Sixth Street. Is that

not allowed? No, nothing wrong with it.

They still wild about stars. Stripes and

core heartland values. Strong word, wild.

And I don't care; they pay well. It's

simple. Gave that meathead

your word, and he took it. Is that

surprising? It's called having a

reputation. You should try getting one of

your own. So,

where to now? The Aldacaldo camp.

I need to see some of the old clothes.

Don't seem too excited. That's not your— I

feel like I'm losing my appetite in

Thailand. I get full really quickly,

and then just having a small meal, my

stomach gets really big, and then I don't

feel very hungry very often. Good, let's

roll. Get in.

Yesterday I only had ramen for lunch. And

then for dinner, I had some festival food.

It was just like a little little pot of

chips, nice ride, and some fried chicken.

Practical. And I had one beef skewer.

Please. How the

hell did you land in this mess? I liked

the color. The air freshener and booster

seat came extra. You know I don't mean the

car. What am I supposed to tell you?

That I'm not about to let. My partner

robbed me and get away with it? That my

fixer made me look like a goddamn fool?

What about you? What is a fixer?

This particular clown's got intel I need,

and I'm running out of time to get it.

So why didn't she tell me she knew about

Nash? Rogue, do better not to worry what

her agenda might be. Goddamn, I can't

stand the bitch.

Know what? Screw Rogue. Can't see why you

even care. Cuz I need the money.

Don't let her push you around. She's not

the only fixer in town. Yet you're only

here because she sent you. But I'm not the

one bitching about her. You don't know

her, not at all. Did she tell you she was

the one to bring Me and Nash together?

Did she tell you it slipped her mind to

mention Nash was Raffen's shiv? Must have

had her reasons. I wish you can just say I

don't care in the dialogue options.

Why does the game expect me to care about

these characters? Who the hell is she?

Who the hell is Nash? Why do I have to

care? How does it affect me? God, just let

me kill some people.

Well, would you look what the cat dragged

in? Is that a ghost or is it just my

hangover?

Well, it might not have needed a

babysitter if you hadn't lost the merch in

the car. Shut it, V. Are you kidding?

Did that beauty Thornton of yours It's a

bit like that game Borderlands, isn't it?

It's like Borderlands and Fallout and Deus

Ex. Need your help, Raffens.

How bad did they get you? Bad enough to

make me sit quietly through all your

bullshit. Best butt review. My favorite

butts. Now, that was hard. Seriously, I

like Judy. She's my favorite girl so far.

And I like that random, random Asian girl

at that doctor place.

Come on, just get on with it. Not so.

You'll stay put because Saul told you to.

You couldn't. And now this isn't about

Saul. Listen.

Oh, it's hard to enjoy RPG games when you

really don't care about people. In

general, I don't care about people in real

life. Looks like you're stuck with me.

I'm not gonna care about game characters.

You disappointed? I don't know.

I only care about stuff when it has some

kind of effect on me. Hey,

Panam, are you staying a while? No, I'll

be going again soon. We'll talk next time.

Hey,

these people just sit around doing nothing

all day. Someone new? Does Saul know? Not

your concern. Eating burgers. She's not

even opening her mouth,

she's just sniffing it. What's up? She's

got nice boobs though. Finally a woman

who doesn't have all weird implants on

but she's hiding her boobs. It's all

a shitstorm anyway. She's got a nice

belly. I find this woman fairly

attractive. Oh, this one looks nice

too.

Uh, it's got weird scars. I like her

belly.

Where'd her burger go? It turned into a

cigarette.

Stay out of the way! Oh, what's that?

Will you help me with this? What's inside?

A few odds and ends that should be useful.

Take it. All right, that's everything.

Let's go.

Did you figure out your differences with

Saul? Will you come back?

Penam, you'll stop by later, right,

honey? Next time, Ellie, I promise.

So I'm off. Yeah, yeah, go on, go already.

Call us sometime. Keep an eye on her, V.

Put it in the trunk.

This has to be the worst mission ever. We

can go following this woman around.

Were those two in the army? Scorpion

Mitch? Yeah. Okay, we have arrived. Would

I get a job in Thailand? No. What do we

do? We get ready to greet the rest. I

already have a job. I do streaming. We

should scout first to look for anything

that might be useful.

Scan devices. Oh my God.

God, why do they insist on making you do

these really boring tasks?

Scan what? Oh, scan one down

Rocky Ridge. Could be any debtor.

Everything's down, nothing works here.

Well, have you found anything? Yes.

No dice. Nothing's up. Come on, just give

me some people to kill. It's boring. Make

it work. The Raffens will roll in after

dusk. We will have a surprise ready for

them. We just need to get some power

flowing. Let's check the substation.

Okay. If I get a job, then I can't stream

all day. And then I have to

actually work, which is boring.

Stock market's doing pretty well.

My net worth went up by, I think, £700

this week. Isn't it midterm US elections

today? Isn't it Wednesday? And then CPI

readings on Friday. I still think the

market's going to go up a little bit,

maybe another 4%, and then I'm going to

start selling. I'm so annoyed because Gold

dropped like 8%. I didn't buy any, and it

went straight back up another 10%.

Someone bought a lot of gold.

Says central banks are buying up gold as

well. I wish I bought more gold last week.

Rio Tinto is doing really well as well.

It's up like 12%.

This is annoying because the market opens

at 9:30 PM here and then we go to bed at

like 10, so I have to try and wake up at 4

AM to check the market quickly.

Found the breakers,

but there's no juice on them.

I have to wait 10 hours until the market

opens again.

Right, so the intersection is powered from

that transformer substation, right? The

switchgear on the roof. We'll flip the

switch there and everything will light up

like Christmas. Understood?

What does toy with the shiv mean? What is

the shiv? Let's get us some power. I'll

look around for access points. I started

checking the markets in front of her. I

started doing a lot of different things in

front of her now. Relax, got a few ideas.

I'll try to play a little game. This is

phase 2 of a relationship. Phase 1 is you

don't look at your phone at all, you don't

play games in front of her. And you give

all of the attention to her.

But in phase 2, you start putting out your

phone and computer out in front of her,

and you might even play some games in

front of her too. She has some

crypto. I think she bought Bitcoin when it

was like $60K. She bought Dogecoin when

it was I can't remember. I think nearly a

dollar. So she's lost a lot of money in

crypto. Not a lot of money, maybe a couple

thousand dollars.

I haven't told her how much I lost.

That'd be embarrassing.

She basically bought crypto near the top.

I'll make a bypass circuit to the power

supply. That should do it. We'll just have

to get it up and running. Grab the jumper

cables from the trunk. We'll boost it from

the car battery. I want to buy water.

Californian Water Services, stuff like

that. Water stocks have gone up loads.

Red cable

connected. Give me a moment, I need to

hook everything. Name some water stocks.

There's American Water Service, AWS,

and there's some Californian water stock,

and then there's Global Water Stock Index

Fund. Jalopy served us well. Okay,

I've got voltage. Start the terminal

inside, and once the power is on in the

building, get on that roof. You got it.

I'll set up on the tower. We'll have the

whole intersection on a platter. You flip

the breakers when I give you the signal to

do so, understood? Yes, ma'am.

I don't invest monthly. I usually invest

when there's some big crash that's

happened. I haven't bought any stocks

recently. I sold a couple thousand in

AppV. I feel like selling my

Rio Tinto because

it, it never breaks above this channel

it's in.

Just break the glass and dive in. I don't

have enough force. I just break this

window and then—

oh, why would you have to spend points to

break open the door when you can just jump

through the window?

Funny.

Switchgear's got power. We'll have some

fun at the intersection. Let's get into

position. God, this is the most

boring mission I've done. There's no

fighting. What is she even doing?

Now we wait.

Remember, as soon as we see them, you give

us power. Oh, got it.

Cover me just in case. Of course.

They're rolling in. And my Thorn, you see

her? Really, really hard to miss. Uh, she

wants to steal her car back. Let's try to—

so hopefully there's some fighting now.

Where's the son of a bitch? Buzz, you wait

for him here. Get good and ready. The show

starts now.

Let there be light.

What do I do now? Just kill them.

Well,

they're strong.

Whoa, she's quick! Who's that?

Raffen Shiv with key.

I'm scared. What do I do?

By Meta, Facebook dropped down so much.

Whoa, one shot!

Oh, I died.

They one-shot killed me.

I don't know if Facebook is any good

anymore. It seems like less people using

it, and now they're fully focusing on this

metaverse thing, which I think is a bit

Oh, they've got a sniper over there.

How's the laser going through the wall?

Oh, I killed that Raffen.

I'm shooting them through this little gap.

No, get away

with this! That might have been the cherry

on top. Let's pack it in.

Wait for me in the car.

You have YouTube Premium, so I don't see

ads. Do you still get ad rev? Yeah, I get

YouTube Premium ref.

What are you waiting for?

Should I do the driving? Maybe I can skip

the driving. Drive into the pros.

I need to do a YouTube livestream soon.

But I don't have Wi-Fi anymore. It says

no internet secured, but it's connected.

She's prime wheels, isn't she? Dreamy

indeed. No surprise you wanted her back.

She completes me. See, managed just fine

without Mitch and Scorpion.

Listen, V, It's not over yet. It's not?

You got the cargo, you got your car. I did

not get Nash, who was not in Rocky Ridge.

The fucker didn't show. Pan Am,

listen, I have a plan. I don't care. The

car and the merch, that's what we were

after. We got them. 6th Street awaits.

Listen to me, for fuck's sake.

I know where their little hidey-hole is.

We'll take the old unfinished freeway

nearby. I can't unplug it, so I don't know

where the box is for the router. It's in a

All right, so where's this hideout? A hop

and skip away.

Thanks, V. What Nash did I

placed my trust in him. He was the first

person I worked with after leaving the

Aldecaldos, after I came to Night City.

What's a good clickbait title for a

YouTube livestream? Why I Have to

Lie to My Girlfriend. I get it, know how

you feel. Had someone betray me. Maybe

I'll do the My Girlfriend's House Got

Doxxed. Never got the chance. Someone else

got to him first. But if they hadn't,

would you have done it? My girlfriend left

me and then she came back.

No doubt, because she went to work.

Let's get this over with.

Are you ready? Let's get him.

Okay, we've got some fighting to do. I

hope it's saved, so I think I'm gonna die.

Shut your fucking mouth!

Hell yeah! Quite the fireworks show.

This was not what I signed up for. Let's

get him.

Come on, come on, lipstick.

Oh,

there's too many.

Watch it!

The bastard's coming in from the other

side. Yeah, keep your skull up, Yamato.

Careful.

It'll be easier for everyone if you just

come out. Hey, watch out for that

spamming tire! Back down, we ain't no fun!

Out of

bullets.

What do I do now? Ran out of bullets.

Maybe I use this.

I could craft bullets, I guess.

This is so weak. Oh God,

yeah, I think— oh, I can't craft because

I'm in combat. Heads up, reloading.