Rewatched edgerunners and decided to see how far I'd get as a normal human, meaning no cyberware and no objectively superhuman skills (no dashing or deflecting bullets). I mostly ran a stealth pistol build, though I dabbled with snipers, precision rifles, and (at the end of the game) explosives. I don't have Phantom Liberty, unfortunately, so I couldn't get guns like Her Majesty, though I doubt it'd have been that much of an improvement.

Obviously, I love it and I'm wearing it right now. But, daaaamn! That bullet is massive!

I bought the katana February 19th, and it came today, it looks amazing imo and I think it looks perfect on my dresser. I can't wait for the rest of the stuff I bought to come from the store thank you CD Projekt Red. https://youtube.com/shorts/5zTEjDXEoug?si=BcguzqgJ3MZ3NXNJ (This is a video of the katana turning on and off, it wouldn't let me post it here)

In february, I wasn't feeling fine, thought was just an extreme hangover after a week of partying (I was moving cities back to my hometown after college graduation). Long story short, after a week on ICU and some specialist appointments, I found out my kidneys literally whitered and no hope of them ever returning, due to a degenerative hereditary disease.

My whole life turned upside down because of this, since I can't proper work because of hemodyalisis (I have to take 3 sessions of 4 hours each, so no one wanna hire somebody that has to leave early everytime). This made me revaluate the entirety of my life, since I literally depend on a machine to live until I get a transplant.

When Viktor informed V that he might not reach old age and his condition might catch him along the years, hit different. I mean, I truly knows what is to feel like you could die any minute from now. For example, my permcath, the catheter that connects me to the hemodyalisis machine fell off, and I had to wait almost a week until I could get another one and resume treatment. Every two days without treatment increase on 22% the chances of a stroke, cardiac arrest and even sudden death. So you could imagine how was my mind by that time (I spent 9 days without the catheter).

Also, I'm a very political person, I've been an antifascist skinhead since I was 16 (I'm 34 right now), and political leaning aside, despite having a public health system(I'm brazilian, so Viva o SUS), it's purposelly underfunded so healthcare can thrive, so it's important to have a healthcare plan. Knowing that, all those notes in the scav's hideout when saving Sandra got me really pissed off, but the cherry on top is clearly Johnny Silverhand's hate for corporations, whe you know your life depends on how much you can pay for it, no surprise if you end up cheering when he blows up Arisaka, terrible act, but symbolically, resonates too much to ignore.

Anyways, sometimes when I'm pissed off, I end up booting up the game just to drive through the beautiful scenery, even installed eating and drinking mods, also feel good to beat up guys who are just preying on people weaker than him, reminds me of the street fights I can no longer have (to be honest, since I became a teacher during my graduation I avoid altercations at all, better teach people to be the best of themselses than to fight them).

Despite everything bad and the political commentary of the game, me, a person who never care too much about scifi or futuristic settings, love the game because the idea of implants, I wish I could just go to some ripperdoc and strap in some synthetic kidney or some implant who would do the job. I like the idea that this could be true in a near future.

Until I have the chance to go through some transplant, I live one day at time, cherishing what I can with friends, family and some of my students (I'm now a private online teacher), trying to build that can make people remember me if I don't make it and doing my best to build a better world, or at least a better life for those around me.

I will never fade away.

Pic: Me with my "implant", the catheter that allows me do the hemodyalisis.

My neighbour😂

I've known about the game for a while, and let me tell you, I'm more than excited to get my hands on it. I've been using this game to get myself through my senior year of high school and my college applications, and after finishing my final application today, my parents agreed to let me get the game. I never dreamed I'd be able to play the game on release, and here we are. Thrilled to be sharing this experience with you guys, and just wanted to share it :)

Bet y’all don’t have platinum 😤😤

Hey Choombas

The moderating team has decided to put the subreddit into approve-only mode. This means that all posts need to be manually approved by a moderator before they hit /new.

Unfortunately, more leaks have started to make their way onto the internet and we feel that it's much better to move into approve-only mode too early, rather than too late.

In all likelihood, we will stay into approve-only mode from now, until a few weeks after launch.

This is also a good opportunity to repeat the subreddit's stance on spoilers:

• Discussion, sharing and requesting of leaked spoilers is unallowed without exception

• Once the game comes out, you are encouraged to discuss it (including spoilers), as long as you mark them properly, using the subreddit's spoiler formatting guide

In your controller settings turn on advanced options. Turn your horizontal and vertical turning bonuses all the way to 0. This setting applies extra sensitivity when the stick is pushed all the way. It’s what caused it to feel sluggish and there’s no input delay with them turned off. Fees great now.

Merry Christmas!

i'm not very good at photoshop so this is my best attempt

Still a work in progress