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No Latency - Q&A Season 2 - April 2026 - (VIDEO) · No Latency

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  A pee, pee pee. A Dicks in the birds.
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  Hello everyone, and welcome to a no latency Q&A.
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  As we get close to the end of Season 2, we thought it'd be
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  about time to sit down with the cast and have a few words.
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  So we're going to do that with some questions that have been
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  submitted by some tunes on the Discord, some people on the
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  Patreon, some people in DMS on Blue Sky, and even on Instagram
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  as well and through our website. There's lots of ways to ask us
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  questions, so if you have one, you can find a form on our
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  website or just come and ask us in the Discord.
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  We'd like to do Q&A's more, but we also like playing Cyberpunk,
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  so we don't do them very often. All right, let's introduce
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  ourselves after this. Hello everybody.
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  I'm Paris Aerosmith, otherwise known as Binary Dragon, and I am
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  the GM. Who's next?
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  Well, my name is Spoon and I play Jebediah, and every once in
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  a while when I remember, I also play Sloan.
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  I'm Jade, I play Iona and make decisions for Vendel.
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  Hello everybody. Oh, I was I knew that was going
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  to happen and I knew there would there I was like who's going to
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  go next? I'll go next.
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  Greetings everybody. Hello.
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  I am Tracy, also known as mismatch tech, and I am VV, our
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  resident Med tech. Also at one point press, but
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  that's. At one point, press the solo.
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  Yeah, which they they have come back Dragon.
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  Corn. Yes, yes.
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  I'm going to try and get that's it's very difficult footage to
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  work with. We'll see.
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  We'll see Patreon. We'll see.
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  Well, everybody, we've got your questions and we've got retro.
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  We've got Retro because I'm an asshole Retro.
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  Oh sorry I I just thought I was just forgotten.
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  What? Whoops.
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  That's my bad. Come on, Evan, introduce.
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  Hi. Hi, I'm Retro the the forgotten
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  member of of this troop. I just verbally got jousted by
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  our resident Med tech and then forgotten by the the GM Yeah.
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  Love you all. Hi.
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  Oh hey, love you. Love you.
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  Yeah, but Evan, you are obviously you play retro.
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  I do. I do today.
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  But you also run Save the D8 with Jade.
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  I do. I run Save the D8 with Jade and
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  a bunch of my other friends, and we make D&D stuff, which is the
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  antithesis to this show. So.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  And also to to fly back. Tracy also makes things that
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  aren't cyberpunk over at Maggie RPG, so you can check out all of
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  that stuff and links to all of the stuff that we're in and all
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  of our socials in the podcast description below.
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  Without without further ignoring people, my apologies, Evan.
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  We're going to move on to a few questions.
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  I'm going to go with our with one of our a a great first
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  question from DJ on Patreon who asked us through Discord, one of
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  our patrons. DJ is such a tune.
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  DJ is a tune, you are correct. Question for all for your
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  original concept for your character to to where they are
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  now. How big of a change has your
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  character gone through? Anyone want to go first?
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  Yeah, sure. I'll go first.
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  Yeah, my character has had a, A pretty big change in my opinion
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  from where I started Retro originally was going to be super
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  anti corpo, hates everything that's, you know, like super
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  popular, like very, very punk. You know, the anti culture.
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  And overtime, Retro as he is, you know, gained popularity in
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  doing edge running jobs and making a lot more money and such
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  has really started to actually drift more towards, I guess the
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  corporal side. As I've noticed, 'cause I mean,
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  if, if, if, if fans remember, you know, earlier ones, there
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  was a time when, you know, Retro almost got literally killed by 9
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  for one to destroy Biotechnica secrets.
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  And now it's just kind of like 9's.
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  Fault. No, it's not just Nine's fault
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  you you also weren't allowed to leave yet, if I remember
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  correctly. This it's it's.
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  It's not exactly how I wanted Retro to go.
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  However, the beauty with any TTRPG and I think it's really
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  great, is that I naturally through the game and so forth
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  have changed and not like felt forced.
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  It just kind of when does it goes.
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  So I'm I'm not angry that it I did.
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  I'm not one of my original ideas and I'm glad that Retro has
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  evolved to who he is now. Follow up question.
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  Yes, Jeff. Should we differentiate the
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  difference between kind of like finding your character and how
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  your character has changed? Or like developed, yeah.
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  Or developed, you know what I mean?
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  Like, yeah, 'cause like for me for, for, for Jeb it, I
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  definitely had like a different kind of idea at the beginning
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  that I thought is what Jeb was going to be.
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  But like, as it always is in these kinds of in RPGs,
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  generally, at least for in my experience, the more you play
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  them, it kind of takes like maybe four or five sessions to
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  kind of like fully understand that character and like make all
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  those tiny decisions that then develop into a fully fledged
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  character. So like I originally Jeb was
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  going to be like not anti technology, just like, Nah, I
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  don't, I don't do that, that stuff.
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  I like the old way of doing things, you know?
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  And and but he became but that kind of turned into Jeb being
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  dumb. So.
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  I wouldn't say that that is like progression or like how it how
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  my character has changed in playing the game.
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  That's just kind of how it changed in the very first like
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  four or five sessions and understanding the character.
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  Well, I'm, I feel a very similar way.
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  When I first started Iona, I was like, OK, I, well, whenever I
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  start a new character that I take really seriously, I'm like,
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  OK, I'm going to be super, super like cut and dry, super black
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  and white. Like this is this is a very
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  severe vision of my character. And then I'm just not like that.
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  And so the more that I play the character, the more of like the
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  squishy human being underneath bleeds through.
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  So I feel like as as time has gone on, the severe Iona that we
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  started with has has kind of like mushed into a much softer
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  human being. So yeah.
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  So that hard vision, I think kind of like faded away.
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  Also, at any point, if anybody wants to add this piece from
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  Truthless, Truthless to Tracy specifically, which is why I'm
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  adding it. I yes, I can I.
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  Can do that. All right, go on, Evan.
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  For Tracy, how did you think Phoebe's character arc is
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  progressing? Do you think she is going to end
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  up full on villain arc? And does she still like a domino
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  despite the mummy comment? It does.
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  Yes, so this even like plays into a bit of the previous
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  question of like yeah, I think Vivi has.
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  Vivi's character arc has certainly progressed in
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  something I didn't expect, but I really like it.
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  I didn't expect Vivi to be so villain esque.
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  I was a member of like anti hero esque though.
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  I think we all have that in some way 'cause it's, you know, it's
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  Night City and you're not necessarily playing a plucky
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  adventures, you're playing like hardened edge runners in a dark
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  city where there's no good and evil, it's morally Gray,
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  etcetera, etcetera. So but with all of that, Phoebe
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  has definitely made some questionable choices.
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  Do I think she's going to be in a full villain?
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  I don't know. I I really like this like the,
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  the Frankenstein kind of thing and that how that's gone.
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  I don't think she would become like a full villain cause to me
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  like the villains is like joining the corpo, like joining
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  biotechnic. Oh no, I guess.
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  That's kind of excuse me right here.
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  Becoming ACEO of Biotechnica or something, or joining Arisaka or
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  something like that? Rightfully so, that's a good
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  year to have. Yeah, and the mommy comment from
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  Domino, I think Vivi still has a crush on Domino, but now she's
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  like, not sure if Domino understands.
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  Anything. Feelings, the reciprocation of
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  those feelings, which makes sense, but you know it.
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  I think it's cute for her to just have like a little crush.
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  So yeah. Thank you Truthless for that
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  extra question. Thank you, Truthless.
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  Thank you, truthless. I'm actually going to answer for
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  Vendel in terms of the the emotional side of Vendel.
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  Vendel was interesting because at first I just kind of thought
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  they'd be like an an aloof kind of quiet back character that was
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  just purely puppeted by Jade. And very quickly we just didn't
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  like that. So I just sort of started using
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  Bendel to nudge, but in a very like they have a unique way of
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  looking at the universe kind of way.
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  And I don't know when we fully agreed on that, Jade, you know?
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  I love, I love it as the you use it as your own tool because
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  Vendel will be like, hey guys, I think there's something over
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  here we might need to look at. Have you considered coming this
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  way? Can you say the door is locked?
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  Dora the Explorer. It's quite funny, but Vendel has
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  a has your your personal sense of humour I think has bled a lot
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  into Vendel as well, which has made them so delightful.
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  They are delightful to play with.
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  We've got our next question from Marion on Instagram.
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  What spin off 80s or 90s TV show would your character fit right
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  into? A little fun one less, less
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  intense. Oh man, I don't know enough
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  about 80s or 90s. There's neither new one I.
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  Was just are there any good like medical dramas from the 80s and
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  I can only think of like. More Grey's Anatomy, yeah.
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  I. Was going to say.
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  Yeah. Is that?
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  Yeah, No, no VV would fit in house.
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  Yeah, yeah. The more like dramatic.
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  Yeah, Dramatized. Yeah, with, yes.
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  Yeah. Well, now I got to do a quick
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  search. Hold on.
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  In the meantime, if you, if you want to get that kind of vibe of
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  like, I don't know, like an 80s or 90s like road trip movie TV
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  show, you can check out the Jeb and Retro Show episodes have
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  already begun. You can find it exclusively on
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  our patron in Patreon. Patreon, please go to our
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  Patreon. It's really fun.
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  There's like fun stuff. Evan's written a bunch of
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  documents. We just released one that's out
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  by the time this recording comes out.
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  You can come, you can go and check it out.
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  Also, to answer your question, Marian, I had to look it up, but
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  I was right. Cowboy Bebop did start airing in
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  the 90s. So Boom Jebs and Cowboy Bebop, I
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  could totally see that. Yes, I can.
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  I can see there's a bounty hunter there, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I suppose. Like, yeah, yeah.
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  Like classic animes are included in this question.
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  Like where do you fit? I guess, well, I mean, I'm
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  trying to think if there's any other one, but there's really
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  only one in that keeps coming to mind.
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  And The Young and the Restless, really.
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  Yes. Yeah, I think, I think I would
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  be a titular character in in that still running nowadays, I
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  think. Yeah, yeah, it is madly.
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  Just for fun, I'm going to say Alf.
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  I feel like Iona would fit right into, not to be very cyberpunky,
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  but like I know it's also a movie, but The Fifth Element.
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  Oh, nice. Well, yeah.
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  So. Yeah, I think you'd fit in that
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  like beautifully. You know, it's, you know what, a
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  small side pageant. Actually since you just brought
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  that up, I have watched that movie numerous times and it
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  wasn't till I recently watched it with somebody that the the
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  hat that that guy wears when trying to rob Bruce Willis is
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  actually just a picture of the empty hallway.
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  I never clocked that until they pointed that out to.
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  Me. I posted the next question in
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  our discord. Oh, I'll, I'll take it from you,
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  would you? This goes out to all of you.
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  Would you enjoy being around your character?
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  No. All right, this is a trick
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  question because because if suddenly my the character that I
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  created, I was able to hang out with, I'd have so many questions
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  like how did you come into being?
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  Did I just happen to create a creation that that lines up
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  perfectly with this person that I'm meeting, or is this like a
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  time skip situation in which I am like now in cyberpunk also?
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  That seems terrible, to be honest, but I guess we're
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  getting there slowly in real life, so yeah.
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  Maybe it's also I've got really, really bad news for you, because
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  if you were hanging out with yourself, Jeb would have no
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  answers to any of those questions.
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  All that is also. True.
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  I don't know. Like he wouldn't know.
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  I could ask him questions that I don't even know the answer to
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  about his back story, and then I would know that and to be able
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  to use that in the show so you'd.
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  Use you'd use this event to cheat at at playing Cyberpunk.
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  Wow. Cheat at writing a character.
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  That's so funny. Writing is hard.
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  I'm just going to RIP a a a like a a tear in space-time and talk
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  to a fictional character in another dimension that's.
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  The only way. Tracy I mean, I I would be happy
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  to be around VV. You know, VV seems like a party
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  not not not to. VV seems like a fun time.
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  Yeah, VV. Got a good vibe.
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  Yeah, yeah. Now you know other members of
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  the of the group. I don't know, just.
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  Saying not naming any names, name names, name names.
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  I mean. OK.
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  Look, look. Let's look, let's just be
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  honest. Nobody wants to hang out with
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  retro. If retro is real, nobody who
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  does retro is a loud braggart who would just light up in your
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  house whether you said it was OK or not.
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  Just do drugs, probably steal shit from you when you're not
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  looking and and if you you know try to call them out would just
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  gaslight you so no. I think I want to hang out with
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  Vendel. I think Vendel seems.
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  Oh yeah, Vendel also seems chill.
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  Iona can stick around, she's got big boobs.
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  I love me some big. Boobs.
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  I like some big boobas. I'll I'll I'll shake her hands.
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  Missed Great question thank you. Oh no, you're right.
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  I would try to for sure about. I'm like.
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  Hello, Miss. Hello, ma'am.
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  Yes, again, thank you. Missed on Discord, one of our
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  Patreon supporters. We appreciate it alright, this
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  one is anonymous from our web, our website of website website.
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  Are any of the characters canonically queer?
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  And also to add, that includes are any of the characters ace
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  'cause we that actually came up recently in the discord?
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  Vivi is bisexual, so yes. I think I knew that.
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  Yes, I think we talked, we did talk about this at some point.
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  Yeah, because V VS flirted with like fems all over the shop.
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  Absolutely. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yes.
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  Yeah, Jeb. Straight Boring.
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  Yes. Yes, he is.
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  You got to have one. You're going to have the token
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  strike. Token strike guy Iona is gender
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  non conforming and I believe ace.
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  Yes, I believe ace as well. That was that's what the
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  conversation in the Discord was, was sort of a congratulations
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  for sort of stepping into the sexual world a little bit from
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  the sort of ace vibe that. Yeah, that validity, Yeah, in
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  media. Validity Retro's key day.
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  Yeah, yes, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm unsure about if retro
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  is queer only because I'm, I'm, I'm still trying to like, you
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  know, fully understand it and I don't want to just say that, you
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  know, retro is if they're not, I'll just say it.
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  So I would say retro definitely is straight.
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  Retro likes women, but retro can appreciate.
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  A male form. And you know, if say, you know,
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  Brad Pitt was to come up and be like, hey, you know, you want to
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  give me a handy in the back, you'd probably say yeah.
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  Fair enough. I.
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  Think that that goes along with the, you know, like I feel like
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  Jed would be like, I ain't gay, but I'm not blind.
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  That's a good looking man. Yeah, right.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think any.
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  I don't think we've I mean, why would we?
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  There's no point in having a homophobic character on the
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  show, but I don't think we have one.
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  Vendel's always been like non binary in general because it was
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  just more fun to just have like a floppy human.
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  But I'm I'm I'm still like, and this is more up because
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  honestly, this is more of a Jade decision.
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  I'm unsure if they're non binary or actually just sort of or you
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  can be pansexual and non binary at the same time, I suppose, but
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  I don't I don't think they have a gender that they prefer.
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  They're just like, Oh, sexy touch.
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  I agree, I would say non binary pansexual sounds right up their
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  alley. Yeah, yeah, people like humans.
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  Especially can we, can we just have a moment of silence to just
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  think about just all the sexiness that we've had so far
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  in the podcast? Yeah, we've we've had some fun
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  sexiness. There's a.
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  Moment of down silence. 3000 miles of open Rd.
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  The Japan Retro Show. Oh man, this is going to be
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  tough. Join Jeff.
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  Wakey wakey, sleepy Princess. And retro.
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  I did not agree to this, Jeff. On the road trip of a lifetime.
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  Oh yeah, she did. Vans got some shoes on the mix.
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  No, it was the second car to the left.
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  As they take on Route 66. The Japan Retro Show.
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  So much sexiness. So sexy it's killed us all.
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  Well, that here we go. I have a question for everybody.
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  Who's the sexiest character? Who's the sexiest?
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  Character Sexiest character The Collector.
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  The. Collector.
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  The silver fox that is the collector, Yeah.
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  I could see that, yeah. But didn't we make Domino like
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  very like conventionally attractive like all yes, we put
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  all of the parts together to make him an extremely like
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  attractive. Yeah, he's hot Frankenstein's
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  monster. Yeah, he's he's the Jacob, O
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  Lordy Frankenstein. Monster if he built him so.
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  Yeah. So he built.
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  Is what you're saying. Oh yeah, he's stacked.
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  He's got. Exactly.
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  He's. Got 2 sets of arms so.
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  He's just a hot guy built from lesser hot guys.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  Talking of Domino, there's a question from Mist, one of my
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  Patriot supporters, through Discord.
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  What do you all think? What do they think?
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  They being you guys? Wow, this is badly worded.
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  What do they think about? Sorry, Mist, What do you think
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  about Domino? What is their opinion of Domino
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  and his motivations, of the Syndicate and his motivations
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  and of the Syndicate? Second, what do you think about
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  yourselves at this point in the story?
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  What everyone has done or continues to do the horrific
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  things? Do you see yourselves as good
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  people in your PCs, victims of circumstance, or just an
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  expected inhabitant of Night City's population as it brings
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  you Into Darkness? I added that last bit Exodus.
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  I like how a lot of these questions are like questions
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  that we should address in the fiction.
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  Like it would be interesting to have this conversation in in
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  character and like for a reason and then use these as thematic
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  building blocks to tell us about our characters and the story.
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  I mean also. Jeb is not so sure about Domino.
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  He's kind of like, hmm, this is kind of a weird guy.
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  But like, you know, there's just no reason to dislike.
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  I'm just kind of like, hmm, kind of kind of a little weird.
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  Maybe at arm's length for now, but here's a question to your
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  question. Is this what does the player
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  think about their characters, which is kind of like the
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  previous question. So I'm going to answer this as
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  what do the characters think about the characters?
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  And so I think Jeb is pretty happy with himself, doesn't
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  really see it, see it one way or another.
• 25:20
  He's probably thinks of himself as like a bit of a, as you said,
• 25:25
  a victim of circumstance, but mostly like he's trying to be a
• 25:27
  little better. You know, he's recently been
• 25:29
  trying to be like, we don't necessarily need to use violence
• 25:33
  to solve every problem. And maybe that's makes the
• 25:37
  better the world a better place with the fewer people that
• 25:40
  choose violence. Maybe that makes the world
• 25:42
  better. But we'll see.
• 25:44
  Maybe you do need to shoot some bad people sometimes.
• 25:48
  It's unclear. Yeah, I do wonder if we'll like
• 25:53
  ever have a crisis of conscience among the group or even among
• 25:59
  each other amongst ourselves, if that'll ever come up.
• 26:06
  It it. It would be interesting to
• 26:08
  analyze that in character, I think because we haven't really
• 26:12
  done a lot of self occasionally. Actually, we occasionally do
• 26:15
  have some self reflection, but maybe we can explore that deeper
• 26:19
  at some point because I think that would be really cool.
• 26:21
  Yep, it's almost like the show's kind of gearing towards
• 26:25
  questions that are unanswered. I don't know, I I find this
• 26:32
  question to be pretty difficult because for being a character
• 26:38
  for for playing as a character, even if you're being as an evil
• 26:41
  character kind of deal, I don't think anybody really perceives
• 26:45
  themselves as being evil. Or like when you do, you kind of
• 26:49
  come off as this like over the top cartoony kind of deal.
• 26:53
  Yeah, mustache trolling, right. And I've been finding myself
• 26:58
  like starting to shy away from the, the, the the essence of the
• 27:05
  alignment chart that I is usually seen for TTRPGS because
• 27:10
  I think that that falls more into a crutch of my character is
• 27:14
  supposed to be this. So this is what they do kind of
• 27:16
  deal. And however, like, again, it's
• 27:19
  going to be off of perception. So like you could have, I mean,
• 27:23
  I'm sorry to go into like D&D for this, but it's the best way
• 27:25
  for me to put it. So like you could have a palate
• 27:27
  in who's like, I'm for my God. And I want to, you know, spread
• 27:32
  the name and, you know, for all the followers, however they
• 27:36
  could be doing, you know, something of like annihilating
• 27:40
  an entire demonic race who doesn't believe in that and
• 27:44
  that's just perceived as evil by them.
• 27:46
  So then in that case, you're the sense of alignment really does
• 27:50
  just go off of a perception from which side that it is.
• 27:53
  And nobody ever really wants to see themselves as being evil.
• 27:57
  I personally think, especially when it comes within cyberpunk
• 28:03
  that we everybody like kind of wants to envision themselves as
• 28:07
  this, you know, folk hero within the the city.
• 28:11
  But I think over time, and I think really doing jobs within
• 28:15
  the city, I think you'll really come to find out the the
• 28:18
  corruption that is in the city will end up infecting you at
• 28:23
  some point. And you're going to have to
• 28:25
  make. And it's not, it's not Even so
• 28:28
  much of making you do bad things.
• 28:30
  It's then you having to make justification in your own mind
• 28:34
  of why that was OK to do. Yeah, yeah, we'll put snap,
• 28:38
  snap, snap, snap, snap. Snap snap, snap, snap.
• 28:47
  Is that everybody? I think that Domino has his own
• 28:54
  intentions that I believe are good.
• 28:59
  So I'm following him. Yeah, because I trust him.
• 29:03
  What? If domino ends up like becoming.
• 29:07
  There are little, there are little inklings.
• 29:09
  Every once in a while we'll be standing here.
• 29:12
  We'll be standing here as a team and we look over at Domino and
• 29:14
  you're like, is this? Is there something going on
• 29:18
  there? Yeah.
• 29:20
  Did we do that or was he? Just like that all along.
• 29:26
  So yeah, there is that. Nature versus nurture.
• 29:30
  I don't know what y'all are talking about.
• 29:32
  That handsome fella can do whatever he wants.
• 29:36
  Fair enough. I'll say nothing because
• 29:39
  obviously I know the answers to these questions and those are
• 29:45
  things, Spoon, that we will keep in the show.
• 29:47
  How about that, Dale? Love that.
• 29:50
  Cool. This one.
• 29:51
  This one actually came through the website.
• 29:53
  It's not a question, but it is very cool.
• 29:57
  If you ever have an idea that you think would be cool on the
• 29:59
  show, please submit it like this or like let us know in the
• 30:02
  discord because like it's a very cool home brew and also the
• 30:06
  person that's not a real name, but that's a person that sends
• 30:11
  us a message. Abby Normal.
• 30:13
  Abby Normal. Abby Normal from the from the.
• 30:16
  Website. Love Abby.
• 30:19
  You know Abby Normal from the website.
• 30:22
  Yeah from nolatencypodcast.com check it out right now.
• 30:25
  Shameless plaque. Not a question but an idea for a
• 30:28
  new blade for Vendel, which they did spell miss.
• 30:30
  Misspell and it's OK, everybody misspells Vendel.
• 30:34
  If Retro got hold of a memorial token, Iona has 1, he could
• 30:37
  possibly hack it so that the hologram makes the blade look
• 30:42
  like it's surrounded by sakura blossoms falling around it.
• 30:45
  It would be an interesting way to memorialize Sano the blade.
• 30:48
  Straight edge. That's really cute, that.
• 30:54
  Is really. Cute.
• 30:55
  Aw, that's very sweet, that. Is that's really sweet.
• 30:59
  Yeah. That'd be rad.
• 31:00
  But also I'm thinking because I'm AGM, what mechanic does that
• 31:06
  add? So this is my addition to the
• 31:07
  question. What mechanic do you think that
• 31:09
  adds to the blade? Cool.
• 31:14
  Obviously. Not just like wardrobe and
• 31:17
  style, but is there like a, is there like a fun thing that that
• 31:19
  could do like in combat or as stealth or as like?
• 31:23
  What? Cyberpunk is famously style over
• 31:28
  substance so it doesn't have to do shit.
• 31:32
  Is this true? It's a very cool, very cool
• 31:37
  suggestion through the website, so I appreciate it.
• 31:39
  It's really neat. I, I don't know if it
• 31:41
  necessarily needs to, you know, add anything of like a bonus or
• 31:45
  something to that, but I think just having that itself is
• 31:51
  fodder for just role play all together.
• 31:54
  Having having something like that where you've stylized your
• 31:57
  weapon into having looking like sakura blossoms, where whenever
• 32:03
  you swing it adds to, you know, one, the visual appeal.
• 32:08
  I don't think anybody was normally going to see that.
• 32:11
  Two, it then also creates itself as a, a, a character extension.
• 32:18
  Yeah, everything doesn't need to, I don't think needs to have
• 32:21
  some kind of extra bonus. I think that, you know,
• 32:24
  sometimes just having something cool like that just help adds
• 32:28
  the fun. But also, to be fair, it totally
• 32:30
  could and Paris coming from the the, you know, other side of the
• 32:34
  screen DM mode and like game design mode could do something
• 32:39
  cool, could do something like, I don't know, maybe it like when
• 32:42
  the the flower petals start falling, it's like mesmerizing,
• 32:46
  you know, and they're like, Oh my God, it's so beautiful.
• 32:48
  I have a sense of calm. Come over me.
• 32:49
  Boom, you got hit. There goes your head.
• 32:58
  We've got a question which I didn't put in Discord but I
• 32:59
  will. I will ask it because I'm going
• 33:01
  to answer it very quickly from Christopher, Christopher Samuski
• 33:05
  from on from the website. What system aids do we use?
• 33:08
  Rod 20, sub punk, Red companion app, etcetera.
• 33:11
  Would love some background on how our game is set up.
• 33:17
  We do different things for panels that we do for when we
• 33:22
  record the show like this. We use roll 20 for the most
• 33:27
  part, but do you guys use any other tools?
• 33:31
  Demiplane. Now that Demiplane has the
• 33:37
  ability to build character sheets for Cyberpunk Red, it's
• 33:42
  very useful. I'm a big fan of Demiplane
• 33:44
  because they make it very easy to build a character sheet.
• 33:50
  Like it kind of takes you through it where you don't even
• 33:52
  have to like do the calculations yourself.
• 33:57
  They have it all like laid out for you.
• 33:58
  And same thing for when it like you get experience and you want
• 34:01
  to spend the experience. I just find it much easier to
• 34:03
  track that on demiplane personally.
• 34:06
  Oh, that's what you like about Demiplane?
• 34:08
  Yes, and the Nexus is amazing like being able to like just
• 34:16
  search up things. They just have a very great
• 34:19
  comprehensive Nexus for Cyberpunk RED to search up like
• 34:25
  things when you need it on the fly rather than like scouring
• 34:28
  through books. Yeah, big fan.
• 34:32
  No, I was going to agree with. Full disclosure, both Tracy and
• 34:34
  I have are authors of some of those books, which I think
• 34:37
  legally we have to say, but we are not sponsored at this
• 34:40
  particular moment in time, I don't believe, but if we are,
• 34:42
  there'll be a discount code below.
• 34:46
  Well, what are the other things that I also like about Demi
• 34:49
  plane? Because I was also going to say
• 34:50
  the Nexus before you caught me, Tracy.
• 34:53
  Was that in in the Demi plane? On the character sheet, it also
• 34:59
  gives you a list of actions that you can do.
• 35:02
  And there's I just checking the, the amount of actions on the
• 35:06
  demiplane compared to like what the regular paper sheets that we
• 35:10
  have and such and explains everything of what they do.
• 35:13
  And it's already pre set up is amazing.
• 35:16
  I, I, I do believe there was a, a recent recording that we did
• 35:22
  that I was using, I was using demiplane and I was like, can I
• 35:26
  do this? Because it's on the sheet on
• 35:27
  demiplane that says that I'm allowed to do it.
• 35:30
  Yeah. And yes, as far as other tools,
• 35:33
  and hopefully I don't sound too robotic because I seem to be
• 35:36
  having a little Internet hiccup. The when we do meet in person
• 35:44
  for like our panels and, and our games that we run at like Comic
• 35:47
  Con and things like that. We do a lot of us do use the
• 35:49
  Cyberpunk Red companion app. So we don't have to like bring
• 35:54
  like a laptop or a tablet or something.
• 35:56
  It's like very easy on mobile. They have a great mobile app.
• 36:00
  This is, I'm just a big fan. I I love these great tools that
• 36:04
  that are made for cyberpunk. It just makes like there's so
• 36:07
  many good tools for Cyberpunk Red and it makes it so easy to
• 36:10
  run and play no matter how you want to do it.
• 36:13
  So I would consider that 'cause it, it's another one where it
• 36:15
  builds the character for you very, very easily and very easy
• 36:19
  to access, very easy to use. So we we are hashtag blessed to
• 36:24
  have great tools for Cyberpunk Red.
• 36:27
  The the, the, the tool I like from the GM side.
• 36:30
  I don't know if you've played it around with it much, Tracy, have
• 36:34
  you? Yes, I have actually, yeah.
• 36:38
  It's pretty great. It's fantastic.
• 36:39
  I love, I love the I love being able to because when we get
• 36:42
  guests on the show, I just say, hey, download the companion app
• 36:44
  because it's free. Create a character in here.
• 36:47
  They're like basic breakdowns and you put those in the first
• 36:50
  page and it follows along. And then I say, just send me the
• 36:52
  code and then I have it and I can go, Oh, you if they've done
• 36:55
  something wrong or whatever, I can like vet it for the, for the
• 36:59
  recording or whatever or the the panel.
• 37:01
  But apparently if you're on the same Wi-Fi network, you can also
• 37:05
  run initiative through it, which is pretty cool.
• 37:08
  So I. Didn't know that, that's
• 37:10
  awesome. 'Cause we tried to do it at
• 37:11
  Comic Con, but the Wi-Fi was terrible.
• 37:13
  No, we tried to do it at Dragon Con because we're all we're,
• 37:16
  we're travellers, we're around, you know, and we couldn't get it
• 37:20
  to work because the Wi-Fi dragon Dragon Con is a nightmare.
• 37:24
  But yeah, for for an in home game, I'd recommend using an app
• 37:27
  like especially the GM. It organises so much and with
• 37:30
  crunchy games like Cyberpunk, it makes the crunch very
• 37:34
  accessible, even if there is only one thing in education.
• 37:41
  Yes. Animal.
• 37:43
  Agree. Yeah, I think it's that Animal
• 37:45
  Handling's in a category and it's you're here.
• 37:47
  Yeah, at least on Roll 20. Good question.
• 37:50
  Thank you. Thank you very much,
• 37:52
  Christopher. But we're going to go scroll up
• 37:55
  a little bit. There's a question from DJ on
• 37:56
  Discord on the topic of dating. What would be each character's
• 38:01
  dream date? Just just someone who who likes
• 38:09
  to listen to my stories and and and enjoys being around me I
• 38:12
  suppose. A nice drive, Jeff, don't.
• 38:16
  Nice drive would be nice. Yeah, and someone who's not
• 38:20
  allergic to birds. Yeah, can you do?
• 38:24
  Are some people allergic to birds?
• 38:28
  Birds aren't real. That's true.
• 38:30
  You're not allergic to dinosaurs.
• 38:33
  Did you guys know that the birds in Fallout 4 aren't real
• 38:36
  canonically? Yeah.
• 38:38
  I did not know that until today. That's a side.
• 38:43
  That's a side thing. Don't worry about that.
• 38:46
  Jeff, Jeff, that's that. That's the joke.
• 38:48
  That's the joke. Because the whole birds aren't
• 38:50
  real on the Internet and they're all supposed to call it robots.
• 38:53
  Surveillance tools Vivi's ideal date?
• 39:00
  Some shopping. A little little shoppy at a cute
• 39:04
  little night market. Then you know that they're
• 39:10
  paying. Little shopping spree.
• 39:14
  Yellow shopping spree and then you know that we got to we got
• 39:19
  to stop for a little treat a little a little boba treat she.
• 39:24
  Can make profit as well. There's a lot of advantages of
• 39:31
  this. And then, you know, maybe a nice
• 39:35
  like rooftop view somewhere that like find a little spot to see
• 39:41
  the city with a nice view that that sounds like a great date
• 39:46
  that does. Sound nice.
• 39:47
  That does sound. Nice.
• 39:48
  I'm realizing just now that when they meant what is their date,
• 39:52
  they didn't mean the person, they meant the activity.
• 39:54
  But. I think that's a very gentle
• 39:59
  response, so I love it. My answer is my answer is April
• 40:03
  25th because it's not too hot and it's not too cold and all
• 40:05
  you need. Is a white jacket.
• 40:08
  No, I'm, I'm thinking 2 bottles of sanitized water.
• 40:12
  And if this is a dream, a dream date, what if we're what if
• 40:16
  we're in the great sterile expanse of space?
• 40:23
  I wanna like space. I do, unfortunately.
• 40:26
  I think I like space. We got a little taste of space
• 40:29
  and that's it. That was fun.
• 40:31
  I. Think it.
• 40:31
  I honestly think it was the adrenaline.
• 40:36
  From you, you had to stare into the abyss.
• 40:38
  Yeah, but Retro did. But listen to that episode.
• 40:46
  You might get it. You might get it.
• 40:47
  It's space. It was, it was a good episode.
• 40:49
  I loved that. That was a fun arc.
• 40:51
  I remember when I decided we were going to space and I was
• 40:54
  like, I don't know what they'll do, but they'll do something.
• 40:56
  And you did a lot of things. We did space.
• 40:59
  Yeah, I've got another question from Marion on the website.
• 41:04
  If you could have an item your character has used in real life,
• 41:08
  what would you want from their inventory?
• 41:12
  Can I can I have something from from Vendo go on?
• 41:15
  I would like the the roller, the rollerblade feet.
• 41:19
  You want the rollerblade feet. I imagine.
• 41:21
  Imagine if you don't have to clean out from in between your
• 41:24
  toes every day and you can just roll around wherever you go.
• 41:32
  It's like a yeah, adults are very cool when they wear Heelys,
• 41:35
  so. True fact, but.
• 41:38
  That didn't sound very nice. No, no, no.
• 41:41
  No, no, no, no. Here's the thing.
• 41:43
  I'm with, I'm with Jade. I'm with Jade.
• 41:45
  No, but like cool cyberfeed you need to.
• 41:46
  No, you're right. Just go full 90s with it.
• 41:49
  So like, you got the rollerblade feet, get the Janko jeans that
• 41:56
  you could fit like a whole PlayStation one in with several
• 42:00
  bracelets and a punk band T-shirt.
• 42:03
  Yeah, you can do. You can do Hot hot babe roller
• 42:08
  Derby cross leg summertime. Yeah, summer.
• 42:13
  Summer. With like a fisheye lens and a
• 42:15
  pole. Perfect.
• 42:18
  Yeah, that's. Me, it's so easy.
• 42:24
  It's the grappling of oh, sorry. No, you.
• 42:28
  No. Nobody let Tracy say the the
• 42:30
  hoverboard or the baseball bat. Nobody let her say.
• 42:33
  Anything. What are you going to do with
• 42:36
  that baseball bat, Tracy? Crack your heads, Yeah?
• 42:46
  Tracy. I was like, may I speak now?
• 42:51
  I wasn't even going to say the baseball bat or the hoverboard,
• 42:53
  although the hoverboard would probably be the most useful.
• 42:57
  The San Rue K8 Hello Kitty Ultra pistol, which fun fact, Retro
• 43:08
  actually 3D printed that IRL for Comic Con a few years ago.
• 43:14
  So it's almost like I do have it.
• 43:17
  Yeah, there is a, there is a physical version out there.
• 43:19
  There is. Wow.
• 43:22
  And you can check it out on our YouTube channel.
• 43:25
  We got we actually got a question in the in the websites
• 43:28
  about where to find Memento Job Part 2.
• 43:30
  It's actually our first Comic Con panel.
• 43:32
  You can find that on our YouTube channel.
• 43:34
  That's where you hear the end of that adventure.
• 43:36
  The idea when we made that was to get people to check out our
• 43:38
  YouTube channel. It sort of worked.
• 43:40
  I get why you couldn't find it, but I have added it to that
• 43:42
  episode's description to help others.
• 43:44
  So thanks for for calling me out on my bullshit.
• 43:47
  Well Retro, did you have something that you wanted from
• 43:52
  from the game? Yes, I would really like
• 44:01
  Eddie's. Yeah.
• 44:06
  Yeah, 'cause rich is fucking rich.
• 44:08
  A useless currency in for today I mean.
• 44:11
  Yeah, right. I mean, should I just go bucks?
• 44:13
  Should I just go ahead and just say I don't think anybody else
• 44:16
  here knows how much I have do it?
• 44:21
  How much you got? I have over 28,000 eddies, yeah.
• 44:25
  What? Yeah.
• 44:28
  Jeez. I just make everything.
• 44:30
  Why do I have to spend money on it when I can make it myself?
• 44:33
  Just been hoarding all of the the euro bucks that we've been
• 44:37
  making. Oh wait, Christmas happened.
• 44:39
  You have to pay rent, but yes. Yeah, I think that.
• 44:44
  I'm planning on investing a bunch of my money into Pokémon
• 44:52
  packs and to start popping them, popping them open.
• 44:57
  It's it's sure investment, just sure investment.
• 45:01
  Like there's no, there's no way I can lose money on this.
• 45:04
  Like they're so hot right now. So anyway, binary, have you had
• 45:13
  to shift any of the overarching story in any?
• 45:17
  How did you shift any of the overarching story involving
• 45:19
  Domino in reaction to how the gang has been progressing and
• 45:23
  sometimes delaying? Yes, is the answer.
• 45:28
  And at the beginning of Season 2, when VV came in, I wanted to
• 45:32
  make medical things a more important part of the storyline
• 45:36
  to sort of make sure that the PC had good reason to be around so
• 45:45
  so. Wow, is that horn OK?
• 45:47
  Yeah. What?
• 45:48
  Was that the guy goes, drives down my street and no it's not.
• 45:53
  He has to replace the air, I think.
• 45:55
  But yeah, no, I, I, that's where the whole sort of Frankenstein
• 45:58
  thing came from. Like as, as sort of an evolving
• 46:02
  story. I didn't sort of stick many
• 46:03
  things in the ground ago. These can't change when it comes
• 46:06
  to like the story, the overarching story.
• 46:09
  It is very, some of the stuff is very improvised against what you
• 46:14
  guys do, I suppose, which I feel like it keeps it fresh.
• 46:17
  And every now and again, somebody will say something
• 46:19
  errant in the Discord and I'll be like.
• 46:21
  Oh, that's a good idea. I'm still that.
• 46:24
  Idea and you should do the same thing when you see or hear a
• 46:26
  good idea you should steal it because this is a game we make
• 46:29
  up with dice and nobody cares. Like just go and have the fun.
• 46:32
  I think that's one of the things that that's the other thing is
• 46:35
  if I start working on an idea and I'm like oh like the concept
• 46:38
  of this is great but playing it is not fun, then I scrap it.
• 46:43
  I try and find something else. So yeah, a few things, yeah.
• 46:48
  Originally you were going to build a robot for Domino, and
• 46:52
  then with Tracy's fascination with the occult, I thought maybe
• 46:57
  Frankensteining Domino together would be more fun.
• 47:03
  And you're right. It was.
• 47:05
  You were indeed. Yeah, that's a really fun
• 47:07
  episode. It is.
• 47:16
  Yeah, good question. Thank you.
• 47:17
  Truthless. I have a question from DJ on
• 47:19
  Discord. Where's everyone's favorite
• 47:21
  place in Night City? It can be from like the the the
• 47:25
  our show or it can be from the video game or the anime.
• 47:31
  Favorite place in Night City? Oh, there are a lot of iconic
• 47:37
  spots and like I could just say like the Bubble Tea Cafe, which
• 47:43
  is a favorite. Let it be known it is a
• 47:46
  favorite. I loved and I like just this
• 47:50
  place that we had was like the morgue.
• 47:52
  I don't know why it just always reminds me of like B BS origins.
• 47:57
  I like the morgue a lot. Other places I like.
• 48:02
  I just also one of my favorite districts.
• 48:04
  I don't know why is the university district in night
• 48:07
  city. I always use it for settings and
• 48:08
  stuff. Biotechnic is there.
• 48:11
  So I I just like that particular sector of of Night City
• 48:16
  personally. I like Pacifica, I like the way
• 48:23
  it sounds. Yeah.
• 48:26
  I like the idea of being in a bar where you kind of live there
• 48:31
  and you also all your friends are there and there's.
• 48:34
  Everybody knows name. I was getting there.
• 48:40
  Rude. But yeah, no, I like the bar.
• 48:44
  If if I had to visit a place, it would probably be the bar.
• 48:48
  It'd be no latency. Oh, that's nice.
• 48:52
  Yeah. That's a good one.
• 48:55
  Duh. I yeah it is.
• 49:01
  I don't gamble personally, but Sharks cards reminds me of the
• 49:10
  casino in the game Stardew Valley where it's just kind of
• 49:18
  off in the middle of the desert. You know, and start to yeah, the
• 49:23
  one that's. Casino.
• 49:25
  Yeah, that's not on the main village, right?
• 49:28
  It just makes you feel good. You you go, you go to the
• 49:31
  desert, you get in the casino and nobody's really betting real
• 49:34
  money. You're just kind of hanging out
• 49:35
  and playing a form of roulette. And I just sit there for hours
• 49:40
  on my Switch. Hitting the button makes me feel
• 49:43
  like I'm at Sharks cards. Hell yeah.
• 49:46
  I definitely don't don't have a gambling problem.
• 49:50
  No, none. None whatsoever.
• 49:51
  Not in Stardew Valley. No, Evan, what's your favorite?
• 49:58
  So mine is cliche as fuck is it? But I don't care.
• 50:04
  It would have to be like a good random rooftop spot somewhere in
• 50:12
  downtown. Nice city, especially while it's
• 50:16
  raining and just like being able to see the view of looking over
• 50:21
  the city. I don't know what it is.
• 50:24
  There is something about the cyberpunk like city skyline,
• 50:32
  just the way that it is that I feel really inspires me or like,
• 50:42
  like connects with me like 'cause like everything nowadays
• 50:47
  to me feels ultra minimalist and just like hyper streamlined and
• 50:54
  nothing really has a personality and, and you know, take what you
• 50:57
  will of what that is for, but like it, it's, it to me, it
• 51:02
  sucks. I, I'm, I think binary.
• 51:06
  I think I was talking about this with binary actually, when I
• 51:08
  came and visited them before Comic Con that at one point,
• 51:13
  like I walked around, I think it was like what A10 it was a it
• 51:20
  was a not ten. It was like maybe five mile
• 51:23
  radius from around. And I was just so infatuated
• 51:28
  with the older parts of the city because all the buildings had
• 51:32
  like this like personality to from like back in the 80s and
• 51:39
  90s to the newer ones that you could see in the closer
• 51:43
  downtown. And I was like, I I just enjoy
• 51:46
  this so much more. Like, there's just it.
• 51:48
  It's so much more visually appealing.
• 51:50
  And. And cats.
• 51:53
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 51:54
  What? Oh, cat.
• 51:56
  Yeah, that's a cat. I was so lost in my own.
• 51:59
  That's cool view. Yeah, Yeah, I like a good view.
• 52:02
  I don't know. I think I think Shuck.
• 52:05
  I think I'd go to shucks. Cards.
• 52:08
  Interesting. I don't know.
• 52:09
  I think I'm. I'm with, I'm with.
• 52:11
  I'm with Spoon, though. I think I'd hang out at the bar.
• 52:13
  That place sounds cool. That would be a new one.
• 52:19
  Yeah, the afterlife's a good bar.
• 52:21
  Hey now, we've got a really nice message from Lobo, one of our
• 52:25
  Patreon supporters. Thank you Lobo over on Discord.
• 52:28
  Not a question, but a message. Every single individual that
• 52:31
  encompasses our beloved podcast have been doing great from day
• 52:34
  zero. I love everyone's characters and
• 52:36
  IRL persons, guests, formers, actuals.
• 52:40
  So thank you for the memories and enjoyment.
• 52:43
  Oh. That's just nice.
• 52:44
  That's just a nice thing to say. Thank you very.
• 52:46
  Much. Thank you, Lobo.
• 52:47
  That's very nice. That's a very nice thing to say.
• 52:50
  And you could say nice things to us too on our Patreon.
• 52:53
  Yes, if you want to do that. For just $3 a month, you too can
• 52:58
  say less things to us. Less.
• 53:00
  We still have a few $1.00 left. Let's go.
• 53:03
  Yeah, we've got actually $1.00. Less cost a dollar to say
• 53:06
  something nice. And a dollar.
• 53:07
  And then we've got a few other tiers that give you a few other
• 53:10
  little treats as well. Let's wrap up with a really just
• 53:13
  a nice cyberpunk question. What's?
• 53:16
  Your. Parents go on, Yes.
• 53:18
  Do you mind if I comment real quick on what Lobo said?
• 53:20
  Sure. I just want to say myself.
• 53:26
  Thanks, Lobo. When somebody is, you know,
• 53:31
  brave enough to state something like this and we get to hear it,
• 53:35
  it, it does put a bit of joy in my heart and makes me feel very
• 53:40
  happy that I'm able to create something that somebody actively
• 53:44
  enjoys. So thank you Lobo for keeping me
• 53:47
  going. Yeah, it's pretty great.
• 53:50
  We have, we have a really great group of people in the in the
• 53:53
  Discord and you should go and check it out.
• 53:54
  James Bug, they're really nice in there, but like, let's wrap
• 53:59
  up with a nice question because it's just a good one for people
• 54:02
  who do stuff in the Cyberpunk. What's your advice for people
• 54:06
  when they want to start playing Cyberpunk Red?
• 54:11
  When they want to start playing Cyberpunk Red.
• 54:13
  For the first time, finds finds a sucker to run it for you.
• 54:19
  True. Oh, I thought you were saying
• 54:22
  what do you do if you want to stop playing Cyberpunk?
• 54:25
  I was. Stuck I also thought that first
• 54:27
  and I was like that can't possibly what do you I was.
• 54:29
  Like. Find find a partner you you will
• 54:32
  immediately. Oh no, get a life that's.
• 54:40
  That was way mean. Slight tangent, yeah, the
• 54:45
  original GM of this show was going to be Jade.
• 54:48
  Stop. Fun fact.
• 54:52
  The original GM was Jade and I was just going to edit it and
• 54:55
  the jade was like, oh, but you'd be you do it.
• 54:57
  It was. I don't literally said to me,
• 54:58
  you do it because I don't want to.
• 55:00
  And I was like, well but. Yeah, you know what?
• 55:05
  I'll be honest. Yeah, no, I love being the GM,
• 55:08
  to be frank, Like I love it. Thank you so much everybody for
• 55:11
  listening. My I'll do my my advice last.
• 55:14
  Who else has some tips? I mean y'all missing out?
• 55:17
  I got to do 7 candles with jade and they are phenomenal so.
• 55:22
  It's it's there's ten of them. Lucky me.
• 55:26
  Three more. Three more candles.
• 55:27
  Three more candles. My advice is don't be
• 55:35
  intimidated. It can be a little crunchy if
• 55:38
  you're coming from like older tabletop systems.
• 55:41
  Maybe you live for the crunch, but those of us who are more
• 55:46
  than just like we're here for the RP, it can be a little, it
• 55:49
  can be a little crunchy, but don't be intimidated by that.
• 55:53
  You can do what you want. Like you can use certain parts
• 55:57
  of the rules and like not all of them like, you know, so like the
• 56:04
  rules for auto fire. To this day, I still don't fully
• 56:08
  understand them. And and that's OK, you know,
• 56:13
  yes, the tools do help, actually.
• 56:16
  But yes, like, do what you and your group, like, want to do
• 56:21
  and, and, and find your own little unique quirks that you
• 56:24
  can add. Like just have no latency.
• 56:26
  We add our own little unique quirks into our version of
• 56:31
  Cyberpunk. Yeah.
• 56:32
  So. Yeah.
• 56:34
  It's also important to know that every time you run I'm I'm
• 56:39
  imagining that if if you're asking how do I start playing
• 56:42
  Cyberpunk Red, then you there are two options.
• 56:45
  Option one, you're a player, in which case find Adm that's real.
• 56:48
  That's a go and check. Outstopplaying.com #not.
• 56:50
  Sponsored option two. You're willing to run it, and as
• 56:55
  the GM, you need to know that the first time you run any game,
• 56:58
  it's gonna be bad. And that's OK.
• 57:00
  So focus on what you know and what you like and what your
• 57:03
  friends like, because you're probably, hopefully playing
• 57:07
  running the game for your friends.
• 57:08
  So just focus on what they like. It's gonna be bad.
• 57:11
  You're gonna mess up the rules. That's OK.
• 57:13
  Just make it fun. Yeah, makes fun.
• 57:17
  Yeah, in, in fact, when. What is it When?
• 57:22
  When you do mess up the rules, it then just becomes the part of
• 57:27
  the part of the experience with the yeah, Canon with with the
• 57:30
  crew. If the the inside jokes that
• 57:33
  y'all have. I mean, my, my, my bit of advice
• 57:40
  that I would say, and I feel like it gets said often, but it
• 57:44
  always feels need repeating. Don't feel like you have to stay
• 57:48
  at A at A at a group or table if you're not having fun.
• 57:53
  Yeah, and I mean, like, I know that Cyberpunk is a lot harder
• 57:57
  to find groups than it is for say, other systems.
• 58:02
  But I I, I'll be honest from other people that I've talked to
• 58:06
  that from playing wise, like it's just going to be better if
• 58:11
  you're not Like if you're just not having fun, it's it's not
• 58:14
  worth having to, you know, slog through something like that to
• 58:17
  then becoming bittered by it, you know, always find a new one.
• 58:22
  And you know what, again, just to go ahead and plug the Patreon
• 58:26
  or not the Patreon on the Discord.
• 58:28
  We do have a looking for group thing.
• 58:29
  And we, there's, we have several people who who run.
• 58:34
  A game on a regular basis yeah, you can check them out and they
• 58:36
  they they're a table that's always interesting is seeing
• 58:39
  what you have to say. I think I believe a pretty sure
• 58:43
  people in there who wants to play.
• 58:45
  I'll be honest, I've I've wanted to like spy in on them but I
• 58:49
  bet. You, they'll let you.
• 58:51
  They get to spy on us. I know, I know they would let.
• 58:55
  I know they would let me. The thing is, is that I, what is
• 58:59
  it? I, I, I don't I, I, I don't want
• 59:01
  to affect their game. I feel like because.
• 59:04
  Yes, the observed game. Yes, the.
• 59:06
  Observed game. The observed game is a different
• 59:09
  game. That's the other thing.
• 59:10
  You don't have to play it like Critical Role or in fact even us
• 59:14
  comparing those. True, but you don't have to play
• 59:16
  like ATTRPG like actual play. Like actual play, yeah.
• 59:21
  You know Tracy, I'm sure you find even with stuff on like
• 59:24
  Magic RPG Shamus plug that you can.
• 59:28
  Sorry that that the game you play in front of a camera,
• 59:32
  especially live streamed like live games are even different
• 59:35
  than prerecorded I think. It's very different and that's
• 59:40
  OK. Like you are aware that you're
• 59:42
  playing for an audience. There are things that I talk
• 59:44
  about with my players as a storyteller and I'm like, we
• 59:48
  know that this is a thing, but the audience doesn't.
• 59:50
  We have to like make that exposition.
• 59:51
  So I have to create a scene to like give exposition that, you
• 59:56
  know, I maybe wouldn't do with just like us playing behind, you
• 1:00:00
  know, at a table, not on camera. But like we have to consider
• 1:00:04
  that there is a there is an audience.
• 1:00:06
  So, you know, when you're running the games, you don't
• 1:00:09
  always have to to do it depends on what you want to do.
• 1:00:11
  So I agree, yeah. But utilized tools is, I think
• 1:00:15
  the thing I'd like to echo really, you know, the companion
• 1:00:18
  app use a VTT even if you're in person at the beginning.
• 1:00:23
  And then if you don't end up using it a lot, then take it
• 1:00:26
  away. But it's really useful to sort
• 1:00:27
  of get everybody on the same page.
• 1:00:30
  I found visual aids really, really helpful.
• 1:00:33
  You don't have to have like you can have a burnt note in a
• 1:00:37
  building, you can make one and give it to your player in
• 1:00:39
  person. You could hide AQR code in a
• 1:00:43
  book that you just leave on the table or something, that kind of
• 1:00:46
  thing. There's lots of ways of making
• 1:00:48
  it cyberpunky. One of the things I like to do
• 1:00:50
  is to make audio Diaries for characters in the world, have
• 1:00:54
  newscasters read stuff, get a friend of yours to like, like
• 1:00:58
  we. That's why we call on April
• 1:01:00
  Anonymous often as reading the news.
• 1:01:02
  And it's a really fun way of doing exposition for your party.
• 1:01:06
  And if you can't do it, there are loads of people on Fiver who
• 1:01:09
  will let you and also Shameless plug our highest here on
• 1:01:12
  Patreon. If you want something like that
• 1:01:13
  for your games, you can get one of our NPCS once a month to do
• 1:01:17
  it for you, to give your team exposition to create a bit more
• 1:01:20
  in the world. We offer that up too, which is
• 1:01:22
  pretty fun. Yeah, make it, make it fun.
• 1:01:25
  Just do a tiny bit extra. Like, I make all these maps and
• 1:01:29
  I love making them for you all, but it also helps me plan the
• 1:01:31
  adventure. That's kind of one of the
• 1:01:32
  reasons why I do it, you know, set it all up.
• 1:01:36
  It's just a dollhouse with dice. And then it's like, you know
• 1:01:39
  what I mean with your? Friends.
• 1:01:41
  With your friends, like I'm going to go over here and then
• 1:01:43
  I'm going to say yeah, tune punch them in the face because
• 1:01:50
  that seems to be the reaction that you will get down to.
• 1:01:53
  And I'm going to do one more bonus question, which I believe
• 1:01:55
  we have already answered once. But if we're going to ask it
• 1:01:58
  again, I'm not going to copy paste it because I just want to
• 1:02:00
  see your faces from Klaus, Klaus and Klaus on the website.
• 1:02:05
  I'm not sure if that's a real name.
• 1:02:06
  Would the team rather fight 100 duck sized Jebs or an enhanced
• 1:02:11
  Jeb sized Duck? It's a great question.
• 1:02:13
  I'm bringing it back at OK. It is a great question.
• 1:02:19
  I don't remember what we said last.
• 1:02:20
  Time, but I'm trying to remember I'm.
• 1:02:22
  Going to go with one time slice duck.
• 1:02:25
  Well, the problem is, is that like it's the body fuel bike
• 1:02:27
  question. Oh shit, right.
• 1:02:31
  It's. The body fuel bike question.
• 1:02:34
  This is like our version of the trolley question.
• 1:02:37
  Yes, yes, like. I mean I have my answer.
• 1:02:42
  Once you were on 7. It would be 1 Jeb sized enhanced
• 1:02:49
  duck because if it's if it's 100 duck sized Jeb's not even
• 1:02:55
  counting body fuel bite. That might be the end of the
• 1:03:00
  world. Jeb is just going to is just
• 1:03:02
  going to overrun you, you know? All your are tiny little Pew
• 1:03:07
  pews constantly. It's going to be Pew pews and
• 1:03:11
  little tiny Sloans that are flying around because if it's if
• 1:03:14
  it's got if you can't have Jeb without Sloan.
• 1:03:17
  So there's going to be the little oh, that's crying.
• 1:03:20
  Yep, Yep. Which then, Oh, God, Then if
• 1:03:25
  that means the duck, well, yeah. I, I I.
• 1:03:28
  If I'm yeah no 100 duck sized Jeb's is terrifying.
• 1:03:30
  I'm actually I think 1 is fine because at least you could dump
• 1:03:34
  it into the ocean like a zilla. Also, do we do we get to fight
• 1:03:39
  the the duck sized Jeb? Wait, no.
• 1:03:43
  The Yeah, you have to fight one of these.
• 1:03:45
  Two's duck. Yeah, yeah, with Jeb powers all.
• 1:03:49
  Right, easy. I'd take that down no prob.
• 1:03:52
  So just the big, the big, the big regenerating duck that eats
• 1:03:56
  flesh and they can smell bullets, no?
• 1:03:58
  Problem and. Can dodge bullets, yes.
• 1:04:02
  And is champion of the blood race.
• 1:04:04
  Come in, no problem. No problem.
• 1:04:05
  No problem. No problem.
• 1:04:07
  I'm friends with him, yeah. What about you, Tracy?
• 1:04:10
  Lots of tiny little jobs. Terrifying.
• 1:04:12
  I'm going with the one big one, yes.
• 1:04:15
  This is the correct choice. This is the correct choice over
• 1:04:18
  time. Like the fact that Jeb ate his
• 1:04:20
  leg at one point. Sorry, spoilers for season 1 to
• 1:04:23
  regrow his leg just tells you how horribly gruesome what his
• 1:04:28
  condition is, I think. But yeah, I agree.
• 1:04:31
  I think 1 enhanced Jeb sized duck is the answer to that
• 1:04:34
  question. And thank you, everyone for all
• 1:04:36
  of the questions that you've given us here on this Q&A for
• 1:04:41
  Season 2. We're barrelling our way down
• 1:04:43
  the gun into the heart of Night City as we get to the end of
• 1:04:48
  Season 2. There's more adventures to
• 1:04:49
  happen after Season 2, so don't worry.
• 1:04:51
  We're going to keep making something and we just frankly
• 1:04:55
  don't quite know what it is yet. I mean, they don't, I kind of do
• 1:05:00
  if I'm honest, but we'll see. But thank you so much for
• 1:05:03
  listening. Thank you for supporting us.
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• 1:05:06
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  I'm always keeping an eye on it. And Evan, you had something to
• 1:05:50
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  put a ton of work. I just write it.
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  You actively like put all the visuals and make it actually
• 1:05:58
  look pretty. Yeah.
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  That's fine, yeah. I want the maps to be nice.
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  I want it to be fun for people to play on.
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• 1:06:58
  I should have played this already.
• 1:07:10
  I really like that we didn't go through with the plan of any of
• 1:07:16
  us doing copyrighted music except for Paris, who started
• 1:07:20
  singing Summertime by Will Smith.
• 1:07:23
  Oh yeah, but it's under, it's under like it's, it's, it's
• 1:07:27
  legally distinct. I'm ready for the beat job.
• 1:07:32
  Yeah, we're just. Going to sit here and wait for
• 1:07:34
  it. Yeah, all of you listening.
• 1:07:37
  You just, you know, listen to silence.
• 1:07:45
  It's a vibe, man. That track rocks.
• 1:07:47
  It is and I love it so much no. Bonus for anybody who's still
• 1:07:52
  listening to this episode, you can find the title of the music.
• 1:07:56
  We've got a question about that, and you can find it on Spotify.
• 1:07:59
  I'll leave a link to the title track.
• 1:08:01
  It's licensed through Epidemic Sound, and that's it from us.
• 1:08:05
  It's your night city. Woo Hoo.
• 1:08:07
  Bye.