Lex Fridman plays Cyberpunk 2077

Alright, welcome to Game Time with Grandpa Lex. I'm not sure if it's of use to anyone, but this is a record of my brief travels to the year 2077 in the Cyberpunk universe. I sadly don't have time to play games these days, but they've been a source of a lot of pleasure throughout my life, so life's too short. Might as well enjoy it every once in a while. I'll try to do this once or twice a month, but if we're being honest, 2021 is looking quite insane. The next one I want to try is Stanley Parable, which is the opposite of Cyberpunk. It's only like a 15 minute game that you play through several times. I think Cyberpunk 2077 is supposed to be a game you could play if you do all the side quests. You should be able to play for at least 100 hours, so I'm only going to do about 2, 3, maybe 4 hours today and that's it. I'm going to walk away. Nobody walks away from good RPG. Well, I'm going to walk away, friends. It's called discipline. Alright, here we go. Oh, and please check out our sponsors in the description. Theragun and Grammarly. So, one is for your muscles and the other is for your grammar. The choice is yours, my friends. Choose wisely. Please check them out in the description to get a discount and to support the podcast that I host. Alright, here we go. New game, Cyberpunk 2077, released just like a couple hours ago. Let's go. Select difficulty level. Most things in life I will go very hard. For me, normal is probably the equivalent of what very hard is for most gamers. I really haven't played video games in a long, long time. Alright, normal is enemies will have all the tools at their disposal to take V on. V is the name of the character, I suppose. But primarily, only enemies at a higher level will prove a challenge. Easy is the right choice for players who just want to sit back and enjoy the story. Combat will not pose a challenge. Ooh, as you get older, you learn to appreciate the story, not the combat. What would David Goggins do? David Goggins would probably go very hard and lose within five minutes and then go run. Okay, let's go to normal. Nomad, street kid, or corpo. So many decisions. Select V's life path. Some events and dialogue options in the game will be different depending on your choice. Nomad is roaming the badlands, looting scrap yards, raiding fuel depots. Life on the road wasn't easy. But growing up in Nomad clan has its perks. Honesty, integrity, and a love of freedom. Qualities that few in Night City possess and no amount of money can buy. I like these guys, nomads. Street kids. They say if you want to understand the streets, you gotta live them. Gangs, fixtures, dolls, small time pushers. You were raised by them all. Down here, the law of the jungle dictates the weak serve the strong. The only law in Night City you have yet to break. The weak serve the strong. I think we're gonna need a couple hours to think about that one. Okay, corpo. Corporate. Comes with a marketing team and HR. Few leave the corporate world with their lives. Few are still with their souls intact. Amen. You've been there. You've bent the rules, exploited secrets, and weaponized information. There's no such thing as a fair game. Only winners and losers. I'm pretty sure Nomad is basically where it's at. I wish you could wear a suit and tie as a nomad. Let's see if you can dress yourself. Let's go nomad. Oh boy. Select V's body type. V's appearance may sometimes affect the behavior or other characters. Appearance doesn't matter. It's all about the inside. I feel very uncomfortable with the selection. So there's this guy with a short cut and some red hair. Guys with some scars. Scars are always good. Means you've lived. Hmm. This guy's too good looking. Oh, this is random generation. All right. Let's just keep generating random ones until we get close to what we're looking for. We want gritty but not too pretty. Disturb the comfortable. Nice tattoo. I think the random generation is really off. I think this is actually pretty close to what I'm looking for. Voice tone. Masculine. Feminine. This pronouns. I'm going to go with he him. Skin type. That's so cool. I love video games so much. You can define so much about the characters. Hairstyles. Oh man. Let's go with the basics. I'm a big fan of eyes. So I think eyes truly are the window to the soul. So let's see. Oh, it's like interesting. It's more like the entirety of the structure of the. Okay, cool. I like the intensity of the original guy. Eyebrows. Whatever. This is good enough. It's starting to get uncomfortable. Nose. That's good enough. Mouth. Yep. Ears. Can you do cauliflower ears? This guy been in a fight? Come on. Give me some. Is that a little cauliflower? Do we really need 21 ear types? Beard. Beard is fine. Maybe clean shaven? Nah. Cyber wear. I don't know. Can you go no cyber wear? It's kind of old school with this. Yeah, a little subtlety. Yeah, just off. Okay. Yeah. Off on a cyber wear. We go old school. We like cyber, but let's keep it off the face. Not the face. Facial scars. Yeah, you gotta have facial scars. Each one of them has a. Whoa, that's intense. That's like a tire been driven over him. I like I like I like this one. It's got hit in the head with something. Facial tattoos. Nah. Piercings. Nah. Teeth. Yes, please. Oh, yeah, I'll go with the white ones. Oh, right. Yeah. Basic teeth. Eye makeup color. Lip makeup. Cheek makeup. Blemishes. Nails short. Nipples on or off. You can turn off the nipples. Let's keep the nipples. Body tattoos. No tattoos. Scars. Yes. Let's go with the Bruce Lee. The three, the three scratch marks. That's either a cat or overly friendly girlfriend. Genitals. I'll probably edit that part out, but you can actually select the genitals. So like penis or vagina. And then you can select the penis size and the pubic hairstyle. It's kind of fascinating. It's an interesting design choice. But since I'm thinking of uploading this video, I'll keep it family friendly. But in case you're wondering, I'm going to be back in some heat. Customize attributes. Choose the core attributes you want to begin with. Each attribute contains a set of skills. Both attributes and skills provide different bonuses depending on your style of play. Skill levels increases as you perform activities associated with them. The maximum level of a skill is limited by the level of the attribute that it belongs to. Interesting. I'm going to go with the cat. I'm going to go with the cat. Body determines your raw physical power. Intelligence determines your net running proficiency. Every level of intelligence will increase cyber deck ram capacity, increase quick hack damage, basically hacking ability. So computer skills, it's like Napoleon Dynamite, non-check skills. Reflexes determine your maneuverability. Technical ability represents your technical know-how. It allows you to unlock doors and use tech weapons. Cool determines your resilience, composure, and effectiveness in operating from stealth. So like a stealthy type of thing. So intelligence is like the, that's the mage, the wizard. Body's like the warrior. Reflexes, yeah, that's like agility. Technical ability, technical ability, that's lock picking. And then cool is like stealth, like lurking in the shadow. I'd probably go body and intelligence, probably emphasizing intelligence. So I got to be honest with you, I'm not into lock picking or sneaking around. I'm slow, hit hard, but also have a reasonably okay programming ability. So probably going to put everything into body and intelligence. Well, IRL. And since it looks like I can't spend everything on body and intelligence, ain't that the truth? I'll go one in reflexes. So begins your story in Night City, alias V. Backstory Nomad, attributes, we know what the attributes are. There's the scan code for the biometric data. Let's go. User unknown. Patch F, remove patch. Backers. Move with WSAD and look around with mouse. That mechanic looks like a punk. Maybe I should look in the mirror. So how do I actually engage with him? You can cycle through dialogue choices, I guess with the mouse wheel, or up and down, calm down, brother. Okay, so now in square brackets, it says check engine, and I can tell him to step aside, I'll handle it. Or I'm going to pay you what we agreed. I'm going to pay you what we agreed. You heard me. I think I'll bypass the coupling. I'm going to bypass the coupling and rig a hotwire. Compressor will run on and on. It could seize up. I know what I'm doing. Did anyone ask your opinion? I like this guy. Satan, maids of Satan. So the exclamation point is get in the car. So those are the things, those are like quests or instructions. Get in F. Cool. Let's go. Okay, let's see what happens. Start engine. Love the sound of this car. Connect to radio station. Yes, please. I like this town. Hey, big guy. I'm just passing through. No need to worry. I won't be staying long. Didn't ask my question now, did you? I'm here alone. I travel alone. There is no clan. There is no camp. I'm here alone. Closed door. I don't want any trouble. I don't think I want any trouble. Not afraid of it. Just don't want trouble with this guy. He seems like a small fish. I don't want any trouble. Then stop looking for it and hit the road. All right, calm down, buddy. Drive out the garage. W. Okay. Vehicle steering. A and D. Accelerate. W. Brake with S. Cool. And where do I go? Go to the telecom tower. Okay, gotcha. Such a boomer. Active job objectives are marked with an exclamation on the HUD. Okay. Go to the telecom tower. Oh, man. Video games are so fun. You drunk, let's go home. So bad at this. Sorry, I'm paying attention to a million things. I'm not paying attention to the road. Exit vehicle. Hold F. This game is so beautiful. I want to go hiking out there. Can we just go? Is that a side quest? Just go hiking. Oh, this is nice. It's freezing in Boston right now. This would be nice. Just run up that mountain. You see like David Goggins running along those mountains. Look how beautiful that is. That's when you know you're getting old. You don't want to shoot anything. You just want to enjoy walking around looking at the beautiful scenery. All right. F. Enter. What do you want to do? Kick it in. You got to kick it in. Climb the telecom tower and locate the control box. Hopefully this is not nauseating to watch. Let's see. Oh, I'm not going to do that. Oh, that's not the button. I'm also using a Kinesis keyboard, which is really hard to press stuff with. Oh, I'm not going to do that. Oh, I'm not going to do that. Oh, I'm not going to do that. Oh, I'm not going to do that. Oh, I'm not going to do that. I'm also using a Kinesis keyboard, which is really hard to press stuff with. Connect to radio. This is ground control to Major Tom. I need your help. Look at that. Look at that car driving over there. Yes. Of course. Cool. This is the Keanu Reeves character, I think. Don't get yourself killed. Wow, that sounds like every time I talk to my parents. I'm terrified of heights even in a video game. This is very stressful. Look at this thing. Definitely not a Tesla. Maybe a Cybertruck. Like a really beat up Cybertruck. I love that sound. Head to the meeting place. Wow, what? How old are you that you're driving like this? It's hard with the Kinesis keyboard. That's my excuse. Plus, I don't want to go slowly. I want to go fast. So soon. This is Jacques Valjean. All I was doing is driving, sir. Okay, police introduction. Any illegal activity such as theft or attacking civilians will result in the NCPD placing a bounty on you. The police will send a patrol to the crime scene and the strength of the response will be proportional to the size of the bounty to lose. The police move away from the crime scene and lay low for a while. So it's kind of like GTA Grand Theft Auto. I'm really sorry. I was just driving, sir. They're shooting at me. I should have gone with the easy level. I just wanted to go hiking. This is so bad. It's really sensitive. Okay. In meat space, I'm used to the car not being so sensitive to my keyboard. No matter, head to the meeting place. I don't know any of the keyboard shortcuts of how to like look behind me. Get out of the car. This is very stressful. F. I'm getting out of the car. You told me to get out of the car. I'm getting out of the car. Are you? Oh, you have to hold F. Cool. Me, Jackie Wells. All right, Keanu, let's go. Where you at? Oh, I was worried I'd have to turn to farming. Okay, I guess this is not the Keanu Reeves character. Are you Jackie Wells? Are you Wells? Jackie, por favor. I'm V. It seems you have cargo that needs to be moved. Oh, where I'm from, you share a boat. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. I'm V. Where I'm from, you share a bit about your soul before you talk biz. Good man. It's kind of like a custom. Let's do a podcast. It's just good manners, you know? Let's start with you then. Why don't we start with you then? NC native right here. Got Haywood in my blood. I've never been to NC. That doesn't mean much to me. So imagine a place where everyone's like your bro or sis or family. Distant cousin at least. I think I understand. You don't have to like each other but it's family that's Haywood that and everyone's back in iron it's like the futuristic version of Godfather could Sam from my own Haywood you will be serious we're gonna get along fine what's with the cargo the haircut choice I'm questioning it what's inside don't ask questions let's just load it up loaded in the car oh follow Jackie how much you think this guy can bench might not come I got held up and you weren't exactly easy to find probably does uh to lay low you know 315 reps of 10 nice no swear please open the trunk I should have asked what's in there starting to regret these decisions here we go again I'm just gonna go the speed limit this time I couldn't get made fun of so much for this driving back in my day we used to play Prince of Persia you had to just exist in a two-dimensional world just scrolling from left to right we're more professionals a week this is such a beautiful game I look at the city in the background sure you've moved contraband before why nervous look at this world feels like a coronavirus time to deserted wind is blowing I love this drive to the border what are you games are so amazing what now nothing the scan is to check our papers the police officers they're always nice to the inspection area I think that was just the security check will begin feeling about this take document hand me the fan I mean the manifest don't need to see it grab these let me see it's marked LOA perfect what's that mean lost an arrival it means the cargoes flagged as to be lost as soon as across the border we're smuggling they're about to find out look at the dog bobblehead you have the bribe money customs officer to turn a blind eye to a dubious docu's will need a sweetener do you have the credit chip with the bribe oh oh interesting is it Bitcoin or is it aetherium take money get out right you forgot welcome to the cool cool deposit weapon at the front desk I don't know if I'm armed place weapon now I know Wow that thing looks good to one of my favorite numbers keep pressing the wrong key please sit happy funny feels wearing a make America great again hat papers is this routine is routine it might be we'll see I like the depth of conversation here what are you transporting I don't know in there ah yes remind me you drive for which nomad clan I don't drive for any clan none no clan I drive for myself bold and none too wise you know one man wolf back someone like you I'm oh so grateful not to be on that side of the table I feel the same way go on your associates waiting for you in the car collect your weapon at the front desk I apologize if I'm moving really slowly here I'm just enjoying this this is super fun for me just walking around like each of these people a life story probably thank you turn to the car he's driving I guess we need to get out of here yeah okay for a guy that looks like that on first appearance he seems awfully nervous smelling trouble around the bend drive Jackie just drive she nervous but he someone's coming our way sensitive soul this does not look good tough exterior sensitive so let's get out of here on it you are transporting contraband that is corporate property given how bad I was a driving I'm probably even worse at shooting draw weapon is alt can use this keyboard man Oh this is fun to shoot okay yeah actually I'm trying to hit them or the car I see the car yeah thought I hit him in the head still okay like I guess the game where you hit the person that doesn't very stressful I don't like shooting at the police at this difficult tense time in 2020 I'm a huge supporter of the police one of the hardest jobs I apologize for shooting at them in this artificially constructed world of 2077 I'm also realizing my mouth Oh cool keep driving can't stop here there's some cool drones in there very interesting stop here nice palms are wet get out of the car let's go that what you call smuggling supposed to go smooth no problems temper calm down things like this happen sometimes these things happen actually I wasn't gonna pay you at all just gonna bust ass and disappear soon as we crossed over but you're alright I appreciate the honesty the honesty yeah thanks but no what's next now we take a peek inside please don't be a body please don't be a body all right let's look shit says our Osaka on the crate we're robbing some heavy hitters maybe we'll make some heavy money fish on this really guana oh let's talk about in Guam until what yeah I watched a thing on TV about him when extinct like 30 years ago from the lesser Antilles you come along when you pull it up friend that thing looks beautiful on it sure I think it'll make us happy no plans I don't have any plans I spent the last years traveling between states with my nomad family I'll probably be waiting for you somewhere and no we decided to go our separate ways I must be tough huh I've been no one to go back to but don't you worry let me help you find digs you gotta live somewhere it's important to have people you can turn to you know like family maybe you'll find your own down in Night City thanks much appreciated hey come on it's nothing it got chemistry you and me be a crying shame to waste it hope this guy's not trying to trick me oh that thing is cute look at that all right let's shake hands okay partner time to grab a man scurry out of here chick we're looking for somewhere in this building probably crawling with the pin that was the kidnapper I Japan town half a year later speaking of which got you a little something Militech training shard in case you need to brush up on your dance moves all right let's do a little tutorial still a shooting practice I guess it is wait where am I plugging that in what where did I just plug that in this is some Neuralink type of tech ready to bust ass through this fascist playground yellow gun not my style but have to do what am I doing shoot all the targets okay yeah I didn't think you'd find that too tough okay say we crank it up a notch with the next round the targets that's terrible not bad uh take proceed to crouch and hide behind cover cover can protect you from enemy fire and undo oh headshot does matter got it use a reanimator to patch yourself up how do you do that you're injured if your health falls to zero you die use the inhaler to regain health when you pick up a consumable it will automatically be added to the consumables quick slot in your inventory if empty press x now to use one of the regain okay cool cool where's the health switching weapons press one two three or four or the switch weapons cool I should also say that I haven't played shooters very much some really terrible shooters okay cool so maybe me hacking's the next item on the menu oh boy tweaked the course material a bit I like this lady hacking cool let's begin training I wonder if she's a robot scanning highlights objects of interest in your surroundings it provides valuable information about them cool hazards are highlighted in red hackable objects are highlighted in green objects useful in other ways are highlighted in blue release tab to exit the scanner cool work a little hack magic on the screen to distract the guard with the cybertech installed your scanner provides an additional interface for selecting quick hacks and their targets use distract enemies to distract the guard navigate the list of available quick hacks with the mouse wheel duration 30 seconds cooldown zero seconds upload time 1.434 seconds causes a device to malfunction resulting in erratic behavior that will distract nearby people wow so hacking is a big part of this game that's interesting and intelligence is a part of hacking so i'm glad I invested in intelligence it's not all about brute force I guess the body helped with the kicking down the door this game is cool probably way too complicated okay sneak up to the guard got it good I got it now take him out quietly all right all yours take him out uh kill of course never smart to leave behind this is an alternate reality where murder is supposedly allowed now pick up the body and hide it somewhere uh pick up the body approach it closely look at it and hold R sometimes a dirty deed must be done you can hide dead and unconscious enemies in certain places doing so will help you avoid detection by other enemies got it uh off in the dumpster you go I'm sorry friend but this is just virtual reality now try to take him down in one slick move I want to see what technique he used time to get down and dirty in close quarter combat tap to perform a fast attack hit the enemy three times with fast attacks got it to perform a fast attack combo press the left mouse button while the previous fast attack is executed hold the left mouse button to charge a strong attack then release it to perform it cool let's go there you go use the techniques you've learned so far to defeat the enemy I can't teach you no more this is the part where you face your final test and here I am using none of the techniques melee weapons grab a sword nice the melee combat techniques you've learned can also be used with melee weapons such as the katana okay so I can block oh cool Cool. Very easy. She looks proud of me. Time to work. This is such a fun escape from the real world. Unfortunately I probably only got an hour, maybe two most. I guess there's a lot of pre-story to get through here. I may not even get much at all into the main quest. Yes, hi, what are you looking at? Answer. Jackie's right, calm the hell down. Why can't we all just get along? He needs to do some yoga, work on his posture. Huh, that seemed like a nice lady. I know you're a sweetheart inside. That tough exterior. You need to calm down. My man, Jackie, hacked the door. To begin hacking, look at a device and scan it by holding tab. Open remote deactivation. Cool. Hostile area. Bunch of stuff. What's happening? That's how I feel like every time I go to the dentist. Take one down. Just feel quiet. Hey, grab the one closest. Let's take him. Swift. He can spot you. All down. Let's meet. Probably not the last of them. Anti-Kemston fabric tank top. Alright, he'll take everything. I'm sorry, buddy. Yeah. Let's take the guns. Oh, this thing is... Find Sandra Dorsett. What's up, Jackie? How you doing, brother? We should do a podcast after this. Oh, there's two of them. What up? Landing stand clear. Mission and security protocol, follow instructions. They don't look too friendly. Foundation on the ground. Stimulus bank administered. 70 milligrams dopamine. 110 norepinephrine. 800 for bridaging. Listen, Mano, I got this thing. Mind if I borrow your wheels? Yeah, let's go. I got a date with Misty, but I can't take the metro. How's that gonna look for me? She sounds like a nice lady. Don't get used to it. How about I drive you home, huh? She's all yours. I'm beat as it is. Ah, these cars are badass. Reminds me of Back to the Future. Even though this is the future, it sure looks like the 80s. Good music. Beautiful graphics. This is ultra-realistic. I could tell I could probably spend like 100 plus hours here just exploring the city. There's a mix of LA, there's a mix of Vegas. It's deserted. Fire! Chicago! This game so far is a lot more shooting than RPG. It really gives me the Grand Theft Auto vibes. Which, you know, is fun, but like I said, I'm much more Elder Scrolls kind of guy. This is a good little experiment about what it's like to play games, to comment, and so on. I told you, Jackie's a sweetheart. Romantic. Probably cries during Notebook. Let us through, please. Let's see if kindness gets us through. She's nice. Can we just ride with Jackie, listen to Led Zeppelin, and not shoot anybody? Can we do that? So you can be nice. Amen. It's pretty good dialogue. Pretty good conversation. I like this place. I like this game. It's gonna be sad to say goodbye. Alright. Nice handshake. Go home? Ah, it's good to be home. This is my apartment. This is the opposite of what my apartment looks like. This is way too nice. So I can sleep, check your weapons stash, and then go to bed. Alright. Where's the computer? How are you supposed to do any kind of programming? It's just guns. Go to bed. Let's go to bed. It's actually, currently, 3am in Boston, so it's actually getting about that time, close to bed. Act 1. Okay, maybe I'll do one quest, and then that'll be it for this game. It'll be time to say goodbye. The graphics, the characters. I can tell I would love this game. It's a beautiful place to visit. Part of me is actually really enjoying the fact that I can just see people. They're not wearing masks. We're in proximity. We can just explore the depth that is each other's weirdness. Oh man, this feels surprisingly good just to be among people, even if it's in a virtual world. Don't know! These people are awesome. Oh man, I can't wait till things open back up and you can just meet people and talk to people. Look at this. Look at this city. Wow. Wow. This is very Grand Theft Auto-ish. What's the job exactly? System malfunction. Are these part of the game, or is this like the bugs that everyone's talking about? Alright, let's do it. God, the graphics, even at this level. I don't have it on ultra, I have it on high. And this is 1080p, I think. Still, so awesome. Look at it. You can see the freckles on his face. So awesome. You have to stop for pedestrians. Oh man. I'm thro- That's not very nice. Wow. I'm not very good at any of this. I apologize. This car is pretty badass. That I know for sure. Victor's Clinic. So a common practice cyberware installations is still a dangerous and invasive procedure which can only be performed by qualified specialist Ripper Docs. Those are the future versions of neurosurgeons, I suppose. There are several Ripper Docs operating through Night City who offer a variety of different cyberware upgrades. Select your desired cybernetic upgrade from the list and enjoy your new abilities. This is awesome. This is where the surgery happens. Alright, what's up buddy? Neurosurgeon. Ooh, looking to upgrade. Looking to upgrade. Do I want to upgrade? Let's go back to the standing desk. Alright. As I sit down in the game I stand up in real life. It keeps saying system malfunction. I wonder if that's the bugs that we're talking about. Ha ha ha ha, so cool. He's going to upgrade the eyes. That is awesome. I got Lasik surgery by the way. Best thing I've ever done. Alright, let's put it in. Although I don't really trust a neurosurgeon with rolled up sleeve and sleeve tattoos. I wonder if the folks in Eurolink, any of them, play this game and what they think. This is funny. Let's continue. Ocular systems. Operating systems. God, imagine this is the future. This is what upgrades look like. Of course, if it in fact costs money, then of course the elite people, that inherent money will be able to upgrade themselves and thereby increasing the gap between the have and have nots. And there will be a Bernie Sanders type of character who tries to fight that. Maybe the future looks a lot like the present. Ocular systems. Let's go with ocular systems. Kishore Optics. Zero dollars. Cool. I just installed some new eyes. Hands. Is this free? Yeah, it's free. Cool. Ballistic coprocessor. Increase the chance to ricochet shots with power weapons. Directly links the user's optical implant to the weapon system, offering real-time data tracking. Interesting. Links the eye, or like directly to the weapon. Wow. Links the weapon to your eye. Skipping the entirety of the rest of the mess of the human biology. Cool. I love it. Alright. This is cool. This gives me a little preview of this world. If I didn't have a million things going on, I'd stay here for a few more hours, but... Nope. Good to know. Let's do it. I wonder if they'll show the neurosurgery. Look how crappy the equipment is. Oh man, they're gonna show it, aren't they? That's what Lasik felt like. It's like these things are going after your eye. But you gotta trust the robotics there. You gotta trust the equipment. And it worked out beautifully for me. And I think it works out really well for most people. I'm gonna go check out the other side. Yeah. Better than ever. Scanning people with your optical cyberware can provide you with a lot of useful information, such as how strong an enemy might be. Cool. So this gave me extra ability to scan. As a skilled Netrunner, you can see a list of quick hacks which you can use against your enemies. Okay, well, this is all stuff I already know. Okay. This is a pretty violent world, isn't it? Jackie Wells. Back to Jackie. Hard Chalkers. Regina Jones. Ugh. Cyberpsychosis. Imagine all the psychological disorders that are side effects of implants. Let's get in this car. Let's get the job done. Oh, is that Dex? This guy's a philosopher. How they remember you, that's all that counts. Cigar. Not at all. Let's get it done. The shard thing. I wish I had a little bit more science about it. Protein processing plant. Super Fold 7. Okay. That's a friendly fella. Blaze of Glory. I like that guy. I like the characters this game creates. I'm not so much for the shooting and the Grand Theft Auto style quests, but I like... I like the city. I like the people. If you suspect any rogue AI activity, call the hotline immediately. Oh my god. I love this world. Let's visit Maelstrom. We'll take care of that situation and then call it a wraps. As I'm playing this now, I'm realizing how much I've changed relative to my ability to appreciate a Grand Theft Auto style game. Not loving it. Let's meet him. Lots of books just laying around. All right. Let's meet this fella. This is going to be a lot of combat. I like these couches. They got character. Reminds me of True Romance. That scene with Drexel. Oh, perhaps. You gotta wonder with all that neurotech, what kind of drugs they do. What is with this guy? Watch. This is like a spot. Yes. Where am I supposed to look? We'll take it. There's a lot of swearing in this game. All right. Uh-oh. This is not going to end well. Ah, boy. Let's shoot him. Gotta grab the robot. Almost forgot. All right. Looking at the time. I gotta escape this place. I'm sure that would be very much fun. But, uh, I gotta get back to work at about an hour more before I head to bed. This is really fun to escape, but mostly it was fun just to play games again. I would say this is kind of like a Grand Theft Auto with an RPG flavor to it. I think a lot of people would really enjoy this game. It's not really my thing. I'd love to explore this world in a different kind of context. This is a little bit too much shooting for my tastes. If I'm going to do shooting, I'd rather do just a straight up shoot. I like Call of Duty, all that kind of stuff. This was a cool game, but I'm going to walk away with a smile and some good memories. Sadly, I didn't get to meet Gyanorou's character, but life is full of disappointments. As David Goggins said recently on his Instagram, when life gives you lemons, just eat the mother-effing lemons. So, I hope there wasn't too much swearing or nudity in this game. That was kind of a shock to me a little bit. I definitely haven't played a game like it before. Maybe Duke Nukem was the last game that had that kind of flavor to it. Anyway, this is the first time I've played a video game in quite a long time. And definitely, obviously, the first time I've ever recorded myself playing a video game. This is just one giant experiment. Let me know what you think. If it's of interest to anyone, I'll play another video game, maybe close to New Year's, and try to do it once a month. But like I said, 2021 is going to be a hell of a crazy year. This was a lot of fun. If you have time on your hands, you should definitely play this game. If not, then you should get your butt back to work. And again, thanks to our two sponsors, Theragun and Grammarly. Like I said, one's for the muscles, one's for your grammar. Pick the one you want to work on most, or do both, and check them out in the description to get a discount. And to support the podcast I host. Hope this was at all enjoyable. Let me know what other games you'd like to see me play in the distant future. And I encourage all of you to play this or other video games if it's a source of joy. Life's too short not to do all these kinds of fun little detours. Love you all. Happy Holidays.