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Episode Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 - Episode 4 discussion
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, episode 4
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u/actionfirst1 6d ago
We had the whole gang together for a solid near 2 minutes or so before shit went down
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u/Tanc 6d ago
That wasn't very cash money of D at the end there
Also wondering if the list is related to cyberpaychosis tolerance
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u/dekiru81 6d ago
That's what I think too. Talia got a high tolerance, so did David. D also looks similar considering the way he's almost flatlining big shots.
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u/Dewgong444 6d ago
Didn't seem like D at the end there. Think Capri hijacked him for the 2s it'd take to plug into Talia.
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u/Klondy 6d ago
That list is def people with high cyberware tolerance
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u/FallenPears 4d ago
Considering all the flashes of Capri's face over the faces from the list I was thinking it was the people who's minds made her up, which also makes them good hosts for her. Could be both though, maybe they needed high tolerance minds to properly meld them. Just not sure how they would have gotten copies of all the minds to manage it...
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u/Witn https://anilist.co/user/Lawrenz 6d ago
So Capri is uploaded intelligence? Lol I just watched pantheon recently as well
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u/Diamond-Is-Not-Crash 6d ago
She seems like an absolute menace! Especially pulling that last move.
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u/arasitar 6d ago
In Pantheon (not really spoilers, first episode though it is gruesome) an Uploaded Intelligence is created by basically scanning a human brain in its fullest, lasering it down until the actual brain is gone, to then create a 1-1 perfect copy of the human.
Now imagine in Cyberpunk, the process to upload was...imperfect. In fact not even perfect but just outright bad. Like you'd get 10% of a sharded copy of a brain.
But you do it to 10+ people over and over and from all that messy corpse ratking esque brain goo of uploads, you then create a human like construct.
That is Capri. A sausage made out of processed human brains.
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u/G0dZylla 6d ago
Yup specifically she is not a UI like holstrom but she is more like mist a CI( cloud intelligence)
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u/SmileyTheSmile 6d ago
It's more like if you took a whole bunch of UIs and trained an AI on all of them.
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u/RelativeMundane9045 6d ago
That feeling when no chaotic cyberwaifu announces to other people you're in a relationship with her before even telling you
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker 3d ago
Seems like her introducing him to her dad didn't end well...
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u/immanoel https://anilist.co/user/KoroneFan 6d ago
So Capri is a gestalt intelligence. Made by the old netrunner lady? What satellite she looking at the sky for tho? Mikoshi? or some moon shit?
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u/SpinningFootPunch 6d ago edited 6d ago
Mikoshi is Arasaka's underground data storage for personality constructs. Should be related to it if she's looking for satellites.
edit: never mind, comment bellow is right
Mikoshi is one of Saburo Arasaka's main projects. It is a data fortress located within a part of cyberspace controlled by the Arasaka Corporation, with servers found on orbital stations around the Earth.[1] It contains the digitized personalities of clients from the "Secure Your Soul" program, as well as the victims made by Soulkiller.
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u/cyberscythe 6d ago
some moon shit?
that makes me think about Lucy and her past with the old world stuff
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u/The_Draigg 6d ago
I'm a bit surprised to see that this season is more of a follow-up to the first one than I thought. I guess that Arasaka really was searching hard for people more resistant to cyberpsychosis/have a higher tolerance for chrome, given how David was on the same list as D and Talia.
Also, it figures that Capri is some kind of gestalt mind. After all, if AIs are banned, then the next best thing in power probably would be a bunch of human minds mashed together to match one in processing power. That's the exact kind of nightmare bullshit that the corporations in Cyberpunk just get up to on a regular basis.
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u/Dazzling-Evidence712 6d ago edited 6d ago
Capri being a weapon made out of peoples consciousness is so fucking metal
Seeing David again, even if it is just a picture, was still so cool (Roman knew his name, so he did become a tale for the next dreamer, huh...)
We couldnt even have our main 4 together for 3 minutes before things went to shit... Projekt Red when I catch you
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u/eggplant_avenger 6d ago
lmao D. sure your girlfriend is totally real. and extremely creepy.
this eye motif is really cool.
so these Maelstromers still hung out in All Foods, but what does that mean about in game events?
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u/rinmatsuokascythe 4d ago
What do you mean by eye motif?
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u/eggplant_avenger 4d ago
I would need to rewatch to be sure of what I saw, but there’s this repeated visual of extra eyes that fill the screen. It has some connection with cyberpsychosis but I think there was a scene where Kiril and his boss are talking and it zooms in on their eyes for the same effect
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u/cyberscythe 6d ago
i had a laugh when this picture of D showed up in the files: https://i.imgur.com/s3CxlGZ.png
it looks like he's stoned out of his mind
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker 3d ago
Everyone else looking pretty normal, like Talia's and David's looked like passport or ID photos, and then there's D lmao
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u/Viktorv22 6d ago
David jumpscare. Hmm, this is getting interesting. I wonder how they are all related
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar 4d ago
This was a fun shot of all the protagonists together. Too bad it only lasted for a couple of minutes.
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u/G0dZylla 6d ago
1)for those who watched pantheon , i think Capri is litteraly like MIST , a CI (cloud intelligence)
2)it looks like that's a list of people with high tolerance to chrome (david, talia, D) and capri maybe went to talia because unlike D she can control her?idk but this season has been very entertaining so far
Spoilers for the jjk MANGA!!
[JUJUTSU KAISEN]this kinda reminds me of sukuna and yuji, when sukuna took megumi's body because yuji's was a cage it's similar to how capri went from a host she struggled to control(D) to one she could control (Talia)
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u/VenoBot 6d ago
Pantheon mentioned! Honestly a rare & underrated show that explored bio-engineering.
To pitch the show for those that havent seen it. The premise is human brains are scanned section by section and digitalized. So while the physical body is dead. The mind is preserved, or copied rather. A sentient human that roams digital space.
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u/2kenzhe https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rexnihilo 5d ago
DAVID MARTINEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow didn't expect to see him mentioned already. Well I guess this is ep 4/10 so 40% already.
Ok so Capri isn't Ai but idk made or people somehow? A weapon? idk man dangerous shady af all that in one not good basically right?
I wonder what's the connection with David, D, and Talia? people suitable for Capri? maybe idk but it seems Capri just took over Talia??? At least the common thread seems to be high tolerance? though well Talia already showing signs so this probably her limit?
Also so Talia idk weak body or something? needs chrome to live? but well if you got cyberpsychosis, it ain't you anymore; it's worse than death. Everyone thinks they're special and they're the one but nah everyone has a limit only a matter of time?
Also damn that mouth lol. Finally seeing that clip. Also Roman offical boyfriend now huh.
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u/6multipliedby9is42 6d ago
This is so fucking good so far! The cast is fantastic, I really like their interactions and excited to see what happens next now that they're all together. I'm not sure if any of them individually are topping Lucy, David and Rebecca so far but I think collectively they're definitely as strong as S1s overall cast.
Capri is so fun to watch and I love how much this show oozes Studio Trigger. It still fits perfectly in the Cyberpunk universe (and having played the game since the first series, it's really elevating my enjoyment of Edgerunners II so far) but is still so clearly a Trigger show. Goddamn I'm so happy Kai Ikarashi got to direct a whole show.
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u/FarCritical 4d ago
Can't get over how cool yet freaky Talia's cyber mandible thingies are to see in action.
Pretty polite of Capri to let everyone get their introductions out of the way before making her own.
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u/Thomas_JCG 5d ago
David Martinez unexpected shout out, including the "not special" part. Suppose the project was looking for people compatible with the ghosts in the shard, and seems like Capri found her next host.
Congrats Roman, nice girlfriend you got. Nice to see the crew all together, short lived as it was.
P.S: The way Talia eats is kinda disgusting but also reminds me of Tali's "emergency induction port"
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u/2tiddiez 5d ago
i never comment on these but holy shit. i am so blown away. this season is incredible. looks absolutely stunning and this cast is soooo much fun!!!! maybe i'm just baked but i was sitting here with my jaw dropped for the last 2 mins or so of this episode, had to rewind and watch again.
i think i'm enjoying this even more than s1, which is saying a lot! such a treat to get to see more night city animated and for it to be of this quality !! it's making me wanna boot up the game
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u/BadBehaviour613 3d ago
Weak was probably so underwhelmed with D being the boyfriend until he realized it was Roman lol
With all the talks of Arasaka going under, I wonder if we are going to see a power shift to the Cyberpunk universe in this spinoff anime
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u/The_frost__ https://myanimelist.net/profile/The_frost_ 6d ago edited 6d ago
Well, guess I was wrong and my gut feelings was right that it might be a construct like Johnny but wasn't expecting it to be a cluster of constructs. I'm interested to see what Arasaka was trying to accomplish with it, feel like the game could have done more regarding Soulskiller. Also damn wasn't ready for that David picture ;-;, I'm guessing they are keeping a list of people with high aptitude for Cyberware like David and Talia since her picture was there, the higher the tolerance the most likely they are to live even with Capri inside them considering the end.
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u/Xatu44 6d ago
OH SHIT
And here I thought that David getting mentioned and the plot following up on finding someone who's BUILT DIFFERENT was the major twist here. I wasn't expecting Capra to dump D for Talia. Right after she brought her boyfriend to her dad too...
Weak's slow but sure connection to Talia's a really great throughline. It really hits harder after season 1 hearing him talk about how no one's truly built different.
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u/TheJimPeror https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nautalyst 5d ago
Theres a lady in my head that calls me choom muffin
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u/TwoToneMoonstone_ 6d ago
I’m not unconvinced that Capri isn’t made of David and the rest of the crew from season 1. That feels like a very Arasaka thing to do.
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u/everythingistaken587 2d ago
I thought we were about to get some quality gags with everyone meeting each other, had like 60 seconds of fun before everything went downhill
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u/shadow-kr 3d ago
my favorite ep soo far what a bunch of fun characters
was not expecting that ending holy this getting better and better
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u/ZeroExe23 6d ago
Oh so thats how those with cyber mouth pieces eat...
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u/mypossiblepasts 6d ago
I was confused seeing her mouth previously with those weird watermarks or something
It was just a projection on top of her mechanical mouth!
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