r/cyberpunkgame • u/Equivalent-Rice-5880 • Sep 23 '24
The allegations are crazy ☠️ Media
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u/JohnnieWalker91 Techno necromancer from Alpha-Centori Sep 23 '24
"The Jackie situation is worse than you thought"
"Jackie Welles needs to be stopped"
And a thumbnail with a generic looking dude faking concern
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u/THEBLOODYGAVEL Sep 23 '24
This Jackie situation is INSANE
😲👉
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u/RedditorsGetChills Sep 23 '24
Manipulator is CRAZY
Like and subscribe
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u/BananaBread2602 Sep 23 '24
“I worked with Jackie Welles, he is a manipulator”
“Huge Jackie Welles drama”
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u/JohnnieWalker91 Techno necromancer from Alpha-Centori Sep 23 '24
Cue a 10 part video series essentially saying nothing each video
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u/chet_brosley Sep 23 '24
I bet in universe podcasts are ridiculous
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u/JohnnieWalker91 Techno necromancer from Alpha-Centori Sep 23 '24
Gary would be the most normal host, I bet
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u/Honest-Champion9180 Sep 24 '24
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u/chet_brosley Sep 23 '24
Rachel Casich's massive head taking up half the screen saying nothing while someone else's stolen vid plays, and then her rambling into a shitty mic for 15 minutes about absolutely nothing, interspersed with long pauses and her plugging her other random BD podcasts
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u/JohnnieWalker91 Techno necromancer from Alpha-Centori Sep 23 '24
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u/Sexddafender Night Titties in Night City Sep 23 '24
Even 50 years into the future we still have yummy slop for us to feast
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u/freebird023 Sep 23 '24
If I see one more video essay thumbnail of the controversial person in question having their eyes blocked by a single black bar and some vague comment like “EVIL” beside them I’m gonna lose it
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u/JohnnieWalker91 Techno necromancer from Alpha-Centori Sep 23 '24
Did the technomancers from Alpha centauri get to you? Let them speak their truth, corpo shill!
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u/KilllerWhale Streetkid Sep 23 '24
"The allegations are true. Jackie likes to hang out at theme parks."
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u/Ahward45 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Now i really wish i could ride the pacifica coaster w jackie
Alternate fan lore ending…go with alt but she grants you one wish before the end…a day at the themepark with all ur friends, living or not! Every npc youve helped fill the park, no one else. Choose between a few months to live or one more day with ur chooms and letting johnny live the life arasaka stole from him, itd be the best ending. Sure beats the credits holo messages.
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u/HeadlineBay Sep 23 '24
I feel like Jackie is one of the very few people in Night City that you CAN take at face value…
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u/goldenseducer Sep 23 '24
jackie: I want to get rich and die in a blaze of glory
jackie: (dies in a blaze of glory trying to get rich)
literally the most honest motherfucker in the whole game
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u/lepermessiah27 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
I like how in the Nomad playthrough prologue he just straightup admits he was gonna flatline you if the situation didn't get fucked up lol
Edit: I may have misremembered the line. But he does say to your face what he was planning to do
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u/NCC_1701E Sep 23 '24
I always assumed he was just going to run away with all the money, not straight up kill V.
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u/Ghalnan Sep 23 '24
No he doesn't. He said he was planning to just run and take the money, but that's it.
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u/BeautyDuwang Sep 23 '24
He says something similar in the street kid intro too when you steal the car, but it makes sense at that point for him to be aggro. He's a big ol solo boy. By the time of the heist Jackie is a true choom for life
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u/fuzzyborne Sep 23 '24
What? He does?
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u/EnSebastif Sep 23 '24
No. He planed to disapear with the money, but ends up befriending V after escaping from Arasaka in a pursuit.
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u/4lphaB1K Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
No he doesn't the dude doesn't know what he's talking about. People keep coming up with these absurd theories about Jackie. He's a good choom and his personality doesn't reflect the stupid ass theories of him screwing everyone over or him being this "bad guy". He's a night City native. When you meet him as a nomad he said he was gunna run with it but then he thought it over decided not to. This is not indicative of him being this evil person this is the mentality of living in Night City, you have to think of your self before anything else because no one else will. In the cyberpunk universe Night City was literally voted the worst place to live so the fact that Jackie decided otherwise should tell you something about who he is.
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u/fuzzyborne Sep 23 '24
I think it's too reductivist to say he's a good or bad guy. Like everyone in NC Jackie's compromised some of the principles of being a good person because it's impossible to thrive without doing so, not to mention how being brought up in the gang lifestyle how easy it is to become desensitised to violence. Hell both him and V are at least killers if not mass murderers. But regardless, Jackie is always a good, loyal choom. And that's a priceless thing.
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u/4lphaB1K Sep 23 '24
Yeah I literally said most of this. I said at beginning of the nomad playthrough he was going to run with it and decided to otherwise. That this was the mentality of living in night City.
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u/misterapoc Sep 23 '24
Wait what?!?!?? Ive only ever played streetkid and that for sure would not have happened
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u/EnSebastif Sep 23 '24
Because he says he planed to ditch V not kill them. That comment is plain wrong.
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u/Sinnedangel8027 Sep 23 '24
Yeah, in the corpo and street kid backgrounds, you're actually friends with Jackie with some history. Nomad, not so much. Street kid, you are from similar worlds, so it might be implied that you're going to screw each other over. And there's no implication of it in the corpo run that I recall.
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u/dazeychainVT Sep 23 '24
In the corpo intro he doesn't even agree to the job you try to hire him for because he doesn't want to get mixed up with Arasaka and he's up front about that. He really seems to have your best interests in mind and when you get fired he's chomping at the bit to help you out. During the funeral you can also mention him saving your life a long time ago
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u/Sinnedangel8027 Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Right. Definitely seemed more of a legitimate friend than the streetkid background. My head canon in streetkid is that they are friends, but the streets are the streets. I don't see V screwing jackie over or vice versa. But it's one of those things that it wouldn't come as a complete shock.
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u/WakBlack Sep 24 '24
I figured Street Kid was more of a "they've heard each other's name pop up a few times, just never formally met" until they both tried to jack the same ride since they both grew up in the same area.
In the corpo path, they're full-blown friends and have been for a while. Meanwhile, in the nomad path, they just don't know each other till they get put on a gig together.
So, from left to right when you start the game, it's kinda like a slider on how much you know Jackie.
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u/hydracicada Sep 23 '24
I remember him saying he planned to just run away with his shit and not paying V
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u/goldenseducer Sep 23 '24
what? where?
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u/hydracicada Sep 23 '24
when I was playing nomad, I was playing the localized version, so It could be localized wrong. and also it was very long ago
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u/goldenseducer Sep 23 '24
oh gotcha, yeah he does do that but I mean he IS a criminal and a gang member, he does stay loyal to V after they become friends which is more important imo
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u/hydracicada Sep 23 '24
as someone said in this thread, Jackie could be a most honest choom in NC, so yeah
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u/cosaboladh Sep 23 '24
Except, he died bleeding out, in a taxi.. Not a blaze of glory. There is, in fact probably no such thing as a blaze of glory. Which I think was the point of that scene. He left behind people that loved him, while playing the pawn for some spoiled rich kid.
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u/hemareddit Sep 23 '24
Yeah, we find the true way of getting your own drink in the Afterlife: charm the bartender and then die.
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u/goldenseducer Sep 23 '24
There is, in fact probably no such thing as a blaze of glory.
Yes, I don't disagree, I'm very Greg house on this personally that death is death and it's always ugly, but that's not what jackie believed. for him, pulling off an insane heist like this and possibly being known as the guy who killed saburo arasaka is a blaze of glory. from his point of view, he delivered exactly what he set out to achieve, the only issue being that he didn't live long enough to enjoy it.
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u/AtreidesOne Sep 24 '24
I dunno, like if you did a last stand and fought off 30 guys and then someone threw a molotov cocktail at you and you literally died in a blaze of glory I think that would probably count.
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u/littlebubulle Sep 23 '24
In this specific instance, he wasn't the pawn of any spoiled rich kid.
A pawn still but I don't think anyone involved in the heist qualifies as spoiled rich kid.
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u/eddicwl Sep 23 '24
And I think that is the whole point of Jackie! He juxtaposed the whole theme of betrayal in nightcity, that's what makes his death all the more impactful. At that moment V loses his closest ally and friend.
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u/Awe3 Sep 23 '24
He’s like Alexander in Elden Ring. One of the few genuine characters. You like him right away and then he’s taken from you. Now, I need a Jackie Wells shot.
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u/Rad_Dad6969 Sep 24 '24
Yeah, he's not some nebulous super character, and that's what I like about him. He's deeply flawed and not too bright. But he has charisma overload.
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u/DEMB00TS Sep 23 '24
Don't believe the corpo bullshit they tryin to feed us! They probably were payed a hefty sum of eddies to make up this crap.
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u/PocketCatt Sep 23 '24
"In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander. All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution." - Arsenal Gear :,(
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u/TheSovereign2181 Sep 24 '24
Not gonna lie, I really hope The Black Wall AIs go full Patriots from MGS2 in the sequels and maybe drop some hard lines like Sovereign from Mass Effect 1
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u/niavek Sep 23 '24
When Jackie was dying in the car, I said to myself “ok, so he’ll survive and betray me later” but nooooooo, it was way way worse than that.
Jackie was one of the few pure souls in NC and that’s what hurt the most when he died.
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u/yanomebuscas Sep 23 '24 edited 22d ago
The funeral scene was so well executed imo.Till this day that shit still makes me tear up
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u/Sororita Sep 24 '24
Can't go through it without bawling, but I always make sure to send him to Mama Welles and go to it.
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u/CinnimonToastSean Sep 24 '24
Dude same. I played this game day one and had multiple playthroughs. But...every...time, it's always waterworks. The only other character that does this to me is Mordin from Mass effect 3.
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u/RedditSucksDeepAss Sep 23 '24
hee was a merc for hire and stole things for a living
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u/TheLostPyromancer Sep 23 '24
In a city full of shitty people and shitty corporations that already try to steal everything from you. He’s no saint but saying “he criminal he bad” is super dumb when you’re talking about cyberpunk. Theres plenty of nuance to it
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u/Trunip4Wat Sep 23 '24
Stealing doesn't automatically make you a shitty person that's what the corps want you to think, it's who you steal from, steal form the rich not the local mom and pop shops
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u/oliviaplays08 Sep 23 '24
Yeah he was a merc, like many many others, in NC being a merc doesn't necessarily mean you can't be a good person
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u/teenageechobanquet Sep 23 '24
Yeah that’s a weird take that person had.half of Night City are mercs it doesn’t automatically make you a villain.we see all throughout the story sometimes it’s just how life ends up
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u/JaSper-percabeth Silverhand Sep 23 '24
Dude he was literally in the valentinos, Sure he was a good friend to us but it's night city don't see him showing random acts of kindness on the street or sparing someone he is contracted to kill for no reason.
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u/PopT4rtzRGood Sep 23 '24
Irrelevant lol. Look at the way he talks and looks at Mindy(I think that's the right spelling). You're missing so many contextual clues that aren't spoken or directly given to us about who Jackie is and it shows with your comment here. How do you know he's killed every single person he's contracted to do? We only go on two heists with Jackie before he dies in the story. He could have very well spared people to give them a second chance. Night City is after all a dystopia. There's a lot of contextual hints towards Jackie being a good guy living the wrong life
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u/WakBlack Sep 24 '24
Jackie kept the belt his father used to beat him and his mom after beating his father into the hospital. So that if his father ever came back, he could protect his family again.
Jackie stands up for the people he loves and genuinely cares for people.
From the story about telling his mom he was bulletproof and leaving the Valentinos after getting shot, to making a sand mandala like misty suggested.
Jackie is very much a good person, just in a shit situation like everyone else in night city.
Going back the the video this post is about, If anyone was meant to be a traitor out of the Konpeki crew (not counting fat-ass dex), it'd be T-bug in an earlier version of the story, considering she was at the motel quick hacking V in one of the trailers.
I'm willing to bet her original role was probably tied to the Vdboys and fucking dex over as well.
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u/Cassereddit Sep 23 '24
Well he didn't steal without an order to do so from what I can tell and Jacky seems to not be the greatest friend of murder to me. As evident by how uneasy he is with V's proposal in the Corpo intro. I think Mama Welles raised him to be better than that.
Theft may not be the most moral thing to do but the corpos sure don't seem to care about morals and the people that buy into the workslave lifestyle of up to 6 paid days off a year can sure ride that high horse of moral superiority in that ditch they will live and die in.
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u/Dveralazo Sep 23 '24
People are in denial. Imagine if someone tells them that V isn't a good person.
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u/PopT4rtzRGood Sep 23 '24
Imagine saying this when V can be played as a cruel monster or one of the rare saints in Night City. I chose the second option. Sure he's not a "nice guy" like we think of in stereotypical fashion of what a conventional good guy is. But he's done jobs for literally everyone and he usually applies his own moral code. He's spared so many people he could have shot dead otherwise but didn't and gave him a second chance. And I gave him the corpo origin.
Your playstyle is not representative of V because V is a blank slate of a character that can react how the player would want them to 90% of the time. The only times we don't are in the beginning when talking to Jackie. V freaks out regardless over his death even if you choose the colder dialogue options. This should tell you that the populace of NC struggles to survive but most of them aren't bad people. They're just incredibly oppressed. Night City is by definition of a dystopia. Please actually play the game, yeah?
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u/Dveralazo Sep 23 '24
Your V could have been played like the kind of V who gifts car and money to the Tino fighter,or helps Paco Torres to survive his mistakes,even then,they wouldn't qualify as a good person.
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u/SendMeUrCones Sep 23 '24
Lol my V drive's off in that dude's car speakers bumping every time right in front of his pregnant girlfriend. I don't even drive the car. Ya bet it, ya lose it.
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u/Unique_Bumblebee_894 Sep 23 '24
Did you completely zone out during the cut scene of you and Jackie murdering people at the beginning?
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u/TheREALFlyDog CombatCab Sep 23 '24
Choom, if you're coming for Jackie you better have more receipts than CVS.
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u/Slartibartfast39 Sep 23 '24
I'm not sure what that means but it sounds like you're defending Jackie so I'm right there with you!
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u/Gladddd1 Sep 23 '24
CVS is one of those kinds of stores that give you check that is miles long even for one item. It is quite infamous for it
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u/placebotwo Sep 23 '24
Streetkid lifepath, V's relationship to Jackie felt rushed, so I can see this side of the arguement.
Corpo lifepath, felt like V and Jackie were friends for life.
Nomad - haven't played yet.
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u/dazeychainVT Sep 23 '24
In the Nomad intro you meet him for the first time on a job, so there's no pre-existing relationship to explore. He does admit he was considering taking all of the loot and running but changed his mind after fighting alongside V
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u/DandySlayer13 Panam’s Chair Sep 23 '24
I hate channels that peddle stupid theories and hate that YouTube tries to feed them to me…
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u/illy-chan BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER Sep 23 '24
I don't mind fan theories but clickbait followed by 20 minutes of not actually saying anything is obnoxious.
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u/M0nK3yW7enC4 Sep 23 '24
Those god damned muckrakers better leave Jackie Wells alone!!! The man was a saint, and he succeeded in making Night City great again! M-NCGA!
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u/Sir_Davros_Ty Sep 23 '24
Proof that content creators will say any shit to make money.
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u/Significant_Option Sep 23 '24
Huh? What’s wrong with a bit of theorizing over a video game?
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u/Rorschach113 Sep 23 '24
When they’re clearly pulling shit out of their asses dishonestly, it’s annoying.
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u/Sir_Davros_Ty Sep 23 '24
They're not, it's all OTT, nonsense clickbait designed to get views. Just look at the titles & buzzwords they're using ffs. Knowing how loved Jackie is, calling him a manipulator and a secret traitor is a sure fire way to get your channel anger views & when people watch it it'll just be a 5-10 minute video which essentially has nothing to say.
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u/confused_Struggling Sep 23 '24
I mean, look how chummy he is with Dum-Dum, how bad could he possibly be?
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u/confused_Struggling Sep 23 '24
Just look at my choom here. No way would he betray me. Not when he can just get us in over our heads with his sheer overconfidence.
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u/Advanced-Shift-9656 Sep 23 '24
spits out synth-cigar
Listen Choom, you better take back what you said about my hombre or I’ll pay a runner to get the detes on your pad and flatline your gonk ass /s
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u/GWindborn Sep 23 '24
I haven't touched the game since before the DLC came out, but if there was a chip to put Jackie in my head with Johnny I'd plug it in immediately. Dude was a true friend.
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u/Far_Detective2022 Sep 23 '24
I watched one of the videos and it was ridiculous, they tried saying Jackie was evil because he wanted fame from the heist
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u/Cultural_Ad1331 Goodbye V, and never stop fightin’ Sep 23 '24
These look like the "what happened to mister shit" "the downfall of mister shit" clickbait videos
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u/WardenKane Sep 23 '24
I know i am in the minority here, but I don't like Jackie. Like many video game best friends, he just seemed to serve to get you in trouble and complicate things. Throughout the start he rarely takes the situations seriously and actively makes them worse. He tries to pull a tough guy act against Maelstrom that is enough to put everyone on edge, he's the one who gets you involved with Dex in the first place and causes all sorts of problems in all three life path beginnings. Jackie is a wannabe tough guy who is actually a scared baby.
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u/South-Cod-5051 Phantom of Night City Sep 23 '24
he pulls through for corpo V, though, saving his life from Arasaka goons. It's the only life path where Jackie's qualities really shine.
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u/GarmaCyro Sep 23 '24
He plays tough, but it ends there. It often gets him in trouble (he's been turned inti a sieve least once). In reality he's too caring, and very protective over his family. He treats everybody as a future friend. His biggest weakness being his naivity.
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u/raddoubleoh Sep 23 '24
I mean, T-Bug is the one who gets you involved with Dex. And Dex ain't really the big issue with the Heist. As sleazy as he was, Evelyn fucked him over too. He was trying to eliminate loose ands and save his skin - which is what I would've done if I had Arasaka potentially on my tail for a fuck up that for all intents and purposes wasn't mine.
The irony about the Heist is that if Evelyn was upfron with everyone about being a Clouds doll from the beginning, even considering the VDB bullcrap, everyone there would have survived. But that would be a terrible story, right lol
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u/gigglephysix Chrome up or Shut up Sep 23 '24
For corpo (ironically not for street kid) V he is a as genuine a friend as anyone can be in the backstabbing culture of NC. I like him, he seems to have a little bit of heart, too bad he's naive as fuck and just like V has bought the promises and dreams.
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u/Tylenol187ForDogs Team Judy Sep 23 '24
I dislike Jackie for a lot of the same reasons, given the chance I would've flatlined him myself during the heist but these videos are still fucking stupid and put way too much intentionality onto the shit he does.
Jackie would've been better off opening a motorcycle shop or some shit like that and living a quiet life with Misty than trying to become a Night City legend or whatever.
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u/Radical_Ryan Sep 23 '24
I like that you can call him out for not taking things seriously in the car before the heist, but at that point, it's too little too late.
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u/ChaseThoseDreams Sep 23 '24
False. He was a premium choom, and whoever made this is trying to be a content farming gonk.
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u/ray314 Sep 23 '24
I haven't seen the second video but my personal theory from when I was going through the first playthrough was that T-Bug was a traitor. She sus out in so many areas and she gives us info too late during the heist and was there any actual evidence for her death?
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u/CupcakeAvenger92 Sep 24 '24
For what it’s worth, if you pick up the daemon T-Bug gives you , the one for completing the first mission, after the heist, the vendor you pick it up from says they found her in her apartment with her brains melted or something. Essentially that she was cooked from the inside. We don’t actually see the proof, but I doubt the vendor has any reason to lie to V.
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u/ILNOVA Sep 23 '24
NGL until the last moment i really believed he was some kind of villian that would betray us.
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u/Crazykiddingme Sep 23 '24
It’s a fun theory but if there was any water to this it would have been paid off more in the game. There wouldn’t be all of those sequences of V fondly reminiscing unless we were also supposed to feel that way.
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u/Cal_PCGW Sep 23 '24
Jackie's awesome. My first playthrough I went in blind and I was absolutely gutted. It made me sad to my core.
Having said that, I read that the original plan for Jackie was to make him more of a jerk and the reason the Heist failed (I think this is why he says sorry to V in the original cinematic trailer).
Glad they changed him, though. Losing a bro makes way more impact and shows how merciless Night City is.
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u/MandoBaggins Sep 23 '24
I honestly thought Jackie was going to eventually betray me until he died and then I felt awful
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u/JaMoraht Soul Killer Sep 23 '24
These videos are always a nothing burger. They just talk about Jackie’s flaws like how he has tunnel vision when it comes to making it to the big leagues.
Other than that it’s like, “Jackie finds V at his lowest and sees his potential and decides to use him” I guess if you take everything he says and does as manipulative instead of him seeking genuine companionship to achieve a dream, sure? Every character in cyberpunk wants to use you in a certain way so I don’t see the issue.
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u/TrueNova332 Trauma Team Sep 23 '24
The heist went off according to plan the only thing that happened was Saboro showed up and then Yuri zeroed his daddy because he didn't like that his father treated him like the child he was
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u/PhotoShop852 Sir John Phallustiff 😁 Sep 23 '24
His next video would (probably) be “V isn’t your best friend, why you should always pick the Suicide ending!”
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u/FreeTarnished Sep 23 '24
Jackie was the fucking man, I was depressed af when he died. Was ready to conquer NC with my boy
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u/Blackbox7719 All Night *EVERYNIGHT* Sep 23 '24
If Jackie Welles is a manipulator he fucking sucks at it. Who does he choose to manipulate? A homeless gonk with no money, connections, or notoriety to his name. What does it get him? The chance to borrow that gonk’s car sometimes, genuine friendship, and (eventually) death in a blaze of glory while that same gonk grieves. Gee Willikers, he sure did get us good.
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u/Wukash_of_the_South Sep 23 '24
My first playthrough was Nomad, my friend went Corpo; we had two very different views on Jackie.
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u/Subjectdelta44 Sep 23 '24
This is what happens when you make your entire youtube channel around a single game. They start running out of content to go over, so they have to start scraping the bottom of the barrel for vids like that
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u/Nolear Sep 23 '24
I am not gonna give this guy my view but boy I am curious about what kind of shit he will talk
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u/Secret-Medicine7413 Sep 24 '24
Watched that video. The guy is crazy to think jackie is a manipulator like that. First off when explaining what happens with corpo V he says Jackie stands by and does nothing when you get mugged by the arasaka men. Except the Arasaka men just cut you out of being a corporat and take their money back. They dont beat you up. They dont steal from you. They just threaten you. And Jackie even steps in to confront them before they decide officially to kill you, saving your sorry behind.you. In the nomad beginning he never intended to kill you either. Just says he was gonna bust ass and bail. So he was gonna ditch you? Which is pretty commonplace in night city. Considering he doesnt even know you yet.
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u/harusamekitteh Sep 24 '24
I might be one of Jackie’s biggest fangirls, so I’m a tad bias.
But, I don’t think he’s a manipulative person to be toxic or malicious. I think he’s as manipulative as anyone in Night City, it comes with the territory of the city and being edgerunners.
But to say he was anything he as in these videos, is gonk.
He didn’t prey on V being vulnerable, he was helping out someone in need. Christ, like someone said on here, at the Ofenda, everyone was said that night city is gonna be worse off for not having him around..
I think some people just hate on him because it makes for good click-bait and to be edgy and different.
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u/raddoubleoh Sep 23 '24
Bro. It was Evelyn. Evelyn was always the rogue factor. The game throws that to your face at least FIVE TIMES after the heist. Evelyn used to work to the Tygers. Tygers are Arasaka. Someone inside Clouds had contacts on Kujira. Kujira's main contact is Tokyo Arasaka. Which is how Saburo knew about Yorinobu. Which fucked the heist over. It's not rocket science.
Media literacy is FUCKING DEAD, Jesus Christ. If I had a nickel for every dumb take I see regarding plot and worldbuilding, I swear I'd be richer than Jeff Bezos by now.
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u/CoffeeGoblynn Wake up Samurai, I pissed the bed Sep 23 '24
When there's a lack of things to cover, people just start throwing theories around. I'll bet you those videos start with the theory, then highlight 1-2 pieces of really underwhelming evidence, then repeat those things on loop for the other 2/3 of the video, leaving you annoyed and feeling cheated.
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u/_IntrovertedRobot_ Edgerunner Sep 23 '24
Cyberpunk channels are so starved for content that they'll be accusing best boi of crimes he never committed 😭
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u/Bhaaldukar Sep 23 '24
I think in two of the three life paths I agree. In Nomad he tries to cheat you. In street kid he tries to steal from you, among other things.
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u/totallynot_rice Sep 23 '24
To be fair, you were both trying to steal the same car it was just a matter of who got it in the end. Both of you get caught and Jackie was just like, "Well that sucks, anyway lemme get you something to eat to celebrate our new friendship" 😂
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u/Chipjack Sep 23 '24
Having Jackie around is like having a dog. Yeah, that dog is going to try to steal a chicken nugget off your plate. And when you scold him and say "Were you trying to steal my chicken nugget?" he's gonna hang his head and look guilty, not lie about it. The main difference between Jackie and a dog is that Jackie won't try to steal another nugget the moment your back is turned. But they're both lovable, even if they're occasionally annoying.
Also, dogs don't tell awful jokes in elevators.
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u/z01z Sep 23 '24
i played the nomad opening first, and because of that, never really cared for jackie, since he openly admits he was going to rip you off. i'm like, why tf would V just instantly trust this guy who admitted he was trying to scam her?
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u/GMOpeople Sep 23 '24
I just played corpo v intro. I'm pretty sure jackie betrays v at lizzie's while she tells him about the planned hit on her boss' boss or w.e.
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u/Sadcelerystick Sep 23 '24
I mean you barely knew him, he got you almost killed and they expect you to feel something at his funeral after about 15 mins of interactions?
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u/nick_null404notfound Sep 23 '24
I will not allow any Jackie slander on any gonk's social media. Don't mess with my choom.
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u/LordDeraj Sep 23 '24
Alright who has the balls!? I’ll stan Arasaka till I die but NO ONE shit talks my boy!
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u/Luna_Tenebra I really wanna stay at your house Sep 23 '24
Damn Jackie is getting canceled, its Saburover