Was there anything David could have done to have a decent life?

>>280142306 (OP)
But his life was decent, just not very long.

>>280142306 (OP)
invest in stocks and stop doing risky shit

>>280142306 (OP)
Unironically by staying in school. Even after putting on the Sander Mans implant and beating the shit out of the school superintendent's son, he was welcomed back because he was a prime candidate to try out their cool new exoskeleton thing he used in the series finale.
He could have just stayed in school, kept his grades up, his head down, tested their cool exoskeleton, become some corpo suit, and gotten to the top floor in time. Exactly what his mom planned for him.

>decent life
>h*spanic

>>280142306 (OP)
>>Gloria never got caught in that local gang war
>>She never gets caught scavenging chrome from dead people
>>Able to afford their life and David's tuition in Arasaka
>>Lucy never got assigned to dive the Old Net
>>Lucy gets a comfortable stable corpo gig at Arasaka
>>Lucy comes across David on the train in his schoolboy uniform and hits on him
>>They enjoy a romantic-comedic daily life

>>280143007
without Sandevistan Lucy wouldn't even look at him in the first place

>>280142341
fpbp. David lived an enviable life. short and full of deeds. He left behind a giant coffin and a heartbroken woman. explain how you could have done it better fags

>>280142817
I point out he's still doomed. He would not have survived using the Cyber-skeleton, it's a trip straight to cyberpsychosis either way.
Unless he fled Night City entirely, the cyberskeleton was always his destiny.

>>280142306 (OP)
1. Don't get the Sandevistan installed on yourself.
2. Avoid getting molested and lured by suspicious pedos like Lucy.
Simple as. I would've never gotten myself in such a scenario if I were David.

>>280142306 (OP)
Get the fuck out of Night City

>>280144181
He's still broke, poor and in huge debt. He would probably be hunted by assassin or some shit

>>280142306 (OP)
Leave Night City. I don't know how fucked up the world is on the outside but surely there are places that they would consider rural.

>>280143471
lived

>>280142306 (OP)
I watched this for the first time recently. David was being level headed when the gang had the big shot Arasaka guy kidnapped. The big guy was losing his mind, but he and Lucy was convincing them to continue. If the gang had listened to David, the big guy would've survived and they could've gone back to making small mercenary jobs.

The another point was when David was the gang leader. He could've honored Lucy's wish and they could've used their money to fuck off to the moon. But at that point David's perspective had twisted to the point of a legendary Edgerunner.

The third point was to listen to the rowdy teen girl, take off some chrome and not take the big gig with the dealer. Any of these would've worked. They would've likely died in some shootout, but not all get wiped out all at once.

>>280144146
>Avoid getting molested and lured by suspicious pedos like Lucy.
Leaving aside I would want that, I thought Lucy was the same age as David

>>280142306 (OP)
Maybe stop body modifications and live a few years longer, but he was fucked the moment his mom perished

>>280144808
I remember the director calling her a creepy older woman or something along those lines.

>>280144808
>>280144927
they're basically the same age. If David is a senior in high school then she's a fucking freshman in college. it's basically the same thing.

>>280142306 (OP)
He had a decent live and a future as a corpo worker until his mother died. Then he was just going to live until he died forgotten in a ditch, at least he went in a blaze of glory.
Life is just shit in Cyberpunk's universe.

If he didn't blow cash on chroming out and copying the guy who upgraded himself into cyberpsychosis then probably, but at a certain point he didn't care about anything more than the biggest cyber high. Not like he wanted any other kind of life anyways.

>>280144181
This.

>>280144808
>>280144927
Lucy is a mature woman who teaches you bad things. She's in her mid 20s, David is 17 when they meet.

>>280144927
>>280144997
David is 17, Lucy is about 20.

>>280144808
>>280144997
>>280145171
>>280145213
Why're you so fixated on her age, retards? My main point was that this pedo piece of shit forced him join their crew and become a murderer like them under the threat of harvesting his organs alive.
I would've sniffed out her rotting, roast beef pedo cunt early on.

>>280145409
Probably because uncertainty about her age was mentioned. I don't give a shit about the rest of your babbling.

>>280142306 (OP)
Fucked Rebecca

>>280145171
>Lucy is a mature woman who teaches you bad things.
Nice,,,

?

>>280144603
everyone dies

>>280145607
the only correct answer.

Shhh, Becca is sleeping.

The theme is that all runners die in time. This comes from the source material being a RPG that puts characters that can do huge amounts of damage against enemies that can do huge amounts of damage and leads to lots of characters eventually dying due to balance being a bit on the deadly side.
The game wouldn't be fun if runners only took easy jobs, and even if they did eventually an easy job turns into a trap, someone just makes a bad roll and causes a huge problem.

David was done from the start because he was a character in a deadly game world.

>>280142817
>he was a prime candidate to try out their cool new exoskeleton thing he used in the series finale
He'd just go cyberpschyo from it and die an even worse death than he actually did. The finale made it clear the only thing that could bring him back from the edge was Lucy, and even then she was just barely able to keep him sane long enough to get SMASHED

>>280145761
Haha oops

>>280142306 (OP)
get a haircut and a real job

>>280142306 (OP)
>decent life
>in night city
lol

>>280144927
>creepy older woman
I'm not homosexual so I disagree

>>280142306 (OP)
Only option for those in NC is to keep their head down, make some money, and hopefully move somewhere else. V failed, but they were also adept at causing trouble so I assume whatever happened in Atlanta was at least partly them fucking shit up.

Otherwise, you scrape by making pennies working for whatever crap shack you can find until you're shot in the street or die from toxic waste poisoning or some shit, become a cyberpunk and get riddled with bullets at the ripe old age of 30 (at best), or go corpo and live to 120 while being brainwashed and having every aspect of your life framed around your boring ass work.

>>280145409
Someone asked and I answered
>this pedo piece of shit forced him join their crew and become a murderer like them under the threat of harvesting his organs alive.
Davey's quick, he can always just run off if he wants/wanted

>>280144808
The official bio gave her age as a vague "20s". So of course anons jumped on the notion that she could be as old as 25 or more - to massage that /ss/ kink

>>280146414
It would be better if she was even older.

where were all these predatory older women when I was young GOD

>>280142306 (OP)
don't buy junk and don't ruin school equipment.

>>280142306 (OP)
So most of the characters in this setting were basically human brains in fancy military grade sexbot casings, right?

>>280146754
More like fleshbags with pieces of metal and fake skin, the only actual brain in a casing is Adam Smasher and he looks like...
>>280145878

>>280142306 (OP)
Deibiddo...

>>280147224
Oh Lucy....;_;

Lucy us now in 2 games before making a cameo in Cyberpunk.

>>280143471
If I was David I would've simply quit while I was ahead and lived a long life with my hot loving girlfriend

>>280144625
In the end David was a wannabe he thought he was HIM because he could handle the sandy but he was only somewhat above average

>>280145624
>>280146414
>>280147224
>>280149565
So, what's the "appeal" of this balding femcel pedophile?

>>280147224
Rushie...

>>280142817
The reason they went after him was cause they saw him on camera using it against his classmate. He should have never implanted it.

>>280148659
Guilty Gear and what else?

>>280149887
She hot

>>280150412
She would look pretty hot in a furnace, yeah. I agree.
Would be pretty funny to see her balding pedo femcel pussy boil and burst. Fucking bitch.

>>280147224
>>280149926

>>280150583
She has a caring, vulnerable side underneath the ice queen exterior.

>>280152216
Dude. She literally backstabbed David and threatened to have his organs harvested alive if he didn't join their group and become a mass murderer. Fuck that balding pedo femcel bitch. There is no redeeming her.

>>280142306 (OP)
David had a perfect girlfriend wife in Rebecca, she was loyal and actually loved him, unlike Lucy who got spooked and distanced herself from him even when he started having massive issues. All David had to do to have a good life was chill out with the chrome, after Maine went cyber psycho he saw firsthand why it was a bad idea. They were already a good group, and now that the biggest chrome head was gone, they had more eddies to go around. David's sandi was more than enough to complete easy gigs safely, he didn't need more chrome and he didn't need Lucy. Date and marry Rebecca, live a comfy life making an influx of cash whenever you need to off the sandi. He got what he deserved when he continued to chrome up and crash out over Lucy abandoning him.

>>280142306 (OP)
Not being on the train with Lucy. It is subtle but she sabotaged his class by swapping his data out seeing him as an upper class kid. This caused a butterfly effect which resulted in being caught up in a gang hit. Sure being in school sucks but by getting through of that schooling he would be set to work in corpo.

>>280152293
>mass murderer
You didnt watch the series
And she's not balding

>>280142306 (OP)
Better question is how did the romance between David and Lucy come about? They met, and then like a week later they're dating.

>>280152293

>>280142306 (OP)
Turn that bitch in for a bounty

>being groomed by an older woman is... le bad!

>>280150130
Lucy and Rebecca are going to be rollable units in Wuthering Waves.

>>280142306 (OP)
He chose in the first place to enter the cycle of Samsara before he was "born", should have willed himself harder to be born a corpo engineer or shareholder instead if he didn't like his life. He'll have other chances to reach nirvana.

>>280142306 (OP)
Stay in school. Say no to drugs and e-thots

>>280145878
No matter where I go, I cannot escape Pot's jD.

Not go cyberpsycho for starters?

>>280145794
no it comes from the source material ultimately stemming from cowboy and gangster pulps. it's not baked into the system like that, if anything it has a problem with (properly built) characters being too survivable in regular combat

Why did this cutie have to die?

>>280160089
If the game is played fair enemies should have as good or better weapons and equipment when a player encounters the main foe for a job. While you shouldn't ever get one shot, you might get one rounded by enough lucky enemies.

This lethality spun out into the greater narrative that most runners die rather than retire or move on. The whole die as a legend thing right?

>>280142306 (OP)
Stay in school.

>>280162115
Her death makes narrative sense, shows the audience its not a typical heros journey plot.
The scene shows the progression of mental decay and it sets up the ending since innocent people who get a happy ending usually dont kill good people.
I guess it sorta ties into the overall theme of cp, the individuals always lose and the city wins. From her perspective David is part of the city who eats people whole.

>>280143174
True

>>280145213
>3 years apart
Literally within romeo and juliet clause in my state.

>>280145409
I suppose you were dumped by an other woman when you were in highschool or something?

Literally just don't cybertroon out and don't cyberACK himself.
He could've had a decent cyberlife if he took his earnings after a few months of crime and dipped to europe or something.

>>280163752
No. I'm just insanely pissed at the kind of piece of shit Lucy is.

>>280163848
You sound so raped.

>>280163848
You need another older woman to comfort you

My wife shouldn't have gotten Smash'd.

>>280164777
>digits

Lucky 7s.