A side quest has some similarities to the life of Twitter’s strongman.
Elon Musk has definitely marked the year 2022 with a hot iron with his controversial takeover of Twitter and his chaotic management which has punctuated the last few weeks.
A secondary quest that finds an echo in the life of the businessman
The developers of CD Projekt RED did not wait for the last few days to evoke the whimsical entrepreneur in Cyberpunk 2077the event game released at the end of 2020.
The Polish studio teams obviously did not explicitly mention Elon Musk in the game’s plot, but subtly approached the billionaire’s life through a secondary quest based on his real private life.
If you haven’t touched the title yet, there will be some slight spoilers on this side quest in this article, but nothing on the main plot of the title.
More or less explicit links between reality and fiction
Our main character, called V, will therefore meet a pop star, Lizzy Wizzy, who suspects her companion, Liam Northom, who we learn is her manager, of infidelity. V is thus tasked with watching him for proof of his deception, and when he asks Lizzy why she doesn’t confront him directly, she replies, ” You know, we’re never alone, not really. Always surrounded by assistants, public relations officers, make-up artists. I stop smiling at him for a millisecond, it’ll be all over every scream sheet in this town… Millions of eyes, on you, constantly. »
As her investigation progresses, V will realize that Liam is not cheating on her, but has transferred a copy of the young woman’s personality to continue her career in case the singer suffers an accident. ” Can you edit it to remove unwanted features? Since her conversion, she is no longer herself even asks Liam to a third party.
You can thus give the recording of the conversation to Lizzy, and later in the game, she will ask you to meet her in a motel. Liam is dead, and she will ask you to dispose of the body in a trash can.
And what is the relationship with Elon Musk, you will tell us? The character of Lizzy Wizzy is interpreted by the singer Grimes, then in a relationship with Elon Musk and whose rumors of infidelity of the latter made the cabbage of the tabloid press. One can also push the vice by comparing Liam’s activities to Elon Musk’s company Neuralink, which works to design implants to control the human brain. We now dare to imagine what the developers of CD Projekt RED would have invented today, with a source of inspiration as prolific as Elon Musk in 2022.
Source : The Verge
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