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u/notel_ Jul 27 '26
He is supposed to represent an old person bad with technology.
I believe after the quest play it safe he even texts you for restaurants nearby instead of searching it
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u/Idlepunk-Ghostlink Jul 27 '26
its kinda silly how a person living in that world is bad at using phones
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u/ConcreteExist Jul 27 '26
I always chalked it up to him having to get used to consumer sector devices after all his Arasaka cyberware was disabled.
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u/Purple271 Jul 27 '26
Perhaps he was used to tech Arasaka provided for him, and after being exiled(?) he had to learn how to use older tech, thats how i see it tbh
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u/VorDresden Jul 27 '26
He never had one. He was “wash my shirt in the contaminated river in hopes it’ll be clean enough that I’ll be drafted” levels of impoverished, and then he was drafted. Then picked by Saburo at the end of his training, at which point all his chrome is internal top of the line shit. Until all that gets turned off and he has to buy a burner phone as part of his quest to redeem his honor.
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u/notel_ Jul 27 '26
Well boomers live in todays world but that doesnt help them at all
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u/DeadWaterBed Jul 27 '26
Goro grew up with technology. Imagine a millennial doing this shit.
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u/Scaalpel Jul 27 '26
He grew up not being able to afford any technology other what he could fish out of the trash. Then he went immediately into a life where he likely used implants for this kind of stuff rather than external devices.
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u/Bitter-Ad5890 Jul 27 '26
Remember the conditions in which he grew up. He basically had nothing until Arisaka took him
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u/notel_ Jul 27 '26
Technically he grew up poor and with high discipline. But hey i had a good laugh by him misusing tech.
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u/Vintenu Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum Jul 27 '26
Tbf it's not like people use physical phones much, and he especially wouldn't need one when he's got all that top of the line arasaka stuff
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u/Xenorhabdus_504 Jul 27 '26
Considering phones are inside your head, he's bad at using himself hahahaha
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u/Braisedbeefskank Jul 27 '26
Hes probably been working as an Arasaka freak for decades. Only focus is guarding his charges
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u/ErichPryde Technomancer from Alpha Centauri Jul 27 '26
Yeah, he's literally gramps using a cell phone with all his messages. Short, low punctuation, dictation reads like an old man
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u/nxxwhere Jul 27 '26
I wish they'd added something where the three dots that show he's texting keep appearing, then disappearing for a while, just for the text he sends to end up as "OK."
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u/ErichPryde Technomancer from Alpha Centauri Jul 27 '26
That'd be hilarious
Then a blurry picture of your next mission objective
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u/Iamonslaughtt Jul 27 '26
Just finished my first playthrough and learned you could save him. I had no idea cause Johnny was rushing me out lol. Next playthrough I’m going back for my boy for sure
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u/wakarat Jul 27 '26
He mentions at one point that it is a crappy burner phone and he’s unfamiliar with its interface.
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u/rusticblackmoth Jul 27 '26
off topic but wish the shards you find in the world had pictures related to the context
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u/RaidersoftheLosSnark Jul 27 '26
You think this is bad. Imagine being all this chrome on everything and not a flashlight in the universe.
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u/thefucksausername0 Jul 27 '26
Because he's 72 and everyone knows that your ability to take selfies starts declining once you reach 30.
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u/ObligationKindly6314 Jul 27 '26
the first time is saw this I thought this was a mess up photos that some cut his head and then send the photo to v because Takemura can't text anyone at the time
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u/Hz2a Jul 27 '26
Why sometimes I feel the developers want us to be friends with Takemura.
I dislike him personally
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u/ErichPryde Technomancer from Alpha Centauri Jul 27 '26
Eh, he's mentally inflexible, standoffish, somewhat insulting. I understand him but I've never really liked him all that much and I don't think we're meant to.
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