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Lopen posted...

Raiden does a lot of weird stuff that extends beyond a cyborg due to his emotions and random intangibles and I'm not sure he can just be hacked just because the ability description says so

Give me a reason to believe in this V hype that isn't purely parameter driven

The MGS verse is bad against hacking. Ocelot hacks the world all the way back in MGS4. Notably, in Cyberpunk, V finds the corpse of a certain hacker. Said hacker singlehandedly brought down the World Wide Web, plunging it into a dark age that fragmented it into segmented, super firewalled fiefdoms that could never possibly connect again because to do so would allow rogue AIs into the system and they could possibly wipe humanity in a few days tops. V takes his quickhacks, and if you want to buy into perk lore, the maximum intelligence perk that allows you to manually create top flight quickhacks is 'Bartmoss' Legacy' (Rache Bartmoss being the web destroyer). Also lorewise, two of the few hackers that could keep up with said guy helped assault the Arasaka Corporation alongside Keanu Reeves way back when, and got their brains fried for their troubles by its ICE countermeasures. V by contrast, manages to successfully navigate them and do what they couldn't. That's a running theme for V in general, in fact -- if you ever watched the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime, the heroes try to fight the power together and fail. V does the same thing solo and wins, going beyond what everyone else could do.