This quote "Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead." is from Ubik, where protagonist​ Joe (V) after death get this message from someone from the real world, who is trying to tell him that he is living in a simulation.

Maybe anyone knows when exactly this shard appears in V's apartment in act 2?

My reasoning is simple:

FF refers to RED based on how RGB hexcodes works.

06 could refer to CD... assume A is 0, C would be 2, adding D would increase it by 4, so "06"

B5 in hexadecimal for 181, but again it starts from 0. July 1st is the 182nd day on non-leap years. If January 1st was 0, then July 1st would be 181 or "B5"

And when do CD Projekt RED celebrate their company anniversery? July 1st, as that's when the company change focus to video game development.

Very very new to this sub and the Cyberpunk theory space in general, but wanted to point something out I immediately noticed reading some posts on here. (TL;DR at the end)

A lot of the symbolism and spiritual themes of Cyberpunk 2077 feel very very Gnostic to me.

Gnosticism is at a basic level a dualist sect of heretical Christians. Gnostics have existed since the inception of Christianity in the first century AD, so their theology varies across time and space, but very broadly Gnostics believe the Abrahamic God is not one but in fact two. The first is the demiurge, largely attributed to the God of the Old Testament or Yahweh. The second is God the father of Jesus Christ. The demiurge is the creator of the material world, which agnostics believe is inherently evil and sinful. God then sends Christ to save humanity from this world, and shepherd them to the next.

The Gnostic demiurge, creator of the material world, is often symbolized as the very same ouroboros which we encounter in some of the Easter egg quests. The monks, despite being visually inspired by Buddhism are quite Gnostic in their rhetoric. Eschewing chrome, the sinful physical aspect, in lieu of an inward spiritual look.

Gnostics also has their own sense of 'simulation theory'. Many Gnostics of the medieval and antique world characterized the physical world as a prison, or a simulation. They never used the word simulation, I don't believe it would've been coined by then, but the intent is there. Could it be that the physical world the player experiences, Night City, is a prison for souls? The real world, which the Gnostics broadly equated to heaven, being the Net or some otherworldly space?

Rogue AI, the threat of which seems impending in the subtext of Cyberpunk's story, takes the role of the demiurge here. They craft the simulation we experience and imprison us there. Who, then, is our 'good God?'

I could continue but really this was a brainworm that I felt the need to articulate. From an outside perspective a lot of the theorizing and symbolism I've seen on here feels very Gnostic. I'd be curious to know whether or not anyways has noticed the same.

TL;DR I think some of the themes and symbolism of Cyberpunk's metanarrative is very inspired by Gnosticism, and I'm curious to know if it's been pointed out or investigated before.

Thanks! :)

It's at Misty's and the letter and numbers reminded me of the investigation shit curious if anyone knows what it could potentially mean.

it's needing to be translated lots of neat secrets here