In a few quests you can see that cyberpsychosis can be prevented with the right expensive meds, which she obviously can afford, but it’s never implied Lizzy was on anything, actually she wasn’t even aware of her cyberpsychosis (sort of like that superiority complex David had, she might’ve had the mindset that she’s “immune”) she clearly had symptoms since Liam was even scared of her but it seems no one considered she might’ve had cyberpsychosis and even after her quests she simply goes on with her life
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Did she though? Did she really? She didn’t strike me as particularly sane
She is kinda almost a cyberpsycho. In one of the quest endings she kills Liam and she tells us that she feels as if she is not herself anymore. And then she proceeds to not care about dead Liam. She is definitely not well.
She didn’t avoid it. By the end of the quest she embraces her violent impulses for the sake of her art. I’m looking forward to seeing if they bring her back in Orion.
>How did Lizzy Wizzy avoid cyberpsychosis?
I don’t think she has. In my current playthrough, she called me to come to her room, and there I find the corpse of Liam, who she killed in a fit of rage, so…
Not everyone gets cyberpsychosis.
Also not having organic brain could help too.
There’s a quest in Dogtown that depending on your choices allow you to call in Regina to get some dude help with his cyberpsychosis, even tho he sure doesn’t act like a psycho and doesn’t think that he’s a psycho, other than having some rare outbursts of psychosis.
It’s very possible IMO that Lizzy Wizzy might be in the early stages of cyberpsychosis.
She didn’t, cyberpsychosis can appear in many ways, the thing is that NCPD only cares about the noisy ones since they bring attention to cyber making corpos, that’s why Regina mostly sends you to those kind before MAX TAC shows up to hide the evidence.
Money. She’s one of the wealthy elite and she can afford the treatments needed to stave off cyberpsychosis.
She is, it’s just that as a celebrity/corporate product she is both protected AND she uses it to her advantage in her art.
It’s an example of how dependent on society our idea of mental health is. We tend to not view people as mentally ill if they can function and behave within acceptable “norms”.
Cyberpsychosis isn’t about going on a rampage. It’s about the disassociation between the self and identity as a human. Her ideas for her art are intended to display her reduced perception of the value of human life.
Wdym? She’s very clearly suffering from some sort of psychosis
In short, she didn’t
that’s the neat part
she didn’t!
Cyberpsychosis symptoms and effects are not universal. Similar to going insane the causes and effects can vary vastly. mental disorders are not a simple off/on but rather a gradient, and if we take Cyberpsychosis for what it says on the tin, it’s cyberware-induced psychopathy. Your “Cyberware resistance” isn’t a physical hard cap like in the game, but rather just how far you can go down that gradient while being functional
that’s why Mike Pondsmith identified Adam Smasher as a “high functioning cyberpsycho”, he’s gone off into the deep end but is still in control, we see this manifest in his… tendencies, that you can read about down at the Docks in Watson.
She strangles her lover in a fit of anger, doesn’t really remember doing it, her first concern after that is protecting her own image, and by the time you finish having a conversation with her about it, she’s entirely forgotten that the *dead body on the floor is her former lover she’s just murdered* and her reaction when reminded about it is “huh? oh, sure, whatever, just get rid of it” while she’s already moved onto wanting to do BDs.
She *is* a cyberpsycho, she’s just a cyberpsycho who happens to be in a line of work where that’s not a handicap, the same as Smasher and Johnny and V. The defining symptom of cyberpsychosis is social disinhibition brought about by a failure to recognize that the people around you *are people*, and she fits that to a T.
If you didn’t walk away from her side job thinking that she’s a *very* dangerous person to be around and doesn’t realize it, you weren’t paying attention.
She didn’t. She may be resistant,but eventually she will snap.
Based on other characters visuals and such. I think Cyber Cyberpychosis is a symptom of internal implants. If she just had her skin replaced but no cybernetics just a shell I tldont think it would tax her mind the way internal augments do.
Women are said to be less likely affected by wearing too much chrome (I think that Regina mentions this somewhere). Also from what I know from the CP-Red rulebook the quality of the chrome and the recovery-time after each surgery can have an impact on your psychosis-probability. It’s like a drug. Taking cheap street-quality drugs every day will have a different effect than taking high quality drugs for rich people.
She’s just a high functioning cyberpsycho like Johnny or that guy with flamethrower elbows.
Women are less likely to catch/ obtain cyberpychosis so maybe the t
Also fun ish fact: she has a whole body replacement so she doesn’t have to walk around constantly in her chrome form
From my experience with Lizzy, she struck me as a high function cyberpsycho. She absolutely struck me as someone with cyberpsychosis, but could hide it relatively well enough and still be perceived as completely normal to someone who doesn’t do too much digging. Kind of in the same boat as Adam Smasher, but Smasher already hated everyone/everything and loved violence, so cyberpsychosis didn’t really change him.
That’s the neat part! She didn’t.
She is a woman and women have much higher resistance to cyberpsychosis
The entire questline is about how she already *is* Cyberpsycho lol
She didn’t, all the signs are there, she is starting to feel it, I guarantee you if the game went by a another month or 3 she would have flat lined people at her shows
I wonder if Grimes approached the developers about being in the game or if they approached her. She’s such a perfect fit. I love the whole “cyberware as obscene art” thing that Lizzy’s all about.
Uh she’s definitely experiencing cyberpsychosis lol
Who said she avoided it?
She’s a big celebrity. She’s shielded from the effects of it.
She didn’t.
She gave me a nice hat at Kurt Hansen’s party though
Cyberpsychosis isn’t just the metal, its also all the deranged crap people do with it. Like, being put in life or death situations. Lizzy is fairly sheltered and even she is clearly unwell.
She didn’t.
I don’t think she did. I think that she is a high-functioning cyberpsycho. The thing about psychosis in real life is that many people who suffer from those kind of mental illnesses seem fairly normal from the outside. If Lizzy is a bit unstable, then people assume she’s just being a temperamental diva. She definitely lacks in the empathy department and she’s starting to lose touch with her humanity.
I think she’s supposed to come off a little hollow and a little unhinged, but Grimes’s voice acting is so flat I can’t tell if it’s on purpose or not.