Retardmaxxing at VA-11 HALL-A
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Story transcript
Dana Zane: We're closed in two hours.
Johnny Silverhand: Good. That's enough time.
Johnny Silverhand: Whiskey. And I need you to hear something.
Johnny Silverhand: The most powerful thing a man can do in this city is retardmaxxing. Full commitment. Zero calculation.
Johnny Silverhand: They can't model what you'll do if you don't know either.
Dana Zane: ...Did you just use that as a verb.
Johnny Silverhand: Corporations run on prediction. Risk models. Behavioral data. You wanna beat the system? Stop being legible to it.
Dana Zane: So your grand anti-corporate philosophy is just... retardmaxxing.
Johnny Silverhand: Finally. She gets it.
Dana Zane: I didn't say I got it.
Dana Zane: You blew up Arasaka Tower.
Johnny Silverhand: Case in point.
Dana Zane: That's your proof of concept. A nuke.
Johnny Silverhand: No behavioral model has 'detonate nuclear device in corporate headquarters' as a predicted outcome. That's the whole point.
Dana Zane: It should.
Dana Zane: You also died.
Johnny Silverhand: Part of the process.
Dana Zane: Dying is part of retardmaxxing.
Johnny Silverhand: Willingness to. There's a difference.
Dana Zane: Sure. One of them actually killed you.
Johnny Silverhand: Temporarily. Which they did not predict.
Dana Zane: I'm putting retardmaxxing on the specials board. See how that predicts.
Johnny Silverhand: Do it. That's the spirit.