Cyberpunk 2077 isn't an RPG in fact they even actively dumped the label after launch, it's a cyberpunk action game with a basic stat and perks system. I don't think the writing was every particularly good myself but you should understand a major thing in this setting in particular is that almost nobody makes it out and often gets fucked hard. In fact a major reason you see such actions is between sociopaths and folks that barely survived a betrayal, people are poised to strike first in most situations. This is also a setting that had a gang of modded clowns that tortured people to death or insanity that was dominant for like almost three decades, so stop overthinking it. It's not a serious setting. If you want more significant choices just play the tabletop with friends, though also there you should realize in setting your group is merely the protagonists not the main characters.

It's very simple, he knows it is bad pr to make it official policy when it can be done through extremely vague and obscure bureaucratic policy and authority rather than an official power because at worst can be obfuscated to individual bad action and challenges in court or similar. If such a thing does happen major figures can detach themselves and whatever is decided can once again be worked around through careful wording or interpretation. When civil servants can be the buffer and armor to the intent it is much more enduring than when it is front facing to the public that may oppose it.

While you might be on to something I would say modern consumer vapid culture is th e greater part. Most normie online folks are aware enough to know something will be talked about, everyone knows the bear stuff will be talked about and have videos about and posts about all over when this comes out. People crave the empty surface level engagement with whatever is happening NOW and that is the reason it was added in the first place. Someone made the ancient dnd joke of if fucking a druid in form counts as bestiality and some midwit writers and devs said yes that is hilarious everyone will be talking about that, and they're correct. Expect the shitty thumbnails of playthroughs and more articles about how "the internet is going INSANE over bear sex!!!" And for it to have some trending tag and some astroturfed memes or jokes and ultimately it will be forgotten. It's exactly the same as Lady Dmitrescu, it makes people talk and modern culture makes their entire reality these small fake "moments"

I would say it is more cynical than that, there are plenty of people huffing their own fumes creatively but I genuinely think especially with a company like Disney that many people internally are aware they aren't producing quality content because they want and expect an audience that will simply consume what they are told to consume. The entire approach to the EU after acquisition I believe was because they knew from the get go that of they attempted to engage with it or altered anything or tried to adapt any of it that there would be backlash or criticisms about what they did, so they not only wiped the slate they then astroturfed a wave of criticism against the EU in the first place. It is not remotely a perfect thing at all but it was always odd how suddenly a bunch of online sentiment and midwit YouTubers were suddenly saying "the EU was always bad" at the same time. I think sometimes the ideology approach doesn't account for the fact that a bunch of these folks merely ape the ideology because it's relevant now days and the more significant factor is that a bunch of scummy fucks want you to pay them multiple times a year to eat their shit and do that for the rest of your entire life and make sure every kid born is quickly on the drip feed of garbage for their entire life too. They don't remotely care about making a good or even acceptable product, they want to make any garbage they want and make billions off it and if you remotely address the scam or the shit content they produce they just astroturf more bullshit about entitlement or whatever the current label fits to make you out to be a bad faith actor

You're not entirely incorrect but prom in western school stuff is just the festival stuff you see in anime but culturally relevant. It's the same thing, an experience most people have in junior high or high school that people can relate with but it's not just an anime thing it's a Japanese culture thing. The school sports festival is probably similarly experienced, a thing that happened when you were a kid in school but you didn't think that much of it, but you do know it's a thing that happens to almost everyone.

That means nothing, they are cognisant humans, they cannot be owned unless they submit to coercive actions. Yes it is an extreme example but they cannot be property and told what to do without a very significant "or else" If someone walked up to you and told you they owned you and you must now do what they say would you simply just do as told? I highly doubt that, they would have to add a threat of force or just use force to convince you to comply and even then you have extreme options of refusal.

I understand your point but that is very much nitpicking, as slavery is merely coercion as it's not like they can literally force a person to work a field against their will as they may attempt to flee even at their own risk or simply kill themselves to ultimately refuse to act. Slavery itself is based on coercion under threat of forceful violence at last until there is some sort of nonsense brainchip to physically puppet the body anyway.

I would agree that it is a likely case for not that many people going femc but you shouldn't argue for less content in a game.

FeMC has a different personality, interactions, and social links. So some people like her more

Edmond is the northern part of the OKC metro, it is far from bumfuck nowhere.

Please attempt to not be midwits. This is almost certainly a shitpost, she looks as she does because when she was teased many people were tricked into thinking there was going to be a Vergil crossover with Bayonetta for this entry. Her name is Viola for God sake, this almost definitely a within genre ribbing in a genre that does not take itself seriously. It's Vergil fedora tier on purpose I would say.

I made an account just to tell you that your name is inaccurate, you would be more correct to say the Aldmer are Aryans or perhaps the Ehlnofey depending on how you want to account for the et'Ada. Modern day altmer are ,through the aldmeri dominion, seeking the ancient supremacy of their earlier more mystical and powerful ancestor race and one could even make hyperborea memes but with aldmeris instead and it would fit amusingly.