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tarmac-rat · 2 months ago

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"I can't believe CDPR made one of the romance options a COP" River is a cop for literally two thirds of a mission that is dedicated to uncovering the depths of police corruption in Night City, gets immediately booted from the force BECAUSE he tried to stand up to said police corruption, spends the rest of the game pursuing detective work outside the law, and in the base game mentions he's going to start work as a private eye so he doesn't have to return to the force in order to keep protecting people.

The only instance where the "River is a Cop" joke is funny is using it in the context of Johnny being pissy about it, which should probably tell you how low hanging that particular fruit probably is.

#Cyberpunk 2077 #It's been 4 years can we please retire the 'Ew River is a cop' joke. It's not funny and barely accurate to the overall game timeline #And I'm not even a passionate River lover I just think the joke is old and people keep parroting it like it's some big zing against River #River gets so little screentime that him 'being a cop' is frankly not that important outside of what it does for his arc motivation #I'm sorry it's just as someone whose bread and butter is knowing what joke will hit with what fandom (sometimes I hit sometimes I miss)#Seeing a fandom still reduce a character down to what arguably amounts to 10% of his character and screentime pisses me off #Aldi speaks #River Ward #River lovers I'm sorry y'all have to deal with shit like this on the regular

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