Rare & Interesting Street NPCs (Add Yours!)

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Paparazzi 2077. Another roll from V's camera.
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Interesting. We see remarkably few wheelchair users in Night City, presumably because prosthetics are widely available for those who can afford them. There is also a quite remarkable number of places only accessible by stairs (or if there are alternate routes they're not well signposted. A lot of Night City is topographically more like Edinburgh's Old Town than like a modern, disabled-friendly townscape.

To be wheelchair bound must be TOUGH, and must be a mark of significant relative poverty – not quite down with the homeless, perhaps, but certainly excluded from a lot of the city.
 
Wow the clothing on some of these NPC is amazing, why did the DEV not give access to the player? Need it require a lot of Skelton Animation points for each? But they had to do that already for the NPC right?
There is a large amount of clothing that just requires for CDPR to add it to the clothing store lists. No animations required. Why that clothing barely shows up except if you are extremely lucky:
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I've been taking pictures of interesting NPCs; I've stuck an album up here. But for this thread I'll draw attention to the excellent presentation of women of colour. These examples all present as very self confident and empowered.

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I've commented before avout the interesting, self confident depictions of women of colour, but here are two that are a little different.

I'm totally cool with the idea that Night City in 2077 should have very different dress codes than we have now; I'm aware of (people have posted above) pictures of female NPCs with either skin tight or translucent clothing over their breasts, and that's sort of normal in the city. But this is the only instance I've seen yet of a woman in the street with bare breasts, and she's black:

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This next instance doesn't have exposed nipples, but she appears to have no clothing as such at all, just an extreme version of cosmetic cyberware. Again, she's black:

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And it seems to me there are two issues here.

Firstly, in world, is it credible that different cultural groups should have different dress codes and different attitudes to body modesty? Yes, of course it is. That is one of the ways in which different cultural groups declare their identity, in our modern world. So of course it's ethnographically plausible that (some subculture of) black women in Night City would be comfortable with or even assertive of public nudity, as a certain Cambridge avademic is in the real world today.

But there's a separate question of whether it's OK for makers of a video game in the real world today to selectively hypersexualise one race, especially given the real world history of relations between the race of the majority of the developers and the black race. I'm not sure what I think.

Of course, if there are in-game examples of white women with bare breasts in public (i.e. in the street, not in a brothel or night club), then this objection is moot; but I have not seen any.
 
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