raisin' hell all over town

The sexuality of a police officer is cop.

The gender of a police officer is cop.

When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.

"It's easy to say "violence is never the answer" if you've never had to fight for your life"

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

And I just remember sitting there going that can't be right, that character just thinks the same way I do and *I'm* not autistic, she's totally in the wrong about that

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

Connor's primary order was not to kill Markus. Connor says "I've been ordered to take you in alive, but I won't hesitate to shoot if you give me no choice".

So his mission is to bring Markus in, but kill him only if Markus fought back. But depending on the endings you can kill markus, he cant really bring markus in for whatever they are looking for if he's destroyed any important bits via gunshot. Thats deviating from cyberlifes/ amands orders isnt it?

AND AND AND

Amanda says “You did what you were designed to do… you becoming deviant? The success of the uprising? It all surpassed expectations.” This shows us (and him) that they programmed him to become deviant, which obviously everyone already knows. In that ending. What if he was never supposed to be a deviant hunter detective prototype but a deviant prototype.

Companies do all kinds of weird and backwards stuff all the time. It wouldn't be surprising in this case

Its really ambiguous the whole situation because we arent IN cyberlife seeing what his purpose truly is or isnt. He also because deviant through his own choices and not because of what directly happens outside of him (like kara protecting the kid. And markus being beat by Leo and then scrapped)

He also has a path where he can choose to shoot himself. That definitely is deviating from his goal.

But again this is a video game and there are a LOT of plot holes and things that change with each ending you go for. I like to think he was always going to be deviant no matter if he chose to or not. He was programmed to get as close to it as possible.

I do wonder what markus purpose was tho, was he always meant to do what he did? Be who he ended up being? There was no path for him outside of a revolutionary. He could have put himself back together and then just gone back to his home. Did cyber life program him that way? To be a revolutionary? All androids come from cyberlife, we don't see any competing companies with differently branded androids. (Like how people have iphones or Samsung phones) and he was specifically given to Carl. He seemed special from the start and carl just pushed him further along in that direction

Also one of the questions we do in the survey is bascially "would you date an android?", I wonder if there was cut content all around and thats why there's weird gaps and inconsistencies

I thiiiink.... I thinkkkk... Let me be totally honest I am NOT very familiar with machine Connor's options. But, there are other endings where Markus is killed and still taken to CyberLife (that one ending where everyone dies really early and it shows Markus getting taken apart). So, I think Connor's statement leans more towards 'they want you alive, but they'll take you dead too'. Or at least that's how I interpreted it.

But yes, Amanda talking about Connor going deviant and so on is really kind of what seals the whole 'programmed to be a deviant' deal. There are so many posts I've found talking about this, but yeah, there were definitely ulterior motives in Connor's release. I think he was more of a case study, an incomplete version of the RK900 they made a few tweaks to. But why? That's the big question. There's no way for them to know that he would commit to deviancy. Like yeah there's the whole manual override thing, but there are SO many risks to put millions at stake for something that has a very small chance of working. Like- I don't know. Because even if deviant Connor dies, they just send in a new machine Connor. So what's the point? What was the point?

Connor's suicide is definitely a post-deviancy thing. There is no goal at that point, but also Connor why was killing yourself the only option you could think of? Like I knoooow it's supposed to be a metaphor for him being in complete control BUT HE DOESN'T KILL HIMSELF IN THE OTHER VERSIONS like come on guys.

Someone talked about Connor and the synopsis of their discussion was Connor can either be a deviant that abandons his mission of his own free will or a deviant that follows orders of his own free will and I really like that wording