Raithe

Well romance wise you can establish friendships across multiple missions, and then if you've picked certain dialogue choices and actions you get to the point of doing the "sure, lets bang and have a relationship" or stick to "lets just be friends". Just keeping to the friends zone still has you playing a series of missions that expand world/story/character stuff, and can be engaging beyond the normal side-gigs. It's that balance of side gigs that are repetitive "rescue / kill / steal" versus the side gigs that have more in-depth stories and interesting characters.

Depending on how it goes you can hack it to just clear the malware, hack it to get a copy of a nice lethal quickhack (synapse burnout if I recall), or both. If you go through the mission and I think its on one of the laptops you can read the message that does identify that guy from Meredith's trunk as the mole, in which case potentially terminates him. Without it, there's no proof, and as long as you don't start anything with Royce she doesn't recover the convoy and that's why she's terminated. I went with rescuing Brick as well, haven't seen any direct consequences of that, but I'm guessing his favour owed might turn up in the end game sequence. Actually hit level 41 now, about 76 hours of gameplay and still pootling around in act 2 doing side gigs and the like. There are some interesting and disturbing elements that crop up in equal measure. Although I am annoyed that there are a couple of missions you can only do if you basically play stupid. It's that awkward "right, do I roleplay this and not get into it and skip the content, or do I close my eyes and just act like a naive moron with no clue just to explore the mission and what might come out of it..." Hm, just had the River romance pop up. I have to admit, compared to meeting Judy and Panam, and how those relationships are more fleshed out before romance creeps in, River as the male to female V's hetero option seems surprisingly shallow. The first mission where he's somewhat antagonistic, the second where you help him rescue his nephew from a serial killer type, and then boom "Hey, I want to date you" kind of thing. Made it very easy to do the "Dude, we're friends, that's it. Let's get drunk and enjoy the view."

https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/exfiltrating-data-from-air-gapped.html

Maybe it's because I upgraded my PC a few months back, but I haven't had too much grief. A few visual glitches, nothing too serious, a couple of odd clipping of cars in the environment, one game breaking infinite loading screen moment that was resolved by going off and doing another mission and then coming back, and a phone call that went silent for about 2 minutes. Beyond that, it's all been smooth sailing, and I've been enjoying the atmosphere. I think Night City is great to roam around in, but it isn't amazing for interacting with. Still, the characters in the various side-quests and such tend to make up for not the basic AI for random civilians and cars on the streets.

Just wait until the new year and it resets to 01/01/2020 again...

Heh, my travel insurance coverage runs out in a few days, and I keep getting the email reminders asking me not to forget to renew... I'm kind of thinking I'll let it lapse for the moment..

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-messy-messaging-behind-cyberpunk-2077s-messy-launch?sf134329398=1

And since it's not directed at gameplay itself.. **** everywhere in "Cyberpunk 2077" is a bug, developer says - Business Insider

Several BioWare Veterans Return For New Mass Effect Game - Game Informer

It's one of those examples of the quest line pointing you to the next stage.. but if you take your time to wander around and check stuff on your own it turns up. I wasn't sure if you'd known where that spoiler item was discovered.