It cannot be front and center and normal at the same time. It cannot be the main part of a character’s identity, else it will always be perceived as “special” and “extra”, but not “normal”. Devs can make whatever game with whatever chars they want ofc, but the result is what we’re seeing with ubisoft.

I’m just ranting at this point.

funny, given that most gamers seem to agree with me, according to sales numbers. Noone wants this shit in games. Perhaps we’re not the problem.

Yup.

Bullshit. Normalization means not making a big deal out of it, which goes contrary to the woke standard of putting it front and center.

Because things like black protagonists with hip-hop music in the background make no sense in a feudal japanese setting and people are sick of games being abused as vehicles for morality preaching.

An example from borderlanfs two could be Sir Hammerlock, who was introduced as a normal (for borderlands) character early on and later in a side quest was revealed to be gay in passing. That’s the kind of ‘representation’ you want for lgbtq to be “normalized”. In modern games, his story would be one of struggle against straight white oppressors at the end of which there would be a five minute long cutscene in which everybody turns to the camera and informs the player that being gay is normal and that prejudice is bad and that straight white people are inherently evil. I’m overexagerating (spelling?) of course, but you get the point.

That sounds so cool, but I wouldn’t want to house a lot of strangers in my home and I also wouldn’t want to sleep in random strangers’ houses.

1. fire all DEI consultants
2. get rid of woke writers
3. stop making everything live service
4. give devs more time to optimize
5. don’t overmonetize your games

literally all they need to do. If you make games that people actually want to play, then people will buy them. And if you want to have lgbtq characters, then do it like borderlands 2, that game got it right in 2012.

Steam only charges that for larger developers though iirc

It absolutily isn’t. Get your head out of the sand.

Right? Femshep is amazing, but people are sleeping on maleshep. ‘we’ll bang, okay?’

What

In this horrible summer heat, there are few feelings more satisfying than a fridge-cold beer after a long day of work. But it’s hard to stop after the first.

Horrible day to have eyes

Touch grass

Cumala

All I know about Harris is from a youtube short where she was just being super weird about that catchphrase of hers.

She’s got no chance against trump and his cult of personality. Noone’s going to be passionate about her.

Exactly the same vibe

We too make jokes about it being called SS

Worst possible headline ever

Edit: OP has fixed it

Literally the same for every (ex)president