Pixelargh wrote: β January 8th, 2024, 15:15Cipher wrote: β January 8th, 2024, 15:03Pixelargh wrote: β January 8th, 2024, 14:06
Funny how that works. To me the pandering doesn't come from LGBT people being in the game per se but the sheer amount of them and also the writing of them. It's not realistic just to announce your husband or wife out of nowhere. The Last of Us part 1 did that much better with the ***** relationship it included. That's why I don't care about Aylin or Sebastian but all the gnomes being gay is cringe to me.
For me, the thing about Aylin is that they are eating their tonsils and dry humping for like 2 minutes and the game forces you to watch.
Yeah, you can skip cutscenes but what if you miss some plot development? Who knows what they will say when they eventually stop.
Yes, there's also the dry humping your character can do with other NPC, but that's a Player choice. The way Aylin and Isobel scene plays out its really to rub it in the Player's eyes and to let you know just how gay they are for each other.
Think of all the media when lovers are reunited. They usually just embrave lovingly while the camera rotates around them and then they kiss. None of this dry humping or tonsil eating.
And no man or woman replicates a scene like that in the game.
That's the problem. It has never been about representation. Its about making them a parade and forcing everyone to cheer and clap or ELSE.
If they really care for actual representation then they would include around 7 alphabet characters for every 100 voiced/named characters. But in this game is almost like 25% or so, or at least it feels that way because they beat you over the head about their gayness and how gay they are and how that makes them special.
That's the problem. A character could be written well and have an actual personality and, y'know, character. And then just so happen to be gay.
But nowadays, its always the man talking about their husband out of nowhere just so the audience knows they are gay. Its about rainbow flags. And about tonsil eating and dry humping on camera so the wokesters can cry and clap at the screen while everyone else rolls their eyes.
I totally agree with you on this. The problem is not some of the characters are gay. The problem is their appearance is meant to pander or they are simply poorly written.
Ideally, for me, this mod would just remove the tonsil eating, dry humping, the NPCs announcing their ***** status and marital status and that's it. People, no matter their sexuality, don't go about announcing their sexuality or marital status to total strangers. At least not mentally stable people. These characters and scenes are simply poorly written. No need to get rid of the characters or erase their identity, just cut the lines/cutscenes where they announce and pander and that should be fine.
And regarding The Last of Us Tv show, yeah, I couldn't pass episode 1 because the writting was lame and the casting of Ellie was absurd. I didn't continue watching but I heard stories about the rest.
See but there is a reason why people do not announce their sexuality. Becaude 90% of people are heterosexual.
And that's what I meant, its not about representation is about their need to announce they are part of the alphabet mafia so the rest of us peasants bow down to them and jump through hoops to make them feel good about their mental illness.
People with body dysmorphia don't announce it because that illness is not celebrated. Same with any other illness, mental or physical.
That's why these cartboard cutouts they want to call "characters" have/i] to tell the audience how gay they are at every opportunity because its about giving the appareance of normalcy by sheer prescence in entertainment media.
They are so few that they have to band together in an alphabet mafia and even then do no crack doble digits in terms of population. That's how scarce they truly are. No other group enjoys such a large overrepresentation in media.
Because no other group needs it. They need to see themselves everywhere so they can feel they are not so scarce as to be outside of the norm, meaning not normal.
