Totenglocke: So you admit that you're 100% uninformed and think gamers are "evil sexists" just because they exist. Thanks for clearing that up, we all know to ignore you now.

dtgreene: Thanks for the article. I am now more interested in this game than I was before. (Of course, I still don't like the Infinity Engine's real time with pause battle system enough to actually buy it at the moment, but that's unrelated.)

Totenglocke: ...completely out of place gender issues?

ydobemos: Please quote me the "in-game and D&D lore" that endorses sexism (even though the very first character creation sub-screen does the exact opposite) and states that gay and bi people do not exist.

Totenglocke: So you'll buy a game for inserting completely out of place gender issues? This is why games are getting worse and worse each year and why we have things like Blizzard removing a character from Overwatch because idiots are offended that one of the characters was an attractive female.

ydobemos: Yes. And that was and is a bad thing, so let's not go along with it, eh?

TheTWF: If you doubt the downward spiral of video game writing, look at the guy in this thread who thinks the existence of sexist characters, and characters acting in a way he deems Problematic, to be sexist and/or a result of sexism. Now imagine that these people are either in the position of video game writers, their bosses, or the writers/bosses are pandering to them out of delusion that this is actually progressive and improves the product or it's sales (SJ-pandering games tend to sell like shit fyi) or are terrified into doing so because they think they'll lose their careers and reputation and lives to baseless declarations of bigotry (the SJW weapon of choice, see the guy I mentioned).

It's FICTION. It doesn't matter what happens within it, because it's fake. It's not real people involved. And the idea that it encourages bigotry or wrongthink is so debunked that if every debunk was a brick then you could build a roman coliseum with them. It's is absolutely and utterly abhorrent that people are demanding creative mandates and censorship upon FICTION, the stories people want to tell that most often aren't allegories or political statements (I know that's hard to grasp for people who judge everyone and everything by race/sex/sex pref/etc, but give it a try). “This character acts in a way that I find offensive.” Yeah because there’s absolutely no one in the world who’d ever act like Jaheira or whatshername, and the idea that such a person could exist is just plain offensive. I know a robust Louisianan black women who talks and acts almost exactly like what you’re imagining right now. Should I walk up to her and tell her that her existence is Problematic? Or is that only okay when she’s a fictional character? Also, who the hell are you? Who elected you to be the morality preacher and policer of billions of people as well as what they consume? Sure as hell not the hundreds of millions to billions in the first world who largely get along fine and barely notice or care about things like race and gender and who you want to bang, and yet are the main targets of all these accusations of systematic/institutionalized bigotry and rape culture and whatever over the cultures that actually do these things.

And in the inclusion of all these pandering characters… I hate to break it to you, but gays and trans are a tiny percentage of the human population. Very much the exception. There aren’t a whole lot of gay people in the world and transsexuals, real transexuals not all these twenty year old brats who delude themselves into thinking they're trans because they so want to feel special (when I was growing up thinking they were gay and/or joining the furry fandom was what they did), are vastly dwarfed by THEIR numbers. And yet all of the sudden there’s these characters in every game, sometimes several. You can’t throw a brick without hitting one. Knowing why these characters are appearing makes it impossible to take seriously, and it breaks player immersion which is not good for an RPG. And none of these pandering characters are actually characters, or anything other than a platform to shove their existence down your throat. Alphys from Undertale for example isn’t defined by her being gay, that’s just a component of a character who is defined by the way she acts, what she does, what she’s done or hasn’t done, and her relationships with other characters. And by and large people were fine with her and other gay/bi characters in the game because they come off as plausible and three-dimensional CHARACTERS. The same cannot be said about the walking sockpuppets in this game, who exist to be gay and be trans and scold the player for not being a tool while being male.

Not even going to bother with the accusations against GamerGate. The idea that some people are still sticking to the unproven declarations of bigotry and harassment being committed by users of a consumer revolt hashtag, spoken by radical ideologues and professional victims who are proven guilty of every single thing they accuse GamerGate of, is laughable.

Step out of your safe space sometimes you uneducated and paranoid little brat, and take a look at the world around you. The real world, not the one Kotaku made up.