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Posted June 03, 2021
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It would have been cool to have reasons for the choices. Feel like it gives more of a story rather than a blank list of games, oddly hidden away from people...which kinda feels like the opposite of what pride is?

Either way, Midboss do good stuff 2064: Read Only Memories is interesting.

Shame they chose to try to hide the page away just on the front page with on other posts anywhere else.

P.S

Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh without thinking of Spoony!
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dtgreene: Also, why isn't Ikenfell in the collection? It definitely deserves to be.
Ike fell is there! Near the bottom of the list
Post edited June 03, 2021 by Linko64
Posted June 03, 2021
Either do it or don't do it, GOG. This "do it but make it as invisible as possible" stuff is weak.
Posted June 03, 2021
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mqstout: As a spectrum, not really. Trans issues and gay issues are deeply intertwined.
I don't see the connection, and imo homosexuals are making a big mistake in seeing it like that. The trans agenda is likely to lead to a massive backlash, or at very least will never be accepted without lots of repression breeding resentment.
But since I'm not keen on being banned, I'll leave it at that.
Posted June 03, 2021
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morolf: "queer" used to mean just "homosexual", like "gay".
Anyway, thanks for your effort, but as I wrote, I don't even really want to know what Q+ is supposed to stand for, it doesn't make any sense to me anyway.
Words and their meanings change with time. That's how language works except for dead ones.

Fair about not understanding. I don't either nor am I interested. I just treat them with the same respect as any other person since that's what most of them are asking for.
Post edited June 03, 2021 by Canuck_Cat
Posted June 03, 2021
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odd move and a new low for gog, they never stop at looking for the next new low. it looks like a good example of positive discrimination to me. but maybe i'm not getting the point.

in general, is it necessary to have a certain sexual orientation/gender indetification to enjoy a certain game or what is this all about?

and this "our queer team members share their favorite games" is very bad. do they spy on their staff about their sexual orientation/gender indetification? maybe with the same spyware, that gog is using on their website and in galaxy on their customers? why are they tracking such stuff about their team members?

whats next now? the "balls of steel collection" picked by their white straight male team members and a big d#ck as background instead of a rainbow?

the resources spend on realising this idea could have been spend on fixing the bug of the sr3 remastered before release or remove some spyware ... i mean telemetry from offline installers of games on here, there is so much to do on gog that would make more sense.
Posted June 03, 2021
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fronzelneekburm: Why, would you look at that: Gog decided to have their own little Pride Month™ celebration and forgot to tell us! Their Pride Month Collection (where their "queer team members share their favorite games with LGBTQ+ themes and characters") is discreetly hidden away as one of the very last front page banners to come up. No news post, no forum thread, nothing. Can't even find an announcement on their Twitter. (Not that anybody is missing out on much, since none of these games are discounted anyway, lol). It's a bit of a shame that gog doesn't seem to have the cojones to open up a Pride Month thread in their own forum, since it's, paradoxically, supposed to be about pride and all, so I guess I'll have to open one in their stead.

Now, it gets more peculiar: If you decide to randomly change languages, that collection page will be displayed in the selected language. Unless you select Russian or Chinese. In which case the collection page and the short text therein remains in English. Is that banner even visible in those territories? Where's your solidarity with the downtrodden Russian and Chinese LGBTQ+ community?

All of this has me more confused than a teenage boy scout during summer camp.
It must have slipped through the cracks. lol
Posted June 03, 2021
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Canuck_Cat: Words and their meanings change with time. That's how language works except for dead ones.

Fair about not understanding. I don't either nor am I interested. I just treat them with the same respect as any other person since that's what most of them are asking for.
Bingo.
Posted June 03, 2021
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apehater: and this "our queer team members share their favorite games" is very bad. do they spy on their staff about their sexual orientation/gender indetification?
...Ignoring the rest of your incoherent post, I would like to remind you that many of us are "out", including in the workplace.
Posted June 04, 2021
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fronzelneekburm: Why, would you look at that: Gog decided to have their own little Pride Month™ celebration and forgot to tell us! Their Pride Month Collection (where their "queer team members share their favorite games with LGBTQ+ themes and characters") is discreetly hidden away as one of the very last front page banners to come up. No news post, no forum thread, nothing. Can't even find an announcement on their Twitter. (Not that anybody is missing out on much, since none of these games are discounted anyway, lol). It's a bit of a shame that gog doesn't seem to have the cojones to open up a Pride Month thread in their own forum, since it's, paradoxically, supposed to be about pride and all, so I guess I'll have to open one in their stead.

Now, it gets more peculiar: If you decide to randomly change languages, that collection page will be displayed in the selected language. Unless you select Russian or Chinese. In which case the collection page and the short text therein remains in English. Is that banner even visible in those territories? Where's your solidarity with the downtrodden Russian and Chinese LGBTQ+ community?

All of this has me more confused than a teenage boy scout during summer camp.
I would surmise, based on what happens on many other forums, the didn't post it to avoid hate and griefing posts.... well avoid the need to monitor and enforce such posts
Posted June 04, 2021
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apehater: odd move and a new low for gog, they never stop at looking for the next new low. it looks like a good example of positive discrimination to me. but maybe i'm not getting the point.
You do realize that you are free to leave actually?
Posted June 04, 2021
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StingingVelvet: Either do it or don't do it, GOG. This "do it but make it as invisible as possible" stuff is weak.
Where are you getting this whole "as invisible as possible"? Are some of you guys just extremely sensitive or just trolls looking for any little thing to complain about? Serious question.

It's on the front page scrolling banner, and clearly visible when you first visit GOG.com. I mean, what more do you want? A whole rainbow background splash for the entire website? ...

Edit: part of my post got chopped off because I used an emoji I guess. Not gonna bother re-typing it.

But seriously. It's like it's never good enough for some of you, or you're just looking to complain about shit. It was nice that they had a nod and shoutout for the LGBTQ+ community, and some of the staff could give out their recommendations and favorites, but some of you are acting like everything needs to be all "look at me" here, and that's not the way it should be.

People come here because GOG sells games, and that's it (not counting you forum trolls). Nothing else should take stage infront of that.
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Post edited June 04, 2021 by TomNuke
Posted June 04, 2021
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mqstout: many olderfolk do have considerable negative associations (or even trauma) with the word "queer" from before it was reclaimed, sadly.
Related tale (hopefully of some amusement and insight).

Worked in a gay bar for a while. Great place aside from one or two staff members I got stuck with.
A lot of the older folk didn't like the term queer for the same kind of reasoning you mentioned.
That all stopped one day when the bouncer was overwhelmed at the door by a gang of football fans on their way home from an away game (there was at least ten) chanting "we'll queer stomp you and yer missus!" (or something along those lines).
Couple of the younger fellas (who preferred the term queer) marched out and kicked hell into them because they knew the police wouldn't turn up (this was the 1990s).
When done they declared "Well now you all know what it means to be queer-stomped! Do not return here..."
The older folk who disliked the term queer had a new appreciation of it after that and the pub didnt see any trouble from any firms until it turned into a rock bar and venue I also worked at years later.
Funnily enough the same kind of situation had a similar outcome once more.
Posted June 04, 2021
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dtgreene: (I made a topic a while ago asking for LGBTQ related games and it ended up getting locked.)
So they acted like they rejected and opposed your idea, but in reality they stole it?

Purrrrr-fect...
Posted June 04, 2021
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There's some curious titles on this list, like Sword of the Necromancer. Haven't got it, but was looking at the game, and i didn't see anything jumping out to me as LGBTQiA+.

EDIT: Didn't realize the PC was female. Needed to actually watch the trailer to get this info. XD
Post edited June 04, 2021 by kohlrak
Posted June 04, 2021
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dtgreene: (I made a topic a while ago asking for LGBTQ related games and it ended up getting locked.)
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timppu: So they acted like they rejected and opposed your idea, but in reality they stole it?

Purrrrr-fect...
It wasn't GOG rejecting the topic; it was other users who politicized the topic and made a bunch of rather hateful posts that resulted in GOG having to lock the topic.
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