Because an entire race of Blue Polysexual Mono-Gender females only able to birth other females didn’t seem to click very well with the Saudis.
Why would inclusivity cause offense to any rational person?
See, the problem is that none of these people are rational.
What I can’t get over is the idea of “You can do homosexuality in Mass Effect!?” when to have any romantic affair in the game you need to try and do it. If you’re against Homosexuality and you are a male Shepard and you have sex with a male NPC, you had to fucking try to have sex with a male NPC. You spent hours seducing him.
Edit: I totally forgot Garrus is the only NPC who doesn’t have a homosexual romance option.
but we were just very close platonic friends!! And I accidentally hit the buttsex button!
Then its halal.
“I tripped and fell on my keyboard and mouse and while they were in there they accidentally progressed the dialogue trees that make you have gay sex.”
Minus the gay part, I would believe that if I heard it in the context of the first ME, it all takes three polite conversations
(or was it four? idr, does Liara’s mission count?)
To be honest, something like this can actually happen!
In Baldur’s Gate 3, I accidentally had very gay sex with an incubus by selecting a wrong option by mistake…
To be fair, that particular demon could change their sex at will, so maybe it’s not a great comparison.Party members are always throwing themselves at you in Baldur’s Gate 3.
In Lae’zel’s case, literally.
Romancing Shadowheart was really difficult. But very rewarding. Out of all the romance options, though, I had the most fun with Karlach’s romance plot. It was emotionally healing, especially if you’re playing as Wyll.
Romancing Shadowheart was difficult
Unless you played during launch… Month? Basically any friendship threshold above “hates your guts” (which is easy to achieve because she “Approves” of a lot of no-brainer “good default” options) had Shart wanting to bone you at the earliest possible romance opportunity. I think Gale similarly got patched to be less eager.
something like this can actually happen
Heh, reminds me of some reactions when Cyberpunk 2077 players don’t realise that Ángel is a male Spanish name and accidentally hire a male doll at Clouds (or a female one if they pick Skye by elimination thinking that Ángel must be female; in any case, the opposite of what they were looking for).
Of course there’s no sex in that scene because V is working and has too many things in their head (both literally and metaphorically), only intimacy, but still, it can be a bit of a shock, apparently.
I mean, as long as you didn’t fuck Mizora.
I guess you suffer from it still and are now gay.
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The amount of people that got up in arms about KCD2 having a totally optional gay romance options, that gives you multiple, explicit options to abort (which doesn’t happen with some of the hetero flings…) but it was too much for them.
Worse there are ghouls arguing that Boltgun 2 is ‘woke’ since it has an optional female protagonist.
I certainly hope the pendulum starts swinging back soon, this is all getting out of hand.
Holy shit, there’s a boltgun 2? And you can play as a sororitas?? Sign me the fuck up, thank you for mentioning it.
I’m pretty sure the only same sex romance options are Femshep and Liara, your admin assistant in ME2 (kinda), and then your admin assistant and shuttle driver in ME3. You can’t even romance Jack as Femshep.
And Liara barely counts because her species doesn’t even have a biological sex. They all just appear female compared to humans and so that’s how they tend to identify when working with sexually dimorphic races.
I was always a bit disappointed that there was no option to romance Garrus as Male Shep. One would think that gender comes secondary to species in terms of sexual preferences, but apparently not.
Your daily reminder that Grindr servers break when the Republican National Convention is in town.
They literally don’t. You need to reevaluate your media bubble.
It’s Saudi Arabia. They’re basically in the dark ages with the oil money to buy modern infrastructure. It’s an absolute monarchy, You get the death penalty for being any flavor of queer, It’s a surveillance state. They literally sent a kill squad into a foreign nation to (successfully) brutally murder a journalist. We don’t hear it much because of all the other constant noise in the digital world but they’re not good people. Everyone turns a blind eye because they have that sweet sweet oil and since like the 70s the US has been on it’s knees for them.
Don’t get me wrong here. It’s a very nice looking place but it’s built on some of the most terrible human rights abuses you can name.
They have almost open slavery. It’s not a good place. The fact that they were allowed to buy EA at all is a problem.
So kinda like what a lot of Republicans want for the US?
That’s were our presidents advisor lives so yes.
They are religious people. Why do you call them rational?
Because we live in the era of hate politics, where societies are being divided and conquered by populism’s of bigotry. Inclusivity counters that.
Toning down inclusivity offfends me.
I want more optional homosexual romance in my games, not less!
If these people think Homosexuality is a choice, then let people choose to have a straight relationship or a gay relationship. If they’re so hellbent on sexuality being a choice, they’ll just intentionally avoid all the homosexual romance options throughout the game, right…?
Right…?
Do you have a shitload of money? Then they don’t care.
We live in a world where people with money can buy and do anything as they want without having to deal with any consequences… shouldn’t we do something about it? And I mean 10 years ago at least
Its insane. Billionaires are ruining absolutely everything and monopolizing everything and turning everything into a propaganda arm for fascism which obviously is exactly what they want (to increase the power and wealth gap between themselves and everyone else). This is why people should be aggressively against censorship because the only way to defeat them is by allowing as many outside voices in as many possible areas as possible without giving the billionaires abilities and tools to silence them.
Sure.
Stop seeing their money as valuable, and convince others to do the same.
Don’t accept money for anything outside of work. Only accept things of value. And when possible, don’t offer money for things. Offer things of value, or work, or trades.
Because the money’s not actually valuable. They’re intentionally devaluing it so that they can be the only ones with enough left to have anything considered wealth.
If the population devalues the currency, that creates all kinds of problems.
I think its for the best that it was cancelled. The first two Mass Effect games are some of my favourites and I would rather have no new game in the series than whatever EA would produce today.
No alcohol. No exposed ankles. No gays.
Is it ok to dismember journalists while they’re still alive though?
Hilariously, one of the parts of Mass Effect that hasn’t aged super well is a running joke across all three games where you (a decorated military figure) can punch out a news reporter for trying to make you look bad on the news. To the point where if you do it in 1 and 2, she dodges in 3 but you can react to a prompt to headbutt her and walk away with her slumped against a wall.
The paragon options for dealing with her include responding to her goading question about military losses caused by your decision by being a good brave little soldier and listing the names of the ships lost in the action.
Ok sure, but beating the reporter is the bad option in those scenes, just to be clear.
No smoking, no swearing and no ALIEN SEX!
natural allies of western civilization somehow
But, I WANT offense. I WANT those people uncomfortable. So let’s do more not less, kthx.
Reminds me of the Wukong scandal where the devs forbade sponsored influencers to talk about feminism among other “too political” subjects.
This really puts me off purchasing a game from people capable of that kind of censorship.
This really puts me off purchasing a game from people capable of that kind of censorship.
A reminder that if you buy any game developed or published by EA, you’re funding this kind of hate.
That had nothing to do with inclusivity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/28/black-myth-wukong-game-controversy-china-streamers
Man EA is a given to boycott. No peer-pressure or 10/10 reviews is going to change that for me. Since the days of the endless yearly sports games in the 90s it was clear they’re c🤘nts
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Isn’t this exactly the kind of thing conservatives were always worried about happening to them?
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Its always projection
Offense to whom? Just like in real life, you can reject advances from those you aren’t interested in…
That is the gayest shit I heard men who are homophobic do. ITS A SPECIES OF FEMALE ONLY BEINGS , THAT HAPPEN TO LOOK LIKE SEXY BLUE WOMEN. THEY NEED TO FIND MATES FOR GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS. In the words of zap branagan “what are ya queer or something?”
saudis gonna sod
Called it (not that it took a crystal ball or anything.) the day the EA+PIF news came out. I had just wrapped up playing the ME series and Dragonage games, said it out loud to my spouse. Saudi Arabia sucks camel balls and chops up reporters.
the curtain drops on the entire strategy for why so much money is being invested in US media, games, news and sports by outsiders
Don’t offend the people you’re including
