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I honestly don't know what to say about that.

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LGBT Thread

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Any LGBTQ?

Robeatics said Look, not to be rude, but sexuality is something that actually affects people differently and is much more easily discussed when one has an array of terms to choose from. Trying to discuss nonbinary panromantic demisexuals would be pretty damn hard to do if you had to say "You know those people? Like, the people who don't conform to the gender binary and who like other people either within or outside of the gender binary, but they don't like them sexually unless they have formed a strong, trusting connection? Those people?"To just say "Let's just call them people!!!" essentually erases their identity and makes it much harder to gain visibility and community. You wouldn't look at a cake, a donut, a cupcake and a cookie and start yelling about all the terms for them because "Why can't we just call them sweets all the time!"

Imagine if what you said there was applied to say sex, or race.
Would we insist on going around saying "I am an Asian", "I am an African", "I am a Scot who lost my freedom!" etc? Or would we go "I'm a human being?".
That's what people are trying to get across, that at the end of the day we are all human beings despite who we're attracted or not attracted to.

Now, that being said I understand sexuality is a bit different. It's not something physically noticeable that a person can know about you without asking, it's something inside.
And I'm all for the variety of LGBT terms there are available in order to better clarify/define one for a descriptive sense. So say instead of going on for 5-10 minutes saying "I like ______.... but not _____ and only in ______ way" you can quickly go "I'm a Pansexual/Asexual etc.".

But there also becomes a point where it stops being a descriptive term, and people start using it to define themselves.
You are not your sexuality, your entire personality is not simply who you are attracted to. You have feelings, interests, hobbies, opinions, friendships etc.
All those help make up who you are too, and that's part of what people are trying to say.

Zoe Quinn.

Yes I said I'd rather people be afraid to write about games, than be afraid to actually make the game... I don't see why you felt repeating this had some shock effect. :/

And you also act like mainstream = good.
Not to sound like a Hipster, but mainstream is hardly the definition of what's good.
All it means it that media shoves up into people's throats more, and a higher percentage of people like it.
It speaks nothing for the actual quality or legitimacy of the content in question, if your concern is purely numbers you're in the wrong field.
Gaming was never about appealing to everybody, each game is molded to a specific audience.

And good job completely missing the point, never did I claim we didn't already have some good and serious games. But developers are scared to make more of them, and those on more daring topics because of the backlash they would receive. And yes, GAMERS love those games. They aren't the concern of the backlash, the concern is people outside the field reacting to it with full hostility.

And before you reply with "See! We need to be mainstream!" no we don't. D&D isn't mainstream, but it does not suffer such criticism (anymore). Most people may look at it and go "What the hell... this is weird", but they aren't calling it sexist and making people afraid to make new tabletop games. And yes, game companies have to back down from topics all the time because of criticism. If honestly think all the feminazi's like anita, zoe, rebecca watson, laci green etc. haven't caused a developer to halt and go "Maybe I shouldn't make this... I'll lose my job cause people will get mad at me" you seriously need to give the gaming industry an actual look.

And seriously? You're logic makes people like Anita immune from being caught from certain acts... Anita fakes a threat, she get's caught. Suddenly we're being entitled because Anita was being dishonest... Not, you know, the LOGICAL answer of "Oh look! Anita's dishonest, no shit gamer's called it out". No, if Anita is caught doing something bad it's ok, because gamer's are just entitled shits for noticing it. But I'm actually against Anita guys! I said she cherry picks!

For someone who claims gamers need to get together and fight for a cause, you sure do a lot of trying to vilify gamers for getting together and fighting for a cause.
And just like you said, Journalism isn't even needed for a games success. If a game is good, it get's a following of it's own.
So essentially it's doing far more harm to games of making them all look evil and making developers avoid certain topics, rather doing good.

I'm sorry if you don't get the concept of a reviewer needs the game to review first.
But that's life, game journalists need games. Me prioritizing games is not sexism, it's not entitlement, it is hard, logical fact.

Any LGBTQ?

Rare said
Well, I don't like to have sex with a guy and a girl, but I have romantic feelings from them. What would I be (besides Bisexual, I know that I'm one but I don't have any sexual feelings from boys and girls?).

I think that's Biromantic Asexual like Robeatics suggested.

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Zoe Quinn.

Game Journalism at the moment is honestly little more than "ERMAGAWD! SEXISM!" and "This game is 10/10, because Activision forwarded millions of dollars to our paypal account". It's been like that for a long time now, as much as the dishonesty in it's system bugs me I care less about that than I do about the developers making the games.

No games, no gaming community. No gaming community, no game journalist. Game Journalists need the Developers to survive, they got nothing to be a Journalist about if there's no games to keep a gamer community going.

And Video Games are at the moment fighting an uphill battle to be seen as an artform. To be taken as seriously as movies and literature, and we need more games to do that. Games that take risks at pissing off the public, that delve into serious topics such as say the Holocaust (which MANY movies do) and handle it in a serious way. But people are scared to do that, because game journalism is right there waiting to pounce. To tear the developers apart, ruin their lives, end their careers and damage the game industry all for a few clicks on an article named "VIDEO GAMES HATE JEWISH PEOPLE!".

I mean in movies what do we care more about? The movies themselves or those article reviews you find on rotten tomatoes?
It's not a matter of not liking freedom of speech, I'm all for freedom of speech.
It's a matter of being able to create the very thing you have the freedom to talk about in the first place.