The Character Romance thread (Official)

The anoying thing is.. like it goes against that what David Gaider told another entitled str8-cisspissbaby  who whined that he as the majority deserves more....
David told him basically to build a bridge and to get the fuck over it because just because that str8hetcispissbaby thinks hes the majority and extrapolates from that that hes entitled to have more.. that isnt the case..

It seems this BW studio went back on that position.. Maybe only the DA-Bioware people are of that opinion because they had a gay writer on the forefront for long.. Idk whether weekes is Bi/Pan or his wife, I read something.. but even if they arent, they are trying and, in case of Krem they've shown they ask when they feel they don't know enough..

I mean.. those were in a way two different studios with different culture, so I could understand why they feel pressure to appear progressive but then because of their bro-gamer culture and a ton of subconscious biases (reyes was written by Austin afaik?) that went on unexamined then this wreck could happen..
I read on the studio culture.. like bro culture means also being incapable of saying "I don't know, please help me" or "I feel insecure with that"  so that could've lead to thos whole shitshow..
Then they have a lack of trust in their audience and the urge to court a certain audience that was told off by Gaider..
so they show total inconsistency..

One writer tells them to get over it because they cant get everything and just because they think they are the majority doesn't mean thy are owed anything..
But here the studio clearly signals those that they are the cherished audience by hiding the gay, making them talk about straight sex all the time, queerbaiting and now dolling up sara and forcing that dolled up version on people.. because now those assholes and their fragile toxic homophobic idea of masculinity and  fuckability ad identity suddenly matters more than the rest of their fans?

I really feel those are two studios..One has learned-by having queer people on them- that we are humans and we are fans and that we are ignored so often for such assholes who shit out death and rapethreats en masse and justify it with the heinous crime of:
daring to not religiously favor gameplay ¹,  
including of queer people, PoC, trans-people or in general people who arent "the assumed default" in their work in essential and nonessential roles even if there is "no reason" (because we are..for no reason. We just are, ffs)
or if someone dares to want to have female characters in reasonable and situational adequate clothing and who look like human beings with little imperfections and less like sexy dolls, with photoshopped faces, submissive waifus in underwear or genetically modified supermodels with impeccable makeup with body clinging boobsocks, camel toes and a male gazy camera thats stuck to  T'n A only.. 


the other studio decided that exactly that group is the one that needs placating and so they now pretty sara up without a chance of choosing not to, give us a weird sexist outfit that clearly shows off sara more because male gaze trumps all..and well the whole shit with cheryl... they decoded to placate a group that hates them already for not giving them enough wish fulfillment, male gaze and edgy sexualized violence and grittiness so they can feel so adult and objective and mature


I'm a bit sad because it seem Karin Weekes did a lot of work for it so I ask myself why the fuck didn't she speak up, supported cheryl more.. did just anything??
I mean they are silent, were it all the time (except about scott because, well praise the cis-str8-het-dudes as customer over all else.)

maybe she did but it wasn't enough?? I don't know..
It feels shitty somehow to accuse them as a whole because I feel at least for some its very much their baby and its a first and its easy to forget humans behind it if one is hurt..



how could they as a studio who got it so right in previous games (not perfect, but who is? They shown they were trying)
get it s terribly wrong now, where hey showed they didn't cared so much that they have driven off great talent in their scrambling run to throw themselves at the feet of people who hate them for acknowledging us who they perceive as outsiders, intruders and whatever..


but i still cant stop feeling hurt even tho I as bi-person got at least more than just scraps.. I got stereotyped shit and copy pasted shit but thats still better than nothing and at least jaal is nice..
(But jaa is also a bit stereotypical, the sappy lover, opening his heart, communicating. He would've been better as Bi, breaking a  bit this cliche-mould of "this is  how women want to be treated"- well some, yes, others not..)

(damn, Montreal-studio, you wrote the angara.. and those show you how its done, talking about emotions, being open with them, being supportive in a group,  getting help..
How could you get it so much and not get it at all?? )

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(1) like when "gamers" sent death threats to Jennifer Hepler  because she said that as a mother who has to care for her family and therefore has less time now she is an adult with obligations
she would like the option to skip combat because she wants to experience the story and prefers it over gameplay.
(that part with "i'm a mom and have duties and obligations now and therefore less time to sit and force myself through a combat section again and again until mastered" was the part those wankers cut out to make her statement seem more heinous ^{(because she's a woman, woman don't game and now she has opinions? Burn her!)} and use it to justify calling her cancer and sending threats and shit-because someone disliking something they like and addings hit they either don't care for or even feel threatened by is now a big conspiracy requiring them to threaten people with violence and rape.

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I hope that post wasn't too rambly.. It is.. its always when I make the mistake of looking up what the fuck they were thinking and then the salt is flowing again..