No More Cakes and Ale

"That entire concept sickens me on a fundamental level."

I'm only sickened by the cruelty of the comments.

But we have to accept that people will be attracted to what attracts them. We see our ideal selves projected onto the silver screen. Just as the Greeks projected their ideal selves into marble.

That's hardwired into us. We can accept it and enjoy it, without feeling the need to punish those who don't conform to that ideal, which is VERY few of us.

Bioware is fighting a losing battle, I fear. Can't fight biology. But we can work with it, by finding the middle way and not excluding anybody.

Well, sucks to be you, I guess. I liked the DAI companions just fine. Don't have the data to judge the ME:A companions yet, but I haven't seen anything troubling so far..

And again, I don't think Bio's fighting a battle here, losing or otherwise. They're just not very interested in your problem.

I disagree - why? Look at school, university and college graduates (mostly women, especially at university/college level!), look at who's homeless more, who dies on the job more, who holds the more dangerous jobs (coal miners, sewer cleaners etc.), who controls most of the money (note: It's not men (in most cases!), just like men in relationships don't decide if the house is bought or not, that's why real estate agents sucker up to women more!)), who gets support left an right (domestic violence shelters for example seldom take men, despite figures showing that men are victims just as much as women (!) - don't believe me? Look it up yourself, so you can't say I doctored the statistic or only looked at statistics that confirm my POV (so no confirmation bias!)), who gets more money spent on their healthcare (example: Cancer research, more money is spent ond breat cancer research despite the fact that most women survive that - unlike prostate cancer in men!), who lives longer, who can ruin the other more easily (a woman just has to cry "rape!" and the man is ruined, even if he gets off in court (as the specter of suspicion will cling to him like the color of his skin!)), the draft (only for men!), war deaths (mostly men!), assault victims, people who get murdered (mostly men!) etc. etc. etc. (just a small number of the overwhelming number of examples!)

Note: I am not a radical MGTOW or even a radical MRA (or a tradcon who wants women in the home, cooking, cleaning and looking after kids - no!), I am for TOTAL equality (equality of opportunities that is, so no gender gets advantages or disadvantages - so say good by to your pussy-pass (lesser jail sentences - if you get sentenced at all!))...if anything I am a HUMANIST (I don't care what gender you are, if you do good work and don't shirk certain work because of your gender (men: looking after kids for example! women: doing some heavy lifting (I don't expect you to carry 50 Kilo boxes or something, but neither to I expect a man to, but there's no excuse why you can't take whatever you bought at the grocery store into the house, that stuff doesn't weigh a ton! Same for changing your car-tires, why should this be male work? It's not especially hard and I know women (even girly princess types, which I normally despise, who can do this!)) or try to foist work on other people ("That's women's/men's work, I don't need/want to do that!"))

I'd love it if the moderates on both sides talked and worked together (and if they silenced their radical brethren or drowned them out, but sadly: Politcians etc. only listen to loud minorities (and only if they have numbers in their favor, which MRAs don't have, there aren't all that many compared to feminists!)), but sadly that's probably not going to happen!

Also: I like damend strong women, I just don't like what TV and Games is showing us these days: Strong and empowered women have to totally beat all the guys around them, otherwise they aren't strong - BULLSHIT! TV (and movies!) is especially guilty here, but games are starting to pick up on this sometimes, too (like say that that A.I. in ME:A is almost entirely run by women (note: I love women in high positions (love Spacer-Shepard's mother for example, a damned captain and later admiral in the Alliance Navy or Rear-Admiral Kastanie Drescher (in command of the second Alliance Fleet, especially since their presence didn't mean that there were no male Admirals (Anderson and Hacket come to mind!))), but ONLY WOMEN? NO!)

Look at the Lara Croft reboot (the first game in the new series), Lara is not a damned badass at the start, but she's strong (she still struggles etc. but she doesn't make everybody around her look incompeten - she doesn't have to in order to shine!)

So yeah, the pendulum has swung somewhat in the female direction (IMHO - I mean I read stuff like "With the same qualifications women will be preferably employed!" (German job adds! Discrimination? Sure, but it's just against men, so it's ok! - NO, IT FUCKING ISN'T!) or that a equal opportunity commissioners (yes, those are a thing in Germany, sadly enough!) who fight for men, too get fired (there's even a book out from a former equal opportunity commissioner (a woman to be exact, that job is almost always in the hands of a woman - prejudice? Sexism? You bet!) who did exactly that, support men - she was fired shortly after! Sadly most of you can't probably read that book (I don't know, but I think it's German only!)...then again there's great books out there for you guys, too like "Self Made Man: May Year Disguised as a Man"...read that, please!)

greetings LAX

Affirmative action.

"And again, I don't think Bio's fighting a battle here, losing or otherwise. They're just not very interested in your problem."

I disagree. I think they are fighting a battle. And a good one. The ME trilogy, 3 especially, did a good job of reminding me that I'm not the only person with interests.

The whole "fish doesn't know what water is" argument. I've been swimming in my white-straight-male privilege for a long time. We (straight males) assume we are the default norm.

It's important to be thrown out of that mindset on a regular bases. I was surprised by the overtly gay elements of ME3. Not shocked, but surprised in a "wow, neat," kind of way. Reminded me there were other people, different people, playing the game.

That's a good battle to be fighting. And it must be fought.

But, as someone mentioned earlier, to deny the traditional gamer his (traditionally, his) fantasy while fulfilling others, will turn off many players.

Bioware will end up preaching to the choir. (Please accept "preaching" in the figurative sense, as I intend it. I never felt ME was "preachy.")

And it seems the whole damn world is preaching to its own cozy, little choir, left and right.

Dorian was not attractive to me. I thought the guy he was supposedly based off of Rafa Rech was attractive, but Dorian's in-game model eh. He looked more comical than attractive. I guess i'm not attracted to guys who look like Disney villains. And if the only characters in the game you found attractive were all male, I got some bad news boyo.

The correct answer is Cullen, Varric, Blackwall > rest of DAI males. And Krem/Cullen more interesting than Varric? Cullen being interesting at all? surely you jest.

One of the worst crimes commited by Bioware. Not allowing us to romance this hobbit of a hunk.




As a Bi who leans over more to males I can agree with this male body true ideal of human beauty sentiment.

I'm bi but no SJW. I promise.

Heh the square jaws is one of the reasons German girls get such a bad rep than they deserve.

Anyway, definately a sign of high t. It has just about as much to do with genetics as well though. Northern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Amerindians from the plains, East Asians Polynesians etc naturally robust peoples with relatively large craniums.

"And honestly, what's your point with that preaching to the choir business? If players who can't stand not being pandered to walk, then they walk. You can't cater to everybody, and shouldn't try anyway."

But that sends us all back into our own echo chambers. The traditional male COD gamer-types will reject out of hand anything BW creates.

I think BW wants to be inclusive. And they should, both for economic reasons and, yes, SJ reasons. But inclusive should mean inclusive.

The extremism we see today in the US is dangerous. I love John Oliver, Jon Stewart et. al. I agree with 90% of what they say. But I hate their smug redneck jokes that pander to the left. It's self-righteous and chauvinistic. It pushes people away, to odious places like Breitbart.

It's counter-productive.

Having no romance options to attract the typical hetero-male works the same way.