Still more Dragon Age (need to find icons?), and some libraries and intellectual property stuff

[kiraya]

Why would anyone want to whitewash this lovely lady into this? (Extra credit if you come up with an answer that completely lacks racist undertones. Good luck with that.)

Behold Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer, a long-winded, self-important ramble by a Dragon Age player. The game's lead writer, provides and

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[wille_zur_musik]

I was thinking really hard until link 3, and then I actually just vomited in my mouth, twice in quick succession.

5) Obviously we're all just too uptight, exoticism is totally liberating rite?
5.1) I may need to make a post about how otherwise-"smart" college males have yet to cease amazing me with the level/amount of gay panic they "repress."
6) How else are they to circlejerk in comfortable raeg!isolation!? Jeez, stop hating on all the men~
6.1) I would pay a subscription fee to have a no-het-male server on some games.

Just yesterday my dad told me he expects libraries to be defunct in 15 years, and after a 20 minute argument he had TROUBLE accepting my argument they're just changing their function a bit. He works in venture capital. That's freaking nightmare diesel, IMO.
(VERY YES.)

[kiraya]

I suppose somebody must've said something, because the worst parts of that description have been scrubbed away as of March 29th. Hmm.

The most unbelievable part of that whole shebang? Apparently there are now some gay gamers calling for Mr. Lead Writer to be fired because the gay characters are stereotyped. "It felt very odd that my [male] companions kept making passes at me, when I never found any interest or even flirted with them," they say. Yeah. Okay. Because that NEVER happens to ANYONE in real interpersonal interactions, EVER. Pffffft.

Never mind the fact that there aren't any purely gay characters. This time around they made all romance options (except for the chaste one with the fellow who took religious vows) open to everyone because too many people complained last time about only having one gay romance option per sex (and even then it was available for het romance too). However, of the four bisexual romance options, only one is openly bisexual. All the others never discuss their same-sex attractions unless you're playing

[wille_zur_musik]

Eww, that's annoying. Leave internet archives as they are, mods! /curator's!aneurysm

[kiraya]

I'm not very familiar with venture capital, but... oh dear. I think can understand the difficulty