Peaceful? You don't realize the harm in your all caps FORCED. You need to think about the impact your words have. It's unfortunate ONE person killed themselves for being a bigot, but to compare that to the thousands of kids dealing with open hostility to who they are, not who they want to be, WHO THEY -blam!-ING ARE!
You're the most dangerous kind of bigot, because you think you're not.
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Something is forced when the only reason it’s there is to bring in some extra profit and push your political agenda. If you made Ana Bray straight, she would be the least interesting character in the -blam!-ing world. And that’s an issue. Ana can be lesbian, but the character needs substance beyond that. Not that being lesbian is a bad trait to have, but when it is the [i]only[/i] trait a character has, it feels forced, like the character is only there to say “Look! We’re progressive! Putting a strong, independent, lesbian woman in our game! Pre-order now!”. It’s taking advantage of LGBTQ+ to make extra money. I won’t touch on the the subject of you thinking I’m a bigot again. If you think I’m a bigot, good for you, you’re entitled to your opinion. But you need to realize that someone isn’t a mother-blam!-er just for disagreeing with you. At least giving thought to what the other side thinks will go a long way.
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Cute attempt to spin your hate.
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Bro you're making no sense, he has no hate anywhere in his post. Her sexuality is fine either way, we don't care! You're right, that [i]would[/i] be outright bigotry if it were true, but it's not. It's okay to be gay. He's just saying it's a problem that the defining characteristic of Ana is her sexuality, which seems forced and only tacked on to appeal to certain political ideologies. Also, in a way it kinda degrades and dehumanizes, because they didn't even bother to give her much depth, emotions, or humanization- they just slapped the term "lesbian" on her and decided that was enough. I doubt real-life lesbians would like people to boil them down to single word identifiers, as if their whole being can be encapsulated in one word and the rest is insignificant.
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It’s OP’s interpretation of it, as I mentioned in my previous comment. OP thinks it’s Bungie trying to be “SJW” so they can pull in a profit. My interpretation....a character in a video game I play is gay, so what alien do I shoot next? [spoiler]if OP thinks about the endgame of the argument, they’d be thinking like it’s 20 years from now where things like that are totally normal to see on tv and media. Which, to me they already are and my life hasn’t changed from it. So again... who cares?[/spoiler]
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One thing to mention, in addition to what you have said, is... Art (video games are art. Prove me wrong) is all about reception. One sentence written by an author, can be interpreted many different ways based on the audiences perception of the piece. This is why we have literary analysis classes. To teach people to think outside of the box
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Very true. Well said.