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Leisher wrote: I just cannot process how far we have fallen where companies are apologizing for hetero storylines. I guess being straight is so horrible and offensive that even ROLE PLAYING a straight character is a sin.

So if a game forced you into a homo male-male relationship, you're cool with that? Like if the Witcher IV were suddenly all about banging buff dudes?

I would avoid that game.

GORDON wrote: I would avoid that game.

Homophobe

TheCatt wrote:

GORDON wrote: I would avoid that game.

Homophobe

Maybe. I've been contemplating that word since I saw the Orville episode with all the big black guy gay sex, and how I thought it was icky.

I don't care if someone is gay. You be you! But if I have a negative physiological response being exposed to gay sex.... does that count as homophobia? And, follow that reasoning, if a gay guy thinks seeing straight sex is icky, is that heterophobia? Chrome doesn't even recognize that as a word, but if one exists, the other must, to.

GORDON wrote:

TheCatt wrote:

GORDON wrote: I would avoid that game.

Homophobe

Maybe. I've been contemplating that word since I saw the Orville episode with all the big black guy gay sex, and how I thought it was icky.

I don't care if someone is gay. You be you! But if I have a negative physiological response being exposed to gay sex.... does that count as homophobia? And, follow that reasoning, if a gay guy thinks seeing straight sex is icky, is that heterophobia? Chrome doesn't even recognize that as a word, but if one exists, the other must, to.

I dunno, but I basically feel the same way. I don't like men kissing men, etc. On the other hand, woman + woman, all day long.

Right? I almost added that. Give me 2 hot chicks in a 69 ANY DAY, all day. So.... yeah. It isn't homosexuality.

It's gross men.

Androphobic.

GORDON wrote: Right? I almost added that. Give me 2 hot chicks in a 69 ANY DAY, all day. So.... yeah. It isn't homosexuality.

It's gross men.

Androphobic.

I hear hating men is all the rage these days... So I feel like we were ahead of the curve.

truly #woke

GORDON wrote: Right? I almost added that. Give me 2 hot chicks in a 69 ANY DAY, all day. So.... yeah. It isn't homosexuality.

It's gross men.

Androphobic.

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TheCatt wrote:

Leisher wrote: I just cannot process how far we have fallen where companies are apologizing for hetero storylines. I guess being straight is so horrible and offensive that even ROLE PLAYING a straight character is a sin.

So if a game forced you into a homo male-male relationship, you're cool with that? Like if the Witcher IV were suddenly all about banging buff dudes?

It's a game, and thus, not real. Who gives a fuck? Pretty sure games have allowed same sex relationships before. I certainly wouldn't whine to the developers and demand they apologize. If it was so offensive to me, I just wouldn't play it. (What a concept!)

Leisher wrote: Pretty sure games have allowed same sex relationships before.

Allowed, yes, but never required (speaking to mainstream games here)

Leisher wrote: It's a game, and thus, not real. Who gives a fuck?

Apparently just Gordon and me. Maybe you need forcing to admit your true desires?

I tried dating chubby women with good personalities, and my body was having none of it.

I see a big gay man pile on Orville, and I say an involuntary "eww," then feel bad for being a homophobe in front of my son.

Physiological preference is real.

TheCatt wrote: Allowed, yes, but never required (speaking to mainstream games here)

Is that correct? I'm not sure that's 100% correct. That mainstream qualifier is tough though. I know Steam has a bunch of adult games, and I naturally assume a lot are geared towards gay folks.

TheCatt wrote: Apparently just Gordon and me. Maybe you need forcing to admit your true desires?

So you homophobes wouldn't be ok with a main character going through a gay love story? I guess now I should point out how you are obvious Trump voters?

Seriously though, I think it would all depend on how deep it goes. Is it critical to the story, and are you forced to get into it or watch 30-45 second sex scenes (ala The Witcher)? If it's done in a humorous way, like in a Maniac Mansion type game, I don't think it'd be even a minor issue. If it got much deeper, like The Witcher where entire conversations revolve around feelings and whatnot, it'd be tougher.

GORDON wrote: I see a big gay man pile on Orville, and I say an involuntary "eww," then feel bad for being a homophobe in front of my son.

Physiological preference is real.

Leisher wrote: So you homophobes wouldn't be ok with a main character going through a gay love story? I guess now I should point out how you are obvious Trump voters?

If participating in a gay love story is something I couldn't avoid in playing a game, I wouldn't play that game. Nor would I watch porn in which an aspect of it is man-man sex, because I wouldn't enjoy it. Just because it's out there doesn't mean I have to partake.

Yeah, I think I'd have to pass on being the gay hero.

It's not me, and it's not something I identify with. I think that the games should be more accommodating of homosexuals. I certainly wouldn't want to be forced the other way.

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