Question out of curiosity. Do you think it would be better to:
A) Normalize non-straight people NOT being front and center, such as some irrelevant NPCs, in order to attempt to shift how they're seen/used in games back to a state of normality
OR
B) Outright exclude anything but straight
Some older Squaresoft games, as an example, might allude to homosexuals at times, but it wasn't typically a front and center thing. I was never really bothered by that, and I imagine most people here weren't either.
I'd prefer if projects like these could be considered "normal" in the public eye, rather than be labeled deliberately 'exclusionary'; even you admit you're worried about that. Nobody can accuse it of exclusion if they're still in there in the background, after all.
I don't care which way it goes as long as it isn't the boring woke shit we get so often now, though. I imagine you'd rather stick to your principles, though.
Good luck with the projects!
Yeah, if you want to stick it to them, might as well go all the way without being directly offensive in the eyes of sane people.
If it does get called out for 'homophobia' and stuff for simply not having any LGBT people in it, that would be pretty unreasonable to most normal people, and especially if you get doxxed for it.
That said, if leftists like the games enough it won't even matter. Just look at the hypocrisy of them when it comes to the Five Nights at Freddies creator. "You get the pass if we like your stuff" basically.
Question out of curiosity. Do you think it would be better to:
A) Normalize non-straight people NOT being front and center, such as some irrelevant NPCs, in order to attempt to shift how they're seen/used in games back to a state of normality
OR
B) Outright exclude anything but straight
Some older Squaresoft games, as an example, might allude to homosexuals at times, but it wasn't typically a front and center thing. I was never really bothered by that, and I imagine most people here weren't either.
I'd prefer if projects like these could be considered "normal" in the public eye, rather than be labeled deliberately 'exclusionary'; even you admit you're worried about that. Nobody can accuse it of exclusion if they're still in there in the background, after all.
I don't care which way it goes as long as it isn't the boring woke shit we get so often now, though. I imagine you'd rather stick to your principles, though. Good luck with the projects!
Yeah, if you want to stick it to them, might as well go all the way without being directly offensive in the eyes of sane people.
If it does get called out for 'homophobia' and stuff for simply not having any LGBT people in it, that would be pretty unreasonable to most normal people, and especially if you get doxxed for it.
That said, if leftists like the games enough it won't even matter. Just look at the hypocrisy of them when it comes to the Five Nights at Freddies creator. "You get the pass if we like your stuff" basically.