In a world where you can look however you want, be whatever you want and magically become whatever you want ... there are still trans scars in the character creator.
There's whole segments where you're chastised for something a character does. Not you, not your character, just a character. And you have to sit there and watch it.
It used to be that if a dialogue choice was just too much to sit through, even if it was lore and interesting, you could hit space to skip it, and just get what I liked to call a 'catch up popup' that would get tucked into the journal. Wanna know what it was? Go and check. Otherwise, almost the entire thing could be skipped and you'd be given footnotes on what was said if you wanted to check.
Not as good as hearing it from someone directly of course, but you get what they were saying without having to sit through an otherwise boring conversation that dragged on too long.
This is just ... what have people been calling it. A humiliation ritual, I think.
I can't think of any other reason why it was injected into the game other than that.
If you're into being lectured on how to talk to a fictional character in a fictional setting who can, by the way, look however they want and BE whatever they want magically, they choose to look like that, and choose to be as obnoxious as possible about it.
No.
In a world where you can look however you want, be whatever you want and magically become whatever you want ... there are still trans scars in the character creator.
There's whole segments where you're chastised for something a character does. Not you, not your character, just a character. And you have to sit there and watch it.
It used to be that if a dialogue choice was just too much to sit through, even if it was lore and interesting, you could hit space to skip it, and just get what I liked to call a 'catch up popup' that would get tucked into the journal. Wanna know what it was? Go and check. Otherwise, almost the entire thing could be skipped and you'd be given footnotes on what was said if you wanted to check.
Not as good as hearing it from someone directly of course, but you get what they were saying without having to sit through an otherwise boring conversation that dragged on too long.
This is just ... what have people been calling it. A humiliation ritual, I think.
I can't think of any other reason why it was injected into the game other than that.
If you're into being lectured on how to talk to a fictional character in a fictional setting who can, by the way, look however they want and BE whatever they want magically, they choose to look like that, and choose to be as obnoxious as possible about it.
And you're supposed to sit there and like it.
Just ... no.