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Gays and Lesbians in Video Games An article worth of discussion

#21 User is offline   Garak 

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Posted 14 June 2012 - 08:53 AM

I'm always amused/mildly annoyed at the idiocy of people, when someone bashes a gay romance (the shitstorm with gay Shepard began before the game was released for fuck's sake) but they're perfectly fine with lesbians (because, you know, that's HOT). I know hypocrites are blind to their own hypocrisy but it's still annoying. Now I'm a straight male and I played FemShep first with Liara (obvious reason why) and then went for Garrus - which my friends think is weird but that's their problem. The option to play gay Shepard never interested me but I'm fine with it being there. Hell, I had a gay class mate in school and the guy was easy to spot. Got along fine with him and I think he's an alright guy - he was one of the few guys in class who I never had a desire to beat with a crowbar.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 02:42 PM

Social welfare means nothing other than we all starve equally in the end, sorry, that just caught my eye. But when your population graph is shaped like a J, there will be a limit. I'm not saying everyone will starve or something, just that it will become more and more of an issue, and then it will stop and reach its peak at, roughly 10 billion, when hunger is eating more than people are screwing (without condoms. Be protected!)
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Prison system, yes, though I would say there are other factors. And as for 'humans aren't rats'...when has that ever stopped us from doing anything? At some points, you could argue the rats have a few damned points on us. What is our planet other than a large cage, and the human subconscious is a tricksy one, yes it is. A wonderful study to do would be if there are more homosexual tendencies percentage wise in people who live in cities, or rural areas! I make myself wonder! hmmmmm....
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 10:31 PM

 The dancing game, on 14 June 2012 - 05:59 AM, said:

I cannot imagine too many people would disagree (without a dreadful Path) in gay/lesbian/whatever,maybealiens rights and whatnot, its a very trendy sort of new thinking, gives people an illusionary battle and whatnot. Kinda reminds me of a more subtle and well actually maybe useful version of what not-Kony showed us. More so, I think its a rather unstoppable force, because it is my theory that the greater the global population gets, the more people will tend to learn towards not-straight sexual attractions, and our planets estimated human population cap is at around 10 billion before plague and famine and whatnot start killing us off and stabilizing the population. Another stabilizing factor though will be, I suspect, a subconscious awareness of the population crisis and so a tendency to be gay. I also think the talk of cannibalism will become more normalized, as well as violence, since it will come a point when truly it is each person for themselves, fighting for a spot in our planet's limited capacity. And before I am dubbed insane, which is alright, different than crazy of course, very different I should think, there was an experiment done to this affect involving too many rats in too little cage. More and more of them started having gay sex. Must have been a dreadful observation to be observing, I really do wonder about scientists sometimes.


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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 10:51 PM

J shaped population graphs.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 12:56 AM

Because societal pressures will never change or force a change until we are literally eating each other for space in order to get to the living room in our 500-person five metre wide slumhomes, obviously.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 01:11 AM

Well, it certainly moves things along I should think.
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Posted 31 May 2013 - 02:08 AM

Found this short film, seemed like the best place to post it (even if it's not video game related). The basic premise is to flip the world around making heterosexuals into the minority. It's well made, well acted and gets the message across in a similar way Star Trek TOS: "Let that be your last Battlefield" did with racism, by showing you the absurdity and stupidity of prejudice.



They're currently looking to make a full length feature with a parallel adult story line to this one. http://www.loveisall.../thefeature.php
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