I mean, yeah, if you dig in far enough to any medium you are bound to find queer rep.

Just, you know, you have to dig. Very far.

Huh, so having a queer protagonist is unappealing to you and you would not tolerate more than a gay tangent in a game, and only if that game is ‘good and fun’?

I guess my instincts about you were correct and you are just obfuscating that you don’t think queer people should have prominent roles in a video game.

Your dog…

You know you have a masterpiece on your hands when you can be like “Wow, this game can be really confusing and unintuitive and the combat kinda drags, but it is so fundamentally beyond anything I have seen a game do that I forgive it for that.”

The homophobia is absolutely brutal, and its a genre that still hews slavishly to the male gaze.

So like, as I have grown in the years since first playing Persona 5, not only is the absence and hostility towards queerness, but the idea that as a male protagonist I just have this buffet of women at my beck and call and…

Truly western culture will never recover from Idris Elba playing a tertiary character in Thor.

Like, I feel we have pretty similar tastes in games, and I agree we are doing well in that particular niche. But its hard to ignore that every single other bit of mainstream culture is saturated in heteronormative thinking, its hard to kind of parse your way around all of it.

So it can be very frustrating to hear “Well…

You say explicit, but you need to set a standard for explicit.

And yes, games are just about as misogynistic on average as they are homophobic. So you aren’t going to see things that appeal to the feminine gaze, because the straight male demographics that tend to dominate the discourse would get upset. Because part of…

They didn’t specify LGBT options. They specialized LGBT representation.

And ‘representation’ is frequently used as an insubstantial form of appeasement, the word ruffles my feathers quite a bit. Representation is a 5 second Disney scene that can be cut for Chinese distribution.

People are like “Hey, give me a list”, but…

“This actually got me thinking, and I can’t think of a single game I’ve played in the last decade that had straight representation and didn’t include some sort of LGBT representation, as well. I’m not saying there aren’t any, but I’d actually be curious to hear some recent examples.”

Did you only read the first paragraph of what they wrote?

What version of real life are you playing where peoples sexuality and gender identity have no bearing on the ‘point’ of their existence?

Especially seeing as it is something under constant legal and political scrutiny.

Imagine reading this article and being like “Uhhh, what about straight people? I haven’t seen any of them lately. Lets talk about them.”

Heck, with the Persona games there’s a huge uproar over ‘censorship’ when we are removed as a cultural punching bag.

Like, if I had a nickel for how many times Atlus inserted queer people into a comic relief scene just to make them seem predatory and then removed it later I would have 2 nickels but its still…

I’m not quite sure what you are stating for. Are you saying you are less concerned about queer rep in games and more concerned that you aren’t pretty enough in video games?

Like, what games are you playing that are forcing you to make less attractive avatars, and what does that have to do with the subject at hand?

I loved Alan Wake 2, it was an easy pick of game of the year for me. But the pathing is garbage.

I mean, a lot of that has to do with you being an in a world where the rules of reality and time are constantly shifting, so when you revise the environment you have to get your bearings and find out where the game wants…

Like, theres satisfaction to be had in playing a 3/10 game. (Not saying the Suicide Squad is 3/10, just using that metric) Something thats functional but kinda trash. And I wouldn’t take that away from anyone.

Well, I can see you have plenty of free time.

You are, once again, implying it is the fault of other people for uh, not being satisfied with a game you kinda blew through and admit yourself wasn’t great? 

I’m just saying as someone who also doesn’t have a lot of free time, I would prefer to spend that free time on something good.

Oh, look, you figured out the post I was referring to via context clues. Good job.

You don’t see criticism in that statement, but I certainly do, and its clear the OP did as well. Because it was critical, and implied their opinion, which they stated as an opinion, is an aberration. You could have said nothing at all if…

When you lose control of the narrative so that your competitor can swoop in and get the upper hand over something that doesn’t matter that is what fumbling the ball is.