Yeah, whatever, champ. I love it when people with no connection to a subject tell the people affected by it what they should and shouldn't be bothered by. It's like the gold standard of oblivious privilege.

Yes, the whole thing is a conspiracy invented two decades ago by trans rights advocates.

Oh, no, wait. That's idiotic.

Pray tell, since you have such insight into their thought processes, what is the "real reason" they made her trans?

"Tranny" is kind of a weird one. It's one of those terms that some people are trying to "reclaim". Like...people WITHIN the community might use it, but someone outside the community calling you that would be...not cool.

I'm not a fan of its usage in any context, but people are welcome to differing opinions, obviously.

Th…

Hah! Fantastic. Godspeed, you crazy dreamer.

Way to see the glass as half full!

I should look around. I'm pretty sure I actually had this Nintendo Power strategy guide for Link to the Past back in the day. That'd be a nice little nostalgia trip if I found it.

"the now almost 22-year-old Link to the Past"

...oh my god.

I'm so old.

Poison was originally pretty awful, but it's possible that something good has come out of it in the meantime. I admit that my knowledge of the fighting game scene/fandom is pretty limited. Still, as you say, at least her character design isn't awful, and things could be worse.

And yeah, shemale is awful on so many…

"How about instead of saying what term is ok and which isn't, you let people choose what term they want to identify with?"

If someone wants to identify with the term "shemale", that's their right.

I (and every single other trans person I know) finds the term extraordinarily offensive.

And believe it or not, discussion…

"What *doesn't* Foxconn make?"

Positive headlines, it seems.

Seriously, the fact that people are still using this company after the non-stop barrage of horrible stories is...well, it's pretty telling, if nothing else.

Heh, that's hilarious. You're either trolling or honestly unaware of what you're doing.

Oh, well. Feel free to keep going (since you're so intent on the "last word" that you claim is an indicator of mental illness), but I'm done. Feel free to accuse me of stalking again when I comment on some random post of yours…

Hm, most of those aren't bad (with the possible exception of the "lure people into your trap" one, which COULD be totally innocent or could be really problematic).

I'd have to see the lines the -other- characters say to her to really be able to completely judge, though, y'know?

Mm hmm. Got to have the last word, hm?

For what it's worth, I'm fairly familiar with trans stuff in at least a few Asian cultures (well, Japan and Thailand). I can't really speak for, say, China or South Korea or Vietnam or anything.

Japan is definitely...weird about the subject. The portrayals are generally less "these people are monstrous and disgusting"…

In regards to the Boardwalk Empire stuff, I'd totally play a Boardwalk Empire game.

Richard Harrow is already practically a first-person shooter protagonist: uncannily good at violence, has a tendency not to speak very much, and the audience rarely gets to see his entire face.

" I think you're implicating Capcom for pushing some agenda"

Oh, no, that isn't my intention. I don't think they were deliberately setting out to say "Yeah, to hell with trans people, right?"

But intent is only part of the equation. Something can be, for instance, "inadvertently racist" or "accidentally homophobic".

The…

I will not be satisfied unless the main character maxes out his social link with EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER.

He may not be the sociopathic tarot messiah we want, but he is the sociopathic tarot messiah we need.

And a character that keeps appearing in stuff and who Capcom keeps screwing up.

So, y'know. Nice try.

Capcom still made the decision. And according to a bunch of comments in this discussion, she was trans in the Japanese version too.

Oh, sure. And for what it's worth, I agree with you that Atlanta in particular gets kind of an unfair rap when it comes to issues of tolerance. Atlanta is honestly probably better -on the whole- in terms of LGBT stuff than a number of cities in places that aren't the south.

(That said, there are places in Georgia where…

The question we all want answered is:

Will the movie include all of the characters getting head colds after spending too long searching the dungeon?