Exactly. What is with all these elaborate excuses for drinking. I’m starting to think kids these days don’t even understand alcohol.

kids these days just don’t appreciate the simple brilliance of edward 40-hands.

Well, I’m fucking excited.

Also, please note the nostalgia piano.

I can’t fathom cops in middle schools. It blows my mind.

Wait, let me get this straight, you have to select two specific dialog options to ask why the character decided to change her name, and you are mad for her giving a 3 sentence answer?

You know this game is Baldur’s Gate right? You can meet characters like Bub Snickt, who talks like Wolverine, and Lord Foreshadow, who litterally foreshadows the direction of Baldur’s Gate 2 and Neverwinter Nights. The most beloved character in the series is the owner of a “miniature giant space hamster.” The game has…

Here’s a sampling of lines from companions that were present in 1998:

Aside from the aforementioned Newhart reference, BG as a series also references Wolverine, actual stills from the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, and a litany of other wacky or otherwise pop culture references.

Anyone who seriously uses the term “SJW” as a pejorative is not worth any more effort than a top-level comeback.

There is a line, and diversity doesn’t automatically make any content better or worse. But this particular character doesn’t cross that line. “Trans people exist” is not a political statement, any more than having 30 interchangeable grizzled white male protagonists is.

Not only that, but they’re saying that their enjoyment of the game is ruined because of *ONE* character they dislike.

Like any “controversy” they have generated in the past, it boils down to them encountering something that makes them uncomfortable and then insisting that thing is wrong instead of questioning their own beliefs and asking themselves why it makes them uncomfortable. These people are often racist and/or sexist, and…

Not sure how making a joke about a group of people who are themselves a joke qualifies as "tone deaf." Anyway, even if you agree with the GG crowd, you can't take a joke?

Exceedingly poor analogy. Baldur’s Gate has multiple instances of fourth-wall breaking. LOTR probably has zero.

It’s a perfectly appropriate joke from Minsc. He has a pet space hamster for crying out loud.

This is Baldur’s Gate we’re talking about. The game that had all of those jokes and pop culture references in it from the very beginning. Right?

So GGs were complaining about censorship in Nintendo games, and now want Baldur’s Gate to be censored.

Kanji’s arc focused on gender identity, primarily. He was into very traditional girly things, so he thought something was wrong with him and he should be ashamed. This was reinforced for him when he was attracted to Naoto (before he knew she was a woman). Eventually though he learns though that his likes and interests…

Tl; dr: A great philosopher said “All I know is that I don’t know” and we should admire that honesty.