The problem is, being an anti-vaxxer seems to come part and parcel with a “me and my family are the only thing that matters” point of view, so I don’t see how anyone can convince anti-vaxxers to inconvenience themselves for the health and benefit of others....

In the decade before 1963 when a vaccine became available, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years of age. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year. Also each year, among reported cases, an estimated 400 to 500 people died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and…

For as long as you’re spewing yours, i guess.

Thank you for proving my point is such an effective way.

The fact that you see my comment as applying to yourself says quite a bit.

Never said you have to force people to care...you can still force people to see other perspectives.  What they do with that perspective is still up to them.  Anything less is just accepting that the world is a terrible place filled with terrible people and that that’s okay.

Percentage of LGBTQ gamers is completely irrelevant.  Inclusivity should never play the numbers game where you have to be a certain percentage of a set population in order to be treated like a normal human being.  I’ve seen several people bring up the percentage argument, and i ask, what does any of that matter?

You’re saying it right there....the developers are implying that, in order to “grow up” you need to procreate.  It’s judgemental, no matter how unintentional. I’m not offended at all by it, but i can understand how others would be, particularly if they had to live in a situation where they had to deal with emotional…

Lol, looking at your response and you’re calling other people “overly spoiled adult babies”?  Yeah, okay.

Sometimes you have to force people into other people’s shoes because they lack even the tiniest shred of empathetic ability to do it themselves....the sad part is, though, that the lesson being taught will still, likely, be lost on them.

Seeing the number of people around here deriding people who were offended and not even TRYING to take the opportunity to think about WHY people were offended or even put in the minimal effort it takes to try and put themselves in someone else’s shoes just reinforces why gamers have developed such a toxic stereotype…

How many times in your life have you been told that a fundamental part of your identity was simply just “a phase” and that something that you felt made you who you were was something worth dismissing because it was just something you’d “grow out of”?

I wouldn’t say the responses are so much “homophobic” as they are “unabashedly ignorant”.  You can act like a completely brain-dead jack-ass and still not be homophobic.

Individuals not buying a game or DLC doesn’t really amount to much in the grand scheme of things.  Raising awareness, building outrage, and organizing mass boycotts and widespread bad PR, though, has the ability to actually make large companies pay attention (however temporarily)

This was addressed in other articles about this DLC.  While the original AC games relied on a genetic connection between the assassin and the person in the machine, Origins blurred that a bit, making it possible for people not related to the Assassin to dive into their genetic memories.  This gave them the ability to…

You don’t have to be creative at all to be offended by this if you’re the one being repeatedly told that your personal identity is a fleeting, and ultimately inconsequential, choice that you will eventually “grow out of”. Doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to understand how that would be hurtful....just takes the…

You’d have a point.....except for the fact that the feature the DLC directly impacted was a feature directed at the LGBQ community in its marketing.

It amuses me how we always seem to see the same arguments trying to justify piracy as if the art and code that comprises games is the entire point...the be-all-end-all of the game.

The problem here is that your looking at the 1s and 0s that the developer released as the only part of the product with any merit, and completely missing the point, as a result.

“To be fair however, you did say they don’t track it. Or at the very least you questioned it since your reply to my statement of “they know the machine which the winning ticket was printed from, so you can’t claim you bought it somewhere else” was “I dunno”. That is exactly saying that you don’t believe they track…