I hate, hate, hate how much of this I identified and agreed with. It was a great and exciting experience at the time, but I haven't thought about it since, not a single time. Nicely done.

You know, this has come up a lot this week — of course — and I have a little extra something I don't think a lot of us have considered: Most of us that think she's a "space racist" lost her at Virmire because of that. So it's not necessarily a product of being too stupid or unsophisticated to appreciate her storyline,…

Heh. I can't imagine how weird that must have been.

Really most of the ME2 crew rotated out into "damsel" positions if you look at it that way. There was a really neat symmetry in ME2 — preserved in their ship locations — that I appreciated so much, and knew couldn't be sustained in ME3: Grunt/Miranda the perfect specimens, Zaeed/Jack the damaged ones, etc. I was…

From the line of text directly above your name:

I agree. I loved her, loved her sad cyberpunky storyline, and I could listen to her voice all day.

Yup. Grunt is my favorite character by far. The krogan were my favorite thing about the game, I loved their dignity and gravitas, and watching Wrex was a huge part of the experience — but something about the innocence, and the nuclear power, and the krogan hope that Grunt symbolized really touched me. I wish I could…

Yes, despite the creator of the comic book explicitly stating otherwise, I'm sure it was just a coincidence. You're probably right.

Heh. Good deal.

That makes sense. For me, reading all the comments is a big part of the article, so you can at least take comfort that one of us gets to the end. The un-recommended ones are generally the funniest ones, too. Thanks for talking that one out, I do apologize again for contributing to the very hot kitchen you walked into.

I love that there is more of this conversation!

You mean beyond the creator of the banned comic explicitly stating it?

...So, pretty much exactly what we all thought happened: Some lower-level person not wanting to get fired gets overly conservative, then gets in trouble for being overly conservative once the optics prove negative.

Make no mistake, plenty of us understood what you were saying and saw no reason to get defensive and butthurt about it. You couldn't have been more clear or more respectful.

I like the answers you're getting below, but I don't know what I don't know so I'd defer to bigger/more experienced gamers on that.

I'm interested in behind-the-scenes information about the gaming industry: Not press releases, not even really soundbites, but things like interviews or even just Explainers about how things work. The viewpoints of Kotaku's writers are what keep me coming back, and that means better questions for talks with creators,…

That dude is hard to watch.

I understood what you meant, at least.

For me, I find the sex stuff in it a little silly sometimes, but it fits well into the world and the story, which are brilliant. It's not a matter of this stuff being pushed into it to sell units or create controversy, no.

It kind of sounds like you thought Kotaku was a safe place where you could crack gay jokes and not get attacked for it? I apologize for reacting the way that I did, but you're in a comment thread for an article that is literally about why that's not okay.