Admittedly, while this all sounds super cool, I have to admit I’m more interested in reading an article written from the perspective of a woman about what this game is like. And maybe that’s just because I’m having a weird whiplash reading this article describing VR face-touching being A Thing™, only mere minutes…

I’m assuming b/c they see ppl are muting it, and yet they still want everyone to know

Just because someone is enjoying a game that others don’t like doesn’t mean that they have been paid off.

Way to purposefully miss the point. Again, you get to be straight, assumed to be straight, and not have any of your straightness considered “political”. You can talk about celebrities you find attractive and things of that nature and not face backlash for it. LBGTQ+ people cannot. Their very existence is “political”,…

Wait, you mean a top of the line current gen console is better than the entry level SKU of an almost 10 year old console? You don’t say...

“Hey, anyone other than cishet people is going to be harassed, threatened, etc. if you try to use the game’s chat features, but you’ll also be shut out if you try to find non-haters” is pretty relevant to the gameplay experience for anyone who doesn’t especially want their games to come with heaping piles of garbage.

This right here is why LGBTQ+ people tend to look for other people in the same communities. Nobody is talking about bottom surgery in the global chat, they just want to find people from the community so they know they will feel accepted and normal while playing the game. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases - this post is…

Nowhere in the article did it claim anyone talked about that, though, so I’m not sure why you’re making an unrelated argument.

Queer people should absolutely be allowed to look for other queer people to play with. Saying “gay” or “trans” shouldn’t result in an instant ban for violating “family-friendly” content. That…

I think the removal of general chat from TTS and the reason behind it counts as “being about videogames.”

So why do straight people get to talk about being straight, but gay people don’t get to talk about being gay?

“you are not allowed to discuss things of sexual nature in the global chat”

Your personal choices shouldn’t warrant death threats.

Hi. You may not realize, but this is a huge instance of victim blaming you’ve got right here.

Yes, this (Again, I’m pretty sure I replied to you upthread).

This. This right here.

If the purpose of a global looking for group chat is to find people to play with, and queer people need to find people who don't hate queer people to play with, then discussing their queerness is not off topic. Such discussion fulfills the purpose of finding people to play with.

Gay, trans, and other persons who don’t conform to CisHet-normative social constructs often face discrimination or violence in their daily lives. They shouldn’t have to face it in their daily lives, and they certainly shouldn’t have to face it in games that people play as respite and refuge from their daily lives.

Straight people “ramble about" their straightness all the goddamned time (casually mentioning their partners or crushes, making off-hand comments about the attractiveness of opposite-gender celebs, or whatever) and don't need to worry about getting banned or abused for doing so. Trans and queer folk deserve the…

oh my god why are you all the same. you have one joke.

Guy who is definitely well-read on the police state just jumpin’ in to tell you copaganda is cool and has nothing to do with the police violence I am upset with. Culture and media have zero impact on the “reality rotting around” us. Sounds good!!!