As someone who escaped from Hardcore Christianity, I gotta say the number 1 spot HAS to go to Religious Zealots. They think they know everything and when that “knowledge” is questioned, they just respond with “because God” as their defense/explaination.

There is a lot of competition for that top spot. Transphobes, flaterathers and antiwaxxers are all strong contenders. And many of those groups have a lot of overlap.

It’s not the time to bring it up, at all. The only reason to do so is to deflect blame from the people making the death threats.

“That’s not what he’s saying though.”

I can see that perspective. I don’t think it’s valid because I don’t see it supported by numbers or even the preponderance of anecdotal evidence, but I’m open to being proven wrong on that score. I would suggest that, more likely, the number of avenues of communication that are available have increased and employees…

You don’t toss death threats, hurl insults, verbally abuse, and stalk people who worked on a small part of a game you don’t like. I mean, that seems like it should be blindingly obvious.

It’s a strong opening. The judges seem impressed. Admiral Asskicker certainly knows how to begin a routine. If they continue like this, they could get gold.

“Im not really trying to do an “on the other hand”.”

No.  This is not the topic to try to go “but on the other hand”.  THERE IS NO OTHER HAND.  The toxicity needs to stop, end of conversation.

Gamers gotta be the #1 demographic for “People who think they know how something works but actually have no idea”.

I drive to work every day. I don’t pretend to think I know even 1% of how to make a car.

Right, because indie games aren’t real games, and nobody should be excited for them. Same with movies, months without a Marvel or Star Wars are basically worthless. 

Where do you see anyone trying to force anything? The news post simply explains how/why you don’t get the OPTION to date a dude in the game, and specifically, the dude with the most meaningful relationship of all the characters in the game (allegedly - I haven’t played any of the Persona games myself.)

Okay, but then why can he become romantically interested - and be reciprocated - with any other female character? The game - and many like it - is a power fantasy. You - THE PLAYER - get to decide “I like the sporty chick... I’m going to pursue her.” In real life, if she wasn’t into you, she wouldn’t date you. In a…

Look here’s the thing: it’s not in every piece of media. It still hardly shows up in video games.

How do you know that they’re in showbusiness/fashion industry?? The only thing we learn about them (which is provided in Royal because in the OG game they’re just straight up predators) is that they want to have Ryuji perform in drag. There’s no indication that they’re in fashion or even work at a drag club other than…

I was just saying you keep going on weird embarrassing megalomaniacal monologues which uh. Case in point.

Are you like, doing a weird anime villain thing?

“straight written protagonist” Its literally a self insert blank slate character. You are just assuming straight is the default.

WTF are you on about? Every age group is more emotionally vulnerable at night. “You know, offering someone in a Western culture food around 5 or 6 pm is textbook child predator behavior.” GTFO

In fairness, the Persona series has exhibited homophobia for a while in way more blatant ways. If you clicked on almost any of the links posted in the article you would find evidence of the straight up homophobic scenes- such as the predatory gay couple in Personal 5- throughout the series (or at least the Hashino era…