This is making SJWs look just as bad as Gamergate. Saddening.

Rock paper shotgun is the biggest rag on the internet. Kotaku has changed a lot in response to public opinion. I mean, this article (while giving attention to a non-issue) is decently balanced.

Accusing people of being from a certain political/social demographic is bullshit, by the way.

This is so ridiculous. Had he not added any gay or bisexual intereactions at all, nobody would have been all that bothered by it (i mean, a modder would fix it eventually). The dev adds in mixed sexuality but not to the exact way that everybody suddenly wants it and BOOM.

Wow what a non issue.

So, wait, as the game plays out, everything is fine, people of different and same genders hook up, and no-one had any issues. Then someone decided that some statistics on a group of variables that results in the aforementioned balanced gameplay is sexist?

I’ve read this comment 5 times and I still have no idea what you’re saying. Actively avoiding reddit probably is why.

>These things are real-life issues that can negatively impact real-life people.

Yeah, he didn’t want his quotes skewed in a obvious hit piece. What a moron.

I be honest. Why make big deal out of it. Why cant we just go back to the days were games were simply there to have fun. And not make useless arugement against developer why are your male npc more attracted to female npc and not female on female and male on male -.- news of stuff like this gives me no hope for future…

Oof. I used to visit RPS daily years ago. I stopped because it was i felt it was becoming more about stoking the flames of social issues than it was about video games. Seems i wasn’t wrong.

I can’t give you enough stars. I backed RimWorld on kickstarter. Both the game and Tynan Sylvester are fantastic.

The fact that someone is trying to sullen this game by deconstructing the code and looking at how it calculates relationships is kind of sickening. Tynan works so unbelievably hard and there are literrally…

Welcome to the new PC wave.

Oh my GOD can someone please put this at the top of the comments. This is really the only thing to take away from this.

Please, small independent developer with a shoe string budget working from free time, PLEASE cater to my every whim based on my snap judgement of your personal beliefs based on the way you coded your game.

Everyone knows this guy’s just making a video game and not running for President or heading up an inquisition, right?

So we’re digging through code now looking for injustices to attack people with? That’s so damned stupid.

My god...do people actually give a shit about this?! I unfortunately read the entire piece for some reason!

User perception is worth considering here, just because a female character in the back-end code always has a chance to be attracted to another female doesn’t mean that in the game’s world all females are bisexual. It’s a case of implementing straight females in an abstract way instead of an absolute one, because…

Yes the fact that rimworlds sexuality system isn’t amazingly realistic is clearly the worst implication in a game about harvesting tribesmen’s livers to sell to space pirates.

He was also in direct contact with the author and discussed with her the code (bug and how it had already been fixed for the next alpha) and the author conveniently lied/mislead/edited his comments/left out details of that conversation to create a story to fit her own narrative.