Quebecois melodramas, here I come.

There are no explicit mentions of LGBTQ+ characters in the books as such. Period. End of story. I've responded to your points adequately above, as have many others, and so I'm not going to repeat myself. Have a good internet.

What do you conceive of as "invalid target" here, and why? It's fine and dandy that Rowling is, apparently, down with queers being around at Hogwarts. But you would never really know this based on her books themselves, and that's the point.

Thanks for this. On point the whole way through.

Who's complaining vociferously? All I've done is point out some problems with earlier commenters' perspectives on what counts as "inclusive" with respect to the history and logics of LGBTQ+ representation.

Sure, but see my comments above for why issues of actual visibility work differently in the case of queer representation.

Because the author of that children's book is now implying that LGBTQ+ characters were "of course" present in the fictional world she wrote about, despite the fact that they were never explicitly mentioned. The "of course" there seems to imply this presence is self-evident, when it really isn't for the reasons I…

You're getting insulting and yell-y, and not making very interesting points or wording them very well, so I'm out. Have fun on the internet.

Then the books aren't very "inclusive" of religious differences either, now are they?

But the thing is, "visibility" should probably be a requisite part of "inclusivity," and this is especially important in the case of LGBTQ+ people.

"Author affirms that, yes, even in their fictional universe, LGBTQ+ people exist—even if author never explicitly wrote about them, and has only confirmed their presence as subtext or in somewhat smug interviews well after the fact."

I was just about to say this. I stopped playing the card game with BW because it became clear that strategy and mechanics fell to the wayside, and all that began to matter was HP and attack-to-energy ratios... Which is exactly what the card game was like at its inception, when you could just Hitmonchan everything to…

This is my response, too. I'm pretty sure the solution to moronic, institutionalized homophobia isn't making what is basically a gay joke. Given that homophobia is usually about gender-policing as much anything else, this is pretty tone deaf and counter-intuitive.

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Ohhh, that makes sense. I've also only done local multiplayer once, and while that was generally okay (I can't remember if the 3D was on or not for me), I'd imagine it incurring rather severe dips with multiple monsters too. Here's hoping they have the online for 4U solid on that front by the time the game releases in…

Oh, huh. I actually never noticed dropped frame rate with 3D on MH3U, whereas with Pokemon X/Y the drop is instantly jarring, hideous, and sort of inexplicable. I'll have to test this out tonight; I'd only been expressly using 3D for underwater battles (where it helped a lot), but I've tended to leave it on after…

I ended up getting the App Point DLC just because the game seemed so stingy on that front, and the game was downright brutal at times, but I really wish I hadn't; there are key apps that make the game much more balanced, but some of them are actually game-breaking, and I wish I'd just played normally in retrospect.

Oh geez, so the apology is even more hollow.

One of the more ludicrous parts of the story is when you run into Sycamore right after you save the world, and he very halfheartedly apologizes for having introduced you and your cohort of cheery ten year olds to Lyandre. "Oh hey, sorry about that whole part where I exposed you and a bunch of other children to the…