It's somewhat ironic that you're looking for someone "less stupid" to have a debate with when you're the kind of drooling moron who just can't wrap their brain around the difference between criticism and censorship. It's really not that hard to look up the word "censorship" in the dictionary before attempting to use…

Thank you for empathizing and understanding where I'm coming from, it seems like you are a thoughtful person, which is more than I can say for a lot of the people who use the Internet.

I don't think Nintendo went out of its way to offend anybody, and I don't think Nintendo is run by people with a homophobic agenda. I believe the Japanese team that designed the game have different cultural expectations to meet. Nintendo went on record saying that people in Japan didn't seem to raise a fuss about…

Just because you're okay with pretending doesn't mean everyone want to, don't shame those people just because they think differently from you. Your point of view is not the only possible one, you know...

Tomb Raider is different though, in that you're playing as established character with her own thoughts, views, experiences, etc and just controlling her through the game. In Tomodotchi you're supposed to (or least from what I've gotten from the ads) put yourself into the game. I don't want to pretend to be a girl in…

No, but I can't say I understand your position. I mean, the fact that they chose to depict "this subset of reality", aka relationships, means that they decided at one point that homosexual relationships aren't or shouldn't be considered a "relationship".

Conscious or not, this decision is reflective of the problem.

It's a game about a character meant to represent yourself. Are you really surprised people would argue for more inclusion?

think about this game as if you weren't allow to be brown or black skinned, don't tell me that wouldn't cause an "extreme" fuss. I think the fact that its the word marriage instead of simply relationships, same-sex marriage is still pushing forward in the west, its not all the way there, but same-sex relationships…

The tagline for the game is "Your Friends. Your Drama. Your Life". It should come as no surprise that some people want to play as themselves.

So a group of people who want representation in a product say they won't buy the product because it doesn't include them? When you purchase a product, you are voting with your dollars which company you want to support. I own a Wii U and a 3DS, I love Nintendo, but they messed up and I'm not supporting this product…

Lara Croft is a character you control in an interactive story. Games like TomodachiLife are life sims - you create a character that is meant to represent you. Saying you had to "pretend to be a girl" in any single player game with a story mode is a false equivalence.

It was a game all about forming relationship that just sort of ignored a great many relationships. That understandably raised a few eyebrows.

There's always something disingenuous about the "I'm ok with gay marriage so long as I don't have to hear about it" angle.

No. Nope. Nay. Never.

Ah, this is a much better response. The last one sounded like it was trying to dismiss it or pass the buck or I don't even know what. I'm cool with this statement. And I look forward to them making good on it next time around!

The crux of the issue is consent and potential damage. What or whom you love isn't up for debate, but if acting upon it can cause damage to the parties involved, you're expected to back off.

Who's forcing it? People were asking if Nintendo would consider it as an option, nobody is holding a gun to the developers heads. And what does innocence have anything to do with it? Would the game be less innocent if there was the option to marry someone of the same sex?

No, just an idiot.

As a programmer let me just say Nintendo has a huge point here, it is extremely hard to make such a coding change. Most likely they would have to edit something like

i have developed before. Itd take commenting out a single line of code to allow it. And they do have the code