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Would a show called friends and sex be very interesting if they were straight?
Thread: Aloy is gay now, and that's a good thing!
Would a show called friends and sex be very interesting if they were straight?
Stifler's Mom
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Chozofication
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Lmao "math prodigy" xD
Never be shy to do it! My sense of humour is too dark for many but I've yet to be offended.
Gay people made "being gay" the most important accomplishment in their lives. So, it's natural that they'd want to shoehorn it into every story just like a 5-year old smitten with "dinosaurs" will expect every story to include one or they refuse to go to bed on time.
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Gay dinosaurs perhaps?
Blame it on bipolar bears in Canada who need colder tempherathers. With climax change you get more of them near the arcdick poleher circle.
TyphoonStruggle
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Was that Nobody Important on a trolling mission? I mean honestly logic just went out the window with that dude, no structured logical debate, just insults. A poor trolling effort.
Not even from the US, so unlikely but definitely devoid of reason. Whole thing reminded me of this.
Hostile_18
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This is the natural endgame from when they changed her from hot ginger, to fat sweaty ginger. Women are not allowed to be desirable from the gaze of men, nor aspirational to other women. Every other character must be gay, a women or ethnically diverse. Men must always be shown in a poor light, unless they meet the latter criteria. There are multiple genders not just two, and god forbid if you choose science, history and facts over this.
Disagree with this? Think there's two sides or something is a complex issue? Then you must be hateful or racist. There is no for perportionality, no measure of what fits in a crafted world or not. You are either an ally and must push this agenda everywhere or an enemy that must be cancelled.
Never have such small groups in history weld so much control and power. The oppression they say they have traditionally suffered, they inflict on others, with very real world consequences.
To be clear when it's implemented well and perportionaly and without an agenda I have no problems at all, as I'm sure nearly everyone here feels. You can tell what feels forced or natural very easily.
Gender 1 signing off.
Disagree with this? Think there's two sides or something is a complex issue? Then you must be hateful or racist. There is no for perportionality, no measure of what fits in a crafted world or not. You are either an ally and must push this agenda everywhere or an enemy that must be cancelled.
Never have such small groups in history weld so much control and power. The oppression they say they have traditionally suffered, they inflict on others, with very real world consequences.
To be clear when it's implemented well and perportionaly and without an agenda I have no problems at all, as I'm sure nearly everyone here feels. You can tell what feels forced or natural very easily.
Gender 1 signing off.
Neil Young
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What also sucks about all this infusion of gay people into everything is that they make for the most BORING characters most of the time. Oh, a gay person...whelp I guess they won't have anything wrong with them, go crazy, be evil, or struggle (unless it's because of the evil straight white male).
I've noticed that with women characters as well. They can be evil but will usually be a girl boss or have a redemption at the end.
Playing through Hogwarts, which is fantastic, I think I've encountered 3 gays. One who is a tranny whose backstory is the typical "I didn't know who I was, but thank goodness for Professor Touchles for grooming.....I mean, listening to me". That's fine, but can one of them be fucked up or evil? They're always the perfect person. Granted, I don't consume as much media as I used to because of the shift to the message so maybe these types of characters DO exist.
I've noticed that with women characters as well. They can be evil but will usually be a girl boss or have a redemption at the end.
Playing through Hogwarts, which is fantastic, I think I've encountered 3 gays. One who is a tranny whose backstory is the typical "I didn't know who I was, but thank goodness for Professor Touchles for grooming.....I mean, listening to me". That's fine, but can one of them be fucked up or evil? They're always the perfect person. Granted, I don't consume as much media as I used to because of the shift to the message so maybe these types of characters DO exist.
Nicktendo
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Just disgusting. Please check your privilege and do better.
play more Japanese RPGs
Dreamlord
Living the...
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Fucking hell. 4 pages of this...
Me thinks d-pad has a lot of closeted angry girlboys. What's next, playing with each others dicks to see who has the biggest one?
Besides ... what self respecting man would touch this??
Me thinks d-pad has a lot of closeted angry girlboys. What's next, playing with each others dicks to see who has the biggest one?
Besides ... what self respecting man would touch this??
Fucking hell. 4 pages of this...
Me thinks d-pad has a lot of closeted angry girlboys. What's next, playing with each others dicks to see who has the biggest one?
Besides ... what self respecting man would touch this??
Uncanny...
Dacon
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Fucking hell. 4 pages of this...
Me thinks d-pad has a lot of closeted angry girlboys. What's next, playing with each others dicks to see who has the biggest one?
Besides ... what self respecting man would touch this??
She looks like shes about to scream at John Goodman for eating the Christmas ham before dinner
ExpandKong
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I really hope he comes back for a new Mummy, just in way better shape and with the costars from the first two with a script and effects aiming for the quality of first one which is one of the best adventure films ever made.
Uncanny...
Surprised we never not got a big budget Mummy game in the vein of Uncharted 2/Tomb Raider. Shame.
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Fucking hell. 4 pages of this...
Me thinks d-pad has a lot of closeted angry girlboys.
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This went on for twelve to put the cringe into perspective.
Optimus
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Going to go with my gut on this and say that we're just going to have to wait until after 2025. Why 2025? I just think that we're going to see a lot of societal shift away from this bullshit as people become antagonized by the constant barrage. You give an inch, they try and take a mile, and so you correct it by settings things back. Public school and college enrollments are dropping from what I've been hearing. We're seeing home schooling on a massive uptick. We may not be able to vote progressives out of national offices, but I do think that we're going to see a lot more pushback on the transgendas and pushback on just how much representation is necessary for minority groups simply because a whole helluva lot of movies are tanking hard and very few new TV shows are catching on.
The real conclusion to all of this will start with the creative media as there's just no getting around the fact that normal people do not want to watch a bunch of queer stuff. It's majorly offputting. The nail in the coffin will be when even younger audiences that have been heavily indoctrinated into being allies are still off-put by homosexual romances in entertainment. You can't make normal something that is just not common.
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Fucking hell. 4 pages of this...
Me thinks d-pad has a lot of closeted angry girlboys. What's next, playing with each others dicks to see who has the biggest one?
Besides ... what self respecting man would touch this??
And then she opens her mouth and tells you how important she is and how she's not letting anyone get in her way of saving the world and… it's all so tiresome.
It's worst in FW because she is constantly rolling her eyes and explaining technology to lesser humans (men, mostly) in a childish way. At least the first game retained a sense of wonder and mystery as she explored but FW Aloy was trying to be a veteran Geralt-type character who knew far more than anyone about anything.
"Oh uh this piece of metal lets me talk to the… sky spirits!" *rolls her eyes* "Its not
Important, though. You need to help me or the world will be punished by the… sky spirits!"
I guess it goes to show when you have a smartphone plugged into your skull, you can seem very smart to people without one
lock2k
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OmegaSupreme
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There's something about these games that I just can't get into. I've tried the first game multiple times and I just can't get more than a few hours in. All that to say I could care less if she's gay.
I find myself always having to get bored by them and come back much later to try it again. They did a great job with the idea of going around hunting robo dinos and collecting parts to make upgrades and stuff, but most other aspects are just so boring.
The first one had some story elements that were kinda cool, but the execution just wasn't fully there. And the visual style of everyone looking like a moron with half of a junkyard glued to their heads is such a put-off. I can't take any of it seriously enough to pay attention to the boring shit they're saying.
QuantumZebra
It’s just basic anatomy
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This is really one of my biggest issues in the push for "muh diversitah"... you've got an ethnically diverse starship crew of 4 people... 2 men, 2 women, all different racial/religious backgrounds... good, right? Even plausible! BUT WAIT, there's more! One of the dudes is bi-curious, the tough woman is ofc a lesbian, the other woman becomes bi-curious, the other dude accidentally bangs the bi-dude because cabin fever or something. Brilliant!
Media is more and more becoming a "choose your own adventure" like Mass Effect or Bioware titles... but with save backing up and trying every choice as well. It doesn't feel organic at all.
Example of good writing: Bill in TLoU... felt totally normal. He didn't run around with a rainbow shirt on and he was clearly ok with himself.
Example of bad writing: Ellie; why make her lesbian? Here you have a tough girl that's been through some traumatic shit and her only protector is this grizzled dad-figure who lost his baby girl. Is that not enough?
To me it's creating an archetype where if a girl/woman is tough they automatically have to be lesbian. And now we've gone backwards. Instead of tough woman is tough because she has seen some shit. It's tough woman is tough because she's strong wamman and she likes girls too. It is a lowkey implication you can't have tomboys unless they're lesbians.
My daughters are tough as nails, finishing their black belts in Hapkido, and enjoy hunting/shooting/fishing/camping/hiking/every sport possible. But they're both very straight (I knew that when I took them to Thor: Love and Thunder and they reacted to him being chained up... yeah. Course I don't blame 'em, lol). In media they couldn't be like that without being trans/lesbian. That's not fair and not good representation of the MAJORITY. And if folks are in the majority (especially women; whom gaming has been trying to court for years), why the fuck wouldn't you want to represent them at least a little?
Another example (fuck you writers!) of muh diversities to wrap this up: Clementine in TWD games. Amazing games. Tough survivor girl. Guess what? She's a lesbian.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Neil Young
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Same. I blame Aloy. She is the most boring drip I've ever played as a main character. Her looks, personality, interactions….zzzzzzzzz. I figured she was asexual rather than gay because no one would want to be around her. The games are very well made and I keep telling myself that I'll get back to them but I never do.
QuantumZebra
It’s just basic anatomy
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It's 3% not 8% (maybe time to get your eyes checked)
100/3 = 33.333
UK Census comes out around the same figure for all LGBT (3.2%)
Given that the percentages are so low for LGB (and even lower for trans), from an evolutionary standpoint it would appear they are an aberration, and certainly not intended naturally to be part of the gene pool (and in a more primitive society, wouldn't be).
I say this as a guy who cares about LGBT people and has LGBT friends... but the over-normalization of it is counterproductive. I'm hearing stories about how its "trendy" to be gay or lesbian or trans in school now. You've got children trying to go through puberty and develop as people... and instead of letting that unfold normally, people are injecting preferences (and not even basic ones) into that. In engineering/scientific fields we'd say that's a great way to cause a catastrophic failure/explosion. In people the results are similar...
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This is really one of my biggest issues in the push for "muh diversitah"... you've got an ethnically diverse starship crew of 4 people... 2 men, 2 women, all different racial/religious backgrounds... good, right? Even plausible! BUT WAIT, there's more! One of the dudes is bi-curious, the tough woman is ofc a lesbian, the other woman becomes bi-curious, the other dude accidentally bangs the bi-dude because cabin fever or something. Brilliant!
Media is more and more becoming a "choose your own adventure" like Mass Effect or Bioware titles... but with save backing up and trying every choice as well. It doesn't feel organic at all.
Example of good writing: Bill in TLoU... felt totally normal. He didn't run around with a rainbow shirt on and he was clearly ok with himself.
Example of bad writing: Ellie; why make her lesbian? Here you have a tough girl that's been through some traumatic shit and her only protector is this grizzled dad-figure who lost his baby girl. Is that not enough?
To me it's creating an archetype where if a girl/woman is tough they automatically have to be lesbian. And now we've gone backwards. Instead of tough woman is tough because she has seen some shit. It's tough woman is tough because she's strong wamman and she likes girls too. It is a lowkey implication you can't have tomboys unless they're lesbians.
My daughters are tough as nails, finishing their black belts in Hapkido, and enjoy hunting/shooting/fishing/camping/hiking/every sport possible. But they're both very straight (I knew that when I took them to Thor: Love and Thunder and they reacted to him being chained up... yeah. Course I don't blame 'em, lol). In media they couldn't be like that without being trans/lesbian. That's not fair and not good representation of the MAJORITY. And if folks are in the majority (especially women; whom gaming has been trying to court for years), why the fuck wouldn't you want to represent them at least a little?
Another example (fuck you writers!) of muh diversities to wrap this up: Clementine in TWD games. Amazing games. Tough survivor girl. Guess what? She's a lesbian.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Yeah there's such a difference between being gay (small g) and being Flamboyantly extrovertedly Gay (cap G). You would think that gay people having their essence distilled down to that one facet in all these representations would bother them (who wants to be a marquee board instead of an actual, you know, person) but they don't seem to mind. The gay stereotype in everything is a distraction to gay people and an annoyance to straight people. Imagine if in every commercial, television show, movie and so on Big Gay Al from South Park showed up. No one wants that; and there is so much more to a person than where they stick their wee wee. And then when they do try to handle it at least somewhat subtly, they attach it to the worst fucking characters; if I was gay, I'd be offended they attached it to such an enormous fucking drip as Aloy. Bill is the rare exception, and that worked fine — dude was gay but he was multi-faceted and had actual depth…. And more importantly, you liked him.
QuantumZebra
It’s just basic anatomy
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Shout out to the madlad who made the OG Black Ranger black, Yellow Ranger asian, Blue Ranger a gay nerd, Red Ranger cis chad, and Pink Ranger total thirst trap.
To top it off the Green Ranger is a stoner Jesus who ends up as... stoner Jesus Power Ranger, in white!