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Nichtcrawler X posted...

I remember something about one of the expansions forcing a sexuality on the player character, whereas before the expansion it was up to the player to decide?

Yes, stupid people whined about that.

Basically, in the main game you could sex up whoever you wanted (or NOT sex up people if you didn't want), so if you decided you wanted the main character to be exclusively gay, you could. Or you could be exclusively straight, or bi, or asexual, or whatever. But then the DLC has the main character impregnate/get pregnant with a specific NPC, because you're both magic people and have a moral obligation to pass on your genes to future generations. So people who wanted to be gay threw tantrums, because they were forced to soil themselves with opposite sex sex. Yuck!

It was an asinine whiny complaint, because it makes perfect sense in-game why the character would do it. And considering the entire framing story of the game is that you're NOT even that character, as much as you're a different character who is reliving that character's life via virtual reality. And it's arguably even foreshadowed in the main game, when your mom is apparently a lesbian but still made sure to have kids of her own, with someone she didn't even really like that much, because moral obligation. And because the entire premise of the setting is that you can't relive someone's memories at all unless they've had kids (because genetic memory).

And that's not even getting into things like bisexuality a) being a thing, and b) being pretty common in ancient Greece. Including, you know, among the Spartans.

It was mostly just a case of the Twitter/Tumblr Outage Brigage looking for something to be angry about, as always.
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