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Lopen posted...

I think some people care if there is a random female, trans, Indian or Spanish NPC in a game. And then there is another set of people who pretend to care and are very loud about it.

But by and large it's a laughable #1 goal for a video game company and is being focused on entirely to try and win points back from people who think Blizzard is a company plagued by socially archiac management. Further, the people who don't care I imagine don't care at all, generally, because to them they're playing games not thinking about that at all and wouldn't care if the characters were all genderless and raceless triangles and squares if said triangles and squares were cool character designs.

I wouldn't say SEP is picking on Maria per se. SEP just has a way of not being able to see the forest for the trees when it comes to arguments. Probably doesn't even realize that the stuff Tom and GMUN are going into ("this is important to me because ___") are in fact very different points than "you used we instead of I omg!!!" No one gives a shit about whether "we" encompasses literally every gamer because that clearly wasn't the point, and trying to point out "heh I won!" when this is pointed out was hilariously oblivious. The point was that many many people do not care about this at all (even if it's not 100% of gamers, doesn't matter, it can be significantly less than 100% to be a valid discussion point) and it's a dumb #1 priority for game design because of that.

My argument was literally never a semantics one, and Im sorry you hate me so much that you just automatically make assumptions about my arguments in order to paint the worst possible picture of me. My entire point wasnt lol you used the wrong word, I win. My point was that when you literally use the word we, you are making your argument a very broad, generalizing argument that is then open to being argued against on such merits, and thus why people like GMUN and Tom felt the need to argue, because they obviously felt Maria was overlooking and/or implying they matter less with that generalized statement. It has nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with the fact that its harmful to attempt to speak for everybody like that, intentionally or otherwise. Maria themself was the one that broke it down into Should I have maybe used I instead? Sure. My first post on it was literally you know you dont speak for everyone, right, not ah-ha, poor grammar! It wasnt to say omg you think you speak for literally everybody lmaolmao, it was basically to say arguments like that are not a good look because they lessen the importance of others feelings and experiences.