17776th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7))

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#1281

fuck

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#1282

valve made a non-binary hero in deadlock apparently
thats sorta surprising but also nice

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#1283

I mean frankly I’d be surprised if they didn’t atp

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#1284

what

#1285

I would be surprised if Deadlock didn’t have at least one character that was LGBTQ+ representation

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#1286

oh i meant “why?”

#1287

because what big hero-based game from a dev of any size hasn’t in the last decade

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#1288

it would actively go against the grain to not and like for what reason lol

#1289

i mean yea but like
[flashbacks to the right boycotting Bud Light because they did a partnership with a trans woman, and the only thing she did was be trans]
[“flashbacks” to transphobia among gamers being well and alive]

#1290

okay but like those people aren’t in charge of making and marketing massive games lol

#1291

and even if they were they would lose

#1292

yeah but i mean like, business executives are always afraid of that kind of shit (see: disney (i think?))

#1293

and conversely we spend every june meming about how quick these companies are to embrace it for the month and then drop it right after

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#1294

also like have you seen how much florida hates disney rn

#1295

shrugze

#1296

LGBTQ+ acceptance is so mainstream that the entire position of people against it is that mainstream media has “gone woke” or whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean

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#1297

well…

#1298

it’s not universal but it’s definitely mainstream

we’ll get there on that first bit eventually

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#1299

i wouldn’t go that far

there’s pretty few transgender and non-binary reps in games, especially big games like anything that comes out of valve

that and a lot of people being transphobic

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#1300

gay acceptance is, at least in America, pretty far along
but trans acceptance is uhhhh not