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This pretty much sums up my thoughts on this, but let me take it a bit further.
Super Earth thrives on one thing: War, and all the processes associated with war. This means the thing Super Earth needs most is bodies.
New bodies are produced via reproduction. Thing about pretty much any relationship that isn't strictly a born male and a born female... having kids is a lot harder, requiring scientific intervention to achieve. These things are costly, and in all likelihood Super Earth would not back these forms of Scientific progress when they could be funding the research of more ingenious ways to commit intergalactic war crimes.
So, as a Totalitarian government insisting on managing every aspect of it's citizen's lives, why would they allow you to make a choice that would not either A: make you another body to feed to the war machine, or B: Make children to feed to the war machine?
Just my thoughts. And just a reminder, before any accusations, I am a bisexual male who plays this game a lot with my boyfriend. I get inclusiveness, but I'd rather have a story that isn't willing to compromise on making fun of the bad things some governments would love to do.
That's certainly part of the thought behind tenets against homosexuality in things like abrahamic religions, but pragmatically a preference for one's own sex doesn't prevent people from having children and plenty of gay men and women have had plenty of children over the centuries, generally as part of "keeping up appearances".
There are always some people who will object to other people having "wrong thoughts" but the societies as a whole don't much care what you feel they care how you act, and even then mostly where they will see it. That still has the effect of making people keep up appearances, and in doing so, going through all the same motions as everyone else.
In a high tech, high population society its not very difficult to produce fodder for wars - people are very prone to making more people if you give them the chance to do so (or look away for two seconds), and any society that wants more children can get itself a population boom by simply incentivizing family. The tricky part is when you want people to STOP mass producing more people to avoid overpopulation - that's when you'd want to spread managed democracy to worlds across the galaxy.
You really shouldn't have to qualify your statements - once upon a time adults were able to discuss concepts and ideas without burning each other at the stake.
No. The success of the game is why these activists come here making all kinds of threads trying to get their flag planted.
What would allow Arrowhead to ignore these people is the community doing the same. If we start making fun of them, they cry abuse then go to their allies, the gaming journalist sites and write hit pieces against the devs using the community. They already did this once with Polygon.
Most of the gay men and women who had children, especially in the old days, did so because there was a serious threat to them if they came out, either socially, or to their actual life.
The thing about wrong thoughts... is that is very much a point ground into the setting. Think that maybe this new weapon is too inhumane to be used on bugs? Executed for treason. Wonder aloud if Super Earth really needs to populate every plausible planet you come across? Executed for treason. Think it's unfair the democracy officer aboard your helldiver's vessel gets a personal sauna? Executed for treason. You can't argue "Oh people just complain about others beliefs being wrong but they should be ignored" when a major part of the setting points out that "Thought crimes" is one of the highest forms of treason you can commit.
I can't argue on the overpopulation thing, because Super Earth's state on that is very much in a "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Scenario. Super Earth has been in this state for so long, in setting, that nobody knows if they went to endless war to curb over population, or if they started mass forced repopulating because they decided that war would be their culture. We can't say for certain either way.
And no. I really shouldn't have to qualify my statements. But we live on the internet, and I'm absolutely certain somebody reading this assumes I'm some hyper Neo-Nazi bigot racist sexist fascist "Ist"-ist for even breathing in the general direction of "Maybe we should tone it down. So I feel the need to remind those who actually read that I'm not coming from a position of angry conservative ranting, but of a human being who feels like this sort of setting has a point that shouldn't be diluted by other agendas.
What you do and believe to be in your fantasy is your privacy and no one business so keep it that way. Asking for special privileges and representation over all other humans is everything but equality.
Narcissistic.
Add LGBT
Don't add LGBT
You can simple ignore and play the game. We all know they are farming Points for the Steam seasonal badge
Its hilarious how it took only a huge pile of corpses "dead brands" for like one developer studio to turn around and be like yeah lets not do that. LOL. But this could also just be because Arrowhead dont got FED money to just get woke on.
Absolutely - they were keeping up appearances due to societal pressures. The point is that actually being gay did not stop them from reproducing, and if the concern is that the society wants everyone to reproduce, the simple pressure to conform does the trick just as it did for centuries across many cultures.
Authoritarian cultures don't just pressure gay people to conform - they pressure everyone to conform. They're opposed to deviancy of any sort, and certainly don't stop at sexual inclinations. The ultimate point of it is that keeping people in line is much tougher if you allow them to do what they want and be who they want to be - it's much easier if there is a single "way" and everyone adheres to it. This is alluded to in the game with all the notices that people should report other people's deviant actions and words to "loyalty officers".
Ultimately what we're talking about is theoretical vs pragmatic concepts. Yes, ostensibly they want you to think a certain way but pragmatically we can't read people's thoughts, so what they actually care about is their behaviours. On a practical level society has an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality because there is so much going on that its tough to even care about what you see much less what is happening in the hearts and minds of people that you cannot experience.
On every side of any issue there are almost always both dumb people and smart people. It's the dumb ones that seriously focus on the principles while the smart ones focus on the pragmatics. It might sound counterintuitive, but if you take a look at any issue you'll see it.
No, what we talk about is "everything is political" vs "I don't care, I just want to play, get the f*** out !" concepts. :)
That would be more convincing if you were playing rather than feeling the need to post about how much you don't care about the topic and just want to play. I suspect your real focus is on wanting to tell people to "get the f*** out" without seeming like a misanthrope.
That's the RPG "Paranoia", which has a similar schtick to it - a dystopian future where everyone is always watching for treasonous behaviour in those around them and are encouraged to execute traitors. Death is so frequent that every player has 6 clones, and when a player dies a new one is air-dropped in to pick up where the last one left off.
It'd be fun if they went that route with HD2, but I think they're going for the "human life is cheap" angle like Starship Troopers.
Ultimately though it's the Dev's decision is all that matters. Their game, so they can pick and choose what they want in it. If they want it, that's fine. If they don't want it, that's also fine.
Coming in and telling them they have to include it is a you problem, not theirs. You want that, you make your own game and put it in, but you do not tell them what they can and cannot do with their own game.