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Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026

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Leftist/socialist politics in general, as you'd expect from a European game studio (Larian are Belgian). They're also liberal on sexual politics, so you can romance party members of any and all genders if you want (not compulsory, you can remain 'we're all just good pals' if you like) and everything from polyamory to sex work is legal is okay (well, in that setting of course you'll have brothels as part of the culture anyway).

I remember one of the first times it was recommended to me it was from a trans person excitedly telling me that you can be trans in the game, which as far as I can tell just means that you can put a visible penis on your female character. I'm not sure that's a win for diversity so much as being a win for perverts, but there you go.

I believe there was also some excitement in the progressive parts of the internet about a lesbian character in act two? Oh, and I remember something about getting a trans YouTuber (PhilosophyTube?) to voice a significant character, and that also seems like a bad sign.

You might feel free to dismiss me as just a cranky social conservative, but eventually all of this just gets tiring. Part of what's nice about going back to any video games prior to 2005 or so is that it's just not there. I'm sick of every video game, even games I otherwise quite like, having the mandatory part that I have to ignore. For the entire history of the industry up until the mid-to-late 2000s, we didn't do this. Can we just... not, for five minutes? Can we just have a video game with normal, sane sexual ethics again?

Just once?

(Well, actually, we can, the answer is Japanese games. But it's harder to find in the West.)

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