Highborne Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 That would imply some action on their part. The only yellow post in months came from an unnamed drone and had zero information Poor widdle Bioware - they can't handle criticism. Poor, poor poor Bioware.....my heart's breakin' for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wittand Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 (edited) I was referring to the Disney films (and follow-up cartoons for some), rather than their parks and the company, which is really rather progressive compared to a lot of others. Not seen Frozen yet, because of a variety of reasons, including "women are hard to animate because they need to look pretty all the time, so that's why we scrapped every single female character from the original fairy tale and replaced them with men" excuse from the studio, but they then developed a programme to make unique snow flakes renders? (Not to mention the fact that it's more of the same white people, something that's been hashed out on various blogs and websites about representation in the media and etc.) You mean scrapped every female character except the main character and the title character of the fairy tale. The female characters from the fairy tale that are missing are only side characters who would not play a bigger role than the trolls do in the movie. If anything an important male character Kai got left out, who in the fairy tale is the motivation for the heroine to chase after the snow queen in the first place. There have been heroines of colour in the past, (Tiana 2009, Mulan 1998) . People of colour would make little sense considering the mediaeval, north european setting. Complaining about their lack feels like complaining about the lack of white/black/native american/ ... people in Mulan. If you want to know why I as gay man consider the movie progressive simply goggle "Let it go" or look at the ending which is very different from the endings that I remember from the Disney films of my childhood. Also, we go that thread locked because we started talking about history (specifically, I called out the English education system for not teaching us enough about the British Empire during secondary school), not because the guy was asking "Would Quinn be weird about me kissing a dude?" and Bioware got all uppity. Hell - Bioware's fine with you going on massive tangents and talking about stuff that is barely relevant to the game, as long as you don't do it General Discussion. You know, where people are. They can only moderate one forum at a time, after all. When was the last time a polite, if venturing slightly off-topic, thread that was not a flame war has been closed without so much as an warning ? Or when was the last time a formerly stickied thread has been not only locked, but actually deleted (the star fighter customisation thread). Edited December 4, 2013 by Wittand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatile Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 When was the last time a polite, if venturing slightly off-topic, thread that was not a flame war has been closed without so much as an warning ? Or when was the last time a formerly stickied thread has been not only locked, but actually deleted (the star fighter customisation thread). (I'm not going to comment on Frozen because, like I said, it's been hashed out by many people and you can find the arguments if you feel like looking.) And yeah, it does seem like they're going back to their old ways of "stick all the mildly gay-related stuff in the Story and Lore board, or outright delete it, so we can 'protect' the gay people from big mean bigots, who we can't ban and we can't delete their messages. It's not like we have a ToS or Forum Guidelines to cover this..." Never seen a stickied thread deleted because of SGRA, but loads and loads of threads previous to Musco taking over were deleted because of SGRA being mentioned. Hell, I think Mr. Hood's Q&A was delayed (probably almost cancelled), because 60% of the questions were about SGRA. That probably facilitated the end of Developer Q&As as well, because they realised we wouldn't shut up about it. We could ask Mr. Musco about this, but we wouldn't get any response from him. He's too busy going goo-goo over Galactic Starfighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukebalpha Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I just want to explore the story arc's with the male companions, but I love playing male toons much more than female toons, its not really anything major about gay or bi, were just curious about what the romance arcs are :L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakensang Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 We can always write storyline slash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nydus Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) This has probably been said to death, but my understanding is that it is never coming for the current companions. They apparently write characters as straight or gay so any new SGR into the game will be through the addition of new characters. I don't really don't see how it can be such a big deal to re-visit the existing companions. I don't remember the dialogue being "hey man, I'm in love with you because I'm a woman and you are a man". Then again, I don't partake in all of the romance options because it is immoral to hit on a subordinate in the military;). You should all be court-martialed. - Arcada Edited February 13, 2014 by Nydus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilizhra Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 This has probably been said to death, but my understanding is that it is never coming for the current companions. They apparently write characters as straight or gay so any new SGR into the game will be through the addition of new characters. I don't really don't see how it can be such a big deal to re-visit the existing companions. I don't remember the dialogue being "hey man, I'm in love with you because I'm a woman and you are a man". Then again, I don't partake in all of the romance options because it is immoral to hit on a subordinate in the military;). You should all be court-martialed. - Arcada Isn't this only the case for the trooper and one agent romance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nydus Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) Isn't this only the case for the trooper and one agent romance? I would argue that given the authority granted to the classes, many of the relationships would be considered quite sketchy in any respectable contemporary institution. This is especially evident for the republic classes (the good guys, right?). Consider that with the Knight and Consular, you basically are in a master-apprentice relationship (at least from the perspective of male characters, I'm less certain about how it plays out with the females). That is pretty gross if you ask me. From a contemporary perspective, whenever there is a direct report and a hierarchical "power-over-another's livelihood" relationship you are entering a grey territory with romance. Is there an instance in this game where the companion romance isn't that? *Most* of my Sith characters don't even go there! - Arcada Edited February 13, 2014 by Nydus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilizhra Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I would argue that given the authority granted to the classes, many of the relationships would be considered quite sketchy in any respectable contemporary institution. This is especially evident for the republic classes (the good guys, right?). Consider that with the Knight and Consular, you basically are in a master-apprentice relationship (at least from the perspective of male characters, I'm less certain about how it plays out with the females). That is pretty gross if you ask me. From a contemporary perspective, whenever there is a direct report and a hierarchical "power-over-another's livelihood" relationship you are entering a grey territory with romance. Is there an instance in this game where the companion romance isn't that? *Most* of my Sith characters don't even go there! - Arcada Well, smugglers and bounty hunters have no official position. Sith can do whatever the hell they like. For the Agent, Kaliyo isn't military and Vector is from a different service than you, not to mention that his true allegiances now lie with the Killiks. For Jedi... well, Doc and Felix aren't in your chain of command, so women interested in men have no problems. Kira and Nadia have more issues, although Kira is your contemporary and only gets assigned as your apprentice after the fact because you rise in rank more quickly. I will say that there are potential issues there, but I wouldn't necessarily say they're insurmountable ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nydus Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Sith can do whatever the hell they like. Your Sith maybe. Mine have quite twisted moral codes . For the Agent, Kaliyo isn't military and Vector is from a different service than you, not to mention that his true allegiances now lie with the Killiks. For Jedi... well, Doc and Felix aren't in your chain of command, so women interested in men have no problems. Kira and Nadia have more issues, although Kira is your contemporary and only gets assigned as your apprentice after the fact because you rise in rank more quickly. I will say that there are potential issues there, but I wouldn't necessarily say they're insurmountable ones. Rationalize it all you like! I seem to be dismissing and summoning my companions all the time. They clearly report to me - Arcada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlixMV Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Vector is from a different service than you He was to start his story, but he joins the crew because he's been transferred to Intelligence--so he's part of your service (and your team, as the Agent is team leader) for the duration of the Romance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nydus Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) He was to start his story, but he joins the crew because he's been transferred to Intelligence--so he's part of your service (and your team, as the Agent is team leader) for the duration of the Romance. And then you take advantage of him. Tsk, tsk. Call Imperial Human Resources . Lets all welcome ourselves to the 21st Century and admit that this behaviour is inappropriate . - Arcada Edited February 13, 2014 by Nydus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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