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Again, I'd ask for non-Bioware examples where we have the preachy SJW agenda being part of the game. I really can't think of any.

During the bonus XP weekend I got my Jedi Knight from 44 up to 47, and I'm almost done with the Voss planet. This game is still pretty fun in spurts.

Yes, Bioware is stuck in a rut where they write the same narrative and spend too much time focusing on romances and breaking gender stereotypes. But I don't see how it is pandering, that seems to be important to the writers and that is why they push it into their games.

Can you name the games? Bioware is pushing a socially progressive agenda, but that seems to be coming from the writers and developers, rather than pandering to an outside influence.

Even if you have a thousand posters complaining, that's a very small percentage of the millions that buy the game.

Apparently Feminist is a bad word: https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/school-censors-girls-shirt-for-yearbook-photo-116918108702.html

I disagree.

Yes, I'm throwing the fit. Observing that the forum has changed, and that this thread in particular has become a place for bizarre behavior, is such a tantrum. I'll make sure to alert the waambulance.

Longknife, your post does come across as hysterical. I do not think I need to exaggerate to make it so.

There is no chance that they will get the rights to Star Wars.

How is that hilarious? Anita S. is the closest to a celebrity in this whole thing, and given the fact that she has done a good job of leveraging this into a profitable and marketable endeavor, it makes a lot more sense to be critical of her message. But yeah, that doesn't excuse all the gross threats.

Is attacking SJW's in a place where there are no SJW's all that sensible? Maybe I'm just trying to fit in.

There is nothing in the forum guidelines that says I can't lecture and reprimand. Yay for free speech. Maybe if I was driving this thread off-topc, that might be a decent argument for constantly telling me to leave the thread, but you guys rarely discuss actual journalism here.

I usually don't bother quoting Volo, but this is a good example of the bizarre behavior in this thread. I come in and criticize the tone, and then get accused of trying to brainwash. I'm encouraged to report to the authorities or GTFO. Everyone is super defensive and super reactionary. I have never seen anything like it here.

So whenever someone criticizes what you say, they are a wannabe forum mod who is trying to police discussion?

So both KP and Longknife would rather me lobby for censorship than decorum? This is why it is hard to take this movement seriously.

It's super weird that you are asking me to try and get the thread closed. It has been actively censored, one iteration was even closed down. Why would you push for that? Are you pro-censorship?

I thought I was doing that when I read you guys the Dr. Suess book?

If you have an issue with the thread, why not take it up with the moderators? I don't see how posting here is supposed to remedy the situation. The best you can do is take it up with the mods and, whether they agree or disagree with you, accept the response. Why would you suggest that? Appealing to an authority to censor others would seem completely contrary to your whole platform. I would rather just ask you (and others) to tone down the vitriol for the sake of the community. But hey, maybe the community has changed and I'm just a leftover from a different time.

There is irony in someone who is pro ignoring what he deems dumb having a problem with people for not ignoring other dumb bs. Follow your own advice. I have been an active member here for over a decade, pardon me if I don't just walk away from the community because of dumb bs. I've ignored a few iterations of this thread, but it doesn't seem like a good strategy. It reflects badly on all of us. This is absurd. These people have every right to discuss this topic, which is well within the boundaries of forum rules, just like you have every right to discuss things you find important. You could, for example, make a Firearms thread and periodically start it up again once it hit it's limit. Would someone be right to claim the pro-firearms thread needs to be shut down because it reflects poorly on all of us? No, that's unfair. If you don't wanna be associated with it, don't associate yourself with it. If you are incapable of tolerating a thread's existence in a forum you visit, that's blatantly being a drama queen and blatantly demanding all portions of a forum adhere to what you like to a certain degree, all in a belief that being a member here for 10+ years is somehow relevant and affords you some sort of superior say on the matter. No, that's not how it works. We have a firearms thread, it is delightful. People talk about guns. They aren't consistently putting up inappropriate cartoons, images, and making fun of the tweets of people who don't spend any time here. This thread has veered over the boundaries of the forum rules plenty of times. The very nature of this thread seems to revolve around being mean and shouting down people that disagree with you. It bleeds into other threads too, Monte Carlo's hilarious troll story lasted about 5 posts before it turned dumb. I would like to see this forum be a less negative place. I guess that makes me a drama queen.

There is irony in someone who is pro ignoring what he deems dumb having a problem with people for not ignoring other dumb bs. Follow your own advice. I have been an active member here for over a decade, pardon me if I don't just walk away from the community because of dumb bs. I've ignored a few iterations of this thread, but it doesn't seem like a good strategy. It reflects badly on all of us.

Good. Mocking them with humor is how you show how powerless they are. Keep at it. I'm pretty sure ignoring them would be more effective. 200 pages of it on a game developer's forum seems a bit much. I would actually never come across any of these people if it weren't for these posts, so that would speak to the opposite effect. The more you spread this garbage around, the more power you give them.

And the circle jerk continues.

The free move in Xcom by the aliens is lame, but the game would be super easy without it. They are always grouped up when you come across them, so imagine how easy it would be to take them down with grenades. You wouldn't even need guns! It's basically a design issue.

If this thread is an example of GG, then I would point to it. It is filled with vitriol and derision towards random people that seem to live on Twitter. Many of these twitter residents are clearly unstable, and yet they are continually mocked and laughed at. It can't seem to stay focused on actual ethics in game journalism, but instead constantly drifts towards crass humor about feminism and patriarchy. A few pages ago someone posted a twitter comment from some non-celebrity about rape, and we got a page full of rape humor. All of this might be more fitting for this forum if we actually had any SJW's running around in WOT. But we don't. So instead it just turns into a big circle jerk. They use Bruce as a target, but he's not really a SJW. Quacking like a duck does not make you a duck. What censorship movement is he even involved in? He doesn't even report posts here, he raves about GTA and defends strip clubs. Get a clue, he is just playing devil's advocate.