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This is the hill you choose to die on?

I'll bet you 500cp literally nothing else people complain about for political reasons will be removed from the game.

I'm glad to see people are being reasonable about things.

We wish we could ignore this, but if this wasn't an ongoing problem, it would just be ignored. The OP isn't actually helping to spin the wheels for these idiots - Obsidian is. Obsidian insists on responding to non-issues through some kind of pavlonian reflex and let "the offended" dictate what is acceptable and what isn't; that's the whole problem. Except they explicitly stated they wouldn't have wanted this in the game in the first place, it slipped past them. That makes it a correction, not caving. Removing the quest like where you kill a kid would be caving. But that's not gonna happen, because that would be preposterous. Caving the first time was preposterous. Not caving this time will be just as preposterous as caving the first time. If you really believe the engineered excuse in the Announcment, I have a bridge to sell you, just North of Defiance Bay. Mint condition. Do you disagree that Obsidian's games, with a Feminist Frequency sponsor at the helm, tend to be fairly progressive w/r/t sexuality and gender? If you don't, why do you think they'd let a dumb joke like this past the editing process in the first place?

Got a source on this? He's on the list of backers as "J.E. Sawyer. http://www.feministfrequency.com/donate/kickstarter-backers/

We wish we could ignore this, but if this wasn't an ongoing problem, it would just be ignored. The OP isn't actually helping to spin the wheels for these idiots - Obsidian is. Obsidian insists on responding to non-issues through some kind of pavlonian reflex and let "the offended" dictate what is acceptable and what isn't; that's the whole problem. Except they explicitly stated they wouldn't have wanted this in the game in the first place, it slipped past them. That makes it a correction, not caving. Removing the quest like where you kill a kid would be caving. But that's not gonna happen, because that would be preposterous.

This tweet has 22 r/ts and 121 favourites, and most of those favouriting and r/ting won't give this a second thought. Don't worry guys, nothing is gonna happen. I also think it's fair to point out that the backer joke slipped past the devs in the first place, which makes its removal not so much "caving to demands" as "correcting a mistake"? I was surprised when I saw it in the game, but assumed it was just a filter error, because it seemed to go against the generally progressive nature of Obsidian's games w/r/t sexuality and gender. As for all the cries about censorship - really? This is your idea of censorship? What about all the other backer texts removed from the game by Obsidian in the first place? Obviously I can't prove this, but I can still pretty much guarantee (because this is why editors are usually necessary) that several other backer texts were rejected before the game made it to the beta. Why aren't you complaining about those? In fact, how do you cope with the fact that pretty much everything published in the world goes through both conscious and subconscious editing processes?