Sexuality is as much of a character trait as anything else. When it's stripped away just so everyone can roleplay whatever the hell they want, I always feel like the writing suffers for it. The characters lose a part of their agency and seem like trophies that anyone can collect if you pick correct dialogue options. Yes, that's what every game romance boils down to at the end of the day, but good writing makes you forget that and immerse yourself in the story and the world. When even something as basic as other characters' sexuality is changed to please the player, it feels like the fictional world exists solely for them and is otherwise empty. I hate that so much.

Yes, it may suck if you can't romance the characters you like with the MC's gender that you picked, but that can be an integral part of the experience and your own unique plot too! You picked some flirty options, a character turned you down, and you have to move on. I know I had to do it once or twice, and it didn't make the game worse. If anything, my party felt more alive and dynamic. Like I wasn't the center of their whole universe.

If anyone's wondering, no, them simply "being bi" is not a canon explanation in these stories. I haven't played the newest Dragon Age games, but in the older ones, if a character is bi, it'll be expressed in some way. Maybe they flirt with others, or mention their past flings. You know, like real people do.

I also hate that word too - "playersexual". Feels real stupid for some reason, but that's neither here nor there.

I FUCKING HATE THE SHOW BECAUSE OF ITS GLARING PLOT HOLES AND BAD WRITING!!! NOT BECAUSE 2 GIRLS OR GUYS KISS!!! OR BECAUSE 1 PERSON IS ACTUALLY AFAB BUT IS NOW THE COOLEST DUDE EVER!!!

I DONT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH GAY OR TRANS PEOPLE I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PLOT HOLES OR BAD WRITING OR OTHER BAD THINGS WITH THE STORY!! STOP GROUPING US TOGETHER!!! I DONT HATE THE GAY OR TRANS PART I HATE WHEN ITS POORLY WRITTEN OR EXECUTED!!!!

I hate when grown ups enjoy a show, a movie or a book which is targeted at kids, and they don't want to admit that it was made for kids.

Hey just wait until Season 4 Episode 590, they say a bad word! This character dies! Therefore my favorite show is not made for kids!

I also enjoy a lot of shows which I watched as a kid and I have no problems to admit it was indeed made for younger people, yet I can still watch without feeling ashamed.

I mean, is this really worth an explanation? I’ve seen countless people online and in real life say, “You’re so gay” or “That’s so gay.” So what if that person is? That’s none of your business, and it isn’t affecting you, so why degrade that person by using their sexual orientation as an insult?

I’ve also seen a lot of people get called gay simply for thinking or doing something the other person doesn’t agree with, even when sexual orientation has absolutely NOTHING to do with the situation.
It’s just incredibly stupid and way too normalized in this day and age.

The fact this evil act was actually performed on humans is absolutely horrible, it's murder and one of the most evil things medical science has ever created, and the fact the IKEA corporation gets away with it every day on it's employees and customers turned victims is reprihensible. The UN must take action and stop IKEA and Sweden from perfoming lobotomies by issuing an indefinite suspension of business decree to the Swedish government and all Swedish corporations.

Oftentimes, an artist will make a fanart of a character, but will not only make them act completely out of character but also have them barely look like them. One of the most egregious examples I've seen is by Ace Glitch with their Cafe art. Manhattan Cafe, in canon, is a reserved, soft-spoken girl who seems mysterious and has paranormal stuff happen around her often, but is at heart a genuinely kind and sweet girl who loves coffee. Meanwhile, here, she's barely recognizable. She's drawn as a generic crazy goth yandere girl, where not even her body type is right; she's meant to be flat!

"Cafe" art by Glitch Ace, Cafe art by No awazumi

(Note: I will mention that yandere goths is Ace Glitch's niche. However, oftentimes, they will draw another character who's often not even goth in the first place, where they'll often water down or not even include their original personality and will change certain aspects of their design. It's to the point I've seen some people not even realize who they were drawing)

This was one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had while watching anything. When the hype was going crazy in 2024 because the third movie was coming out, I decided to watch it since everyone kept praising it as some amazing horror. This shit was just so fucking boring and not scary at all. I wasted my time hoping it would get better, but it never did.

Alright, before you come at me saying “bro you’re just racist/elitist/xenophobe, just let people enjoy things” let me stop you right there: I’m chilean, I’m probably browner than you. So just save it and just hear me out.

What nowadays passes for “urban music” is an extremely harmful monoculture that has infected my whole continent and apparently the whole world. Go to spotify, and open the Top 50 playlist for any latin american country right now. It’s everywhere and it’s MIND NUMBING. The genre hasn’t changed in 10 years, and when it did use to change and evolve, it never did anything innovative or special.

The entire lyrical content of 99.9% of the genre is a glorification of narcoculture. It’s not even about admirable stories about struggles and endurance, it’s just toxic garbage. They boast about having guns, flashing drug cash, snorting 2CB and acting like a cheap sicario.

And women aren’t even people in these tracks dude they’re reduced to either “bitches” (their words) or prostitutes.

AND THE WORST PART IS THAT FOREIGNERS EAT THAT SHIT UP WITH A SMILE ON THEIR FACE.

Americans and europeans wil llisten to the same 2-chord beat for 20 years and pay hundreds to see bad bunny live being like “oMg StAcY look at me I’m so spicy and latina today haha🤪”

Fuck off. FUCK. OFF. No hate to them, of course, only the fact that they pay to fund narcoculture and brag about it, implying that’s what latin american culture is.

And before you mention your favorite song which just happens to be about something else, yes, sure. Okay. Your one song doesn’t touch on those topics. That one and a grand total of twelve more. But try and deny that reggaeton and it’s narcoculture aren’t harmful.

Rant over. Change my mind.

It is literally the absolute worst build a woman can have and I AM SICK OF IT, I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS SHIT AAAAAAAAAAA-

Even those people who are attracted to overweight people only like it when the waist and hips have a more or less intact curve. See second photo. Or they like women with big butts, thick thighs and a thin stomach. If I see obese women with a loving boyfriend they never have my build. But unlike them I have tiny hips and gigantic potruding love handles. I've never seen or heard A SINGLE DAMN SOUL calling this attractive. And no, not wearing jeans does not help. I just have a permanent god awful muffin top. And I gotta lose like 30% of my bodily fat for them to go away because THAT'S THE LAST FREAKING SPOT WHERE I LOSE WEIGHT.

No hate to the artist but like, as someone who struggles with sh i dont exactly enjoy seeing it borderline glorified. Jax never had these marks in the show so why add it? Its just disrespectful imo to actual sh vicitms. I think itd be better to create an original character and even then youd have to be suoer carefully with the depiction. Sh should never just casually be apart of a design. It often encourages young kids to think its a cool alternative thing to do. (Edit to clarify i am a sh victim who still sh)

People seem to be under the impression that game studios just ignore certain franchises because it gives them a boner or something. Sometimes, it's because game development takes an eternity nowadays and we're lucky to get a sequel once per console generation. Others, it's because the franchise stopped making enough to warrant a sequel.

A good example of a franchise that "gets ignored" is Mega Man. Apart from the Legacy Collections, we've had one Mega Man game that didn't get cancelled since 2010 (for all of you reading this in the future, Mega Man: Dual Override isn't out yet). People forget that during the '00s, there would be a new Mega Man game every week. By the time MM10 came out, there was a massive franchise fatigue. People were sick of Mega Man. Almost as much as Sonic The Hedgehog. X-Play had a segment called "Game Franchises That Need To Die" all about that.

Last year, during an interview for Ghosts Of Yotei, a Sucker Punch dev was asked about the possibility of Sly Cooper coming back, and he told them that only 10% of the staff actually wanted to make another Sly game. I'd rather not have passionless slop the studio was pressured to make. Otherwise, you get Call Of Duty and Assassin's Creed.

It genuinely feels like talking to a brick wall the way so many people will try their absolute hardest not to be wrong to the point where they need to delude themselves into thinking that they're actually correct.

Recently, Netflix promoted an original movie called Wendell and Wild which stars a very diverse cast of animated character, the main one being a punk rock black girl. And of COURSE the feedback is still racist, even though this movie came out AGES ago.

I hate that even when POC create new characters, like people TELL us to do to avoid “black-washing”, if it doesn’t fit a certain mould it is STILL subject to racist trolls and feedback.

It goes to show that for some people, the “OC” aspect doesn’t matter. They will be racist regardless. It almost feels like we can’t even exist in media without it being some kind of offence to racists and bigots.

Yeah that character totally looks like her canon design, the only difference is the elaborately sculpted labia and nipple imprints in her impossibly skimpy underwear that she's wearing instead of her combat armor.

Hell yeah, we definitely needed more art depicting women as nothing but sexualized tokens of someone's fetishes and hell yeah let's totally pretend that this isn't part of a large issue of normalized misogyny.

No hate to anyone who has them, but there is literally no reason why a teen should have an AR or Hellcat. Maybe it´s just because I´m from a country where firearms are heavily regulated, but giving a teen something that can kill or seriously injure someone with a single pull of a trigger or press of a pedal is a really bad idea. No doubt that there are lots of responsible and smart individuals who use them responsibly but there will always be people who aren´t.

I want to be able to use colors without adding context, or implying more then I really want. Red and green can look good but will forever be "Christmas" colors. A lot of pride flags have banger color schemes, but if I want to use them, I have live with the fact people might interprete me or whatever I've created as being related to said thing. Nothing is wrong with these things, but if I want to use rainbows on something there is a good chance it will be interpreted as "gay", regardless if it is a fair or accurate assumption.

The "Branding" companies, cultures, or movements have engaged in, while effective, have essentially restricted some color palates and basic shape patterns to become statements in and of themselves.

Edit: I recognize some of my examples can be interpreted in different ways, but it just serves my point. Colors are being used to make associations. Even if they weren't the intended ones.

My first time posting in this subreddit.

Listen, I'm alright with characters using blunt weapons like maces or warhammers, because Armors cannot protect you from a kinetic energy of blunt force trauma

Original Statement: I'm alright with armored characters getting killed by a arrow or a crossbow bolt because those things have enough energy to pierce an armor.

(Slight Correction for this statement: Arrow and Crossbow bolts cannot pierce a full armored knight, unless if it hits their weak points or a wearer is wearing a mail armor or if a attacker is using a heavier crossbows, it still feels unpleasant getting shot by an arrow, despite wearing an armor, because of the kinetic force by the projectile hitting you.)

But it makes no sense how the heck can a piercing weapons like sword or spear can kill a fully armored knight with a single stab through their torso or heavily armored parts (unless if someone managed to use a dagger or a sharp weapon's tip slipped to the wrong way and stabbed the knight's weak points).

This has got to be the most depressing sub reddit to ever join.

Being a daily active user on this sub reddit would genuinly ruin your confidence and mood for the rest of eternity.

Half the people in this sub reddit are also 40+ who are just looking for victims, WHICH PEOPLE FALL FOR

GET RID OF THIS SUB!

No, it isn't.

When people make fun of celebrities for doing to much plastic surgeries or whatever, we still defend them, but as soon as they end up being a bad person it's ok to make fun of their apparence. You can do it when you are alone with your friends, but they need to realize that posting on Internet means possibly posting to someone that may look like the person they are making fun of.

Like... Even Sidney Sweeney is now considered mid, or even ugly after people learned she is a Republican. I don't like her too but she clearly isn't ugly.

(Yes, it also applies to Trump, Musk and Kirk).

You're telling me you have infinite possibilities, and you want nonfunctioning legs and a chair with wheels in a world where there's 0 asphalt and other smooth stone roads around?

And as for the second one. Guns on a wheelchair? You know what else has wheels and guns? A fucking tank. You could have had a fucking personal tank, but you chose a wheelchair? The vehicle equivalent of the fucking bikini armor? As a tank you'd have defensive capabilities too, which would be important BECAUSE GUNS NOW EXIST.

In a fantasy setting, we can literally be whatever we want. Rogues are extra stealthy, fighters are extra strong etc. But a wheelchair doesn't come with any goddamn upsides. Even other disabilities turn their downsides into upsides, like blindness (toph & lee sin having tremoursense etc)

The last 2 are "wheelchairs" done right in fantasy. Cool as fuck spider legs or literally a drone platform. I know, this is more technologically enhanced stuff than magic, but you can imagine magical ways of being able to fucking walk. Hell, flight is so fucking common in fantasy, why don't you just fly around instead?

And for those arguing its a sense of identity: how come nobody is fucking obese then?

EDIT: I also forgot about mounts and chariots. You could literally just attach yourselves on or at the engines of that time (animals like horses or oversized dogs) and be a cool knight or like an ancient egypt/rome chariot warrior but no. You gotta be a dude in a chair with wheels that get you nowhere because there are literally no paved roads anywhere.

Reposted! Forgot to censor out the usernames, sorry 😔

The 2nd image is of Hasan crashing out on a vietnamese-american refugee who was against the communist regime, suffered from it. It didn't fit his narrative so he did that.

This also goes to all the people defending the various infamous communist regimes, invalidating the stories of those who fled the said regimes because they think it's just propaganda or lies, even when first hand stories or full on documentaries are there for all to see.

This was an actuall flag used back then also known as the Franco-Anglo-American Alliance Flag and god is it ugly.

I mean everything from using the union jacks for stripes to adding the French flag on the corner makes it look like it was made by a 12 year old in paint ,and its so overcrouded it makes my eyes bleed. Its horrific and genuanely makes me want to tear it apart.

Then there's the fact its called the Humanity flag yet its design is litrally just 3 countries.