But transgenders and pronouns were never ever a thing in the Dragon Age franchise, and now they suddenly feature these so prominently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krem_(Dragon_Age)

Every Dragon Age game has had pronouns because that’s how fucking language works. Your brain has just been poisoned by right-wing outrage over “pronouns”.

Also, “transgenders” isn’t a word. “Transgender” is an adjective, not a noun, not that I expect that to mean anything to someone who freaks out about “pronouns”.

😂

Thank you.

I haven’t insulted any content made by any actual human beings. Midjourney’s not going to cry because I called its output trash.

The other factor was Wuk Lamat. She’s a very complex character, and she even has a bit of a complex about herself. Unfortunately, we didn’t delve very far into the background of why she had those feelings, so it appeared as if she left a negative impression. We accept that feedback. I feel a little sorry that we weren’t able to properly depict her.

This is so absurd because Wuk Lamat is on-screen more than any other character except maybe the Warrior of Light. “Weren’t able to properly depict her”… Maybe if they’d done anything other than having her repeat how much she loves peace and happiness every ten minutes? What happened to the fear she showed when fighting that giant colibri in 6.55? Why is she suddenly sea-sick all the time when that wasn’t a thing when she got off the boat in Sharlayan?

One additional thing, there were comments about how we are too accepting of diversity — some people seem to be disapproving of that. I’m afraid one of our staff members received very negative comments and it almost felt like a personal attack, which breaks my heart, because she worked really hard and these criticisms were not constructive at all. [Editor’s note: Yoshida is referring to the transphobic verbal abuse and death threats that Wuk Lamat’s voice actress, who is a trans woman, has reportedly received from some FFXIV users.] It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation, and in the end that could potentially damage the quality of our game and take away from what makes this game so interesting. So if there are any sort of criticisms, bring it to me, because I’m the one approving this material. I wanted to reiterate that, please refrain from personal attacks against our staff.

I’m glad to hear they’re not taking the anti-wOkE brigade seriously. But fuck everyone who decided to gang up on a voice actor, even if they don’t like the character. (This started before Dawntrail ever launched so there’s no way any of it had anything to do with Wuk Lamat’s portrayal in 7.0, and even if it did, that doesn’t excuse the transphobic BS Sena Bryer has been getting.)

This sounds like a plausible thing that actually happened.

If the only thing you want to post is AI slop, we’re all better off if you don’t.

How would banning AI-generated content prevent you, a human being, from posting anything here?

How so? Are you unable to actually write anything by yourself?

It would be a shame to blanket ban posts with generative content

No it wouldn’t.

A mod took over a community and just banned AI posts for no reason.

AI slop is garbage. That’s a good enough reason.

Kind of seems like a contradiction

They don’t care. There’s no point in calling conservatives out on hypocrisy. Only a very small number of them will give a shit, and those will be the ones who were already having doubts.

You don’t have any Retroachievements because you’re bad at video games.

I don’t have any because RetroArch sucks and also I’m bad at video games.

You mean this guy could have saved us from Google’s browser monopoly? The world could have been so different…

What does this app do?

I see what the problem is.

Here, this should be more agreeable to you:

The New York Times is full of shit (Opinion)

Least reactionary lemmy.world user.

This is really disappointing. The Working Designs translation is nostalgic, sure, but it’s also garbage.

What’s the point of preserving artifacts if there’s no one to look at them anymore?

Holy shit, they remembered Eternal Blue exists.

How can anyone like reading those samey-same replies constantly?