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Just hit the credits on Alliance Alive HD Remastered. I didn't want it to end, but I was having trouble finding more recruits for the guilds.
According to their website, the team is fairly large. Also curious that no one on that page is credited as a writer. Not sure what to make of that.
How familiar are you with one Jordan B. Peterson?As a side discussion I'm curious to poll everyone: what would have been the better response here that would fix this?
Because to me patching the joke out of the game and apologizing seems like a great response, and I read their apology as sincere and not wanting to distract from the issue at hand by making excuses. I feel like something is going over my head here and want to understand, because dislike of The Messenger has come up here before and every time we have this discussion I feel like I'm missing something.
None but it doesn't sound like that's the issue here? Or is that the bigger issue than this line and that's what I'm misunderstanding?How familiar are you with one Jordan B. Peterson?
This is less true than you might suppose in a smaller studio. Doesn't excuse the rest, obviously.Someone had to write it, and many other people had to read it.
This helps, thank you. Because yeah, this style of joke isn't something that I automatically think of as transphobic since most people I know who make it wouldn't be.There are trans people who do make "did you assume my gender" type jokes. I think that's a matter of context and a sense of humor. On its own, it could be a harmless joke that didn't land. Combined with praise for a famous transphobe that's still in the game, I think it's hard to see this as something addressed within the game itself. They removed the easy to find joke that got them bad press, but kept in their love of a virulent anti-trans crusader that fewer players stumble across.
I fully admit I probably should have just researched why people hated this guy, but it can be hard to distill this type of info into something easy to understand so I preferred to ask.