I am disabled, and have had people to my face say they would've preferred I gave them a trigger warning that I'd be there. This was at college, by the way. Someone I didn't know found seeing me so egregious that they'd need to prepare themselves for the shock of seeing an otherwise normal looking person in a wheel chair. So, not surprised for a SECOND at the outrage people can find over things that truly will not affect their lives in any way!
I lost my last and final job WORKING FROM HOME because people AT A HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY (PACIFIC SOURCE) couldn't handle me telling them my reason for coming to work there instead of continuing as a chef was because I was... DISABLED! Something they knowingly hired me as. They knew I was physically disabled, then gave me free insurance and I finally got my mental health disabilities diagnosed after 31 years of dealing with it AND my family's mental health on my own. My work stopped treating me nice once they got the claim for my mental health and the next week I was fired cause they "questioned my integrity"; aka I MADE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE because the only 2 semi-disabled people (a person who was cancer-free and a person who got rid of her diabetes) were the only disabled people they had to deal with on the daily and they just couldn't handle my multiple issues or the fact I actually showed them what it's like to lose your career and your life spirals down thanks to health. When I applied for unemployment they couldn't furnish any proof of write ups or anything bad I had done for them/to them to even question my integrity and fire me for. I used my unemployment til it ran dry (the government acknowledged I was doing this because I was illegally and wrongfully fired) and then finally decided I needed to stop working. I have now had a total of 16 surgeries in my life, been diagnosed with several more disabilities, and am working on getting disability because my arms no longer function well and I cannot work anymore especially now that I can't even get hired from home let alone do my old career due to disabilities. I stopped befriending most people who acted like my disabilities were a burden; literally telling me my constant surgeries and doctor appointments "annoyed them" like it was any of their business or disrupted their lives at all other than didn't allow them to use me. And I have been much happier with just my family and few close friends and acquaintances. Definitely get rid of negative people from your life too.
Love and respect and I know that pain. I’m fat, female and disabled. The amount of people offended by my very existence at WORK annoys me. How dare I not be slim! How dare I have issues walking! How dare I NOT give them boners!
Also like... patch 1 has "Made it less ambiguous that you're starting a romance with Gale when choosing certain dialogue options." Like sure, there was a kernel of a complaint there, maybe, but for some reason I suspect these people will keep complaining about it
I find the idea of closeminded cishet men realizing for the first time in their lives what it means if someone hits on them and doesn't stop because their hints are too vague would be a great learning moment for how women are treated by those exact cishet men. Alas, reflection ain't their strong suit.
@@lainlingwhen he said "I want to show you something after the party." I was like "oh he's propositioning me." But then I swear he said something that seemed like "everyone's going to love it." To which I said sure! Because now it sounds like he's NOT. so that's the ambiguity I think they were clearing up. I felt bad about breaking his heart later that night because I got his hopes up!
"They never said that. And if they did, it was a mistranslation. And if it wasn't, there's context missing. And if there isn't, it's not canon. And if it is, the author was forced to include that. And if they weren't -- then they're just pandering to the West." - The Astolfo Avatar's Prayer
My mom has played Baulders Gate 3 non-stop for the past couple weeks, and honestly it seems way more tame than the romance novels she used to read. Hell, I know it's tamer than stuff on AO3. They really are just are upset that the sex can be gay.
I've played over 60 hours and haven't been propositioned yet. I'm sure it'll happen at some point, but the idea that it's happening all the time is ridiculous.
The two types of Homophobes: Toxic straight men TERRIFIED at the POSSIBILITY that another man might treat them like they treat women. Closet cases so deep in the closet they're having nervous, blushy teatime with Mr. Tumnus.
@@RealSlowLike It's always the same story - a bunch of losers hear something on their grapevine and they imagine it to be the truth, while the reality can be so easily checked...they just don't do it, they'd rather spend their time being angry at the world and wanking themselves to sleep 🤣
@@TheUltimateBlooper Specifically if they hear something negative, hateful, or paranoid. If it’s positive or involves love, they are skeptical as fuck.
"In 2019, we're going to have an anime character turn to face the audience, look the viewer dead in the eye, and say in perfect english "I am Transgender" and we'll still have otaku fuccbois trying to insist there's an intricate Japanese historical context for why they aren't." - @LossThief, 2018
That wasn't an anon it was @LossThief from anime news network, and by god were they right. I speak japanese and had people ask me if Lily from zombieland saga actually was referred to as a girl by the other characters and when I told them they did they just didn't believe me
@@CanIswearinmyhandlePeople were *so fucking weird* about Lily. Like, she literally died of a heart attack from crippling gender dysphoria. It doesn't get more straightforward than that.
seriously. I mentioned in a discord server about one of the characters in zombieland saga being trans, and somehow, the first thing he found via a "cursory search in japanese" is that it's debated. Like, that's literally why she killed herself. But sure, her father just wanted her to be a female idol. riiiight.
@@caitlinomalley80 I tried to do a "cursory search in japanese" for myself, and typing "zombieland saga " in japanese the first suggested search related is "england" and the first post there is ablog post about how some british person brought a printed out picture of Lily with "shut the fuck up terf" printed and laughing about it. The blog post explains terfism and stuff and it didn't seem very pro-strans (they put the male symbol in brackets after "trangender woman") But then the poster writes they see Lily more as nonbinary than trans so lol Also just a minor thing but she didn't kill herself, she died from shock
There's gotta be some cultural thing going, too. Larian is a Belgian studio. We're not puritans out here. You can see titties or hear people cursing on tv over here and nobody makes a fuss. We have to endure puritanism in games and film because so much mainstream culture comes from the US, so they'll have to clench their butts when something produced in non puritan countries is not prude enough for them. Edit: haha, wrote this comment before reaching the part where JSS talks about puritanism.
@@SabiJD Relatively traditional, but in the Belgian sense. We have too many politicians and parties. That keeps things less black and white, but has its own load of issues. Populism is relatively low, even if we have the occasional (and current) rise of the far left or far right. Usually left in Wallonia and right in Flanders. We don't have much discourse for or against lgbt etc, even if that's starting to slowly trend, but without the same prevalence it has in the US. And at the same time, not many voices against them either. The stuff is just getting more and more accepted each year without people minding too much or even discussing the subject all that much, except maybe the really older generations. As for racism, we have it. I doubt any country that has immigration can be void of racism. As long as you got ethnic minorities, you're gonna have people to accuse them of all the bad things happening.
@@SabiJD My brother in Christ, culture and politics are not nested nor mutually required. You can have a VERY populous-minded culture that is VERY conservative *coughs* Nazi Germany *coughs*
Sadly, puritanism and the anglosphere are inextricably linked at this point, and we may just need a complete purge of Christianity from polite society before we can be fixed.
Poor man was HORRIBLY down bad. I always found it funny how the hands were the most complicated part of Edward and the scientist chose that as the last part XD
Slight correction, I mixed up my “gamers angry about a wank they had” outrage with Bridget. It was a Pokémon character they felt gay for masturbating over and got upset by. This shit can be hard to keep track of.
Well, that's on them. Anyone who jacks it to Pokémon is fully aware they go in rolling the dice on whether it's a male or female Pokémons they're jacking it to
No no, you misread them. They’re saying that “YOUR” feelings don’t matter, not theirs! It’s very intellectually consistent when it comes down to it, and that consistent and abhorrent worldview is called “Supremacy” - the idea that some people “matter” and some do not, that the convenience of those who matter is more important than the actual *lives and existence* of those who don’t.
@@BlastYoBoots Everyone thinks they're the more rational party while the others are the irrational, I've seen it on all sides. Neither you or I are any different, best we can do is be aware of our own biases and try to minimize them.
@@nullpoint3346 Part of understanding that rationality they have is understanding the *rationale* that the ascribe to, though, which may be operating off of VERY different base moral principles. I recommend the video Always a Bigger Fish by Innuendo Studios' Alt-Right Playbook to explain how many of us or the people around us, and these people especially -- fundamentally -- believe some people are better than others and large amounts of people have to be on "bottom" and "lose" for society to function, and probably shouldn't have as much of a say in society as they should, rather than tending towards the idea of everyone having a say including the marginalized (democracy). I'm not saying they're irrational actors, I'm saying the opposite-- that they're acting RATIONALLY for a moral framework I find f&*#ing reprehensible. The hypocrisy of "rules for thee but not for me" isn't an irrational mistake, it's a rational demonstration of power.
The guy saying Skyrim had any level of polish at all had me floored. If Baldur's Gate 3 has the same bugs after it's eighth release, then we can talk about polish.
Skyrim is one of the all time great video games, and I still start it up to this day, but among its many virtues, 'polish' is not one. Sometimes I can spend a whole day troubleshooting savefiles or crashes instead of actually playing.
@BladedEdge I've never had that problem unless I was modding (I play with hundreds of mods sometimes). With modding, that's a staple for sure, but the base game I never had this issue personally. Sometimes, you see a giant send a wolf flying into the air or something silly like that, but these things didn't seem very common to me personally. I think its easy to think of every glitch you've ever seen or experienced in the 12 years since skyrim released and imagine all of that happening at once all the time, but I think that's just becuase you DONT remember the literally hundreds of hours of the game working normally as well.
I love how shameless the nudity is. They don't even bother to suggest it's doing anything for the game. While everyone else is trying to come up with excuses, Larian's like "Here's a dong, if you can't deal, that's on you, the rest of the world doesn't care."
Even better is the fact you can tell the game "don't show me the naughty bits" and it won't. Once again they're being whiny pissbabies over things that are OPTIONS. As per frickin' usual.
@@sheepthehackBut having an option to see or not see something isn't not caring about your feelings, it's literally giving you freedom to do what you're nore confortable with. I'm a cis person and I made a trans woman just because I could and I'm having fun, you can choose what you find best, that's the point.
Completely unrelated but UA-cam finally started giving me notifications for you channel again after 4 years of having notifs turned on and getting none. 🎉
I recently played through the infamous Gale "sex" scene. it cuts away. there is no sex on screen, it's left to your imagination.. which yeah, says a lot about the people complaining
Yeah y'know I expected something a little more explicit with the way everyone was talking about the sex scenes in this game... but I guess we've established that the straights are just not okay right now lol.
@@MilkieMouseDon’t worry, I’m sure the sfm artists are hard at work with these high quality character models. And of course the straights aren’t alright, when are they ever?
I finished a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 the other day. There was nowhere _near_ what I'd call 'gratuitous' sex. In the whole 80-ish hours of gameplay, I saw a grand total of _two_ sex scenes, both of which were quite tastefully done imo, and both of which directly contributed to the story by being significant moments in the emotional arcs of the characters involved. There were about a dozen or so other moments where NPCs flirted with my character, and I turned down their advances because I wasn't interested in them and the game lets you do that. If _that's_ enough to send these people into a screaming tantrum on the internet... honestly, I pity them. It must be exhausting to be so angry all the time.
Did you know that in BG3's early access, instead of the guardian, you were asked to create a person you "dreamed of at night" and some people got mad that in a sexy-ish dream sequence their male character woke up next to another man?
Imagine missing out on one of the best games that has been released in years because you can choose your character's genitals, which btw is optional if you turn off nudity anyway
It's not the genitals, it's the ability to place them on any body. Conan Exiles has genitals, and sliders to adjust size. People had a giggle, made giant dicks and huge boobies, and then moved on. But when you can place a penis on a body with tits, THAT'S when the pitchforks come out... I don't think we'll ever be rid of this backwards mentality. JUST LET ME HAVE FUN WITH PIXELS, YOU ABRAHAMIC TWATS!
i think peole are upset that genitals didn't had more customization, like length, depth, tattoos, haircuts, piercings, background story and good/evil alignment. but i wouldn't boycott it.
Any time anybody asks if something is woke, always say yes. Every time. Let their hate limit their life experiences. I don't care if it means they won't get to experience a great piece of media, even if it isn't what they'd consider "woke". Just say yes. Let them live their terrible empty existence that they so desperately want to have.
Remind them that the minorities they cannot handle SEEING actually exist IRL. Remind them that reality is "woke", so if any representation at all is what they want to avoid, they should avoid reality itself. Then again, they are out of touch, so I guess they already do...
I tell them the opposite. Let them spend their money on it, enjoy it, then lose their mind when/if they ever discover said content. Which in a game like BG3, may or may not ever even happen.
@@madsgrams2069 at least for bioshock it's bc there weren't that many bonkers people crying into th void when bioshock 1 came out, part 3 is shit though
As someone who's been around since before your transition, good on you for being as confident as you are. It's helped me break out of my shell and go down the path I truly wanted. Thank you for being you, no matter what!
Honestly, seeing how both she and Abby Thorn have THRIVED in recent years is just proof that your brain is what decides what gender you are. Not your equipment. Because we are brains in meat suits, and the brain decides the gender, not the meatsuit. I am not my fucking pants.
Fancy meeting you here! (We had some positive exchanges on the Jinx video, I can't expect you to remember everyone who comments on your vids obviously) No wonder the algorithm recommended your stuff.
Same here. Steph's process and epiphany was one of the nails in the coffin that led to me finally taking the plunge myself. I'm over six months on HRT and while there are rough patches I'm genuinely in a better place mentally than I've been in decades.
Absolutely. I've been a subscriber for years and they've been WAY more confident since their transition and I love it. While I won't fully understand being trans since I'm cis/straight, I just don't get why people are assholes to the LGBTQ community. We all have no choice but to exist together on this cosmic ball of dirt so it's not that hard to not be a dick.
I gotta write that line down. "If you have a problem with it being in public, then you've got a problem seeing it. And if you've got a problem seeing it, you have a problem with it existing." Raw AF.
The way Sterling so hilariously and succinctly obliterates the little Ben Shapiro's crying about every damn thing is genuinely one of my favorite things in the world.
it used to be one of mine, and sterling still killing it, but fucking the glut of the same jagoffs jacking off their rage boners every 3 seconds for like the last 20 years of my life...I just so fucking tired of it I can't even laugh at stephanies great writing and delivery most of the time, I just watch these cause she's great, the content is great, but the gamers have finally done it, they've manage to be too stupid for me to laugh at them.
Growing up as a bi female in a repressive conservative town, if there was a romance feature in an RPG, I'd almost always play a male character so I could romance the females. If my parents ever happened to walk in during a risque scene, then I could laugh it off as having to play a guy and this was part of the story. As I got older, we started getting games where being gay was cool, so I could play a female character and romance females. It was very liberating for me, made me believe my feelings were valid, and let me play how I wanted. So I can imagine how trans and nonbinary people must feel with these new games allowing so much freedom!
South Park has a very mixed history. But, honestly, even if they were a bit mocking in their tone, being able to make a transgender character in their game (Fractured But Whole) and having others occasionally mention it was such a moving emotional experience for me that I loved their otherwise kinda shallow tie-in.
So, a story of a thing that happened to me recently while out and about I was walking up to a mall, and a driver blew through the crosswalk while 5 pedestrians ( including myself ) were crossing. Mildly annoyed that the car didn't give right of way and stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk, I flipped them the bird. I didn't shout, I didn't wave it out in front of my face, I pulled my hand in close to my face and flipped them off with my middle finger nearly on my nose, intended to be seen by the driver and not the other pedestrians behind me. When the car is mostly past, I hear the voice of the driver shouting "Fuck you, bitch!" Don't care, they're outta the way, keep walking. My only intent was to inform them that they did a rude thing, not a street fight. Hear the car stop and the door open, and them shouting "HEY, FUCK YOU BITCH!!!" Keep walking, go inside, they did not follow. All for INFORMING them that they'd been rude and pissed someone off. That's a rando's reaction to being told "hey, you're doing it wrong"- scream and cause a scene and harass the person who broke their perfect lil world where they can drive through all the crosswalks they want. Really glad they didn't follow. I've dealt with extreme rage issues my entire life, and if they'd gotten in my face I woulda swung and gotten in proper trouble x.x
Kinda sad that they didn't follow. They sound like the kind of person who deserves to be swung at. And I'm no lawyer but "self defense" sounds pretty reasonable to claim against someone who tried to run you down with a car and then followed you on foot when the vehicular assault didn't work.
I'm asexual so in BG3 Karlach coming on to my Tav was a bit of a "WHOAH HANG ON" for my brain but like... that was it. I picked the "That is very flattering but I'm not into you that way" option (for this run at least) and went on my merry way. People get so hissy about "oh no this game is so horny" but I doubt they are sex repulsed aces. I think they just didn't like that Astarion flirted with them.
But can you continue the romance if you turn down intercourse? Sincere question. As someone else on the Ace spectrum but not the Aro one I'm genuinely curious if the game allows you have a romantic relationship divorced from physical intimacy.
@@darkness_visible7227 I don't believe the romance options are that varied, sadly. With other characters you definitely could change your mind, so I think you can still romance her, but the "I`'m not into you that way" option seems to be a general rejection, not just on sex.
Yeah, they have a problem with the people not the media. Literal people being not-cishet, who dare create things that aren't their authoritarian version of a white fence relationship. Paranoid about the gays running the world while it burns down due to the actual dipsticks running the world.
Contrary to what they say, it's not the sex that repells them.. it's the queerness. They wouldn't be complaining about "pornographic depravity" if all romances were heterosexual and the game didn't allow you to create a trans/nonbinary character.
Any time I hear "woke" used unironically I automatically tune out the rest of whatever they are saying because nothing of value will be lost. I've found it to be a good strategy. Also I was not aware the Bridget trans flag meme came from you. Thank you Steph. I did my part helping spread it.
Kind of depressing how it's become a shorthand that lets you know exactly the kind of person you're talking to is. Basically kills any vibe for conversation, cause you instantly know they're one of those types that can't stand seeing changes that aren't all about them.
I just wanted to say that your trans joy is appreciated, I can’t overstate how much you helped me get over a lot of my fears over the past few years by simply existing & being joyful as you are. Thank you for sticking up for all of us & honestly making it easier for me to stand up for myself when faced with their utter trash arguments 💖
I recall similar levels of outrage about Claire Russell in CP2077. In a genre of game that deals with transhumanism, these whiners got upset with the one named trans person in the entire game. My only gripe about Claire was the fact that I couldn't romance her!
It's like those bigots try to co-opt every science-fiction in existence, and try to turn the author's original intention to their own ideology. Those of us who remember the very first, very first, days of Cyberpunk knew right from the get go, it pretty much showed the possibility of the tech and how transhumanism was a part of that. In that world, it was just a matter of fact. Not even something to obsess over any more than, "What's your favorite dive, and what food item, they sell, gives you the most enjoyable experience." It was one of the various ways society in the Cyberpunk universe differed from the current state of our real life society.
Honestly, anyone who can accept cyberpunk-style transhumanism but balks at a transsexual person is suffering from some hefty cognitive dissonance. Like, they're literally the same concept: remaking ourselves in our own image, using technology to overcome the limitations of our biology and take control of our bodies.
You can get weapons built into your arms, double jumping legs, a second heart, cyberware that speeds you up built onto your spine and whatever tf Maelstrom has going on, but for some reason no one can fathom a trans character
Thank you for talking on this! I once saw someone complain about how much fetishized sex is shoved down their throat in the 18+ game they chose to buy and I was about to give the guy the time of day and discuss it with him just for me to check his account and find out its filled to the brim with loli hentai 💀
"How dare you cater to kinks other than mine?!" EDIT: as an awful awful sidenote I went on Nexus mods recently for BG3 and found someone had made a mod where you could play as a child. Let that sink in.
Yeah, I will never not find it ironic that the same people who whine about too much NSFW content in an rpg are the same guys who whine about female characters wearing more modest outfits in fighting games like Soul Caliber and Dead or Alive, or whined when they reduced Lara Croft's cup size
@@unluckyone1655It’s so weird how people get bent about that. Eye candy in a game is nice if it’s thematic and immersive, but I hardly miss it when it isn’t there. Also yeah these are the the people who complained about Tifa in FF7R. They’re patently ridiculous. Tifa, the Queen. She’s sexy as fuck without showing an inch of cleavage and if they’re so desperate to see her tits the Hub is filled with videos and some of them are incredibly impressive and very hot. It’s them being so fucking spoiled that annoys me. Little punk asses don’t even know how good they’ve actually got it, because they’re too busy bitching about “woke this, SJW that.”
Small (and funny) correction on the Bridget thing--she used to be characterised as a boy who was raised as a girl for convoluted anime reasons. So instead of people being mad that liking Bridget is gay now, they're mad that it is now... less gay? They wanted it to be gay. Which seems odd for those types.
Hate and fetishization are two sides of the same coin. Transphobes watch the most trans porn, racists watch the most interracial porn. IT's a tale as old as time.
There are entertainment values in seeing straight man acting feminine. And if you want to argue that feminine is only exclusive to woman, i am ready for it friend.
The amount of people saying it was "too easy" to end up in a same-sex romance because they have no social awareness was hilariously staggering. Like... One guy on the steam forums was saying "Wyll wanted to dance, and I thought cool, he can show me how to make the moves on the ladies. And then he said he wanted a more sensual dance, and I thought oh yes, SCORE, and THEN the game had us looking way too longingly in each others eyes!! Like... How was I supposed to know that was a romance option?!" And I'm there laughing. Because I'm a chronically oblivious dude when it comes to flirting (Comes with being socially awkward, on the autism spectrum AND Asexual), and even I could recognize that as an *obvious* relationship flag. XD
To play the Devil's advocate, I've noticed a lot of late millennials and zoomers who grew up online seem to have a hard time reading a room, regardless of their political leanings. Like, I'm heavily introverted to the point where too much social interaction will send me into panic attacks if I'm not near blackout drunk. But I know if someone is flirting with me, if they are just being nice, and can read subtext. But I've actually seen younger people who can't.
I'm not gonna defend that chump. But I DO find myself annoyed at dialogue options that were CLEARLY (to me) indicating one thing, and the character says something completely different. It seems to happen a lot lately. Just use the same words! CharA_Says: So should we just go kill them all then? OptionA: Do you even think we can? OptionB: Oh sure! I'd bet they'll *really* appreciate that. We_Say_B: Yeah! They've been asking for it for a long time. Let's kill them. Wait...what? I wasn't agreeing! I picked the OBVIOUS sarcasm choice to point out how stupid the plan was! It's crazy how many games need to be modded now just to have the dialogue choices ACTUALLY reflect the player/character answer/sentiment.
@@Prophes0rYour example feels like the devs saying "We need the player to kill them but we also have a Quota for decisions and the higher ups will can us if we don't meet their minimum."
@@thecthuloser876 Not everyone can see flirting well though. I'm in my 40s and I've been there more times than I'm sure I'll ever know. I used to get smacked by co-workers all the time. "Dude WTF! She dropped her keys in front of you 3 times! Are you blind?" "C'mon man...she spent an hour buying 2 cables and asked for your phone-number in-case she needed help installing it, and you gave her our customer-service number?" There was even a time in college when I was invited over to study, her parent's were out of town, and it was late "So I should just sleep-over." I (of course) slept in the spare bedroom because I was oblivious. I was somehow still oblivious when she woke me at 3-am to kill a spider in her bedroom. I couldn't find the spider so I went back to sleep. It was YEARS before I realized what was really going on that night. It's sad actually, because I was attracted to her and just too shy to do anything about it. And after that night, where I had clearly showed no interest in her OBVIOUS advances, she moved-on and faded out of our friend=group. So again, I'm not defending the guy who threw a tantrum because a boy in a video-game wanted to smooch him. But, some people really might not see the flirting until you nuke them from orbit. Hell...sometimes even orbital nukes aren't enough. I thought it was a joke when I was blatantly told "You're cute. We should go fuck." So I joked back "Sure! Lead the way!" It took a solid 8-10 steps of being led away by the hand before my brain started throwing alarms as it realized what was going on. It was an interesting night, and the talk afterward was even more eye-opening. Humans are hard...
Gamers: Calling BG3 horny, childish, and filled with unnecessary sex and suggestive content that's constantly thrown in your face... Also Gamers: Defends the old God of War 'Kratos-banging-random-woman-for-no-reason' quicktime events, gets mad about Lara Croft and Tifa Lockhart *only* having DD cups, and whines about Aloy not being 'pretty enough' in a post-apocalyptic world.
I honestly doubt those are the same people. The bottom line is that either sexuality in games is good or it's not, if it's good there is no problem with OG Lara Croft having DD tits, Kratos banging random women and BG3's sex and nudity, if it's bad then they're all equally bad. On the same ground, the people that have been waging a crusade against anime tits for years, or certain game journalists that waged war against the beautifully animated and designed Dragon's Crown back in 2013, can't go and just be fine with BG3's stuff. That's hypocrite stuff, and unfortunately hypocrites abound.
@@Luca-sl7tb I disagree. It's little a bit more grey than that. 'Sexy' can be bad if it goes against the creators' intent. It doesn't happen as much as people seem to think though. Most that complain don't care about the context; they just think it's 'perverted.' I think Dragon's Crown is a perfect example of intended sexiness as the creators were making a 70s-80s fantasy parody. It was like an exaggerated van mural made into a beat'em up. That was definitely a case of people being upset with the artwork out of context or just plain ignoring the context.
@@Luca-sl7tbthat's incredibly reductive. It's all not equally good or bad. Portraying a world where women are reduced to sexual objects meant for conquest by men is unhealthy and dehumanizing of women (but sadly that's the norm), that's bad. If however you display a healthy sexuality with respect, consent, agency, that's good.
@@amelliangames7365 No, you're either in favour of sex positivity or you're against it, and then you cynically decide to feign support for some forms of It because it's temporarily convenient to do so. Incredibly reductive is when moral crusades have been waged, and are being waged, against the likes of Bayonetta and Dragon's Crown and more, amazing creative works made by men and women who, by the way, are meant to be lewd. It's when there are entire subreddits dedicated to harassing artists that make stuff some prudes consider morally objectionable, all with the absolute convinction of being on the side of good and progress. It's when I end reading of descriptions like yours of worlds where women are entirely reduced to nothing but sexual objects and It feels like nothing that's actually been made after the 1950s, in fact it feels highly hyperbolic even when talking about 1920s fiction. I've seen enough nonsense in 15 years that I'm really not up for getting once again in the discussion about certain kinds of tits are inherently evil but others are totally cool... For whatever reasons.
And remember kids, the chuds got so incredibly upset at the idea that Bridget was trans that they impersonated Arcsys staff and sent emails to people saying Bridget was not trans, thereby forcing the developers LEGALLY to HAVE to confirm her being trans, a more legendary own-goal I've yet to see
The rebuttal was brilliant, Japanese pronouns can be very gender-neutral but they went out of their way to use the most explicitly feminine descriptors they could for Bridget. It really was a "fuck around and find out" moment.
@mkvaladez I think he meant to make it Official, which, while not a legal matter, is still a huge self-own to those a$$hats who thought they could get away with impersonating staff.
Me, a cis het guy: "Gale I love you, just not in that way; you're really laying it on thick here... well **hello** Astarian" Karlach is the greatest though, I'll die for her
I'm a pan guy but I feel the same about Gale and Astarion. XD Gale's *entire* problem is that he doesn't know how to put on the damn brakes. Astarion, though...... man, he toys with you, jumps forward and back so intensely, and makes you *want* to follow him. mmmm, delicious.
Cis het as well, but I like both of em. xD Romancing Shadowheart, but I still like all the guys in the game. Gale has a great sense of humor. Astarion too, when he's not trying to talk me into being EEEEVIL!
I love how the far right is constantly shouts "Won't somebody thing of the children" especially when they get shot to death at their schools, and the survivors get to deal with PTSD that they'll carry for the rest of their lives.
The hallmark of a great fantasy game is the ability to give your smashing dwarf lady a luscious, beautiful beard. Thank you, Larian! I haven't seen this level of attention to detail and lore that doesn't come up often, since EverQuest 2, honestly.
I seem to recall a dwarf character in one of the Icewind Dale games, an NPC you meet at some point, who was female and had a beard which she would explain as "Oh right. Dwarf women have beards, friend" if you asked about it. At the time she was just represented by a male dwarf sprite, I think; technological limitations (and limited artist time) and all that. But an attempt was made, perhaps, to represent more than just the strictest adherence to cishet norms.^^
Truly an homage to the greatest line in DnD movie history. "The problem with elf women is they aint got meat on their bones! You've got to get yourself a nice 250lb dwarf with some hair on her chin you can hang on to!"
It's so weird how like back in around 2004 everyone had no real beef with Bridget when she was still trying to discover herself (see the old catchphrase "Everyone is Gay for Bridget" for how much she was liked by the fandom then) but when we reach the end of her storyline where she was content with living the rest of her days as a woman after the whole manly bounty hunter gig didn't pan out, they go out their way to do stupid debunking to the point where the creator had to step in and say "Nah, Bridget is a woman, deal." Passage of time is funny sometimes. Bridget is still adorable as she was back in the day too btw.
The thing is it isn't GG fans who were the ones outraged it was a bunch of tourists who never picked up the sticks and couldn't last 2 min vs my Baiken. The GG fandom is still very much in love with Bridget and our weird little queer, metalcore fighting game. It's the anti-woke brigade who noticed and tried to turn our series into a culture war despite not being part of our culture to begin with.
The funny thing is that ArcSys seemed content to let things rock until some bigots impersonated ArcSys and made false statements. Then ArcSys' statement went out of its way to be as abundantly clear as possible that Bridget is a woman. It really was a "fuck around and find out" moment.
Oh yeah it was the new bg1 extension Siege of Dragonspear, it was only a secondary npc (a cleric trader with a small quest), and you had to dig into her dialogues before she reveal to be trans (and it's only ONE line of dialogue ^^)@@jadedheartsz
All this 'discourse' did was get me to look into the character and story. And she is just wonderful thank you outrage mob for only this one time pointing out a cool character who is still trans, you sillies.
My only complaint is a small one I've had about RPGs with party romancing for a long time now, It's started to feel as though the character writing trends towards the idea that if you engage more deeply with a character then you intend to romance them. It feels as though fewer and fewer storylines allow for the kind of deeper platonic cameraderie that can develop as a result of the dangers you've encountered together. Don't mistake my complaint for prudishness though I don't mind this stuff getting more presence in RPGs I just wish the third option picked up traction alongside it. Give me more storylines like...say... a postgame credits narration where the PC and Gale go out drinking one night keeping in touch after the dust settles, you play wingman for him, and end up becoming his best man/woman at the wedding and then the godparent of his child or something like that idk.
I actually like the way it was handled in a previous Larian game, Divinity OS 2. Where I was spending a lot of time with the same companions, and it was was written and though the companion had gotten the wrong impression and came on to me. And that put my character in a position where I had to be like "No no no, sorry, it's not like that."
I feel like potentially misread signals and having to gently turn someone down is part of that though. I've been on both sides of that irl, and I'm an asocial introvert. As long as there remains that option - the "no, sorry, I'm not into you romantically, we should just be close friends" option - I'd say it's fine. If anything, it's more natural that way.
I actually found a platonic friendship with Karlach amazing, there's even a scene later on where we meet her friend and they asked if we were are couple and she was like ew no, were best mates! Genuinely would love to have more of the non pursued romance options behave like that
@@WarriorOfStarclan See that actually makes me more interested now. My comment didn't really come from a place of prudishness (As Yahztee Croshaw put it in his own commentary "I like tits, why lie?") But it's gotten almost...boring recently that a lot of RPGs with romancable party members if you interact with them too much it eventually comes down to a romantic encounter with a binary choice of Reciprocate or Rebuff. I really like the idea of more cameraderie-style third options like what you mentioned with Karlach. I should also mention I'm not talking about "lets just be friends" options, but rather simply a line of interaction where the subject never really comes up.
The joke is there used to be play called "No Sex Please, We're British", which is one of the only stories my mom ever told me about her extended time visiting Europe in the 70s
It's almost as if the people screeching about this only just going woke and going broke have absolutely no idea about the media they're screeching about.
@@davemichael798 a lot of people were "canonically" a different gender in the past but amazingly they're still trans and still the gender they are now, so, she's always been a girl
I'm an Aro/Ace and I am cackling at how horny this game is. Though the romantic scenes make me cringe to death, I keep triggering them because I want to see what happens. I could easily not. It's so easy to just....not....if you don't want to.
The only cogent argument ive heard from people about BG3 relationships was Yahtzee saying that he'd have preferred more varied options between romance and emnity with characters. But Steph is spot on for saying these arguments don't deserve a measured response. They deserve ridicule.
Yeah, that's what really irks me. I do think there are sensibke conversations to have about whether the romance un BG3 is all that good, what its shortcomings and strengths are... but people are just being so so weird about it.
Being on the ace spectrum I'm really put off how it seems to be either "I like you and we should bone" or "eww get away from me!" Can I please just be chill with people without the game assuming I want to get horny with everyone?
@@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953 Also ace, even aroace and I haven't really felt like those have been my only options. Though, to be honest, it has only been Gale whose dialogues reached even vaguely intimate territory and I could just politely let him know that sorry, I'm not interested (getting Astarion to get interested in my poor goody-two-shoes drow, that's the difficult thing 'xD)
Probably a good change. I can only say so much since I have not been able to buy or try the game at all so I'm operating on primarily second hand accounts. In spite of my interest in the game.@@Salt_Mage
The belt's at least as old as second edition, albeit as a 'cursed' item since this was the late eighties/early nineties. I don't know if it's in 5e now but Pathfinder had a potion or elixir that'd do the same openly for sale. Then again I remember hearing (secondhand) whining about 5e openly saying that non-cishet roleplaying was okay.
I didn't even realize that was a thing until I stopped and thought oh yeah equal representation of gods and devils/demons *which are not the same* is definitely pushing Satanism. My god... My devil this is so fucking stupid.
And not so ironically the pearl clutchers in both eras wrote too much and outed themselves as the true deviants in their over the top attempts at public prudeness. 10 v-bucks says some of them fumed when the age slider didn't go down to fourteen for their Gwen Stacy run.
Having been following your work for around a decade, I can definitely confirm that, if anything, your content is actually less prone to sexual references since the transition. I still remember images of you waving around The Penetrator and introducing your audience to the wonders of Bad Dragon's range of products. 🤣
I started watching after the transition, and I've watched some videos from before and yeah, they sounded so vile and so sexual it was like some of the juvenile jokes we did when we were teenagers. But with more rage
Okay so I personally don't get the whole "everyone is too horny" thing, I'm Ace and I understand that the majority of the human race responds to stressful life threatening danger (you know like what is happening to the people in the game) by forming connections and boning like there is no tomorrow. Just look at birth rates after wars, disasters, etc. It made perfect sense to me.
It doesn't even have to be life threatening, and in addition all of the characters in baldurs gate 3 are in peak physical condition. Just saying, the Olympic village needs international shipping pallets worth of condoms for a reason..
I'm not all that far in Baldur's Gate 3 yet, but I did find a lot of what felt like overt and very quick options for sexual relationships. As an ace person who likes exploring dialogue options in games it felt very quickly like the game was asking who I want to sleep with, but I was always able to say no. I had one non-physical 'intimate' experience but the game gave me the option to end it when I was content with how far it'd been explored. It does feel like the game is (at least in the early phases) asking for consent fairly quickly with all of the characters I met so far, and I suspect that for the homophobes and transphobes it's that mere act of being asked that bothers them. From an ace perspective, it feels fairly typical to how people act irl. From a homophobic perspective, I bet it feels 'forced'.
There are a few bugs here and there, tho. I hugged Karlach once, and when I progressed my Gale romance I suddenly had the option to break up with Karlach.... whom I never actually 'dated'. But I think that's a bug, and not an indication of the developer's actual intent. I'm pan and non-monogamous, so I felt ok with flirting with almost everyone until I realised Gale wanted me for himself, which is when I had to turn people down (in a different save from the Karlach issue above). If I were monogamous I'd probably feel a little overwhelmed by the amount of sexual propositioning at the start, but at the same time we're all about to die - we've been tadpoled. Hell yes I'd like to have some fun before bursting into tentacles.
An anecdote; when I was sixteen I left my home in Kansas and moved to Nola to learn how to cook professionally. I made friends with a co-worker and we went out to a bar. It was a gay bar, but I didn’t know because- rural Kansas, anyway I got hit on and it made me initially uncomfortable, but then I thought about it more. And that’s the story of how I learned I was bisexual. All this to say that maybe some of them will learn something of value. “Huh, maybe I *do* want to be balls deep in this twinky Vampire!”
I've read some of those steam threads and I feel like those people either don't read the dialogue options and just click every single one from top to bottom of the list and then get shocked pikachu faced by the fact that there was even a possibility of ending up in a romantic situation with another guy or are really, really bad at reading social cues Also greetings from a fellow ace
Imagine being so insecure about your own sexual orientation.. as straight man I actually get flattered when I get hit on by the same sex. BG3 just makes me happy because I can do all crazy shit I can think of. This content is pure gold btw keep it up!
kinda wish Bridget didn't have the really... awkward backstory, but at the same time, her hometown had to deal with the horseshit of 1999, of the Crusades, and the constant threat of angry mechadragons murdering the shit out of everyone, so fair enough, world was more insane than that stupid belief. Venom and Testament also are really based. also it's... pretty obvious she's trans based on the perfected arcade ending. sucks ass that ending requires a player to beat stage fucking nine arcade boss in strive; if you haven't done that yet, don't be shocked, more than 99% of the playerbase hasn't. it is that. mother. fucking. difficult. Also Goldlewis at the start of Bridget's arcade story is basically my natural reaction when i've had that fuckup happen before.
@@SinclairLocke “We’ve never changed the storyline in a flash of an idea. It’s not just about Bridget, it’s the message of the character and the drama has been decided for a long time”, he says. “Nowadays, transgender people are much more widely recognised, and it’s as if the times have caught up with the story of Bridget, which we had been thinking about for a long time”. “Every character was conceived by Ishiwatari in advance”, he continues. “Ishiwatari had already decided on the settings and dramas for each character, but there were many that we hadn’t yet revealed. This time, we brought out Bridget, and I think that’s really all there is to it”. Bridget’s gender had been the source of some controversy in the Guilty Gear community- the character’s initial appearance saw her as a boy-made-to-dress-like-a-girl whose arc was about proving that she was indeed a boy by being the best bounty hunter. Her Strive appearance deals with the follow-up to that: After being the best bounty hunter, she decides that she actually quite liked being a girl, and it doesn’t take away from any of her other traits. As seems to always be the case when transgender characters are involved, this drew a lot of controversy with transphobic players and social media users lashing out. “To put it bluntly, I thought it would be a topic that would naturally have pros and cons, as expected”, Akira says. “Although it’s a short story, I tried to depict how the character lived, what he worried about and what he thought about in the game’s story”. “However, only the pinpointed topics were discussed first, and people who hadn’t bought the game and hadn’t played it got excited in the discussion, and more and more people took it in a different direction from the message we were giving, and to top it all off, there were even spoofers”, he continues. “Originally, we wanted to say, “Play the game and take in the story, and while everyone may have their own interpretation, please take in our message”, but official impersonators started showing up, so we had to make a proper announcement on our side”, he adds. Ultimately, Daisuke and the team issued official statements on Bridget being trans, as part of the Developers Backyard discussions of the game. Source: “Daisuke Ishiwatari says Bridget from Guilty Gear was Always Trans”, GamerBraves
I went onto the BG3 Steam discussion a few days after release to check what an update I'd just downloaded included and like 80% of the threads were whining about "wokeness." Absolutely pathetic what constant culture war bollocks has reduced people to.
Steam discussions are a cesspool. Because you get points to buy things when you get comment awards, assholes will purposely say hateful shit to get clown awards that still give you points. It's a broken system that encourages trolling. I can't believe Steam allows it.
The fact Steph has to talk about topics like this over and over again is ridiculous. Why the hell should the gender, race or sexuality of a character in a game, tv series, book or film matter. While the topics you have to cover are difficult times at Steph, you honestly create brilliant content
Ironically, honking it to Brisket was significantly gayer back in the day when she was 'just' a femboy. Ofcourse she was also more of a child then but that's never an issue for these reactionairies. Edit; also, I love how you picked Kai Winn for the 'this game is very depraved' quote Also also; bought vampire survivors last week, had actually forgotten you were a contributor lol. Love the game, love Giovanna.
Also the level of sexiness in BG 3 is quite in line with the setting of the forgotten realms. most of the setting is quite a bit more culturally sex positive than our medieval times (or even modern times would be). I don't know if anyone has read any forgotten realms books or seen any of the videos Ed greenwood (original author of the setting) but those make it clear that sex between adventuring parties of all kinds of make ups is quite common. Though there is always the Caveat that , it's your roleplay setting when you run it so change it however you and your players want.
If I remember rightly, there is a character in Runescape, who is a magical elf made of crystals. She changed herself to become female so she could have a heterosexual relationship with a man, have his kids, etc. She didn't transition so much as use actual, flat out sorcery to polymorph. To find this out you needed to have a high-level character to get to the zone they were in, complete a load of quests, and then find an ultra-rare drop to get the dialog where she references being born male. Dialog which made up less than a billionth of the total chat in that game. I do remember rightly that some players reacted to this obscure reference to trans people by declaring the whole game was going downhill, and that the parade of tolerance had to end. One reference. One short set of chat lines. One character who transitioned - through magic - to specifically have a het relationship. To them this was a cavalcade of SJWism which was going to explode humanity as we knew it. Bridget is trans, guys. Suck it.
Angof! I remember her, I had no idea there was an outrage over her (apart from stuff along the lines of like 'wow it took them long enough to add LGBT characters, huh?') Maybe that means I was hanging around the right people, lol.
Steph, this has completely opened my eyes. For years I've tried to explain the logic of "you're wrong and being hateful" to these people who are willfully denying reality. From now on, my response is gonna be "Cry more, snowflake" I feel freed and have a big smile on my face because I'm just like "Why am I even feeling upset on behalf of my LGBT+ friends when I could be laughing with them?". Thank you.
You're right, being upset only hurts you because that's what the hogs want. Switching to mockery several years ago was the best thing for my mental health.
I don't normally comment on videos and have been watching for many years. The end of this video where you talk about people saying not having a problem with it as long as they don't see it was just very profound and I appreciate it so much. I moved in to my uncles house a good few years ago and being out and gay he made a few comments about bringing my boyfriend who I had been with at the time for over 3 years (and still am today). He was allowed to come and stop and chat and things but my uncle put in 'rules' around being there that amounted to his not understanding of homosexualities and his assumption that both me and my boyfriend would be extremely 'camp' and having sex in every room all the time, as that was his exposure of gays within the media which made him nearly take back his invitation for me to move in in order to save money. It didn't take long for him to realise that both me and my boyfriend were just two ordinary people who love each other and realise that it was his upbringing that caused him to feel he had to shield away from the gay. I left after just under a year as he was selling the house but I know that just being around him and him getting to know a gay couple made him realise how 'normal' queer people are. He still has underlining homophobic attitudes and makes occasional inappropriate jokes about things that he doesn't understand which is where the problem lies. Queer people exist and therefore should be represented fairly. If there is fair representation then the generations that are growing up now will have a better understanding of the world they live in and can start to accept others as just being themselves instead of running rampant and attacking everything they see as different. Sorry for the long post.
Kinda like how people "accepted" I have always been Asexual, then when they sexually assaulted me (happened a lot because they assumed they could grope me or touch me in all sorts of wrong places at school or work because "I wouldn't like it since I am not into sex thus they wouldn't get into trouble") and I would freak out and try to snap at them and explain exactly what Asexuality is, it then became "that doesn't exit, you're not actually Asexual you're either prude (no, because my husband of 16 years and I are totally happy together) or there's something medically wrong to make you this way (I had too much testing to prove my lady bits were fine in regards to all that type of stuff but I still didn't have interest in sex) and then they would just be utter dicks. So I am glad to see that they have to start having it brought out of the woodworks and have to face it. Maybe it's time the bigots start getting a taste of their own medicine and then the world will be a better place
@@NoOneReallySpecial correct me if I’m wrong but most people regardless of sexual identity wouldn’t like being sexually assaulted. I’m sorry you went through that and I’m happy you found someone that seems to adore you.
I'm glad to hear your uncle is overcoming his prejudices. I've found the same thing in my life - a lot of bigoted people will change their minds when they're actually exposed to the people they're bigoted against. They realise that they are just normal people. Of course, it can take a while, and like your uncle, there is usually some amount of prejudice left over from a lifetime of bad stereotypes - but there's hope for improvement for a lot of these folks.
@4nn4h I think everyone is technically capable of that sort of change. It's just that a lot of them are too lazy or stubborn to actually go through with trying to change. Honestly hope I'm wrong about that being most people, but from what I've seen in my life in reality and on the internet, it seems like people care more about being seen as right than actually being right.
I just wanna get to a point where queer storylines are just as omnipresent and pervasive that one bad one doesn't reflect on queer storylines as a whole. Imagine if the idea of straight romance was completely discarded because of one shitty attempt (of which there are a great many). As for Bridget, I've never played Guilty Gear, but even I've been aware that she was crossdressing in the canon before now (there was literally a trope named after her, 'dropped a Bridget on him' about someone realising the object of their attraction is not what they thought it was). Appreciate the confirmation of her transness. :)
My mind never ceases to be blown at the raw indignation that some Guilty Gear "fans" expressed over Bridget. Not only does her arcade mode story conclude with her affirming her own gender, but Daisuke himself confirmed it, *HIMSELF*. And even THAT isn't enough for these tosspots
Bridget was always trans in a way: Raised as a girl and wanting to be accepted as a man. What irks a lot of folks is that Daisuke effectively made them detransition while still claiming them to be trans. It comes off as superficial and performative
@@gabagandalfoftheweedexcept Bridget didn't view herself as a woman when she was younger. She thought she was a cis man and wanted to be affirmed as such You can't detransition from being a man to. Still being a man. Crossdressing doesn't immediately make you a man She realized she was fine being seen as a woman / didn't need to be seen and validated as a man. THAT makes her trans
@@nejishadow Imo it's not about gonads. It's about rejecting the role society imposes on you and live your life how you see fit. Reducing the debate to whether one's gonads match the way one looks or not is exactly the kind of superficial thinking people find irksome
"The only way they can process this is by blaming me" Sad to say, you kinda hit the nail on the head with this one. One of the most depressing statistics I've ever heard was that the majority of violence against trans people happens after sex. They literally can't process their own sexuality amid the morality brainwashing and they blame the person for "making me feel that way".
I know it wasn't the main focus of the video but I actually really liked the character of Krem in Dragon Age 3 and actually wanted more dialog from him. Seeing a trans character that specifically didn't want to alter their body, even though it would presumably be easy with magic in the world, but only wanted to present as masculine was very interesting to me and opened my mind to the spectrum of what it means to be trans.
@@PhoenixFireZero I'd argue cute is hot. It all depends on what a person is attracted to. To me, a cute girl next door is far hotter and sexy than the traditional supermodel. Hot is whatever floats your boat. 🙂
I also appreciate being educated with a firsthand account of what being trans is like. For us cishet people who want to be allies, this is the perspective we need to listen to.
Also a straight male, I'm trying to listen and understand things from the perspective of a lgbtq+ person and consider my language to be more inclusive. I don't always get it right, but I'm trying the best I can, and I appreciate hearing perspectives from the people who are actually affected by these things. Being a decent human being was taught to me as a kid, so I wonder what sludge taught these Gamers™️ to be such shitlords. Also I might be straight, but I can't help but find Steph's new look quite alluring to say the least (I guess I'm not as straight as I thought or I just appreciate attractiveness in a person regardless of how they identify themselves)
@@PaulTheFox1988 Trans-feminine just means a person is feminine now and wasn't in the past. So, being attracted to them (now) is still a heterosexual response.
A friend of mine said this about Bioware RPGs back in the day and recently said it again for BG3. "If the game is too horny for you, it is only that way because you picked the horny options." So a lot of the backlash is kind of a self-report in my opinion.
@@lilpetz500: I suppose the fights might feel a bit much if you've never played similar CRPGs. But there's plenty of fights that don't need to happen because you can talk your way out of them - or that can be over pretty quickly if you ambush them, play around with the environment, and so on. Also, you can always choose the Explorer mode where enemies have less health, stuff is cheaper, you get a bonus to rolls, etc. IIRC, it won't lock you out of any achievements. It does lock you out of multiclassing, but you can freely switch between difficulty levels during the game. (Another person on the ace spectrum here! I can't get enough of Astarion, and I platonically love all of them.)
@@lilpetz500I imagine it can be a bit rough if you're new to dnd and crpgs. I am pretty familiar with bith but still not very good at them (and I tend to build my characters more around flavour than actually being as effective as possible) Save frequently, autosaves are few and far between. In the early game I lost about an hour of progress because a boss killed my main character in a single turn and him and his minions proceeded to wipe the rest of my party oretty quickly. I'm sure there was a better solution but I just made sure to save the next time I got to that fight and it took a couple of reloads to get an attempt where the boss didn't immediately knock me down.
I'll confirm it in Steph's place. If you needed a confirmation that you're gay, I as the high priest of the gay agenda, do officially confer you with such confirmation. Congrats on your gayness!
@JeronimusJack well there's a process to come if you can infer betwimst the lines 😉 and so be open to a select body to come over and you can prove gayness and receive a well earned benefit 👄
I would like to correct the first part - it doesn't matter if you've felt a little pulse jerked it or whatever, you are gay for Bridgette. There are no exceptions. Everyone is gay for Bridgette.
*Bridget in GGXX:* I'm a guy *Guys who post on 4chan all day:* lol everyone's gay for Bridget *Bridget in GGST:* Actually, I realized I'm a girl *Those same girls from before:* lol everyone's gay for Bridget
There's a really common joke among trans fans of Guilty Gear which goes something like, "Of course Bridget lived for a decade as a woman before being acknowledged as her actual gender! SHE'S BRITISH!"
@@wilderbeast9368 You might want to let the Brits know that they're a race...they will be surprised and all of Europe will probably have words for them. Potentially more pointed words than usual even.
Imagine being so stupid and immature for getting mad about something that literally does not affect you. There's plenty of porn out there for everyone, that doesn't mean it's all for you. Great video Steph! Stay fabulous!
You'd think they'd understand the concept of "not everything is made for you" since they use it all the time to defend games not having easy modes, but alas. As always with those kinds of people, "rules for thee but not for me"
@@mjc0961 they also used that argument about games having only cis hetero characters, saying it's not for the gays and telling us to make our own games. Obviously they didn't really want games for the gays judging by their reactions when we do get them.
To be honest Steph, if I had one complaint about your more recent videos, it's that there's a lot less weird shit, like I miss the Cornflake Homunculus and the Surprise Mechanic 😂
The Sex Speedruns have to be one of my favorite things trending lately. The game really can get horny, but I won't complain. It's just part of life and all, ya know?
Somebody said something I heard this week (can't remember where) that suddenly made a lot of sense out of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments and for that matter, racism, antisemitism and the rest. "They rail against [insert minority group here] because they don't like being left out of the conversation." I believe the phrasing was "feeling uncomfortable because it's not about them". Obviously, that's not the beginning and the end of such antisocial stances, but it puts a new spin on the root cause of it all for me.
it's a lot worse than just not liking being left out, they don't like it if anyone else is included at all, because it means anything at all is not about them.
Slightly related to the end part about the wizard game. It was incredible being on any dating apps at the time, because anyone who played it immediately told you about it. Half seeking validation that what they did was okay and a good thing and got extremely defensive if not immediately validated. And the other half was genuinely bragging about it. The first group I can understand, the second is one I still can’t fathom.
"And the other half was genuinely bragging about it. The first group I can understand, the second is one I still can’t fathom." They will do literally _anything_ if they think that they're 'owning the libs' Yes, including bragging about playing a video game
@@shis1988 There’s so many fucking great games out this year you don’t even need to bother. I played that shit at a friend’s place and it’s absolutely nothing special unless you’re a rabid Potter fan and need to spend every second you can in the setting.
"I am over affording them the respect of a reasonable rebuttal" is going to be my mantra from now on whenever dIsCoUrSe like this crops up from now on.
@@PanEtRosa She's amazing, definitely not what I expected from someone like her, but it is absolutely adorable. BEGONE, MY SAVIOUR, I MUST SEX UP MY BUXOM LOVER WHOM YOU HAVE ALSO PREVIOUSLY SAVED. MMM, SEXING.
Both my kids want to go as Bridget for Hallowe'en this year. Given the stolid conservatism of this town, we're pretty sure this will fly under the outrage radar. :D
Bridget is just a cool character design regardless of the orientation and gender discussion. Bounty hunter that uses a yo-yo to beat your ass is just whimsical.
Being an ace and playing my first playthrough as an ace character, my only complaint is that when Whithers start questioning (and disapproving of) mc not engaging in romances I couldn't say that I wasn't interested in romances and had to say I don't like anyone in the camp. I like most characters, they've exceeded my expectations! If my character could engage in close sexless relationships, she would! Had to reject poor Gale with his weave cutscene twice and neither of us died, it didn't even hurt his approval. So... people who say that male characters "basically grape" them, are they playing a different game? Gods, that reminds me, I talked to a man who complained that Lae'zel forced him to have sex, then he had to kill her, and now Shadowheart doesn't want to romance him. He literally said that Lae'zel graped his character because she "made him an offer he couldn't refuse", and now only male characters want him - that was his reasoning why the game is "pandering to gays".
You transitioning was not only one of the best things to happen for you, but it was also one of the best things to happen for games journalism. We got our Sterling reviews back! And a hotter, sexier show host! Keep rocking those outfits, Steph!
Dude you are delusional. His reviews are great to be sure, but he didn't transitioned, the process can't be completed and he didn't got hotter or sexier are you blind? He is so far away from for example Henry Cavil or Jessica Alba its unreal. Even my ugly ass is closer.
I rather loved how James Fucking Sterling Son looked and dressed - but I also love how they look now... ...if they dressed up as a Xenomorph, they'd look cool too! (But, I do hope they bring back the Plague Doctor, pretty please?!)
I am disabled, and have had people to my face say they would've preferred I gave them a trigger warning that I'd be there.
This was at college, by the way. Someone I didn't know found seeing me so egregious that they'd need to prepare themselves for the shock of seeing an otherwise normal looking person in a wheel chair.
So, not surprised for a SECOND at the outrage people can find over things that truly will not affect their lives in any way!
I cannot imagine what goes on in the brain of someone who says something like that.
I'm so sorry. That doesn't make any sense. Usually seeing someone in a wheelchair would make someone feel...compassion??
I lost my last and final job WORKING FROM HOME because people AT A HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY (PACIFIC SOURCE) couldn't handle me telling them my reason for coming to work there instead of continuing as a chef was because I was... DISABLED! Something they knowingly hired me as. They knew I was physically disabled, then gave me free insurance and I finally got my mental health disabilities diagnosed after 31 years of dealing with it AND my family's mental health on my own. My work stopped treating me nice once they got the claim for my mental health and the next week I was fired cause they "questioned my integrity"; aka I MADE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE because the only 2 semi-disabled people (a person who was cancer-free and a person who got rid of her diabetes) were the only disabled people they had to deal with on the daily and they just couldn't handle my multiple issues or the fact I actually showed them what it's like to lose your career and your life spirals down thanks to health. When I applied for unemployment they couldn't furnish any proof of write ups or anything bad I had done for them/to them to even question my integrity and fire me for. I used my unemployment til it ran dry (the government acknowledged I was doing this because I was illegally and wrongfully fired) and then finally decided I needed to stop working. I have now had a total of 16 surgeries in my life, been diagnosed with several more disabilities, and am working on getting disability because my arms no longer function well and I cannot work anymore especially now that I can't even get hired from home let alone do my old career due to disabilities. I stopped befriending most people who acted like my disabilities were a burden; literally telling me my constant surgeries and doctor appointments "annoyed them" like it was any of their business or disrupted their lives at all other than didn't allow them to use me. And I have been much happier with just my family and few close friends and acquaintances. Definitely get rid of negative people from your life too.
since they had the gumption to ask in person, you would have been 100% justified in simply spitting on them instead.
Love and respect and I know that pain. I’m fat, female and disabled. The amount of people offended by my very existence at WORK annoys me. How dare I not be slim! How dare I have issues walking! How dare I NOT give them boners!
I got propositioned by Gale and I'm straight. I just said no and continued his story line. It really is that easy.
🤨 thats not gay, save scum and try again
Also like... patch 1 has "Made it less ambiguous that you're starting a romance with Gale when choosing certain dialogue options." Like sure, there was a kernel of a complaint there, maybe, but for some reason I suspect these people will keep complaining about it
I find the idea of closeminded cishet men realizing for the first time in their lives what it means if someone hits on them and doesn't stop because their hints are too vague would be a great learning moment for how women are treated by those exact cishet men. Alas, reflection ain't their strong suit.
thiiiisss @@DrZaius3141
@@lainlingwhen he said "I want to show you something after the party." I was like "oh he's propositioning me." But then I swear he said something that seemed like "everyone's going to love it." To which I said sure! Because now it sounds like he's NOT. so that's the ambiguity I think they were clearing up. I felt bad about breaking his heart later that night because I got his hopes up!
"They never said that.
And if they did, it was a mistranslation.
And if it wasn't, there's context missing.
And if there isn't, it's not canon.
And if it is, the author was forced to include that.
And if they weren't -- then they're just pandering to the West."
- The Astolfo Avatar's Prayer
Do you know the first thing about otokonoko subculture?
@@soarel325do you know the first thing about my ass and two balls
@@soarel325 Probably not.
My mom has played Baulders Gate 3 non-stop for the past couple weeks, and honestly it seems way more tame than the romance novels she used to read. Hell, I know it's tamer than stuff on AO3. They really are just are upset that the sex can be gay.
I've played over 60 hours and haven't been propositioned yet. I'm sure it'll happen at some point, but the idea that it's happening all the time is ridiculous.
@@RealSlowLike It’s almost like when you refuse to play a game…you don’t know what the game is actually like 🤔
The two types of Homophobes: Toxic straight men TERRIFIED at the POSSIBILITY that another man might treat them like they treat women. Closet cases so deep in the closet they're having nervous, blushy teatime with Mr. Tumnus.
@@RealSlowLike It's always the same story - a bunch of losers hear something on their grapevine and they imagine it to be the truth, while the reality can be so easily checked...they just don't do it, they'd rather spend their time being angry at the world and wanking themselves to sleep 🤣
@@TheUltimateBlooper Specifically if they hear something negative, hateful, or paranoid. If it’s positive or involves love, they are skeptical as fuck.
"In 2019, we're going to have an anime character turn to face the audience, look the viewer dead in the eye, and say in perfect english "I am Transgender" and we'll still have otaku fuccbois trying to insist there's an intricate Japanese historical context for why they aren't." - @LossThief, 2018
That wasn't an anon it was @LossThief from anime news network, and by god were they right. I speak japanese and had people ask me if Lily from zombieland saga actually was referred to as a girl by the other characters and when I told them they did they just didn't believe me
@@CanIswearinmyhandlePeople were *so fucking weird* about Lily. Like, she literally died of a heart attack from crippling gender dysphoria. It doesn't get more straightforward than that.
seriously. I mentioned in a discord server about one of the characters in zombieland saga being trans, and somehow, the first thing he found via a "cursory search in japanese" is that it's debated. Like, that's literally why she killed herself. But sure, her father just wanted her to be a female idol. riiiight.
@@CanIswearinmyhandle thanks for the source, will edit my comment to include
@@caitlinomalley80 I tried to do a "cursory search in japanese" for myself, and typing "zombieland saga " in japanese the first suggested search related is "england" and the first post there is ablog post about how some british person brought a printed out picture of Lily with "shut the fuck up terf" printed and laughing about it. The blog post explains terfism and stuff and it didn't seem very pro-strans (they put the male symbol in brackets after "trangender woman")
But then the poster writes they see Lily more as nonbinary than trans so lol
Also just a minor thing but she didn't kill herself, she died from shock
There's gotta be some cultural thing going, too. Larian is a Belgian studio. We're not puritans out here. You can see titties or hear people cursing on tv over here and nobody makes a fuss. We have to endure puritanism in games and film because so much mainstream culture comes from the US, so they'll have to clench their butts when something produced in non puritan countries is not prude enough for them.
Edit: haha, wrote this comment before reaching the part where JSS talks about puritanism.
How's the political - or, rather, sociopolitical - climate like in Belgium, i.e. how much cultural foothold does populism have there?
@@SabiJD Relatively traditional, but in the Belgian sense. We have too many politicians and parties. That keeps things less black and white, but has its own load of issues. Populism is relatively low, even if we have the occasional (and current) rise of the far left or far right. Usually left in Wallonia and right in Flanders. We don't have much discourse for or against lgbt etc, even if that's starting to slowly trend, but without the same prevalence it has in the US. And at the same time, not many voices against them either. The stuff is just getting more and more accepted each year without people minding too much or even discussing the subject all that much, except maybe the really older generations. As for racism, we have it. I doubt any country that has immigration can be void of racism. As long as you got ethnic minorities, you're gonna have people to accuse them of all the bad things happening.
Reminds me of my partner's Oma talking about Germany
@@SabiJD My brother in Christ, culture and politics are not nested nor mutually required. You can have a VERY populous-minded culture that is VERY conservative *coughs* Nazi Germany *coughs*
Sadly, puritanism and the anglosphere are inextricably linked at this point, and we may just need a complete purge of Christianity from polite society before we can be fixed.
"Masturbation can't hurt you physically..."
"YES IT CAN", Edward Scissorhands 1990
"But it's a good kind of hurt." - Dennis Cheesegraterhands 2023
"Just cut a hole in one those bushes you make, and go to town, Eddie!
Well, that explains the snow.
yeah but that's an - edge case. ba-dum--tis
Poor man was HORRIBLY down bad. I always found it funny how the hands were the most complicated part of Edward and the scientist chose that as the last part XD
Slight correction, I mixed up my “gamers angry about a wank they had” outrage with Bridget. It was a Pokémon character they felt gay for masturbating over and got upset by.
This shit can be hard to keep track of.
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? Like almost every adult in Pokémon invokes the horny in people......
Well, that's on them. Anyone who jacks it to Pokémon is fully aware they go in rolling the dice on whether it's a male or female Pokémons they're jacking it to
@@Sonichero151 the femboy ice type gym leader
@@Sonichero151Alot of children in Pokemon invoke horny in people too. :/
@@nedzed3663 and lets face it, there's no such thing as a bad wank :)
Basically, the people that align themselves with the "your feelings don't matter" party... have very hurt feelings.
It's almost like every reactionary accusation is a confession.
No no, you misread them. They’re saying that “YOUR” feelings don’t matter, not theirs!
It’s very intellectually consistent when it comes down to it, and that consistent and abhorrent worldview is called “Supremacy” - the idea that some people “matter” and some do not, that the convenience of those who matter is more important than the actual *lives and existence* of those who don’t.
The pinnacle of Projection
@@BlastYoBoots Everyone thinks they're the more rational party while the others are the irrational, I've seen it on all sides. Neither you or I are any different, best we can do is be aware of our own biases and try to minimize them.
@@nullpoint3346 Part of understanding that rationality they have is understanding the *rationale* that the ascribe to, though, which may be operating off of VERY different base moral principles. I recommend the video Always a Bigger Fish by Innuendo Studios' Alt-Right Playbook to explain how many of us or the people around us, and these people especially -- fundamentally -- believe some people are better than others and large amounts of people have to be on "bottom" and "lose" for society to function, and probably shouldn't have as much of a say in society as they should, rather than tending towards the idea of everyone having a say including the marginalized (democracy). I'm not saying they're irrational actors, I'm saying the opposite-- that they're acting RATIONALLY for a moral framework I find f&*#ing reprehensible. The hypocrisy of "rules for thee but not for me" isn't an irrational mistake, it's a rational demonstration of power.
The guy saying Skyrim had any level of polish at all had me floored. If Baldur's Gate 3 has the same bugs after it's eighth release, then we can talk about polish.
Skyrim wasn't unpolished feeling imo.
@@XvladinLOL
@@morriganrenfield8240 what was unpolished about Skyrim? The occasional glitch?
Skyrim is one of the all time great video games, and I still start it up to this day, but among its many virtues, 'polish' is not one. Sometimes I can spend a whole day troubleshooting savefiles or crashes instead of actually playing.
@BladedEdge I've never had that problem unless I was modding (I play with hundreds of mods sometimes). With modding, that's a staple for sure, but the base game I never had this issue personally.
Sometimes, you see a giant send a wolf flying into the air or something silly like that, but these things didn't seem very common to me personally.
I think its easy to think of every glitch you've ever seen or experienced in the 12 years since skyrim released and imagine all of that happening at once all the time, but I think that's just becuase you DONT remember the literally hundreds of hours of the game working normally as well.
"You can tell a lot about a throat based on what it can't swallow"
Raw line
Raw just like I wish my throat was.
I'd say the line was deep.
Throbing agendas just keep slipping down my wet anticipating throat and I just can't take anymore makes me gag!
I love how shameless the nudity is. They don't even bother to suggest it's doing anything for the game.
While everyone else is trying to come up with excuses, Larian's like "Here's a dong, if you can't deal, that's on you, the rest of the world doesn't care."
Even better is the fact you can tell the game "don't show me the naughty bits" and it won't. Once again they're being whiny pissbabies over things that are OPTIONS. As per frickin' usual.
Hell yes!!! We need more games to treat us like the grown ass adults that we are!!!
@@sheepthehackBut having an option to see or not see something isn't not caring about your feelings, it's literally giving you freedom to do what you're nore confortable with.
I'm a cis person and I made a trans woman just because I could and I'm having fun, you can choose what you find best, that's the point.
@@sheepthehack I hope someone eats a granola bar in your bed.
@@sheepthehack At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Completely unrelated but UA-cam finally started giving me notifications for you channel again after 4 years of having notifs turned on and getting none. 🎉
Same. I've only received three notifications for this channel and I've clicked all three, yet it's still extremely hit and miss.
Same here!
I recently played through the infamous Gale "sex" scene. it cuts away. there is no sex on screen, it's left to your imagination.. which yeah, says a lot about the people complaining
"I kept getting gay thoughts! They put them in my head!"
It's all pretty tame.
Yeah y'know I expected something a little more explicit with the way everyone was talking about the sex scenes in this game... but I guess we've established that the straights are just not okay right now lol.
@@MilkieMouseDon’t worry, I’m sure the sfm artists are hard at work with these high quality character models.
And of course the straights aren’t alright, when are they ever?
Yeah I've thus far had sex with Lae'zel and it basically did the same thing, though there was full nudity on display before and after.
I finished a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 the other day. There was nowhere _near_ what I'd call 'gratuitous' sex. In the whole 80-ish hours of gameplay, I saw a grand total of _two_ sex scenes, both of which were quite tastefully done imo, and both of which directly contributed to the story by being significant moments in the emotional arcs of the characters involved. There were about a dozen or so other moments where NPCs flirted with my character, and I turned down their advances because I wasn't interested in them and the game lets you do that.
If _that's_ enough to send these people into a screaming tantrum on the internet... honestly, I pity them. It must be exhausting to be so angry all the time.
Did you know that in BG3's early access, instead of the guardian, you were asked to create a person you "dreamed of at night" and some people got mad that in a sexy-ish dream sequence their male character woke up next to another man?
Imagine missing out on one of the best games that has been released in years because you can choose your character's genitals, which btw is optional if you turn off nudity anyway
It's not the genitals, it's the ability to place them on any body. Conan Exiles has genitals, and sliders to adjust size. People had a giggle, made giant dicks and huge boobies, and then moved on. But when you can place a penis on a body with tits, THAT'S when the pitchforks come out... I don't think we'll ever be rid of this backwards mentality. JUST LET ME HAVE FUN WITH PIXELS, YOU ABRAHAMIC TWATS!
i think peole are upset that genitals didn't had more customization, like length, depth, tattoos, haircuts, piercings, background story and good/evil alignment. but i wouldn't boycott it.
@@JeronimusJack u forgot class, i really wanted to play a human cleric with a bard penis
@@JeronimusJackdoes good/bad alignment mean just curve lol?
@@xhshdd7113 that one scene in Scary Movie.
Any time anybody asks if something is woke, always say yes. Every time. Let their hate limit their life experiences. I don't care if it means they won't get to experience a great piece of media, even if it isn't what they'd consider "woke". Just say yes. Let them live their terrible empty existence that they so desperately want to have.
Everything remotely aware that shit's fucked in the world is woke by default.
Remind them that the minorities they cannot handle SEEING actually exist IRL. Remind them that reality is "woke", so if any representation at all is what they want to avoid, they should avoid reality itself.
Then again, they are out of touch, so I guess they already do...
I tell them the opposite. Let them spend their money on it, enjoy it, then lose their mind when/if they ever discover said content. Which in a game like BG3, may or may not ever even happen.
These people don't even have the slightest clue what "woke' even means. They think games like Cyberpunk 2077 or Bioshock are...NOT "woke". 😂😂😂
@@madsgrams2069 at least for bioshock it's bc there weren't that many bonkers people crying into th void when bioshock 1 came out, part 3 is shit though
As someone who's been around since before your transition, good on you for being as confident as you are. It's helped me break out of my shell and go down the path I truly wanted. Thank you for being you, no matter what!
Honestly, seeing how both she and Abby Thorn have THRIVED in recent years is just proof that your brain is what decides what gender you are. Not your equipment. Because we are brains in meat suits, and the brain decides the gender, not the meatsuit. I am not my fucking pants.
Fancy meeting you here! (We had some positive exchanges on the Jinx video, I can't expect you to remember everyone who comments on your vids obviously)
No wonder the algorithm recommended your stuff.
Same here. Steph's process and epiphany was one of the nails in the coffin that led to me finally taking the plunge myself. I'm over six months on HRT and while there are rough patches I'm genuinely in a better place mentally than I've been in decades.
@@tjenadonn6158 Love this so much!
Absolutely. I've been a subscriber for years and they've been WAY more confident since their transition and I love it.
While I won't fully understand being trans since I'm cis/straight, I just don't get why people are assholes to the LGBTQ community. We all have no choice but to exist together on this cosmic ball of dirt so it's not that hard to not be a dick.
I gotta write that line down. "If you have a problem with it being in public, then you've got a problem seeing it. And if you've got a problem seeing it, you have a problem with it existing." Raw AF.
The way Sterling so hilariously and succinctly obliterates the little Ben Shapiro's crying about every damn thing is genuinely one of my favorite things in the world.
it used to be one of mine, and sterling still killing it, but fucking the glut of the same jagoffs jacking off their rage boners every 3 seconds for like the last 20 years of my life...I just so fucking tired of it I can't even laugh at stephanies great writing and delivery most of the time, I just watch these cause she's great, the content is great, but the gamers have finally done it, they've manage to be too stupid for me to laugh at them.
Growing up as a bi female in a repressive conservative town, if there was a romance feature in an RPG, I'd almost always play a male character so I could romance the females. If my parents ever happened to walk in during a risque scene, then I could laugh it off as having to play a guy and this was part of the story. As I got older, we started getting games where being gay was cool, so I could play a female character and romance females. It was very liberating for me, made me believe my feelings were valid, and let me play how I wanted. So I can imagine how trans and nonbinary people must feel with these new games allowing so much freedom!
South Park has a very mixed history. But, honestly, even if they were a bit mocking in their tone, being able to make a transgender character in their game (Fractured But Whole) and having others occasionally mention it was such a moving emotional experience for me that I loved their otherwise kinda shallow tie-in.
So, a story of a thing that happened to me recently while out and about
I was walking up to a mall, and a driver blew through the crosswalk while 5 pedestrians ( including myself ) were crossing.
Mildly annoyed that the car didn't give right of way and stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk, I flipped them the bird. I didn't shout, I didn't wave it out in front of my face, I pulled my hand in close to my face and flipped them off with my middle finger nearly on my nose, intended to be seen by the driver and not the other pedestrians behind me.
When the car is mostly past, I hear the voice of the driver shouting "Fuck you, bitch!"
Don't care, they're outta the way, keep walking. My only intent was to inform them that they did a rude thing, not a street fight.
Hear the car stop and the door open, and them shouting "HEY, FUCK YOU BITCH!!!"
Keep walking, go inside, they did not follow.
All for INFORMING them that they'd been rude and pissed someone off. That's a rando's reaction to being told "hey, you're doing it wrong"- scream and cause a scene and harass the person who broke their perfect lil world where they can drive through all the crosswalks they want.
Really glad they didn't follow. I've dealt with extreme rage issues my entire life, and if they'd gotten in my face I woulda swung and gotten in proper trouble x.x
Not just "pissed someone off", but commited a crime
that person was ruled by their emotions
@@rudeboyjohn3483 commited a crime that could have been multiple homicide
Kinda sad that they didn't follow. They sound like the kind of person who deserves to be swung at. And I'm no lawyer but "self defense" sounds pretty reasonable to claim against someone who tried to run you down with a car and then followed you on foot when the vehicular assault didn't work.
Nah it's self-defence... you are allowed to break 'em.
11:45 "I'm better with my dick as a girl than I ever was as a bloke"
That's poetry right there.
Literally made my day.
I'm asexual so in BG3 Karlach coming on to my Tav was a bit of a "WHOAH HANG ON" for my brain but like... that was it. I picked the "That is very flattering but I'm not into you that way" option (for this run at least) and went on my merry way. People get so hissy about "oh no this game is so horny" but I doubt they are sex repulsed aces. I think they just didn't like that Astarion flirted with them.
But can you continue the romance if you turn down intercourse?
Sincere question. As someone else on the Ace spectrum but not the Aro one I'm genuinely curious if the game allows you have a romantic relationship divorced from physical intimacy.
@@darkness_visible7227 I don't believe the romance options are that varied, sadly.
With other characters you definitely could change your mind, so I think you can still romance her, but the "I`'m not into you that way" option seems to be a general rejection, not just on sex.
Yeah, they have a problem with the people not the media. Literal people being not-cishet, who dare create things that aren't their authoritarian version of a white fence relationship. Paranoid about the gays running the world while it burns down due to the actual dipsticks running the world.
@@darkness_visible7227Have not played myself but I'd love that option to romance minus bed hijinx.
Contrary to what they say, it's not the sex that repells them.. it's the queerness.
They wouldn't be complaining about "pornographic depravity" if all romances were heterosexual and the game didn't allow you to create a trans/nonbinary character.
Any time I hear "woke" used unironically I automatically tune out the rest of whatever they are saying because nothing of value will be lost. I've found it to be a good strategy.
Also I was not aware the Bridget trans flag meme came from you. Thank you Steph. I did my part helping spread it.
HA, "spread it" ;)
@@ramonandrajo6348Touch grass. Any grass.
So-called "free thinkers" when they have a chance to throw the word "woke" around (they don't know what it means)
Kind of depressing how it's become a shorthand that lets you know exactly the kind of person you're talking to is. Basically kills any vibe for conversation, cause you instantly know they're one of those types that can't stand seeing changes that aren't all about them.
@@lupint.w7444 As long as there are people promoting this kind of thing, people will have the right to use it. ;)
I just wanted to say that your trans joy is appreciated, I can’t overstate how much you helped me get over a lot of my fears over the past few years by simply existing & being joyful as you are. Thank you for sticking up for all of us & honestly making it easier for me to stand up for myself when faced with their utter trash arguments 💖
"you can tell a lot about a throat based on what it can't swallow" BEST LINE EVER
"With vicious mockery and hideous laughter" - I see what you did there!
We just upgraded from Tasha to Steph, and Steph's version is MUCH stronger!
not to mention that Steph knows how to put cutting words to good use ^^
And these douchebags lack intelligence, wisdom, and judging by their thin skin, constitution.
They ain’t makin the save XD.
Steph’s bard definitely knows Evard’s Black Tentacles.
I recall similar levels of outrage about Claire Russell in CP2077. In a genre of game that deals with transhumanism, these whiners got upset with the one named trans person in the entire game. My only gripe about Claire was the fact that I couldn't romance her!
Definitely a missed opportunity.
It's like those bigots try to co-opt every science-fiction in existence, and try to turn the author's original intention to their own ideology. Those of us who remember the very first, very first, days of Cyberpunk knew right from the get go, it pretty much showed the possibility of the tech and how transhumanism was a part of that. In that world, it was just a matter of fact. Not even something to obsess over any more than, "What's your favorite dive, and what food item, they sell, gives you the most enjoyable experience."
It was one of the various ways society in the Cyberpunk universe differed from the current state of our real life society.
Honestly, anyone who can accept cyberpunk-style transhumanism but balks at a transsexual person is suffering from some hefty cognitive dissonance.
Like, they're literally the same concept: remaking ourselves in our own image, using technology to overcome the limitations of our biology and take control of our bodies.
You can get weapons built into your arms, double jumping legs, a second heart, cyberware that speeds you up built onto your spine and whatever tf Maelstrom has going on, but for some reason no one can fathom a trans character
"You can tell a lot about a throat based on what it can't swallow." Pure poetry, holy fuck.
Thank you for talking on this! I once saw someone complain about how much fetishized sex is shoved down their throat in the 18+ game they chose to buy and I was about to give the guy the time of day and discuss it with him just for me to check his account and find out its filled to the brim with loli hentai 💀
"How dare you cater to kinks other than mine?!" EDIT: as an awful awful sidenote I went on Nexus mods recently for BG3 and found someone had made a mod where you could play as a child. Let that sink in.
Yeah, I will never not find it ironic that the same people who whine about too much NSFW content in an rpg are the same guys who whine about female characters wearing more modest outfits in fighting games like Soul Caliber and Dead or Alive, or whined when they reduced Lara Croft's cup size
@beckstheimpatient4135 Jesus christ man, I miss the time before I knew this existed what the hell 😭
@@unluckyone1655It’s so weird how people get bent about that. Eye candy in a game is nice if it’s thematic and immersive, but I hardly miss it when it isn’t there.
Also yeah these are the the people who complained about Tifa in FF7R. They’re patently ridiculous. Tifa, the Queen. She’s sexy as fuck without showing an inch of cleavage and if they’re so desperate to see her tits the Hub is filled with videos and some of them are incredibly impressive and very hot.
It’s them being so fucking spoiled that annoys me. Little punk asses don’t even know how good they’ve actually got it, because they’re too busy bitching about “woke this, SJW that.”
@@beckstheimpatient4135 Would've cost you nothing to not have told us that was a thing y'know.
Given the back-story of both Dame Aylin and Isobel, I'd argue that their level of "thirstiness" for eachother is actually very tame.
Small (and funny) correction on the Bridget thing--she used to be characterised as a boy who was raised as a girl for convoluted anime reasons. So instead of people being mad that liking Bridget is gay now, they're mad that it is now... less gay? They wanted it to be gay. Which seems odd for those types.
It's more that transphobia is stronger than homophobia as part of the cultural zeitgeist right now imo.
Hate and fetishization are two sides of the same coin. Transphobes watch the most trans porn, racists watch the most interracial porn. IT's a tale as old as time.
@@niamhleeson3522True, that's definitely the main motivator but it's funnier if they're mad they can't be gay for bridget anymore.
There are entertainment values in seeing straight man acting feminine. And if you want to argue that feminine is only exclusive to woman, i am ready for it friend.
I've seen a lot of "they're taking our femboys" takes about Bridget and I'm reminded that social media isn't worth being a part of
The amount of people saying it was "too easy" to end up in a same-sex romance because they have no social awareness was hilariously staggering.
Like... One guy on the steam forums was saying "Wyll wanted to dance, and I thought cool, he can show me how to make the moves on the ladies. And then he said he wanted a more sensual dance, and I thought oh yes, SCORE, and THEN the game had us looking way too longingly in each others eyes!! Like... How was I supposed to know that was a romance option?!"
And I'm there laughing. Because I'm a chronically oblivious dude when it comes to flirting (Comes with being socially awkward, on the autism spectrum AND Asexual), and even I could recognize that as an *obvious* relationship flag. XD
To play the Devil's advocate, I've noticed a lot of late millennials and zoomers who grew up online seem to have a hard time reading a room, regardless of their political leanings. Like, I'm heavily introverted to the point where too much social interaction will send me into panic attacks if I'm not near blackout drunk. But I know if someone is flirting with me, if they are just being nice, and can read subtext. But I've actually seen younger people who can't.
I'm not gonna defend that chump.
But I DO find myself annoyed at dialogue options that were CLEARLY (to me) indicating one thing, and the character says something completely different. It seems to happen a lot lately.
Just use the same words!
CharA_Says: So should we just go kill them all then?
OptionA: Do you even think we can?
OptionB: Oh sure! I'd bet they'll *really* appreciate that.
We_Say_B: Yeah! They've been asking for it for a long time. Let's kill them.
Wait...what? I wasn't agreeing! I picked the OBVIOUS sarcasm choice to point out how stupid the plan was!
It's crazy how many games need to be modded now just to have the dialogue choices ACTUALLY reflect the player/character answer/sentiment.
Regular day just getting sensual with the boys. You know, Platonically.
@@Prophes0rYour example feels like the devs saying "We need the player to kill them but we also have a Quota for decisions and the higher ups will can us if we don't meet their minimum."
@@thecthuloser876 Not everyone can see flirting well though. I'm in my 40s and I've been there more times than I'm sure I'll ever know.
I used to get smacked by co-workers all the time.
"Dude WTF! She dropped her keys in front of you 3 times! Are you blind?"
"C'mon man...she spent an hour buying 2 cables and asked for your phone-number in-case she needed help installing it, and you gave her our customer-service number?"
There was even a time in college when I was invited over to study, her parent's were out of town, and it was late "So I should just sleep-over."
I (of course) slept in the spare bedroom because I was oblivious.
I was somehow still oblivious when she woke me at 3-am to kill a spider in her bedroom. I couldn't find the spider so I went back to sleep.
It was YEARS before I realized what was really going on that night.
It's sad actually, because I was attracted to her and just too shy to do anything about it. And after that night, where I had clearly showed no interest in her OBVIOUS advances, she moved-on and faded out of our friend=group.
So again, I'm not defending the guy who threw a tantrum because a boy in a video-game wanted to smooch him.
But, some people really might not see the flirting until you nuke them from orbit.
Hell...sometimes even orbital nukes aren't enough. I thought it was a joke when I was blatantly told "You're cute. We should go fuck." So I joked back "Sure! Lead the way!"
It took a solid 8-10 steps of being led away by the hand before my brain started throwing alarms as it realized what was going on. It was an interesting night, and the talk afterward was even more eye-opening.
Humans are hard...
Gamers: Calling BG3 horny, childish, and filled with unnecessary sex and suggestive content that's constantly thrown in your face...
Also Gamers: Defends the old God of War 'Kratos-banging-random-woman-for-no-reason' quicktime events, gets mad about Lara Croft and Tifa Lockhart *only* having DD cups, and whines about Aloy not being 'pretty enough' in a post-apocalyptic world.
I honestly doubt those are the same people.
The bottom line is that either sexuality in games is good or it's not, if it's good there is no problem with OG Lara Croft having DD tits, Kratos banging random women and BG3's sex and nudity, if it's bad then they're all equally bad. On the same ground, the people that have been waging a crusade against anime tits for years, or certain game journalists that waged war against the beautifully animated and designed Dragon's Crown back in 2013, can't go and just be fine with BG3's stuff. That's hypocrite stuff, and unfortunately hypocrites abound.
@@Luca-sl7tb I disagree. It's little a bit more grey than that. 'Sexy' can be bad if it goes against the creators' intent. It doesn't happen as much as people seem to think though. Most that complain don't care about the context; they just think it's 'perverted.'
I think Dragon's Crown is a perfect example of intended sexiness as the creators were making a 70s-80s fantasy parody. It was like an exaggerated van mural made into a beat'em up. That was definitely a case of people being upset with the artwork out of context or just plain ignoring the context.
@@Luca-sl7tbthat's incredibly reductive. It's all not equally good or bad. Portraying a world where women are reduced to sexual objects meant for conquest by men is unhealthy and dehumanizing of women (but sadly that's the norm), that's bad.
If however you display a healthy sexuality with respect, consent, agency, that's good.
@@amelliangames7365 No, you're either in favour of sex positivity or you're against it, and then you cynically decide to feign support for some forms of It because it's temporarily convenient to do so.
Incredibly reductive is when moral crusades have been waged, and are being waged, against the likes of Bayonetta and Dragon's Crown and more, amazing creative works made by men and women who, by the way, are meant to be lewd. It's when there are entire subreddits dedicated to harassing artists that make stuff some prudes consider morally objectionable, all with the absolute convinction of being on the side of good and progress. It's when I end reading of descriptions like yours of worlds where women are entirely reduced to nothing but sexual objects and It feels like nothing that's actually been made after the 1950s, in fact it feels highly hyperbolic even when talking about 1920s fiction.
I've seen enough nonsense in 15 years that I'm really not up for getting once again in the discussion about certain kinds of tits are inherently evil but others are totally cool... For whatever reasons.
To be fair, the developers for Skyrim didn’t put sex in their games.
It was the GAMERS that sexualized Skyrim.
And remember kids, the chuds got so incredibly upset at the idea that Bridget was trans that they impersonated Arcsys staff and sent emails to people saying Bridget was not trans, thereby forcing the developers LEGALLY to HAVE to confirm her being trans, a more legendary own-goal I've yet to see
Almost as if "masculinity" is nothing more than an millenia-long inferiority-superiority complex......
The rebuttal was brilliant, Japanese pronouns can be very gender-neutral but they went out of their way to use the most explicitly feminine descriptors they could for Bridget.
It really was a "fuck around and find out" moment.
@mkvaladez I think he meant to make it Official, which, while not a legal matter, is still a huge self-own to those a$$hats who thought they could get away with impersonating staff.
Bridget is not trans and never was.
@mkvaladez They kinda were, it's not legally good when other people impersonate officials from your company.
Me, a cis het guy:
"Gale I love you, just not in that way; you're really laying it on thick here... well **hello** Astarian"
Karlach is the greatest though, I'll die for her
I'm a pan guy but I feel the same about Gale and Astarion. XD Gale's *entire* problem is that he doesn't know how to put on the damn brakes. Astarion, though...... man, he toys with you, jumps forward and back so intensely, and makes you *want* to follow him. mmmm, delicious.
Cis het as well, but I like both of em. xD
Romancing Shadowheart, but I still like all the guys in the game. Gale has a great sense of humor. Astarion too, when he's not trying to talk me into being EEEEVIL!
Who doesn't like the Bug Buff Flamin' Hot Cheeto Puff
@@Omnywrench I call her a roasted marshmallow XD
Astarion is such a cunt. I love him.
I love how the far right is constantly shouts "Won't somebody thing of the children" especially when they get shot to death at their schools, and the survivors get to deal with PTSD that they'll carry for the rest of their lives.
The vocal rightoids on the internet don't have, and never will have kids. They can't leave mommy's house.
The hallmark of a great fantasy game is the ability to give your smashing dwarf lady a luscious, beautiful beard. Thank you, Larian! I haven't seen this level of attention to detail and lore that doesn't come up often, since EverQuest 2, honestly.
I really wish all dwarves in media were Discworld dwarves. It would just be so fun and really annoy a whole bunch of reactionary idiots.
@@spiraljumper74Terry Pratchett really did get it.
I seem to recall a dwarf character in one of the Icewind Dale games, an NPC you meet at some point, who was female and had a beard which she would explain as "Oh right. Dwarf women have beards, friend" if you asked about it. At the time she was just represented by a male dwarf sprite, I think; technological limitations (and limited artist time) and all that. But an attempt was made, perhaps, to represent more than just the strictest adherence to cishet norms.^^
Truly an homage to the greatest line in DnD movie history.
"The problem with elf women is they aint got meat on their bones! You've got to get yourself a nice 250lb dwarf with some hair on her chin you can hang on to!"
@@spiraljumper74 Pretty sure Tolkein did it before Pratchett, but okay. 🤔
It's so weird how like back in around 2004 everyone had no real beef with Bridget when she was still trying to discover herself (see the old catchphrase "Everyone is Gay for Bridget" for how much she was liked by the fandom then) but when we reach the end of her storyline where she was content with living the rest of her days as a woman after the whole manly bounty hunter gig didn't pan out, they go out their way to do stupid debunking to the point where the creator had to step in and say "Nah, Bridget is a woman, deal."
Passage of time is funny sometimes. Bridget is still adorable as she was back in the day too btw.
The thing is it isn't GG fans who were the ones outraged it was a bunch of tourists who never picked up the sticks and couldn't last 2 min vs my Baiken. The GG fandom is still very much in love with Bridget and our weird little queer, metalcore fighting game. It's the anti-woke brigade who noticed and tried to turn our series into a culture war despite not being part of our culture to begin with.
The funny thing is that ArcSys seemed content to let things rock until some bigots impersonated ArcSys and made false statements. Then ArcSys' statement went out of its way to be as abundantly clear as possible that Bridget is a woman.
It really was a "fuck around and find out" moment.
@@greywitchleila yeah I remember when BG2 introduced a trans character a few years ago and the gamergaters got all pissy over it.
Oh yeah it was the new bg1 extension Siege of Dragonspear, it was only a secondary npc (a cleric trader with a small quest), and you had to dig into her dialogues before she reveal to be trans (and it's only ONE line of dialogue ^^)@@jadedheartsz
All this 'discourse' did was get me to look into the character and story. And she is just wonderful thank you outrage mob for only this one time pointing out a cool character who is still trans, you sillies.
My only complaint is a small one I've had about RPGs with party romancing for a long time now, It's started to feel as though the character writing trends towards the idea that if you engage more deeply with a character then you intend to romance them. It feels as though fewer and fewer storylines allow for the kind of deeper platonic cameraderie that can develop as a result of the dangers you've encountered together. Don't mistake my complaint for prudishness though I don't mind this stuff getting more presence in RPGs I just wish the third option picked up traction alongside it.
Give me more storylines like...say... a postgame credits narration where the PC and Gale go out drinking one night keeping in touch after the dust settles, you play wingman for him, and end up becoming his best man/woman at the wedding and then the godparent of his child or something like that idk.
In my experience you can be friends with Gale pretty easily, without romance
I actually like the way it was handled in a previous Larian game, Divinity OS 2. Where I was spending a lot of time with the same companions, and it was was written and though the companion had gotten the wrong impression and came on to me. And that put my character in a position where I had to be like "No no no, sorry, it's not like that."
I feel like potentially misread signals and having to gently turn someone down is part of that though. I've been on both sides of that irl, and I'm an asocial introvert. As long as there remains that option - the "no, sorry, I'm not into you romantically, we should just be close friends" option - I'd say it's fine. If anything, it's more natural that way.
I actually found a platonic friendship with Karlach amazing, there's even a scene later on where we meet her friend and they asked if we were are couple and she was like ew no, were best mates! Genuinely would love to have more of the non pursued romance options behave like that
@@WarriorOfStarclan See that actually makes me more interested now. My comment didn't really come from a place of prudishness (As Yahztee Croshaw put it in his own commentary "I like tits, why lie?") But it's gotten almost...boring recently that a lot of RPGs with romancable party members if you interact with them too much it eventually comes down to a romantic encounter with a binary choice of Reciprocate or Rebuff. I really like the idea of more cameraderie-style third options like what you mentioned with Karlach. I should also mention I'm not talking about "lets just be friends" options, but rather simply a line of interaction where the subject never really comes up.
The joke is there used to be play called "No Sex Please, We're British", which is one of the only stories my mom ever told me about her extended time visiting Europe in the 70s
Yup, pretty sure Steph knows that one :D
The play was made into a movie and is available to buy if you want to watch it.
"Everyone is gay for Bridget" We Guilty Gear fans have been saying it the whole time.
I guess Bridget and Moleman are the two ends of the gay scale
It's almost as if the people screeching about this only just going woke and going broke have absolutely no idea about the media they're screeching about.
@@lilpetz500except moleman are much more sexy hands down!
yes!! bridget was canonically a boy in previous guilty gears and people i guess forgot despite the meme?
@@davemichael798 a lot of people were "canonically" a different gender in the past but amazingly they're still trans and still the gender they are now, so, she's always been a girl
I'm an Aro/Ace and I am cackling at how horny this game is. Though the romantic scenes make me cringe to death, I keep triggering them because I want to see what happens. I could easily not. It's so easy to just....not....if you don't want to.
The only cogent argument ive heard from people about BG3 relationships was Yahtzee saying that he'd have preferred more varied options between romance and emnity with characters. But Steph is spot on for saying these arguments don't deserve a measured response. They deserve ridicule.
Yeah, that's what really irks me. I do think there are sensibke conversations to have about whether the romance un BG3 is all that good, what its shortcomings and strengths are... but people are just being so so weird about it.
Being on the ace spectrum I'm really put off how it seems to be either "I like you and we should bone" or "eww get away from me!" Can I please just be chill with people without the game assuming I want to get horny with everyone?
Funny enough that was part of Patch 1, to make turning down Gale less extreme
@@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953 Also ace, even aroace and I haven't really felt like those have been my only options. Though, to be honest, it has only been Gale whose dialogues reached even vaguely intimate territory and I could just politely let him know that sorry, I'm not interested (getting Astarion to get interested in my poor goody-two-shoes drow, that's the difficult thing 'xD)
Probably a good change. I can only say so much since I have not been able to buy or try the game at all so I'm operating on primarily second hand accounts. In spite of my interest in the game.@@Salt_Mage
I'm gonna use "utterly, butterly, gay" from now on. Thank you for inventing the phrase, it has made the world a better place!
mmm, buttery males
Just "butterly" makes an excellent adjective, too.
Pretty sure utterly butterly has been a product for several decades now
Baldur's Gate 1 let you play a trans character in 1998, there was literally a belt that could trans you.
The belt's at least as old as second edition, albeit as a 'cursed' item since this was the late eighties/early nineties. I don't know if it's in 5e now but Pathfinder had a potion or elixir that'd do the same openly for sale. Then again I remember hearing (secondhand) whining about 5e openly saying that non-cishet roleplaying was okay.
Thank you for making the connection between the Satanic Panic and the pearl clutching going on today about a D&D game.
Same shit, different decade, same kinda morons.
I didn't even realize that was a thing until I stopped and thought oh yeah equal representation of gods and devils/demons *which are not the same* is definitely pushing Satanism. My god... My devil this is so fucking stupid.
And not so ironically the pearl clutchers in both eras wrote too much and outed themselves as the true deviants in their over the top attempts at public prudeness. 10 v-bucks says some of them fumed when the age slider didn't go down to fourteen for their Gwen Stacy run.
Having been following your work for around a decade, I can definitely confirm that, if anything, your content is actually less prone to sexual references since the transition. I still remember images of you waving around The Penetrator and introducing your audience to the wonders of Bad Dragon's range of products. 🤣
I started watching after the transition, and I've watched some videos from before and yeah, they sounded so vile and so sexual it was like some of the juvenile jokes we did when we were teenagers. But with more rage
I concur! I haven’t seen the penetrator in a looong time
Okay so I personally don't get the whole "everyone is too horny" thing, I'm Ace and I understand that the majority of the human race responds to stressful life threatening danger (you know like what is happening to the people in the game) by forming connections and boning like there is no tomorrow. Just look at birth rates after wars, disasters, etc.
It made perfect sense to me.
To be fair in not asexual and I'm not extremely oversexed trying to bone everything all the time. Very few are.
It doesn't even have to be life threatening, and in addition all of the characters in baldurs gate 3 are in peak physical condition.
Just saying, the Olympic village needs international shipping pallets worth of condoms for a reason..
I'm not all that far in Baldur's Gate 3 yet, but I did find a lot of what felt like overt and very quick options for sexual relationships. As an ace person who likes exploring dialogue options in games it felt very quickly like the game was asking who I want to sleep with, but I was always able to say no. I had one non-physical 'intimate' experience but the game gave me the option to end it when I was content with how far it'd been explored. It does feel like the game is (at least in the early phases) asking for consent fairly quickly with all of the characters I met so far, and I suspect that for the homophobes and transphobes it's that mere act of being asked that bothers them. From an ace perspective, it feels fairly typical to how people act irl. From a homophobic perspective, I bet it feels 'forced'.
There are a few bugs here and there, tho. I hugged Karlach once, and when I progressed my Gale romance I suddenly had the option to break up with Karlach.... whom I never actually 'dated'. But I think that's a bug, and not an indication of the developer's actual intent.
I'm pan and non-monogamous, so I felt ok with flirting with almost everyone until I realised Gale wanted me for himself, which is when I had to turn people down (in a different save from the Karlach issue above). If I were monogamous I'd probably feel a little overwhelmed by the amount of sexual propositioning at the start, but at the same time we're all about to die - we've been tadpoled. Hell yes I'd like to have some fun before bursting into tentacles.
Maybe they just aren’t used to asking for consent…
An anecdote; when I was sixteen I left my home in Kansas and moved to Nola to learn how to cook professionally. I made friends with a co-worker and we went out to a bar. It was a gay bar, but I didn’t know because- rural Kansas, anyway I got hit on and it made me initially uncomfortable, but then I thought about it more.
And that’s the story of how I learned I was bisexual. All this to say that maybe some of them will learn something of value.
“Huh, maybe I *do* want to be balls deep in this twinky Vampire!”
I've read some of those steam threads and I feel like those people either don't read the dialogue options and just click every single one from top to bottom of the list and then get shocked pikachu faced by the fact that there was even a possibility of ending up in a romantic situation with another guy
or are really, really bad at reading social cues
Also greetings from a fellow ace
@@blairfujin A bunch of troglodytes who never interact with other humans face to face are potentially bad with social cues? Be still my heart ♥️
Imagine being so insecure about your own sexual orientation.. as straight man I actually get flattered when I get hit on by the same sex. BG3 just makes me happy because I can do all crazy shit I can think of. This content is pure gold btw keep it up!
@@ramonandrajo6348Seethe.
@@lazaroskarmaniolas7410 ?
@@ramonandrajo6348The buffoon is flummoxed!
@@ramonandrajo6348cope and seethe loser
@@ramonandrajo6348 You are literally mocking someone for not getting offended about something. 🤣
Whiney gamers: "You need to debate us as if our opinions are valid!"
Stephanie: "Suck it, Bridget is trans"
Absolute hero.
Exactly. Treating their "concerns" with any level of seriousness only adds legitimacy to what is essentially hatespeech. Fuck em.
kinda wish Bridget didn't have the really... awkward backstory, but at the same time, her hometown had to deal with the horseshit of 1999, of the Crusades, and the constant threat of angry mechadragons murdering the shit out of everyone, so fair enough, world was more insane than that stupid belief.
Venom and Testament also are really based.
also it's... pretty obvious she's trans based on the perfected arcade ending. sucks ass that ending requires a player to beat stage fucking nine arcade boss in strive; if you haven't done that yet, don't be shocked, more than 99% of the playerbase hasn't.
it is that. mother. fucking. difficult. Also Goldlewis at the start of Bridget's arcade story is basically my natural reaction when i've had that fuckup happen before.
he's a boy according to his story
@@SinclairLocke
“We’ve never changed the storyline in a flash of an idea. It’s not just about Bridget, it’s the message of the character and the drama has been decided for a long time”, he says. “Nowadays, transgender people are much more widely recognised, and it’s as if the times have caught up with the story of Bridget, which we had been thinking about for a long time”.
“Every character was conceived by Ishiwatari in advance”, he continues. “Ishiwatari had already decided on the settings and dramas for each character, but there were many that we hadn’t yet revealed. This time, we brought out Bridget, and I think that’s really all there is to it”.
Bridget’s gender had been the source of some controversy in the Guilty Gear community- the character’s initial appearance saw her as a boy-made-to-dress-like-a-girl whose arc was about proving that she was indeed a boy by being the best bounty hunter.
Her Strive appearance deals with the follow-up to that: After being the best bounty hunter, she decides that she actually quite liked being a girl, and it doesn’t take away from any of her other traits.
As seems to always be the case when transgender characters are involved, this drew a lot of controversy with transphobic players and social media users lashing out.
“To put it bluntly, I thought it would be a topic that would naturally have pros and cons, as expected”, Akira says. “Although it’s a short story, I tried to depict how the character lived, what he worried about and what he thought about in the game’s story”.
“However, only the pinpointed topics were discussed first, and people who hadn’t bought the game and hadn’t played it got excited in the discussion, and more and more people took it in a different direction from the message we were giving, and to top it all off, there were even spoofers”, he continues.
“Originally, we wanted to say, “Play the game and take in the story, and while everyone may have their own interpretation, please take in our message”, but official impersonators started showing up, so we had to make a proper announcement on our side”, he adds.
Ultimately, Daisuke and the team issued official statements on Bridget being trans, as part of the Developers Backyard discussions of the game.
Source: “Daisuke Ishiwatari says Bridget from Guilty Gear was Always Trans”, GamerBraves
@@SinclairLockeyou play her arcade mode in strive to perfected aka stage 9 and win yet? clearly fucking not.
I went onto the BG3 Steam discussion a few days after release to check what an update I'd just downloaded included and like 80% of the threads were whining about "wokeness." Absolutely pathetic what constant culture war bollocks has reduced people to.
Bin over there for years it's bin a riot the entire time since 2020 xD
the steam discussions really need to be moderated better >.
My favourite thread on there was the guy claiming that he was gay and that BG 3 was too gay.
Steam discussions are a cesspool. Because you get points to buy things when you get comment awards, assholes will purposely say hateful shit to get clown awards that still give you points. It's a broken system that encourages trolling. I can't believe Steam allows it.
@@Peepshow789 Yeah I saw that one. He didn't seem like he knew very much about queer people for someone who is _definitely_ gay
One of the best episodes yet, and Steph's been on a tear lately!
Through doors no less!
They still need to talk about Cassette Beasts though.
No, not really. XD
@@ramonandrajo6348I searched all over the Internet and I still couldn't find who asked for your opinion.
@@punishedbnnuy Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. ;)
The fact Steph has to talk about topics like this over and over again is ridiculous.
Why the hell should the gender, race or sexuality of a character in a game, tv series, book or film matter.
While the topics you have to cover are difficult times at Steph, you honestly create brilliant content
because some people project their own insecurities as "facts" or "objectiveness" as a way to make up for not wanted to deal with their own nonsense.
Ironically, honking it to Brisket was significantly gayer back in the day when she was 'just' a femboy.
Ofcourse she was also more of a child then but that's never an issue for these reactionairies.
Edit; also, I love how you picked Kai Winn for the 'this game is very depraved' quote
Also also; bought vampire survivors last week, had actually forgotten you were a contributor lol. Love the game, love Giovanna.
Also the level of sexiness in BG 3 is quite in line with the setting of the forgotten realms. most of the setting is quite a bit more culturally sex positive than our medieval times (or even modern times would be). I don't know if anyone has read any forgotten realms books or seen any of the videos Ed greenwood (original author of the setting) but those make it clear that sex between adventuring parties of all kinds of make ups is quite common.
Though there is always the Caveat that , it's your roleplay setting when you run it so change it however you and your players want.
Yeah, like, there aren't even bisexual elf orgies in this game!
I could've sworn there was a few drow you could drag into an orgy with Halsin@@cassandrawasright1481
Medieval times were more "sex positive" than say the Victorian times and after.
Your content has changed. It's generally better and more engaging in no small part because you are clearly much happier.
If I remember rightly, there is a character in Runescape, who is a magical elf made of crystals. She changed herself to become female so she could have a heterosexual relationship with a man, have his kids, etc. She didn't transition so much as use actual, flat out sorcery to polymorph. To find this out you needed to have a high-level character to get to the zone they were in, complete a load of quests, and then find an ultra-rare drop to get the dialog where she references being born male. Dialog which made up less than a billionth of the total chat in that game.
I do remember rightly that some players reacted to this obscure reference to trans people by declaring the whole game was going downhill, and that the parade of tolerance had to end. One reference. One short set of chat lines. One character who transitioned - through magic - to specifically have a het relationship. To them this was a cavalcade of SJWism which was going to explode humanity as we knew it.
Bridget is trans, guys. Suck it.
Did they forget the makeover mage exists in runescape to change your character's gender since rs classic?
Angof! I remember her, I had no idea there was an outrage over her (apart from stuff along the lines of like 'wow it took them long enough to add LGBT characters, huh?') Maybe that means I was hanging around the right people, lol.
ok groomer
Steph, this has completely opened my eyes. For years I've tried to explain the logic of "you're wrong and being hateful" to these people who are willfully denying reality. From now on, my response is gonna be "Cry more, snowflake"
I feel freed and have a big smile on my face because I'm just like "Why am I even feeling upset on behalf of my LGBT+ friends when I could be laughing with them?". Thank you.
This! :flexed_biceps:
You're right, being upset only hurts you because that's what the hogs want. Switching to mockery several years ago was the best thing for my mental health.
Based Gigachad response.
>Sees bigotry
> "you're wrong and being hateful"
> Refuses to elaborate
> Leaves
I rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the “saints”
Maybe you'll listen to genocide
I don't normally comment on videos and have been watching for many years. The end of this video where you talk about people saying not having a problem with it as long as they don't see it was just very profound and I appreciate it so much.
I moved in to my uncles house a good few years ago and being out and gay he made a few comments about bringing my boyfriend who I had been with at the time for over 3 years (and still am today). He was allowed to come and stop and chat and things but my uncle put in 'rules' around being there that amounted to his not understanding of homosexualities and his assumption that both me and my boyfriend would be extremely 'camp' and having sex in every room all the time, as that was his exposure of gays within the media which made him nearly take back his invitation for me to move in in order to save money.
It didn't take long for him to realise that both me and my boyfriend were just two ordinary people who love each other and realise that it was his upbringing that caused him to feel he had to shield away from the gay.
I left after just under a year as he was selling the house but I know that just being around him and him getting to know a gay couple made him realise how 'normal' queer people are.
He still has underlining homophobic attitudes and makes occasional inappropriate jokes about things that he doesn't understand which is where the problem lies. Queer people exist and therefore should be represented fairly.
If there is fair representation then the generations that are growing up now will have a better understanding of the world they live in and can start to accept others as just being themselves instead of running rampant and attacking everything they see as different.
Sorry for the long post.
Kinda like how people "accepted" I have always been Asexual, then when they sexually assaulted me (happened a lot because they assumed they could grope me or touch me in all sorts of wrong places at school or work because "I wouldn't like it since I am not into sex thus they wouldn't get into trouble") and I would freak out and try to snap at them and explain exactly what Asexuality is, it then became "that doesn't exit, you're not actually Asexual you're either prude (no, because my husband of 16 years and I are totally happy together) or there's something medically wrong to make you this way (I had too much testing to prove my lady bits were fine in regards to all that type of stuff but I still didn't have interest in sex) and then they would just be utter dicks. So I am glad to see that they have to start having it brought out of the woodworks and have to face it. Maybe it's time the bigots start getting a taste of their own medicine and then the world will be a better place
@@NoOneReallySpecial correct me if I’m wrong but most people regardless of sexual identity wouldn’t like being sexually assaulted. I’m sorry you went through that and I’m happy you found someone that seems to adore you.
I'm glad to hear your uncle is overcoming his prejudices. I've found the same thing in my life - a lot of bigoted people will change their minds when they're actually exposed to the people they're bigoted against. They realise that they are just normal people. Of course, it can take a while, and like your uncle, there is usually some amount of prejudice left over from a lifetime of bad stereotypes - but there's hope for improvement for a lot of these folks.
@4nn4h I think everyone is technically capable of that sort of change. It's just that a lot of them are too lazy or stubborn to actually go through with trying to change. Honestly hope I'm wrong about that being most people, but from what I've seen in my life in reality and on the internet, it seems like people care more about being seen as right than actually being right.
"The game is very depraved"
Already bought it, you don't have to sell it to me
I just wanna get to a point where queer storylines are just as omnipresent and pervasive that one bad one doesn't reflect on queer storylines as a whole. Imagine if the idea of straight romance was completely discarded because of one shitty attempt (of which there are a great many).
As for Bridget, I've never played Guilty Gear, but even I've been aware that she was crossdressing in the canon before now (there was literally a trope named after her, 'dropped a Bridget on him' about someone realising the object of their attraction is not what they thought it was). Appreciate the confirmation of her transness. :)
I'm two and a half months in on HRT. Your joy at your transition was one of the things that helped me start my own. Thank you for that.
Hope its been a freeing experience for you.
My mind never ceases to be blown at the raw indignation that some Guilty Gear "fans" expressed over Bridget. Not only does her arcade mode story conclude with her affirming her own gender, but Daisuke himself confirmed it, *HIMSELF*. And even THAT isn't enough for these tosspots
Bridget was always trans in a way: Raised as a girl and wanting to be accepted as a man. What irks a lot of folks is that Daisuke effectively made them detransition while still claiming them to be trans. It comes off as superficial and performative
We live in an era where creators have to outright state their intentions otherwise you get people purposely misinterpreting art.
Yeah I don't think many actual GG fans were pissed off about it. I think it was all the new "fans" drawn in by the "political discourse"
@@gabagandalfoftheweedexcept Bridget didn't view herself as a woman when she was younger. She thought she was a cis man and wanted to be affirmed as such
You can't detransition from being a man to. Still being a man. Crossdressing doesn't immediately make you a man
She realized she was fine being seen as a woman / didn't need to be seen and validated as a man. THAT makes her trans
@@nejishadow Imo it's not about gonads. It's about rejecting the role society imposes on you and live your life how you see fit.
Reducing the debate to whether one's gonads match the way one looks or not is exactly the kind of superficial thinking people find irksome
"The only way they can process this is by blaming me"
Sad to say, you kinda hit the nail on the head with this one. One of the most depressing statistics I've ever heard was that the majority of violence against trans people happens after sex. They literally can't process their own sexuality amid the morality brainwashing and they blame the person for "making me feel that way".
I know it wasn't the main focus of the video but I actually really liked the character of Krem in Dragon Age 3 and actually wanted more dialog from him. Seeing a trans character that specifically didn't want to alter their body, even though it would presumably be easy with magic in the world, but only wanted to present as masculine was very interesting to me and opened my mind to the spectrum of what it means to be trans.
As a Bi guy, Bridget being trans doesn't stop her from being *hot*.
Id argue she's more cute as heck than hot
Just makes her hotter, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm ace but I think she's cute.
As a straight guy, Bridget being trans still doesn't stop her from being hot.
@@PhoenixFireZero I'd argue cute is hot. It all depends on what a person is attracted to. To me, a cute girl next door is far hotter and sexy than the traditional supermodel. Hot is whatever floats your boat. 🙂
As a straight man I love this channel and I love you Steph! ❤ Thank god for you!
I would like to join you in formally organizing us CisHet DudeBro ManSluts for JimSteph.
I also appreciate being educated with a firsthand account of what being trans is like. For us cishet people who want to be allies, this is the perspective we need to listen to.
This guy's sex lasts longer than 7 minutes
Also a straight male, I'm trying to listen and understand things from the perspective of a lgbtq+ person and consider my language to be more inclusive.
I don't always get it right, but I'm trying the best I can, and I appreciate hearing perspectives from the people who are actually affected by these things.
Being a decent human being was taught to me as a kid, so I wonder what sludge taught these Gamers™️ to be such shitlords.
Also I might be straight, but I can't help but find Steph's new look quite alluring to say the least (I guess I'm not as straight as I thought or I just appreciate attractiveness in a person regardless of how they identify themselves)
@@PaulTheFox1988 Trans-feminine just means a person is feminine now and wasn't in the past. So, being attracted to them (now) is still a heterosexual response.
A friend of mine said this about Bioware RPGs back in the day and recently said it again for BG3. "If the game is too horny for you, it is only that way because you picked the horny options." So a lot of the backlash is kind of a self-report in my opinion.
I’m asexual and I love all the flirting in Baldur’s Gate 3
*cracks knuckles
Time to start the ace gathering comment thread! :3
Never played Baldur's Gate btw, is it beginner friendly?
@@lilpetz500: I suppose the fights might feel a bit much if you've never played similar CRPGs. But there's plenty of fights that don't need to happen because you can talk your way out of them - or that can be over pretty quickly if you ambush them, play around with the environment, and so on. Also, you can always choose the Explorer mode where enemies have less health, stuff is cheaper, you get a bonus to rolls, etc. IIRC, it won't lock you out of any achievements. It does lock you out of multiclassing, but you can freely switch between difficulty levels during the game.
(Another person on the ace spectrum here! I can't get enough of Astarion, and I platonically love all of them.)
Confirmed
@@lilpetz500I imagine it can be a bit rough if you're new to dnd and crpgs. I am pretty familiar with bith but still not very good at them (and I tend to build my characters more around flavour than actually being as effective as possible)
Save frequently, autosaves are few and far between. In the early game I lost about an hour of progress because a boss killed my main character in a single turn and him and his minions proceeded to wipe the rest of my party oretty quickly. I'm sure there was a better solution but I just made sure to save the next time I got to that fight and it took a couple of reloads to get an attempt where the boss didn't immediately knock me down.
@@cheesi Yeah F5 quick save shortcut can definitely be your best friend!!
Man, I was glad for confirmation that I was, indeed, gay. Until they pulled the rug from underneath me! Thanks for nothing Steph! /s
I'll confirm it in Steph's place. If you needed a confirmation that you're gay, I as the high priest of the gay agenda, do officially confer you with such confirmation.
Congrats on your gayness!
the Japanese know who is gay and who is going to be made gay. they can approve your gayness.
@@JeronimusJackgaycertification complete
@@zachlewis2751 that was fast
@JeronimusJack well there's a process to come if you can infer betwimst the lines 😉 and so be open to a select body to come over and you can prove gayness and receive a well earned benefit 👄
I would like to correct the first part - it doesn't matter if you've felt a little pulse jerked it or whatever, you are gay for Bridgette. There are no exceptions. Everyone is gay for Bridgette.
*Bridget in GGXX:* I'm a guy
*Guys who post on 4chan all day:* lol everyone's gay for Bridget
*Bridget in GGST:* Actually, I realized I'm a girl
*Those same girls from before:* lol everyone's gay for Bridget
Only difference I see in terms of your content is that you seem happier. That makes me happy. As a fellow ultraqueer.
Changes:
-More happy
-More tits
-More MANTA FORCE!!!
I'd say that's a win-win.
@@ramonandrajo6348Cope.
I agree tbh
I love bridget being in the corner :D shes so fun in ggst
I wonder if the Gamer Bros complaining about Baldur's Gate 3 also complained about Tomb Raider... or Lollipop Chainsaw... or Bayonetta...
Or Aliens.
Or Predator.
I really admire your uncompromising attitude and unwavering pride. Keep up the good work.
@@ramonandrajo6348Mald.
@@lazaroskarmaniolas7410 ?
@@ramonandrajo6348ROFL. LMAO even.
There's a really common joke among trans fans of Guilty Gear which goes something like, "Of course Bridget lived for a decade as a woman before being acknowledged as her actual gender! SHE'S BRITISH!"
Love it! Up to and including, 'Damn ... that is a fuck of a waiting requirement.'
Safe edgy so funny. It is racist but in 'reverse' so it is 'okay' and totally 'hilarious' guyssssss 🤓
Hey now, I found Bridget's lore relatable because she was in denial about being trans for two decades before finally figuring herself out.
@@wilderbeast9368 You might want to let the Brits know that they're a race...they will be surprised and all of Europe will probably have words for them. Potentially more pointed words than usual even.
@@LupineShadowOmega Factually, they are a race. Fact denial cannot stand.
“Vicious mockery and hideous laughter” I see what you did there.
Imagine being so stupid and immature for getting mad about something that literally does not affect you. There's plenty of porn out there for everyone, that doesn't mean it's all for you.
Great video Steph! Stay fabulous!
You'd think they'd understand the concept of "not everything is made for you" since they use it all the time to defend games not having easy modes, but alas. As always with those kinds of people, "rules for thee but not for me"
@@mjc0961 they also used that argument about games having only cis hetero characters, saying it's not for the gays and telling us to make our own games. Obviously they didn't really want games for the gays judging by their reactions when we do get them.
I couldnt imagine writing a whole game off because you can be trans in it
Exactly this!
You, my friend, are a decent person and not a reactionary butt-goblin. That's why you can't imagine it.
Be very proud of that.
funnily enough you could also be trans in baldur's gate 1
However.
We can't be Lizardfolk in the year of our lord 2023.
Literally unplayable.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 What!? An outrage!
Dame Ayelin is probably the coolest character in BG3. Her reveal cutscene is one of the best moments in the entire game.
To be honest Steph, if I had one complaint about your more recent videos, it's that there's a lot less weird shit, like I miss the Cornflake Homunculus and the Surprise Mechanic 😂
and boglins 😭😭
And the lack of Dutchess Amelia du Hardcore.
The Sex Speedruns have to be one of my favorite things trending lately. The game really can get horny, but I won't complain. It's just part of life and all, ya know?
i just love the part where... you can just turn the sex stuff OFF if you don't want that experience in BG3
Somebody said something I heard this week (can't remember where) that suddenly made a lot of sense out of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments and for that matter, racism, antisemitism and the rest. "They rail against [insert minority group here] because they don't like being left out of the conversation." I believe the phrasing was "feeling uncomfortable because it's not about them". Obviously, that's not the beginning and the end of such antisocial stances, but it puts a new spin on the root cause of it all for me.
it's a lot worse than just not liking being left out, they don't like it if anyone else is included at all, because it means anything at all is not about them.
this video gives me "straight men talking about how they're straight all the time" vibes, but in reverse lmao
No homo! ;op
For folk that are so anti gay, the right wing fellas sure do obsess over the male body eh? 😏
*:whispers:* they're often not straight... 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
'The lady doth protest too much, methinks' - Bill Shakesman, 1599
"Two guys sitting in a hot-tub, 5 feet apart, 'cause they're not gay!"
Yeah never understood that sounds like they just trying to convince themselves really
"Bridget is trans: suck it!"
Wait, so... Like, is this an offer, or...?
Slightly related to the end part about the wizard game. It was incredible being on any dating apps at the time, because anyone who played it immediately told you about it. Half seeking validation that what they did was okay and a good thing and got extremely defensive if not immediately validated. And the other half was genuinely bragging about it. The first group I can understand, the second is one I still can’t fathom.
That shit was hilarious, like an inverse but somehow not opposite phenomenon of the burning of the Nike’s.
and they both suck
"And the other half was genuinely bragging about it. The first group I can understand, the second is one I still can’t fathom."
They will do literally _anything_ if they think that they're 'owning the libs'
Yes, including bragging about playing a video game
The only way I'd bother with the wizard game is the second hand or used markets and neither are at a reasonable price yet.
@@shis1988 There’s so many fucking great games out this year you don’t even need to bother. I played that shit at a friend’s place and it’s absolutely nothing special unless you’re a rabid Potter fan and need to spend every second you can in the setting.
"I am over affording them the respect of a reasonable rebuttal" is going to be my mantra from now on whenever dIsCoUrSe like this crops up from now on.
I also like Louis Rossmann's version, "Never accept the premise of assholes"
Was not expecting to get Kai Winn jumpscared in this video, but there she is.
steph keeps shoving manta force down my throat and i'm here for it
I'm more of a goblins person. Yum.
I love the Isobel and GF statement of "we're going to bone now". Made me laugh out loud.
"BEGONE. I HAVE A DARLING TO ADORE." literally big sapphic energy.
@@PanEtRosa She's amazing, definitely not what I expected from someone like her, but it is absolutely adorable. BEGONE, MY SAVIOUR, I MUST SEX UP MY BUXOM LOVER WHOM YOU HAVE ALSO PREVIOUSLY SAVED. MMM, SEXING.
So, what I'm hearing is leave a public review for my favorite games saying "it's woke AF" and actively lower the number of undesirables that play it.
I love when Steph busts out the Wicked Witch of the West laugh.
Both my kids want to go as Bridget for Hallowe'en this year. Given the stolid conservatism of this town, we're pretty sure this will fly under the outrage radar. :D
Bridget is just a cool character design regardless of the orientation and gender discussion. Bounty hunter that uses a yo-yo to beat your ass is just whimsical.
Being an ace and playing my first playthrough as an ace character, my only complaint is that when Whithers start questioning (and disapproving of) mc not engaging in romances I couldn't say that I wasn't interested in romances and had to say I don't like anyone in the camp. I like most characters, they've exceeded my expectations! If my character could engage in close sexless relationships, she would!
Had to reject poor Gale with his weave cutscene twice and neither of us died, it didn't even hurt his approval. So... people who say that male characters "basically grape" them, are they playing a different game?
Gods, that reminds me, I talked to a man who complained that Lae'zel forced him to have sex, then he had to kill her, and now Shadowheart doesn't want to romance him. He literally said that Lae'zel graped his character because she "made him an offer he couldn't refuse", and now only male characters want him - that was his reasoning why the game is "pandering to gays".
You transitioning was not only one of the best things to happen for you, but it was also one of the best things to happen for games journalism. We got our Sterling reviews back! And a hotter, sexier show host! Keep rocking those outfits, Steph!
THISSSSSS👍
Dude you are delusional. His reviews are great to be sure, but he didn't transitioned, the process can't be completed and he didn't got hotter or sexier are you blind? He is so far away from for example Henry Cavil or Jessica Alba its unreal. Even my ugly ass is closer.
I rather loved how James Fucking Sterling Son looked and dressed - but I also love how they look now...
...if they dressed up as a Xenomorph, they'd look cool too! (But, I do hope they bring back the Plague Doctor, pretty please?!)
@@tcpratt1660 I think they joked about streaming dressed as a xenomorph WAY back on Podquisition XD
@@livlinn971makes sense