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of nothing | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 @minespatch @ColdOnesLite🌴🌞🍻 @Jim probably some spreadsheet going around dev studios that says that there are benefits from a game having dateable characters
1. increases female interest in the game
2. allows you to get higher ESG scores through representation
3. in a way that doesn't diminish the appeal to men (until you go as far as BG3 where it's an actual challenge to avoid gay sex)

No gamedev has a bunch of companion sex in the twinkle in his eye. Corporate just says: add this shit from this spreadsheet.
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minespatch | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They forget asexual people exist, right? Not everyone goes out of their way to go into romance.
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ce39ad43 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 That's not being asexual, that's just being a normal, functional human being. Despite what these subhumans think, most people's lives don't revolve around SEX SEX SEX all the time, even those who are in a relationship or searching for one.  But that's what you get from troons and freaks who made their sexual inclinations their entire reason to exist and annoy.