Not sure I follow -- you mean the disingenuous "argh you only CHOOSE to be offended" talking point, or...?
We might be talking about the same thing. "Virtue signalling" is often the term used for the accusation.
Maybe I'm oversensitive to it because I feel like I've been bringing it up a lot lately, But for me it was personally most visible with the Apu thing. Here was a documentary made by an Indian guy featuring a ton of people who are Indian or otherwise adjacent like Middle Easterners. But you dare to criticize the golden calf that is The Simpsons, and you get a whole bunch of people who try to silence that complaint, often by erasing the voices of Indian people with an insistance that everyone is distant from the issue - either that no one really cares and they're just doing this because they like to complain (as opposed to being personally affected), or that what they really want is to solve the whole of racism they should tackle bigger things (as opposed to those that effect them personally).
The "no one on Era plays video games" tactic comes from a similar position. If you know that you don't care about the issue, it's easier to accept that you're the good guy in the situation if you reframe yourself as the person who cares the most. So no one complaining cares about video games, it's only you, the poor innocent bigot, that does.
We're getting close to 2k20 and we still see things like these... I mean, why would you destroy your reputation like this? It's an unbelievable horrific move.
Still, I enjoyed the game very, very much. As devs, I'll continue supporting them.
People can change, guys, and attacking them isn't the right move, they'll just raise a barrier and won't hear anything.
I'll let the dust settle and try to contact them personally explaining why they fucked up.
Instead of dismissing someone's post with 3 letters it might be healthier for this discussion to actually add some substance to your post or just say nothing at all. Saying only "Lol" in this situation serves no purpose other than to mock and dismiss someone.
I'd like to think that people can change. Even personally, I'd like to think that my understanding of and approach to LGBT+ topics is far better than it was in the nineties, or even significantly better than just five years ago. But it should be self-evident that before we can acknowledge that things can have changed, things have to change.
The people involved were being engaged on the subject before this thread was posted. A transperson in their Discord was trying to explain the issue to them and then talked over it. They have multiple times shown an angry response instead of acknowledging their mistake.
At some point or other, they need to accept that they have an issue before they can change it. They have to want to be better for some reason. If they don't have that, they can reject any effort to change them.
Sure, maybe people can change. But maybe they could have had a Discord channel that didn't allow this sort of transphobic talk to begin with. Maybe they could have not included it in their game. All of these are ultimately hypothetical that don't resemble our reality. The reality that we have to react to is the one we actually live in and not the infinite amount that we don't.
