Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says

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• Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not entirely sure the house of Saud really cares about western video games enough to intervene like this. I always imagined they only cared about the money and diversification from oil, “deeply held beliefs” often can be overlooked for the right price. This could just as easily be because of the corporate weathervein pointing towards conservatism, lots of companies have made decisions like this recently without meddling from the middle east.

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Saudi Arabia currently owns EA.

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    • Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes. That doesn’t inherently mean they’re endeavoring to implement Sharia in the games EA puts out.

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      • SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’re not too familiar with religious fanatics, are you?

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      • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But that is literally what they’re demonstrably doing.

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      • solipsisticskeptic@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Are you aware of anything happening? Like, at all? Other than what you’re spoonfed by conservative talking heads, of course

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      • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Why did they buy EA then? So they could NOT make games? So they could close everything down and go out of business?

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      • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        All this tells me is that you didn’t even make it through the headline

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      • bold_omi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        In case the comment to which I am replying gets deleted, it said:

        Yes. That doesn’t inherently mean they’re endeavoring to implement Sharia in the games EA puts out.

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  • jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s less of them directly interfering and more like EAs management trying to appease their new masters.

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  • bold_omi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In case this comment by @Carmakazi@piefed.social gets deleted, this is what it said:

    I’m not entirely sure the house of Saud really cares about western video games enough to intervene like this. I always imagined they only cared about the money and diversification from oil, “deeply held beliefs” often can be overlooked for the right price. This could just as easily be because of the corporate weathervein pointing towards conservatism, lots of companies have made decisions like this recently without meddling from the middle east.

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    • Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not deleting comments because they’re poorly received. If the mods take it then I don’t see why they wouldn’t also take yours.

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      • bold_omi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Good. I am just posting these because @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml removed his. I am glad you are open like this.

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bigots’ response to the flag is really interesting. It’s like conceding that it happens but that you shouldn’t be proud of it, or celebrate it or normalise it like straight romance.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It might be a big deal for removing a flag, but for me it doesn’t matter.

        Removing the flag is a symbolic victory for bigots. Even if the game still has queer representation, bigots still get to say, “We made you take down your flag to appease us” and that’s a big win in their eyes.

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      • refract@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Of course it doesn’t matter to you.

        Congratulations for not being part of a marginalized group and for being completely ignorant to the privileges you have been arbitrarily bestowed.

        Maybe you should care that other groups are being erased from society by hateful people.

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      • bold_omi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It is a movement with considerable symbolic weight. It means EA is taking a hostile stance toward LGBTQIA+ inclusivity.

        If I weren’t already boycotting them, I would start now.

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

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  • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “What the fuck are gay and straight, we just enjoy ourselves.”

    – Aliens probably

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  • bold_omi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For context for any viewers who are wondering why @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml deleted his posts, he was saying this:

    • that the Pride flag has no symbolic meaning, but is "just a flag"
    • that because the Pride Flag is not significant to @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml, it therefore has no meaning (which they repeated numerous times)
    • that the removal of a symbol does not symbolize the removal of the thing that symbol symbolizes
    • that gay people are given equal welcome in bars instead of being discriminated against
    • that any change without impact on the gameplay has no meaning
    • that censorship before the release of the game is not censorship and has no meaning

    If you were wondering why he has so many downvotes, that is why. :)

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