This makes me sad. To imitate what others are, have been or might be doing to you: i.e. not to care.
I'm not trying to imitate them, although maybe it looks that way.
Some disclosure: I live in a country where stuff that I care about, like feminism, pretty much has no power at all. Yeah there are some groups but no knowledge about it in general public. To give you an example, here people do understand, at least vaguely, why it's bad for a woman to be sexualized in a game. They must post as "not caring" and thus drive those who care insane by their trolling comments, but they understand. In my country noone even understand the concept of sexualization. If you mention something like that on a site, you'll be laughed at or your comments deleted.
That's why I'm tired of supporting other communities. I will always support lesbians, but not gays, I'm tired of them being ungrateful, as well. I came to see that at least in my own country men always do everything only for men, and helping them is a fool's errand. My internal power of spirit isn't unlimited.
That said, it's not like it's an unbending rule. When I feel like it, I may support other communities, b/c I firmly believe in the egalitarian approach to the social life. But right now I'm tired, of W3's situation in particular. Noone cares how women are horrendously sexualized in the game, instead they care about racism. Among men, I'm sure. If racial diversity was poor only among women in the game, noone would care, I can guarantee you that.
I'm sorry because I have enjoyed your contributions at the other, now closed thread. I am sorry I did not participate there - I only noticed the thread after someone mentioned it in another now also closed thread.
Thanks for saying that.
It's a shame the thread got closed, I want to post on topic there. I'm now replaying the game with the mod and it's superb! I actually created a avatar of Yuna
, using an NPC's hair and face that looks similar to hers. Yuna is awesome
And I wanted to add to that thread that I see a very big difference between playing as Geralt and my own gender. Right now I'm enjoying the game 200% more. The change in my level enjoyment is so incredibly drastic is can't be adequately described. In other words, it means an awful lot to play an open world game as your gender. So to hell with ELEX and Kingdome Come, I won't play any more open-world game whose creators restrict gender b/c they don't care and fish out lame excuses for that. If you want me to buy ELEX, sell it to me with 50% discount, for my enjoyment of it in comparison with male players will be 50% less.
Focus on the people who are willing to listen, who are open-minded, those are the people that'll give your words the attention you would like to see - that'll give you satisfaction.
You can't imagine how little of those people exist in my real life.
But please, do not waste your time on those who have strong opinions that are the opposite of your own. Don't spill seeds in barren ground. The only thing you'll ever get is mutual frustration, annoyance and an upcoming heart attack.
Thanks for advice and your kindness!
You made me feel so much better just now. You're right, talking to "opposition" is fruitless and frustrating in the best of times. But I find talking to "not caring" trolls even more frustrating. Poor Aubrielle, those trolls at this site don't understand what they're doing to her and how bad it feels to be provoked like that. It's a new brand of a troll, an unconscious provoker who lacks empathy to understand what he does to a person.
Wow that was quite a big post
I didn't even notice writing that much. Must be the writing hunger. Or I just liked your post so much that I felt like replying a lot
