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Soral
May 30, 2009

Mr. Pumroy posted:

saints row 2, op. a great innovation from a great game



also "S2: Silent Storm"

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Soral
May 30, 2009

also "redshirt" i'm pretty sure had a gender slider, but i blocked that garbage piece of poo poo from my memory

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When, as developers, we build stuff, you kind of put your own biases go into that. I thought okay, if I’m not following conventions of character creators, and just putting binary ‘male’ ‘female’ because that’s what happens, what would I actually want to put? I know that even a gender slider is problematic in lots of ways in terms of how we look at gender, and so that’s not necessarily going to be the final, final version - but you know, gender is such a complicated thing, which is also why there’s a private option, if you just want to go ‘screw all this’!

Soral fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Sep 4, 2014

Soral
May 30, 2009

Wormskull posted:

It likely represents more the various modes of expression in identity. Farewell.

my gender identity is 63% male and 37% female with a standard variance of +/-3.7%. this is a normal and human way to think about gender that covers the wide and nuanced concept of self identity perfectly and is definitely not stupid bullshit, beep boop

Soral
May 30, 2009

if i can post earnestly for a moment, like the huge human being that i am, i actually think its cool when games include gender sliders because it means that They're Trying™ and also character customization is cool and the more in depth and spergy it gets the better

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