How very PC of Frontier....

[Dbrn47]

Nah, I also think its messy RNG coding selecting random text to random picture. I mean it would take more completely unnecessary actual work to determine the sexual preference of the NPC, then segregating the texts into hetero-, les-, gay-, bi-, trans-, queer- compatible buckets and storing them like that. It would also add a good number of tests which would have to be written, and a manual testing everytime a new text is added to see if it isn't offending somehow to the given group... Those things cost real money in development and QA time and that is not cheap. And for what purpose exactly? NPCs are disposables actually, and their stories currently add nothing to their capabilities. Unless that changes I see really little reason for it being an actual design decision and not a plain bug. They just didn't see it (or didn't care) while designing the feature, as well as NPC character creator was often mixing male and female characteristics:

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See? Bug.

Why do you assume that's a bug?

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

...I'd wager that Neolithic peoples were likely less judgmental in this regard.

Good point, I think you could be right there.

 

[Herbrand]

Good point, I think you could be right there.

Neolithic people were probably also lacking a lot of prerequisites for any sort of judgement, or analytic abilities for what matters.

 

[DocPossible]

...

Even if people are inherently racist, sexist, or worse, the inherentness of it wouldn't change what it is.

As sapient beings in possession of will, we have the ability to recognize when we are being led astray by our impulses and can choose to do otherwise.

This is the most sensible thing I've read on the internets in, probably forever. It's what makes us human, makes society work. We're able to think and decide for ourselves how to react, able to override our instincts. We're all a product of the society we live in, benefitting from the conflicts that others have waged on our behalf - emancipation, equal rights and the recognition that people are just people once you get to know them. Laws tend to get passed before the whole of society is fully behind them, but over time, society changes and what was once regarded with suspicion and hatred becomes commonplace.

My kids can't believe that marriage between blacks and whites was a big issue when I was a kid, or that it was only (relatively) recently that we've had a female Prime Minister. It's not universal but attitudes seem to have improved enormously over the last 40 years to me.

 

[Morbad]

Neolithic people were probably also lacking a lot of prerequisites for any sort of judgement, or analytic abilities for what matters.

I don't think anyone with even cursory knowledge of natural history or anthropology would agree with such a statement.

 

[Pyrotiger]

I am Caucasian. My wife isn't. If our marriage sticks two fingers up to stupidity, then great.

 

[Herbrand]

I don't think anyone with even cursory knowledge of natural history or anthropology would agree with such a statement.

On second thought, should have worded that differently.

 

[Kayweg]

I think it might have been PC 10 or 15 years ago, but it's not particularly radical these days.

I read the OP 3 times until the penny dropped and i understood what this was about.

 

[Privata]

Wow, people actually read this rubbish? oh right immershun.

Whats wrong with that?
Without immersion , its not about spaceships but just shapes and no context

 

[Pyrotiger]

Wait a minute

We are actually talking about

LESBIANS

here?

Yes,

LESBIANS?

Wow...who cares.

 

[Kyennamo]

This thread makes me think of the M&M commercial with Santa Clause

"He does exist"- passes out

"They do exist"- passes out

 

[AceFlares]

Down with the Patriarchy

Lesbian indeed... Open your eyes people. Think out of the box. The character is a transgender person. Following the announcement of her transition her wife didn't want a same sex marriage, so she moved out. It's obvious! :O

 

[GJ51]

There was a time when nobody cared what anyone else did behind closed doors.

It just wasn't anyone else's business.

Oh - we've come so far...

 

[Kolato]

I don't get it, what's so special? Is it that her last name is goodman? I mean that's almost /r/mildlyinteresting but not really.

 

[Garbarrage]

There was a time when nobody cared what anyone else did behind closed doors.

It just wasn't anyone else's business.

Oh - we've come so far...

Was that time around lunchtime today by any chance?

 

[NascentChemist]

There was a time when nobody cared what anyone else did behind closed doors.

It just wasn't anyone else's business.

Oh - we've come so far...

This isn't about what a person does behind closed doors. If a person in an opposite-sex relationship mentioned their significant other, would you immediately think of what they do in the bedroom?

Also, when exactly was this time?

 

[Dbrn47]

If a person in an opposite-sex relationship mentioned their significant other, would you immediately think of what they do in the bedroom?

If I did, would I be a bad person?

 

[Noctover]

Cant we leave the PC nonsense where it belongs, like every social media source ever, instead of on this forum?

 

[NascentChemist]

If I did, would I be a bad person?

Only if you told them about it!

More seriously, I was just trying to point out that acknowledgment of a spouse isn't considered salacious except when same-sex couples try it.

 

[Comrade Napoleon]

You know CMDR's, I dont care what other people do really, as long as they do to other as they would like done to themselves.
(As long as they move their lawn, that is )

But I am also an old socialistic, grumpy, liberal person. And I enjoy it

Cheers Cmdr's