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Celebrate Pride in Overwatch 2 event, + 2 more characters are gay

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Kilau

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Ah, yes. Blizzard playing to their greatest strength: the R34 community...

"Please don't make erotica featuring our characters."

unimpressed michael keaton GIF
From the very start this fan base has been obsessed with fucking these characters lol. Whatever magic blizzard has it really sends these folks.
 

StreetsofBeige

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From the very start this fan base has been obsessed with fucking these characters lol. Whatever magic blizzard has it really sends these folks.
A lot of weird people out there.

I remember seeing PornHub search results charts, and people were searching for Pokemon, Overwatch and as crazy as it seems.... Minecraft(!) porn clips.
 

Green_Eyes

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Why work hard at being good people when you can simply ACCEPT EVERYONE. Easy points, easy morality; now I can feel better about being inhuman, yay!
 
June, the month where we are officially bombarded non stop with the same lgbt propaganda that we get the rest of the year. This month it's just official. Yay?
 

MAtgS

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*Shrug* So long as Mei like white dick I don't care if the entire rest of the cast being gay, bi, pan, or omnicsexual.
 
As someone who is gay. They could've kept this. I just started playing year and didn't even pick the rainbow icon because in these game spaces I identify as a gamer. If they included this from jump. Kudos because these banners, icons, etc are for expression. But to wait until Pride month like it's going to bring in new people screams pandering. Again, for those who want it I understand but why now? This is how these dumb debates start to happen and then we have to defend ourselves because these corporations are so out of tuned.

That's what makes it all so obnoxious. It's the obvious pandering out of greed and the agendas that are shoved in our faces. In gaming its gotten rediculous in the last 5 years or so.
 

Cyberpunkd

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Overwatch released in 2016, and only now do we find out Pharah is attracted to women. If that was truly such an important aspect to her character, we would have known before, right?

The fact that they're revealing this stuff years later, for a pride event, just to garner attention and approval just feels manipulative and exploitative. It's a disservice to their own creation, the players and even the queer community they pretend to care so much about. Disgusting.
I’m sure there’s a term for greenwashing but in respect to sex and gender.
 

StreetsofBeige

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As someone who is gay. They could've kept this. I just started playing year and didn't even pick the rainbow icon because in these game spaces I identify as a gamer. If they included this from jump. Kudos because these banners, icons, etc are for expression. But to wait until Pride month like it's going to bring in new people screams pandering. Again, for those who want it I understand but why now? This is how these dumb debates start to happen and then we have to defend ourselves because these corporations are so out of tuned.
Does the general gay community even care about stuff like this?

Or are things like pride parades, video game inclusivity, and any other LGBT promotion really just aimed at the vocal crowd?

I can’t speak for everyone, but as a straight guy I don’t care about classifying my character creation as straight while I’m shooting enemies and calling down predator missile kill streaks. I just make a character, pick a class, make some weapon load outs and play.
 
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Shh

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I was identifying as a leftist and repeating one of their default responses when they don't like/disagree with other people. Maybe not the exact response, but one of the very few.
I love the overuse of the terms "white supremacist" and "Nazi" ... and the fact that anyone, even people that aren't white, can be white supremacists. By today's leftist standards, MLK would be considered a white supremacist and an Uncle Tom. We truly are living in the most mentally retarded era of human civilization.

Anything "phobic" for disagreeing with someone is also immensely stupid.
 
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Every time some damn company makes a post or event like this, the responses are predictable. The wokes go YAS QUEEN, the anti-wokes get in a tizzy, etc. etc.

It feels like stuff like this is undermining all the social progress that certain people were asking for, and even helping to swing the pendulum back.
Selfishly, I feel mad at the fake corporate appeals and how people eat it up without questioning its sincerity, embarrassed at being tangentially associated, and worried about how far the aforementioned pendulum swing will go.
 
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