You are almost certainly correct that this will cost the company some sales. Of course, with so many games allowing homosexual behaviour these days (e.g., all games with multi-player options that allow some freedom of avatar interaction and/or interactive chat amongst players), die-hard bigots have few games to choose from these days.
Even if you are correct that "very few people want homosexual content in their games", that number (and the number of extra customers that the company will gain through the inclusion of this optional content) may well be greater than the number of would-be customers that take their money elsewhere on the principle of bigotry.
This is about forcing something on the consumer that they don't want.
Not really.
Your example from Beloved is not on point: in that case it was impossible for you to see the whole movie without seeing that scene. In the case of Bully, it is my understanding that you can play through the entire game (many times!) without choosing to engage in the homosexual experiences it offers.
Isn't Bully from Rockstar Vancouver and isn't Bioware based in Edmonton? I guess Canadians are leaders in the production of homosexual video game content!
The GP did not suggest that we be intolerant of bigots. It seems only fair that bigots wear any stigma attached to the label 'bigot'—they earned it and who are we to deprive them of their just desserts?
It may feel like revenge to a victim, it may feel like revenge to a convict, but society is justified in using the legal system to mete punishments for communal ends (e.g., general deterrence, denunciation), not by the retributive desires of victims.
Nice! It's good when training can pay off like that.
In what sense is the QLR the equivalent of the National Guard? I'm in neither the US nor the UK, but I would have thought that the QLR consisted of both active service and reserve-like elements ('Territorials'), where the state National Guards are kind of in between those two roles. Is that fair to say?
So the QLR would have elements that are like the active, national guard and reserve elements of the US army, but on a smaller scale... so a particular state national guard would be like one element of the QLR.
I realise that's a nit-picky distinction, but I'm trying to better understand how the militaries of different countries are composed, so please clarify, someone!
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You are almost certainly correct that this will cost the company some sales. Of course, with so many games allowing homosexual behaviour these days (e.g., all games with multi-player options that allow some freedom of avatar interaction and/or interactive chat amongst players), die-hard bigots have few games to choose from these days.
Even if you are correct that "very few people want homosexual content in their games", that number (and the number of extra customers that the company will gain through the inclusion of this optional content) may well be greater than the number of would-be customers that take their money elsewhere on the principle of bigotry.
Not really.
Your example from Beloved is not on point: in that case it was impossible for you to see the whole movie without seeing that scene. In the case of Bully, it is my understanding that you can play through the entire game (many times!) without choosing to engage in the homosexual experiences it offers.
Isn't Bully from Rockstar Vancouver and isn't Bioware based in Edmonton? I guess Canadians are leaders in the production of homosexual video game content!
The GP did not suggest that we be intolerant of bigots. It seems only fair that bigots wear any stigma attached to the label 'bigot'—they earned it and who are we to deprive them of their just desserts?
Slashdotting seems unlikely, though.
It may feel like revenge to a victim, it may feel like revenge to a convict, but society is justified in using the legal system to mete punishments for communal ends (e.g., general deterrence, denunciation), not by the retributive desires of victims.
Nice! It's good when training can pay off like that. In what sense is the QLR the equivalent of the National Guard? I'm in neither the US nor the UK, but I would have thought that the QLR consisted of both active service and reserve-like elements ('Territorials'), where the state National Guards are kind of in between those two roles. Is that fair to say? So the QLR would have elements that are like the active, national guard and reserve elements of the US army, but on a smaller scale... so a particular state national guard would be like one element of the QLR. I realise that's a nit-picky distinction, but I'm trying to better understand how the militaries of different countries are composed, so please clarify, someone!