I understand where homophobia stems from, but I'm also entitled to my hatred of it. Also, I fail to see how playing a game that just happens to have a gay male character lead [and probably won't have any on-screen romance, as I said] out of 92394823 video games that don't have gay males PERIOD, is considered "immersing yourself in homosexuality".
Yes, but I'd like to redirect and be more specific based on what you said. Let's flip that.Originally Posted by Crowseye
1) Choosing not to play a game with a homosexual character in it.
2) Choosing not to play a game because it has a homosexual character in it.
The former, I've actually done myself [Enchanted Arms, the battle system looked boring to me]. Elpizo has no problem stating that he's part of the latter, so there's really no dispute there. That is in essence, a form of homophobia. Here's a hypothetical scenario I jokingly cooked up while talking with The Summoner of Leviathan:
In Elpizo's statement, the mere thought of a character being gay [yet again, even if this were true, there likely wouldn't be any on-screen romance] is enough to turn him away from a potentially good game "-200%" by his own words [later he attempted to soften this by saying "well I'm just 'disinterested'"]. God forbid if a gay guy were actually around him in person - that's even worse than seeing a gay video game character on-screen. Fly outta there man! It's okay, we know it's only because you're "disinterested". We also know that merely having a gay guy in your vicinity, or even worse, a friend that's a gay guy - is AUTOMATICALLY qualified as "immersing yourself in homosexuality". This is absolutely true 100% no exceptions.[09:36.09 PM] Khalin: lol
[09:36.13 PM] Khalin: claiming to not be homophobic
[09:36.38 PM] Khalin: so what, if an actual gay guy were in his vicinity - oh my! he'd bail out of there so fast
[09:36.41 PM] Khalin: smurfing speeding bullet
[09:36.47 PM] Khalin: oh but don't worry he's not homophobic
[09:36.51 PM] Khalin: he's just "disinterested"
Give me a Xanax.
