Okay, you know what, I'm at wit's end as of RIGHT FRIGGING NOW with this topic. I have gay friends, and I support them without hesitation - but I do so because they are not constantly trying to bash my skull in with politics. Oh, I have opinions, certainly; I hope Prop 8 in California gets overturned, for example (I attended a wedding of two friends just before it passed). But I don't see the necessity of taking them into my video games.
I hear you. The way I see it, if they have to be gay then they have to be gay. Doesn't matter one bit to me.
It's why, in all honesty, I have never understood the apparent necessity of "gay guilds". Your sexual orientation should not have a bearing on your gameplay - and plus, given that the Internet is a cesspool of hate and idiocy, publicizing it just paints crosshairs on your forehead. I look at the homophobes and similar bigots the same way - you got an opinion, fine. Express it somewhere else, and play the fucking game. Period.
I hear you and I agree with you.
Don't blow this out of proportion guys. It's a guest blog, written by a guest of a topic of their own choosing, in this case Star Trek's revolutionary steps towards depicting equality. Opinions are fine. It's when people have opinions on opinions on opinions that flame wars, hate mail, and the like all get started.
It's a wee bit convenient that such a topic just happens to be covered in a "guest blog" right after that furore caused by that "spokesman". I believe that it's opportunistic hijacking of a good cause so that the damage potentially done to a company is mitigated. It's not right. It's also politicising the game, which just causes problems in the community as many of us have seen in the past.
Btw, wasn't Branflakes a member of stonewall fleet at some point?
Let's move on and discuss the game.
As it should be
