Just got an email notification that a forum post I made like four years ago got a reply. Some chud wrote literally a dozen long paragraphs of ranting about LGBT wokeism in my game (a mecha dating simulator demo).
He then immediately posted "Looks great! :)" on the next person's game in the showcase category. People are so weird.
Also this tiny obscure gamedev forum was absolutely not the direction I was expecting to pull reactionary heat from this year. I'm doing so much bigger and gayer things, and that's the one someone latches onto?
Edit: added a gif because this reminded me about it and I actually still like the concept (your combat moves are also your dialogue choices).
Update: the forum is now entirely closed with a message from the mod about being threatened by someone, and that it's not worth the risk for them :(
That's really sad. This programming language's open source fork was chugging along (after years of neglect by its original creator) and now some aggro dingbat has come in and kicked over the sandcastles.
Update 2: the forums are back up, but they took down the thread with my game. Overreactions like this make me appreciate the skills and thicker skin I've had to build for myself since coming out as trans.
Just ban the homophobe and move on with your life!! It doesn't have to be a Thing. And taking down queer content is literally just giving the chud exactly what they want.
It's really interesting to see how inflammatory tactics work in this microworld. If you squawk loudly enough something is a problem (in this case, queer identities), that object becomes a problem just because it can elicit that reaction. And since mods have enough on their plate, it's tempting to go for the seemingly lowest-effort fix of removing it... which was pretty transparently the homophobe's original goal.
Well, goodness, if the winky face at the end of "we're on the bigots' side, but only in practise, not in principle, winky face!" isn't the most sickening bit
