Microsoft and Dontnod Entertainment Announce Tell Me Why for Xbox One and PC
 

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When did you become a pussy :p:D

When I got sand in my mangina. :p

So brave! Also so fucking ridiculous. Hey everyone lets celebrate mental illness and make video games about it!

This is an adventure style game? Not a fan of them. The visuals look really dated. Is it old? Based on long-in-development code? Not good looking.

Nope. Not gonna happen.

I am really looking forward to this. Really not sure about the voice of the main character, but I think it will be interesting to play a character that I wouldn't normally choose.
Also there are a load of games I argue that nobody will ever make, like ones about the holocaust or about life as a regular person working in a factory. This game hits at the status quo and that should be celebrated. Otherwise, don't play it and don't discourage others from exploring different life perspectives.

My wife really enjoyed Life is Strange but I preferred the Telltale games aot more. Not really interested in this one, I occassionally enjoy story games but i have to be interested in the story. Enjoyed wolf Among Us, Walking Dead 1 and 2, even enjoyed watching my wife play Life is Strange, not sure i am interested in a flashback style story though /shrug.

I wonder if one of the antagonists will be a white male who displays toxic masculinity and bullies the victimized mtf trans, only be thwarted by his strong sister who proudly displays girl power who put him in his place.

I wonder if all the indigenous people will proudly display their culture and be universally good characters.

I wonder if the developers will attack the intended buyers of the game as alt-right trolls when it gets bad reviews.

I wonder if the metacritic score of the game will diverge greatly from the audience score.

I wonder if a large proportion of those who defend and promote the game wont be gamers at all.

I wonder if YouTube will censor a lot of bad reviews, and Steam will be criticized by the media for not censoring the reviews on it's platform.

I am GLAAD (hehe) they went through the trouble to make sure they properly represented the communities they are portraying however, in my experience this means you're going to get a version of the subject matter that is polished beyond reality.

The representation will be something created and approved activists rather than the truth.

Still, it doesn't bother me that someone made a game with subject matter I don't like or necessarily approve of any more than people who make collectible card games which I am not a particularly big fan of.

Perhaps my larger concern though it is another grain of sand dropping in the hourglass of "mainstreaming" a mental illness. I don't think it does anyone any favors.

On the other hand if the the pressure and stigma of being trans became something similar to the mainstream gay folks perhaps the negatives, like the extremely high suicide rate, would normalize with other populations.

Perhaps society itself causes the mental illness due to it's intolerance.

I will discuss this on a more general note, because it is about many more people and problems than this.

There are fundamental problems to life. It's not as easy as blaming society for everything. Even if you weren't living in a society, doesn't mean you have a happy life free from tyranny. You are fundamentally oppressed by the logic of life itself. You really are not free to live however you want. You are always constrained by circumstance. And it will always be frustrating. It must be. Your freedom is more in how you solve your problems, not in the basic objectives of life. Fully realizing what this actually means is one of the most important principles for any form of life.

So there are many other groups of people that have a greatly increased risk of depression and suicide. You can actually further classify within a group by other metrics than sexual orientation or race. So what you will find is that there are a huge number of regular men with an enormous risk for suicide. Then you can analyze their circumstances, and eventually find that different groups with similar outcome can share a number of properties. You will find that as people grow older, not living in a decent relationship, having no kids, no accomplishments, low status, low income, difficulties making friends, all greatly increase the risk of depression and suicide, independent of other properties. These problems are fundamental and tough for anyone, but some people can have it even tougher for sure. If you had an accident with a resulting severe disfigurement, you sure will have a problem finding intimate partners. If you aren't an actual woman, you will never experience pregnancy and giving birth to a baby, alongside difficulties finding an intimate partner. These kind of problems may be somewhat mitigated by a more relaxed society, but fundamentally, these issues are frustrating, with a tendency for higher depression and suicide, regardless social acceptance, whatever this can mean anyway.

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So Capcom is not a major studio and publisher? Or Poison isn't 'heroic' enough? Or you were just talkin' out your asses there?

Yet again, agenda pushers invading our gamespace demonstrate that despite all their entitled shrieking they don't actually play games.

Poison was fun. I liked that char. Somehow seemed much better accepted by gamers. There are other instances of movies/games where queer stuff was some fun little diversion we didn't mind. It's a bit like some drag queen doing fun stand-up in a shady bar, and people are just having a good time. So it makes you wonder what exactly it is that's annoying people today. Might be simply that the issue is presented much more serious, center-point and loaded with a whole bunch of dramatic issues, instead of simply being a fun diversion. I don't know.