Dragon Age origins and fags

For what it’s worth, Dragon Age: Origins claimed the RPG of the year
award from Spike TV’s yearly gaming award show but the game is getting
attention for more than just storytelling and loot gathering. Public
figures and other talking heads are weighing in with their opinions on
a minute long cut-scene which portrays the main character having a gay
experience.
I realize that gay bashing sells and attracts votes, but I’m tired
of crusty old men blathering and dithering on about homosexuality.
Personally, I couldn’t care less about what someone does in their spare
time. Oddly, the people who are so concerned about what is going on in
your bedroom are the same people who advocate for less government and
deregulation of the financial system. Weird. Further, these are the
people who do not play video games. It is highly unlikely that the
people making such a fuss about Dragon Age’s gay sex scene have even
tried the game but have seen the clip whereas relatively normal people
like myself don’t have the time, energy, or interest in pursuing such
issues. There are far greater threats to the world than Dragon Age’s
bare-chested pixilated men snuggling up next to to a camp fire (ie.
Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen).
I make this game interesting, no matter what Fox wants to say about our game.

Speaking out against offensive content in video games is so passé
and rather than feeling as if they are beating a dead horse, it feels
more like a dog chewing on a bone – there really isn’t much meat there
but they do it by nature. The relationship between the video game
industry and mainstream news is clearly strained at best. In almost
all instances where a program’s host has a discussion with a developer,
it is routine for the host to belittle or even yell at the developer
for destroying today’s youth. The developer usually takes it on the
chin and tries to prove that he is a normal member of society with few
major defects. Luckily, the damage done by the host is only temporary
as their listeners are typically not gamers so winning their dollar was
not possible anyways.
Whenever a supposed influential person gripes about something so
unimportant to our daily lives, I find it astonishing how quickly some
mooks are willing to jump in line and follow them as if they are
quoting scripture. If we were responsible citizens then we would hold
these fear mongers accountable and quickly discredit anything they say
to the point where they become irrelevant. Being that the game is
intended for and is sold to a mature audience baffles the mind that
someone is trying to cause such a disturbance.
Artists
that dare to push the limits on what is considered acceptable are
usually remembered far longer than those few pests who got in their
way. The most recent example of this is clearly Brokeback Mountainwhich
received such wide acclaim and recalling the names of those who wanted
to boycott the film is impossible. In Bioware’s case, they wanted to
make the choice available to the player to have a momentary encounter
with another male. Being that storytelling and choice are major parts
of the RPG genre, the gay experience with Zevran adds to the story and
the character’s personal history and I have no problem with that. I
suppose growing pains were inevitable for the gaming industry but when
the slightest bit of sexual innuendo is met with such hostility, it
makes me wonder which of us does not have a grasp on our own sexuality.
Do you guys think games should exclude such scenes from their
stories even if it has meaning to it? Do video game have to do
something along these lines to prove something to the mainstream?
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Two gay cowboys eating pudding ROFL! also Zevaran is a riot dude, funny as hell