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ariaspi: You don't even own the game, or any other game here, Mx. Go back to your twitter bubble.
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Swissy88: You have to go back.
This very attitude, unfortunately deeply ingrained on GOG forums, is extremely exclusionary and must not be high rated by any decent person. Everyone has the right for anonymity and expressing own opinion in a civil manner.

Small words may have big consequences.
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Post edited July 19, 2022 by 88fred88
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88fred88: And i thought this nonsense is only happening in germany.
This gender problem - keep it.
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stateperson: English is not German, the comparison is ill-suited.

What is the meaning of "keep it", from which insanely crazy time is to address one who is "she" as "he" alright? No, no, this is a not logical proposal. The so-call "normal" people address a woman that identifies as a woman as what the woman uses, i.g. "she." Shakespeare, Law, dictionaries, etc go for using "them" for other cases. This is common sense and that how it's for over 7 centuries.

In regards to the post's further speculation, is baseless.
Normal people call woman - "woman". Period. How they identity themselves is their own right and their own business and they can keep it to themselves, not forsing this to others.

Game lacking flexibility is one thing, forsing politics where they don't belong is other thing.
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Daering: Normal people call woman - "woman". Period. How they identity themselves is their own right and their own business and they can keep it to themselves, not forsing this to others.

Game lacking flexibility is one thing, forsing politics where they don't belong is other thing.
"Normal people" respect other people's identity and names! If the person is called Daering and uses "he," "she" or "they," the another shall not call you Trash (or something worse) and address by "it." You recklessly inputting onto a person your own biases/labels or judging a book by the cover is 100% forcing what does not belong there and not normal in any way. This is not politcis and never was, it's common sense of calling Daering as Daering,—The name you by own words "force to others and shall keep to yourself"—Not calling as Trash.

There's no "problem" with the proposal of the topic per se, is decent, shall be done; The prime so-call "problem" is outside, some persons here have a "perception bug" because aren't native and have a crazy hard time to understand proper concepts not present in their own languages and not translatable, like, let's say, not well-translatable are more grammatical tenses (most languages do around 3 total) or articles (the majority of languages have none). English is not German nor Bulgarian nor Romanian, go ever it, do not equal a kangaroo to a snail. Having an epicene pronoun is not a common thing and in many regards English is sort of an oddity in the Indo-European family, as well as the fact that technically grammatically words in English lack any gender unlike German. It was done a long time ago not by us, in that the language's direction is quite clearly drifting towards the same boat like Georgian and that's totally okay. If Georgian can, what are you, worse than a smaller language, seriously? Don't be absurd: If Georgian can, we can, we are not worse.

Some of you adorably don't see the gigantic glitch right in your very own sentences:
"You" the word is plural grammatically, can be simulationsly plural or singular by meaning, the older singular only informal form "thou" has died out (unlike in my native, we haven't lost out "thou" and we use a capital letter for our formal singular "You" unlike informal non-capital "you"), as the result when we write "you" in English, no way to know if this is for a group or a single person, the only path is from the context. So how is that different from "they?" No much, the same tendency and well-established too.
Post edited January 04, 2023 by anitmetee
What Must Be Done
If this screw up is still not fixed nor addressed, the misbeahved developer should write here on acknowledging own error, apologize, shall stop mistreating any non-male players and own NPCs, write the game's texts properly in full obedience of the rules of the English language like all the other developers do, and fix this mess of own making that doesn't make any logical sense, or alternatively quickly rewrite to include everybody equally or write in a way where this is not mentioned at all since English allows that. It's a shame the otherwise good game is plagued by the ugly bias ruining roleplay. I wanted to buy it, honestly, it looked like a nice idea, but after that mess is a big "no-no" from me.
Post edited January 04, 2023 by anitmetee
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anitmetee: What Must Be Done
If this screw up is still not fixed nor addressed, the misbeahved developer should write here on acknowledging own error, apologize, shall stop mistreating any non-male players and own NPCs, write the game's texts properly in full obedience of the rules of the English language like all the other developers do, and fix this mess of own making that doesn't make any logical sense, or alternatively quickly rewrite to include everybody equally or write in a way where this is not mentioned at all since English allows that. It's a shame the otherwise good game is plagued by the ugly bias ruining roleplay. I wanted to buy it, honestly, it looked like a nice idea, but after that mess is a big "no-no" from me.
'This behavior by you is the problem. This behavior by you is not the solution.

I think you should stop trying to "order around" and "cancel" what might not agree with you.
(rude of me to say, right? Phrasing is important, you can only demand of yourself what you can and should do without being rude most of the time.)
You are doing the thing you are saying is wrong... According to your beliefs,as you have alluded too, there should be no excuse for that without an apology.

Also, this "bug" was only discovered when trying to transfer save games. A feature most games don't have. At very specific points and pretty much no where else. The fact that you try to allude that others finances will//should be attacked because of this absolute minor thing is the only problem in this thread. :/

By the way, if you are wondering why English doesn't have a pronoun that is singular and doesn't bother to differentiate between genders, but means person and not "thing" or "animal"... It's just how it is.
English should steal a word it likes from another language that has a -pronoun that is singular and doesn't bother to differentiate between genders, but means person and not "thing" or "animal- and use that.
But for some reason the "advocate organizations" refuse to do that, and want to only use plurals, which are nonsense to use for singular speech pattern usage in English grammar.
I think I know the reason why those organizations do that, but I really don't want to talk about it.
TLDR: Unfxed in b0.0143.
Post edited October 09, 2023 by wieghtless