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What? Some of you really do some hamster wheeling to excuse clear racism. Whatever happens elsewhere does not condone what happens here. Like I said, i`m black, I know racism and have even complained about it, but right now I feel racism should be attacked if it happens to whites (or any one else) too, not just blacks. Also I don`t see any other race not included, every race type can be made except for anyone with Blonde hair.

You don`t even really deal with the issues I put across, most of you don`t.

I have been more honest and said more to try and communicate a situation and most of you (with the good few who understand) have said nothing excpet to try and shut me up cos you don`t want a black man to speak against the narrative.

We`re supposed to act like victims, right?

Well, get ready, things are changing, more people are thinking like me and beginning to speak out.

Be careful. The color of that dumpster I mean trash recepticle I mean refuse container might offend some people.

I deal with racism when it happens, this is not it. as I said, lack of representation in one single game is not racism.

If it racism then explain to me why Metal Gear Solid is not racist as there are no Inuits there? Or why Resident Evil is not as it do not have any Sami? and so on and so forth.

What I am saying here is that I am restricting the discussion for those games where the discussion makes sense. Issues of sex and race only make sense for the discussion if there are characters in the game; it doesn't make sense to talk about racism or sexism in games like Pong, Tetris, or TIS-100. There needs to be something that the discussion can apply to.

It's the same reason it doesn't make sense to talk about the ecology of a lifeless planet (assuming it is indeed lifeless), the factorization of irrational numbers, or any number of things that don't apply.

Straw man. And no, I won`t explain, use your brain for once and figure it out. You have done nothing on your side to earn that effort from me.

No, you are making an ommission, that mislead lots of people. When you say that "majority of games" feature only male protagonist (or white protagonsit or whatever), people who hear (or read) you naturally picture how 90% of games "force white maleness" on player. And thus they totally see how huge "gender bias" is.

Hoverver in reality most games don't even have protagonist. And of those that have many feature non-human protagonist, sometimes even without clear gender. Or there are games where you control a vehicle and any details of protagonist are unspecified.

So in most games the question of player's identity is non even present. So if you are a member of any "marginal" group you can easily play without any "forced identity" on you.

Holy defecation, Batman. You guys actually played the "You're not a real POC" card. Unbelievable.

What with you being a Britbong & all, there's a decent possibility you vacation in the south of Portugal. If that's the case, hit me up, bud. I'd love to have a few beers with you.

Except, I'm not. I am literally telling you you're mistaken. Feel free to quote where I said that "one white person has obligations to right wrongs that another white person did". I don't know if the confusion here is a language barrier, or if you're trolling, or something else.

You need to look up what "literally" means, as you are using it incorrectly. And once again, no, what you claim is not what I'm saying.

I haven't said that any white person must make up for other whites, or that devs must include certain groups. Are you arguing just to argue?

What I am saying is that the majority of games *with characters* have male protagonists; I am explicitly excluding games without characters from the discussion. A game without characters has as much relevance to this discussion as, say, a tomato or the number 2.

So, if I'm a white developer and make a game with only white characters, my game is not racist?
Good. And you should also clarify if you mean "have male protagonist" or "have only male protagonist".

Out of curiosity, when is lack of representation racism then?

Here Tiny, would you pass these out? I brought enough for everybody.

Those with only male protagonists vastly outnumber those with only female protagonists.

Of course, there are games where you can choose to play a male or a female character (and rarely, a non-binary character, but that isn't common). With that said, I have seen games where you create your character, but that character has to be male (Eschalon Book 1 comes to mind); I have not, however, seem any games that force you to create a female character.

I recall older games where, even when you did create a female char, NPCs still talked to you as if you were male: "Please my lord, you must help us!", "Excuse me sir, would you be interested in marrying my daughter?"