It was allegedly instructed to remove a flag "too similar to the LGBTQIA+ flag"

Because an entire race of Blue Polysexual Mono-Gender females only able to birth other females didn’t seem to click very well with the Saudis.

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      401·
      3 hours ago

      See, the problem is that none of these people are rational.

      What I can’t get over is the idea of “You can do homosexuality in Mass Effect!?” when to have any romantic affair in the game you need to try and do it. If you’re against Homosexuality and you are a male Shepard and you have sex with a male NPC, you had to fucking try to have sex with a male NPC. You spent hours seducing him.

      Edit: I totally forgot Garrus is the only NPC who doesn’t have a homosexual romance option.

      • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        3 hours ago

        but we were just very close platonic friends!! And I accidentally hit the buttsex button!

        • sanpo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          1 hour ago

          To be honest, something like this can actually happen!

          In Baldur’s Gate 3, I accidentally had very gay sex with an incubus by selecting a wrong option by mistake…
          To be fair, that particular demon could change their sex at will, so maybe it’s not a great comparison.

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 hours ago

          “I tripped and fell on my keyboard and mouse and while they were in there they accidentally progressed the dialogue trees that make you have gay sex.”

      • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I’m pretty sure the only same sex romance options are Femshep and Liara, your admin assistant in ME2 (kinda), and then your admin assistant and shuttle driver in ME3. You can’t even romance Jack as Femshep.

    • OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      181·
      3 hours ago

      It’s Saudi Arabia. They’re basically in the dark ages with the oil money to buy modern infrastructure. It’s an absolute monarchy, You get the death penalty for being any flavor of queer, It’s a surveillance state. They literally sent a kill squad into a foreign nation to (successfully) brutally murder a journalist. We don’t hear it much because of all the other constant noise in the digital world but they’re not good people. Everyone turns a blind eye because they have that sweet sweet oil and since like the 70s the US has been on it’s knees for them.

      Don’t get me wrong here. It’s a very nice looking place but it’s built on some of the most terrible human rights abuses you can name.

      They have almost open slavery. It’s not a good place. The fact that they were allowed to buy EA at all is a problem.