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BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says
(www.polygon.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2026
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The issue isn't just about a texture or a flag—it's the corporate censorship and what it signals. If management is already stepping in to scrub a presentation video to avoid "offending" corporate masters, it makes you wonder what kind of creative compromises are happening behind closed doors during actual game development.
it's more than corporate censorship, it's theocratic censorship.
"it's not x {em dash} it's y" hmm
Real people use em dashes. That is a common place in human writing to use an em dash, or it would not have become a trend in the averaging that is LLM-generated text.
We cannot assume this comment was written by a bot. It was short and only used one em dash in a normal place.
Maybe people should stop using “it isn’t x it’s y” and em dashes in the same way that people stopped using fasces and swastikas. Shits tainted now
It's common English sentence structure, not a symbol of a group that killed six million Jews and many others.
Do not compare this to the holocaust. That is just remarkably immature.
I compared it to modern day american fascism actually. You brought up the holocaust in the same comment you’re saying not to compare it with 😭
And I mean I think it is pretty comparable to the holocaust, considering what data centers are doing to the environment
You said that people should stop using em dashes the way people stopped using swastikas. You do realize swastikas stopped being used because of Nazi Germany, not because of American fascism? Nazi Germany put a far greater stain on the symbol than American fascism ever has. Also, if you mention swastikas, you cannot in good faith claim that you aren't carrying the baggage of Holocaust in with it. The Holocaust is the event most closely associated with the swastika.
To bring up ≠ to compare. Also, aren't emojis (you used 😭) also a sign of AI writing? (ㆆ_ㆆ)
Is generative AI a serious problem? Yes. Is the use of em dashes by human people comparable to the use of swastikas? Or is the use of em dashes as tainted or more tainted by AI than swastikas are by the horrors of fascism and Nazism? Absolutely not. The swastika is a uniquely shameful symbol; the use of a common English punctuation mark is not comparable. The fact that you seem to think they are comparable indicates that you either have a very warped view of the importance of punctuation style, or you have a very low view of the severity of fascism and the grave symbolism of the swastika. The former is disturbing, but the latter is damning.
The em dash is incredibly easy to access and use on mobile, so there's no need to memorize an alt code or copy-paste it from the internet or whatever.
No alt code, you hold... Actually, I'm not going to say that for the good of the world.
You really are obsessed, aren't you? You're in for a wild ride when bots can pass for people, physically, in-person 😯
I use the em dash a lot. The codepoint is 2014 for the em dash and 2015 for the en dash. It's quite easy to remember.
This, scrubbing a flag itself, if actually confined to that (it wouldn't be) isn't world ending.
But it's just short edge of the wedge. Remove flags now, later remove some trans representation, then remove gay and lesbian representation and lastly might as well go full Imperial cult and remove any friendly relations with Xenos.
Suadi's would probably LOVE Terra Firma...