A former BioWare employee says that EA's new management wasn't on board with the developer's inclusiveness.

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[–] 68 points 1 day ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    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...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (9 children)

    "it's not x {em dash} it's y" hmm

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)
    1. They did it right now which is well after the fact was established, on Lemmy out of all places where demographics obviously lean towards people that know this.
    2. It's mostly transcriptions of physical books and academic papers rather than people who digitally use the right alt key.
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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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.

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