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

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    6 hours ago

    For context for any viewers who are wondering why @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml deleted his posts, he was saying this:

    • that the Pride flag has no symbolic meaning, but is “just a flag”
    • that because the Pride Flag is not significant to @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml, it therefore has no meaning (which they repeated numerous times)
    • that the removal of a symbol does not symbolize the removal of the thing that symbol symbolizes
    • that gay people are given equal welcome in bars instead of being discriminated against
    • that any change without impact on the gameplay has no meaning
    • that censorship before the release of the game is not censorship and has no meaning

    If you were wondering why he has so many downvotes, that is why. :)

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      6 hours ago

      There is wrong characterization here. I’m just fed up with the bad faith argumentation. Its just a waste of time. And its clear that people don’t accept any other opinion. Have fun with your witch hunt.

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        1 hour ago

        Wrong characterization? I saw your bullshit before you deleted it and these things are literally what you said. God, you suck at your propaganda job

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        5 hours ago

        Too bad you deleted your own words, otherwise you’d have an easier time convincing people.

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        6 hours ago

        There is wrong characterization here.

        I am merely providing the context of what you said because you are trying to skirt outside of public criticism by deleting your comments.

        You made a fallacious claim that the removal of the Pride Flag had no meaning. You literally said it was “just a flag”. You literally said the removal was meaningless because it had no significance to you. You literally said that the removal of that symbol does not symbolize the removal of LGBTQIA+ rights. You literally said that gay people are equally welcome in bars. You literally said that changes that don’t impact gameplay or story have no meaning. You literally said that censorship before the release of the game was “not censorship” and that it has no meaning.

        I have not misquoted you. If you feel like your own words paint you in a negative light, perhaps you shouldn’t have said them.

        I’m just fed up with the bad faith argumentation.

        Then why make a fallacious argument and protect it by restating it for several hours?

        And its clear that people don’t accept any other opinion.

        Sometimes there is a wisdom of the masses. Flags do have meaning, and their removal has meaning. You tried to argue against that point, which was misguided at best.

        Have fun with your witch hunt.

        This was not a witch hunt. No one accused you of saying anything you did not say. No one accused you of actions, or hunted you in any way. You just said something incorrect and refused to accept you were incorrect. Allow me to remind you that I didn’t fight you on your belief that it was an overblown issue, even though I disagree. I simply argued against your statement that it was without a qualitative meaning. The quantity was not a matter of discourse, but something you were entitled to have your own views on.

        tl;dr: You weren’t mischaracterized. If you want your comments to speak for yourself, restore them from the deletion. This post will stay, though, since I do not trust you to keep them restored.