FF14: GAY MARRIAGE!

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I know next to nothing about how video games are made or how to write code, but I'm willing to bet that the characters don't currently have a gender written into their code, and if they're going to add some sort of expansion pack for marriage, surely it involves less coding (i.e., man-hours) to let any given character marry any other character than to write a code which limits any given character's potential partners? Please tell me if I'm wrong about this.

 

[Telcontar]

I know next to nothing about how video games are made or how to write code, but I'm willing to bet that the characters don't currently have a gender written into their code

It depends on how they code the game but... no. They probably have a line of code for gender.

if they're going to add some sort of expansion pack for marriage, surely it involves less coding (i.e., man-hours) to let any given character marry any other character than to write a code which limits any given character's potential partners? Please tell me if I'm wrong about this.

Again, it depends on how they code the game, but... no. You're right. It would be easier to let anyone marry anyone else, than to limit it to a certain gender or race. Not by much though, its probably just a line or two.

 

[Blade]

About all I can say is, just like with my situation in my hometown where Gay Marriage has ONLY JUST been made "legal" on paper, it still has to go through proper channels and proper transition. People have to get used to it, and if they don't the system just falls apart in to anarchy and chaos and conflict.

Also, regarding fps games and the like, look at how those games have impacted society (especially the negative influences) and tell me the difference between a person who has destroyed their own values (read: becoming desensitized to violence and embracing guns) and a person who never invested in those values (read: human lives) in the first place. That's equality, right? Right?

It might be equal, but is it something we should equally accept as normalcy?

I personally don't care for fps games for this main reason. Especially given all the shootings that happen in my own home town of late.

Sure I play games with swords, but as George Sears (aka Solidus Snake of Metal Gear series) once said, "There's honor in a blade". So I prefer fair fights, myself. (Not everyone believes in this code I've imposed on myself).

Granted, that may not justify hack'n'slash... but I draw a fine line between reality and games. I respect others even in an online setting even when playing games and I follow the game's interaction rules and respect others in such fashion.

Take a look at the "Slender Man" stabbings in Waukesha and you'll see that some people don't have a firm grasp of what reality really is. This is a real issue even if the games are not real.

It gets even worse with Internet Cafes in Korea and China, people become addicts and the like and can hardly wait to dump reality for a game while their real body becomes a husk.

 

[Cthulhu]

Closed by OP's request.