Posted on 05/08/2014 6:35:40 PM PDT by Houmatt
Nintendo isn’t allowing gamers to play as gay in an upcoming life simulator game.
The publisher of such gaming franchises as “The Legend of Zelda” and “Mario Bros.” said Tuesday it wouldn’t bow to pressure to allow players to engage in romantic activities with characters of the same sex in English editions of “Tomodachi Life.” This follows a social media campaign launched by fans last month seeking virtual equality for the game’s characters, which are modeled after real people.
“Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of ‘Tomodachi Life,’” Nintendo of America Inc. said in a statement. “The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation. We hope that all of our fans will see that ‘Tomodachi Life’ was intended to be a whimsical and quirky game, and that we were absolutely not trying to provide social commentary.”
Tye Marini, a gay 23-year-old Nintendo fan from Mesa, Arizona, launched the campaign last month, urging Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo Co. and its subsidiary Nintendo of America Inc. to add same-sex relationship options to English versions of the hand-held Nintendo 3DS game.
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The objective of the liberal is to find a problem where no problem exists.
When a person is consumed with victimism they are weakened, not empowered. The individual is weakened, no longer being able to find happiness and satisfaction through their own progress regardless of the world around him/her, but instead are reduced to petty weaklings that remain offended in perpetuity believing that one day we’ll have that utopian world where noone is offended by anything ever again...But then what would there be to do?
Thank you Nintendo for having a spine........
I will ping this tomorrow. I started pinging again, haven’t really for months.
There are more of US than of them.
I can just imagine what the frog would be jumping in Frogger.
Those Japanese have a stiffer moral backbone than we do. Once we called them Japs, now they can call us Craps.
It’s the song of hell. Hell won’t ever be happy, though sometimes it may have temporary glee.
And funny thing, it is mostly NON “gay” (same as French who are very much into vivaing la difference). Do it with a samurai sword, do it with a fan, but if you’re a guy better not do it with a man!
Now let’s help support them with our $$$.
“This follows a social media campaign launched by fans last month...”
I doubt very much it was ‘fans’ that started this.
JB
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