I was interested in pf2 for about a year now, but only got into it after the ogl thing. Now I honestly am baffled how 5e maneged to be so popular when 4e, pf1, and pf2 are all so much better than it as tttrpgs, and that only sticking to fantasy.
Well if we’re talking about something more than just more options in a selector, then it can be as complicated as dev wants it to be. A separate 3d model or some adjustments to an existing one if you select a trans option in character creator would not be that hard. But it’s still time and effort of programmers and modellers and we know how much studios like to overwork and underpay them. I guess my point wasn’t that it’s too hard, but rather that it’s too hard to be deemed important by the money people.
Personally I think there can be actually artistic value in this. Character customisation can be a way to worldbuild before the game even started. BG3 is fantasy, so maybe there is magic or rituals used by trans people to get the bodies they want. Maybe the rituals leave a mark, so a trans fem would have scars from that ritual. What if some trans people got there by making deals with fey so a trans masc might have a chest they traded from a fey prince.
Or imagine if cyberpunk2077 was actually good and had done something with this. Transhumanism is a big think in cyberpunk genre, and there is already borgware in the ttrpg, why not make nsfw borgware? If I can replace all my limbs with katanas I can make THAT katana cybernetic too.
I originally thought it was about deeper levels of customization that more realistiaclly portrayed trans bodies, which would be imo complicated. But you are absolutely right that just another variant of already existing selection would be reletively trivial.
So, I haven’t played BG3, but considering that it’s a fantasy setting, I am surprised that it seems to be same as irl for trans stuff. Compared to the pathfinder universe which had since the 1st edition magical hrt potions and salves which work way better than irl as well as straight up insta-transition magic items in 2e, DnD seems kinda boring.
If I understand you correctly, what you’re suggesting would require programming in an entire system for trans bodies, a bunch more 3d models to make and to integrate into that system, as well as many small changes all over the rest of the game to make it all work.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that would be amazing and I too would like to see it, I don’t think it’s gonna be worth the investment for AAA games made for profit. Hell, I haven’t seen a system like that in explicitly adult games, and games like that would actually use that system.
I think creation of nukes is a more complicated topic, but both their detonations were only done to force Japan to surrender 1)unconditionally and 2)to USA. IIRC even US command admitted it.
A lot of people have been calling them that for a while though. In my memory Bush admin was called fascistic by leftists, I’m sure vietnam war was similar and so on, so I disagree about it being long over due.
I think a bigger point should be that a majority of people for a long time didn’t even know what fascism is beyond “bad
peoplegermans that hated jews”. I think after Charlottesville it got a bit better, but still not good enough. And because of that just calling them fascist will not work on people who don’t already agree with us.