#i hate being asked 'hey did you check out bg3!' as 'safe' small talk | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sovonight · 1 year ago

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thanks for being so vocal about bg3 lmao the entire hype around the game and the way its sexual content has been presented is so thorougly offputting as a sex-repulsed ace person. and i've loved bioware-style crpgs ever since i was a kid!! just feels like i'm being pushed out of a genre i love because these games are so unrelentingly horny because that's what gets headlines and makes cash. yuck

i feel the exact same way 😭

and honestly the worst part for me isn't the game itself but the game's reception. the mainstream, overwhelming approval of bg3's style of romance content has been really alienating in a way no other game in the genre has been

#sovo answers #my brother knows i LOVE bg1/bg2 & asked if i was going to get bg3 bc he'd heard it was really good. it's painful to not be able to explain #why i don't want to. why i bought it but can't finish it. why i don't want to romance anyone #i hate being asked 'hey did you check out bg3!' as 'safe' small talk #bc it IS safe small talk. to anyone else.#it's the newsflash that everyone else LOVES this. they've always loved it; it's just never been so obvious to me as it is now.#and it feels so stupid for me to have to be like--#actually i don't want to get into it. actually it's a whole big deal. actually--now that you mention it--i Haven't checked it out!#and i'll smile politely through them saying Well Let Me Tell You they've really gone far this time #i'm just tired. it's not bg3; it's everything. it's the lying and hiding and alienation and being alone.

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