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ONE-STAR HEROES: playing bad games to pay my bills!
Soo, today's lesson for the #queer community: If you stumble across videogames that do something interesting with gender, with diversity and so on, PLEASE TELL THE DEVS! It's easy to be silently content, but the people who don't want this stuff *will* make themselves heard.
...and they're why I'm now tasked with stripping nonbinary options from a game I'm localizing. One that tried something cool and got bashed in the feedback forms for it.