what makes a gay character "forced"?

just stop shoving unnecessary faggot shit in my face. it’s really not hard. just do what games did back then. but, at this point, it ain’t going to happen so I just have to be more picky with what I play

when it's done by blizzard entertainment

>>714824664
cry about it manchild

>>714824789
here’s your (You), you beta male attention whoring faggot. enjoy your pathetic life

>>714825024
LMAO keep malding loser
your manbaby tears are delicious

When he forces it into your butthole.

>>714823504 (OP)
It's a sliding scale.
If a guy walks like a faggot and talks like a faggot, saying he's a faggot is fair game.
If a character is not really exhibiting any preference but then is randomly revealed to be homo, like Tracer, it's a bit forced but acceptable-ish. Adds variety, lesbian porn of her has skyrocketed since the reveal. Don't overdo it.
If a character acts like a straight dude, looks like a straight dude and his fanbase memes him into being the team dad, and then you say "actually he's gay, and that other guy you like is gay too, they were gay together but broke up", you deserve to get lynched.

gay men have to force their dicks into men's asses

>>714823504 (OP)
No idea. Speaking in wider terms, the only LGBT characters that are inherently forced are (((bisexual))) deviants.
Avoid any video game series with at least one installment featuring that garbage.

>>714823504 (OP)

in this case of this character specifically he was a well established character with no prior indication of homosexuality and it came out of the blue amidst a culture of fagwashing and overrepresenting gays in everything with no good reason.

more generally, 1.5% of men in the US (not an american myself, but for example lets use the US since its a hotbed of degeneracy and has way more gays willing to out themselves) identify as gay. if a work of fiction has 100 men it stands to reason that one of them might be gay, on average and assuming that the characters in the work of fiction are entirely average people and not engaged in activities or professions where gays are far less likely to be found. soldiers, criminals, martial artists, killers, jet pilots, secret agents, mercenaries. these are the protagonists of videogames. its not like we're all playing hairdresser simulator. with that in mind, if there is a gay character in a videogame there is an infinitesimally low chance that they aren't "forced"

>>714823504 (OP)
Me knowing they are gay

>>714823504 (OP)
Probably when they're made gay to distract from controversy surrounding your company. This has happened so many times with Blizzard that I don't even remember what event happened that caused the "fag emergency" button for Soldier 76. Was it when that professional player mentioned Taiwan during a live event and he got perma-banned?

>>714826076
S76 being made gay was a kneejerk response to the bad PR Blizzard was getting from Diablo Immortal and that esports Ellie thing. It was pure damage control

>>714825751
Kingtos bro, btw. Better teach those chudies how to be the better men!

>>714828519
>>714828625
It was that fake "Ellie" girl thing in the Overwatch contenders

>>714823504 (OP)
>what makes a gay character "forced"?
His relationship with his uncle.

>>714823504 (OP)
>Baby mode dps
>No one's favorite character
>Exists to give Ana flavor lore
>Personality of a wood plank on release, turned into a dyke jock later on
>Only defining character trait was a fandom ship with Mercy
>Give her the Tim Drake treatment and turn her lesbian because fuck it, did nothing for her
>Voice actor controversy means she hasn't gotten voice lines in months
Just delete this character

>>714828887
poor pharah. from soldier clone to just a poor blaster

>>714823504 (OP)
If remember right fujos would ship soldier 76 with reaper so they actually made it canon to stay relevant because game was dying and some gay controversy. What dogshit of a company blizzard is. How are they still relevant is beyond me.
>>714828887
They made her dyke too? Lol is there any straight character left in that game?

>>714828887
>Voice actor controversy means she hasn't gotten voice lines in months

She didn't even say anything remotely controversial, just that Hamas are evil. These companies really need to stop listening to schizophrenics on Twitter.

>>714829032
Anyone can turn gay at the flip of a switch but the only official queers are Tracer (lesbian), Soldier (gay), Pharah (lesbian), Baptiste (bi), Lifeweaver (pan) and maybe Venture

>>714829207
>Baptiste (bi)
Source?

oh no big hunky daddy with frosted his tips is gay
who could've thought

when it doesn't contribute to story or character progression/development, it's forced. to do this well, they could have depicted him being fighting alongside a battlebrother or some shit and forming a relationship down the line. but they didn't they just said he was gay in some infodump. it's the ultimate shoehorn. being gay isn't the problem, it's being a lazy faggot writer.

>>714829685
The writing equivalent of putting a pride sticker on a grenade and calling it representation. Nobody cared he was gay, they just wanted it to come from a place of character, not PR panic. But nah, guess frosted tips are queer-coded now.

>>714829897
now?

PS:
I'm from Europe so I never purchased grenades and not sure what that means. I'm sure burgers have "girly" guns or whatever like derringers of ye olde times.

>>714823504 (OP)
Existing at all. Why would I care if a video game character gets his shit pipe blasted? Skip all that shit and just show me shooting and explosions.

>>714823504 (OP)
It's trope reversal which is so common in modern media that it does indeed seem forced.

When people think of fags they usually think of 2 types, one are men who are feminine and want to get fucked in the ass by someone, the other is extremely aggressive and violent think about prison rapists.

Taking a heroic character and doing a trope reversal on them is uncanny.

>>714826076
At the time when it was revealed I thought there was going to be a larger story about how he and reaper fell out and Overwatch disbanded, I thought there was going to be a subplot about a clandestine gay romance between them because it would make things a bit more interesting

>>714828887
What happened to the voice actress?

>>714830126
yeah i'd have loved the dramatic brooding badboy falling for the gruff but insecure good guy dynamic
would've gotten me and the boys all rizzed up

>>714823504 (OP)
Why do I have to know who a fighter is having sex with
This is not a dating sim
I remember when I was playing Street Fighter 2 as a kid and we all wondered if Sagat was having his asshole eaten by a man or not

>>714823504 (OP)
He was the only "cool" white male character in the whole franchise, so they made him gay.

>>714830438
he did

>>714830405
>In response to viewers commenting "free Palestine" in the chat of one of her Ask Bird Mom livestreams on February 12, Cohn said "Yes, free Palestine from Hamas." Cohn, who is Jewish, then expressed her wish for Palestinian "autonomy" and "safety," but angered some viewers by referring to Israel's campaign in Gaza as a "war" and saying that "when both sides are able to stop fighting, it will be wonderful."

Pretty much it, a few Twitter-types got bent out of shape about it and then all the industry rags like PCGamer and Kotaku picked it up and amplified it to try make some ad revenue.

>>714823504 (OP)
The completely transparent reasoning behind it.

>>714830562
Thank god
That was clawing away at me for like 30 years

>>714829110
>just that Hamas are evil.
Spitting hard facts. Damn.

>>714829110
>>714830592
White progressives simping for Islamists will never cease to be fucking bizarre

>>714830592
Why does the Free Palestine crowd refuse to disavow Hamas? They use children as suicide bombers for fuck's sake.

>>714828887
learn how to play hitscan

>>714829110
Isn't Pharah Brown?
I thought Egyptians eloped the jews there?
Maybe they want to keep them there and therefore discredit Hamas so Israel just keeps their jews there away from their pyramids.
Sure it cost around 25000 dead children but freedom ain't free I guess.

>>714830805
The left has no morals other than to pick the victim/ underdog. Hamas could nuke israel with chemical weapons and they wouldent care.

>>714830592
Did Blizzard fire her?

>>714831296
sounds based
guess i'm voting commie and BTFO Putin next election

>>714823504 (OP)
>Um, yeah, see this gruff antihero who you've all become familiar with? Well he's actually a total fag as well! Happy Pride Month!
>(P.S. Please ignore any controversies concerning our company and just focus all of your attention on the homo surprise!)
Cynicism mostly.

I never see people mention this but I always was a bit cynical about the Tracer lesbian thing. They announced it in that comic on December 20 and then get a heap of PR via the gaming press just before Christmas.

>>714823504 (OP)
When you reveal it to distract from the fact you raided the breast-milk fridge again.