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Saya 04-28-2009 07:52 PM
Star Wars, Homosexuality And You.
 
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BioWare take their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers are shutting down talk on Old Republic's message boards about homosexuality, because it's a term that does "not exist in Star Wars".

Yes, if you care to trawl around the site, there are a few threads that either began as, or devolved into, discussion of how the game - or the game's future player base - would handle gay relationships. And those threads are now locked. A thread complaining about those threads being locked (along with the words "homosexual", "lesbian" and "gay" being censored on the boards) has now also been locked, with BioWare's community manager Sean Dahlberg posting succinctly:

As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.

Thread closed.

OK, but...they do, uh, realise that the people actually playing the game do not exist in Star Wars either, right? They're real people?
http://kotaku.com/5230325/there-are-...s-in-star-wars

Underwater Ophelia 04-28-2009 08:10 PM
Wow.
What the hell.

HumanePain 04-28-2009 08:14 PM
Yet it is ok for a sister to passionately kiss her brother? Riiiiiggghhhhhht.

Duane 04-28-2009 08:16 PM
Twice, too. Might have been thrice.

Schazmyrrh 04-28-2009 08:20 PM
They're probably doing it to, uhm, maintain the brand image of Star Wars. Marketing makes the world go round... well, even in the Star Wars galaxy, I suppose.

RozzVanian 04-28-2009 08:26 PM
I WISH there were some gay relationships in Star Wars. Maybe Padme and her decoy going at it...

God, I can't get that out of my head now...

Schazmyrrh 04-28-2009 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Schazmyrrh (Post 534815)
They're probably doing it to, uhm, maintain the brand image of Star Wars. Marketing makes the world go round... well, even in the Star Wars galaxy, I suppose.
And I meant the censorship of the gay threads and such... not the incest implications.

Godslayer Jillian 04-28-2009 08:56 PM
I'm pretty sure there must be a story somewhere in the Star Wars universe about a near human alien falling in love with another type of near human alien.
Interplanetary interspecies love is alright but homosexuality is not even something people can fathom?

Renatus 04-28-2009 11:12 PM
If I remember right I think I read about in the first kotor that you're able to have a lesbian relationship. Also In Mass Effect you can have a lesbian/interspecies relationship.

Madarame 04-28-2009 11:48 PM
Yeah, your character was able to have a lesbian relationship in the first kotor game.

Joker_in_the_Pack 04-29-2009 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Renatus (Post 534903)
If I remember right I think I read about in the first kotor that you're able to have a lesbian relationship.
Yeah, with Juhani I believe.

Jack again 04-29-2009 01:15 AM
Hurrah for the most pathetically bigoted news I've read all day...

Beneath the Shadows 04-29-2009 02:43 AM
This should convince some Warsies to switch to Trek (if they're not already fans). In Star Trek, you can get some hot lesbian action. Hot alien lesbian action.

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/q...JadziaKiss.jpg

It don't get much better than that. :p

(Aww... smileys still don't work.)

Man In Room 5 04-29-2009 07:17 AM
I think you guys are missing something....like the whole Star Wars v. Star Trek thing. I'm guessing this was done to discourage people from developing alternate plot lines and Star Wars slash fic--as Star Trek fans have done. It probably wasn't meant as discrimination against gays but as an attempt to keep Star Wars from descending to the same level of geekdom that Star Trek has.

(Now, all of you who totally missed my point, feel free to flame me because you think I'm homophobic.)

Saya 04-29-2009 07:27 AM
Considering both the first three movies and the newer three movies had one major female character each, all those men must be lonely. Not the fans fault that its such a sausage fest. Besides, its a mmmorpg that they're talking about, not slash fiction.

Beneath the Shadows 04-29-2009 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Man In Room 5 (Post 534968)
...an attempt to keep Star Wars from descending to the same level of geekdom that Star Trek has.
Yeah, they sunk to that level, and far beyond, a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away).

Renatus 04-29-2009 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows (Post 534927)
This should convince some Warsies to switch to Trek (if they're not already fans). In Star Trek, you can get some hot lesbian action. Hot alien lesbian action.

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/q...JadziaKiss.jpg

It don't get much better than that. :p

(Aww... smileys still don't work.)
I'm a fan of both. Also star trek might have symbiote possessed lesbian action, but star wars has hot tweileks, hot sith, and hot sith tweileks.
http://th02.deviantart.com/fs16/300W...on_by_AbKi.jpg

PastMidnight 04-29-2009 01:10 PM
I loved Star Wars until they came up with the new books that continued the story to such a ridiculous predictable plot. Although there is more heterosexual love later than, first three episodes contained one female character, who by the way, looks more like a surf-board than a girl.


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