Talk:Andy Kang/@comment-33367936-20171027011523/@comment-33453162-20171101182233

EndeavourGuy I didn't mind the questioning when Zig's bisexuality turned out, I was bothered by the WAY it turned out. I understood the questioning as he is really not that typical LGBT character (that's a good thing, especially with textbook feminazis like Sereena in this game), and he's never shown interest in men, so it was understandable the others were surprised. By forced I meant that Zig dropped this info in casually during a conversation where it didn't really belong. The team wanted to get a man to Zack as he was down because of the breakup, and James' friend showed interest only in Zack and MC, so Zig being annoyed why he was left out of that conversation was totally out of place. There were countless conversations like this in the game, and he never admitted that he was bisexual, and now poof out of nothing he outed himself at a point where it didn't mean anything neither plotwise nor on emotional level. It felt more like with Brandon gone, they needed one more male LGBT main character, so they quickly made Zig bisexual, but they were too lazy to actually integrate this into the plot, and they were also too lazy to at least find an elegant or funny way to out him.

And I don't mind the questioning also because the acceptance toward LGBT people is waaaaay too unrealistic in this game. I mean literally Andy is the first who isn't 100% accepted from the first second. I don't think our society is that accepting, and I also think they do exclude great drama potential with making everybody totally cool with LGBT people. And by that, I mean realistic, real-life drama, not made up, like what Freshman (yeah, I know about Kaitlyn's dad, but I would have been happy if my mother reacted just twice as bad when I came out as lesbian) and Rules of Engagement have 80% of the time. It's like Pixelberry is so touchy about real-life problems like homophobia and racism that they decided to completely exclude them so much that even their villains don't fall into these categories.