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Barbie and Baldur's Gate 3 have undeniably progressive elements and are unstoppable money-making machines.

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[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe the fact that several characters are canonically not straight including

minor spoilerThe daughter of a benevolent god

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am quite aware of that. My current Char is in a homosexual relationship.

My comment was supposed to be a humorous jab at the fact that BG3s romances go way further than same-sex relations.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not just your companions, which could have been seen as just being "player-sexual", but also NPC characters in relationship with other NPC characters, which are more direct statements.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Ah ok, cool. Difficult to discern facetiousness online sometimes 😁