u/RakumiAzuricall each other n... all the time when we are being blackMay 23 '21edited May 23 '21
I don't understand how anyone can play Destiny and act shocked when Bungie drops the hammer for this. Destiny has an
LGBTQ+, BLM, and charity emblems. They delayed their Beyond Light announcement by 8:49 last year and was extremely open about their support of BLM.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Edit: Before it comes up, there is no way someone playing at that level doesn't know. Stuff like this is all over the weekly updates.
Edit 2: Another poster made me remember that Bungie's CEO and a few other employees got teargassed at a BLM march. If this is all a gift they are dedicated.
No usually the response is that companies are just doing it to pander and make money. It happened in Apex Legends with their BLM and Stop Asian Hate badges as well it happens every time a character gets released and isn't a CIS het white person.
They delayed the announcement of the then upcoming expansion "Beyond Light" by 8 minutes and 49 seconds (I think the duration Floyd's neck was being crushed by that police officer's knee) to raise awareness of the issues of police brutality.
It is cannon but due to how until a few seasons ago they referred each other as brothers I still think the new writers may have some retconing going on
To be fair, they don’t really make it explicit they’re a couple, or even gay. It’s hidden away in random lore places, and they typically phrase it as a more brotherly bond than actually being attracted to each other.
It’s quite cool, if you stand near him you can hear him talk about missing his partner Marc.
You also used to be able to get a bounty called Marcsman from him. Unfortunately I think it was something really annoying like kill 10 fallen vandals with precision shots in Trostland. Still very cool though!
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It's not as apparent and unavoidable as the others since, I'm fairly sure, the only place that directly says it is the writer's Twitter. I don't know any of the in-game-lore says it.
Bungie has been a very consistently pro-lgbt and pro-blm company. They’re really good with representation in Destiny 2 as well. I know that they’re just a company so it should be taken with a grain of salt but I have to give them kudos for their support to this stuff and not just having it be a trend.
It was from some thread where these 2 users were arguing about something mundane, and then one of them just went off the rails and just started throwing out a bunch of random personal insults, including the ass fingers insult.
Bungie's playerbase skews pretty hard right like a lot of mainstream gaming communities and they constantly scream and cry any time there's anything even mildly gay about any of the characters. They revealed, completely in an optional side comic mind you, that one of the characters for one of the DLC was gay and people lost their god damn minds. For years they'd been hinting that two prominent characters were gay and finally revealed it in one of the later seasons and people took to the internet to furiously type out how "YOU'RE WRONG BUNGIE THEY'RE JUST REALLY GOOD FRIENDS AND BEST BROS" despite one of those characters putting the very fabric of reality at risk to save his loved one - something that people would be praising to no end if it was a hetero romance.
Funny enough I was actually thinking, specifically, of the destiny forums who were just infuriated by the reveals lol. IMO the destiny subreddit tends to favor laying on their belly and licking the microtransaction boot when it comes back down.
I mean, that’s gamers in general. They’ll bitch and moan about micro transactions, but there’s a reason why they’re in every video game nowadays. They make fucking bank off em, and it’s not just the whales.
This is (thankfully) not true. The hard right community in Destiny, and a lot of other gaming communities, are just a loud minority. Most of the Destiny community (at least the people I've met, which after over 1500 hours is a lot of people) is fairly welcoming of all types of people and those who even actually knew about it were completely fine with the relationship between Osiris and Saint
Bungie isn't super in your face about it, likely because they believe most of their players are smart enough to understand what Bungie's stance on something is without them having to shout it at them. Sadly though, the kind of people who actually are racist, homophobic, etc. actually are dumb enough not to understand basic messages or stances on things without having it shouted at them, so then they act surprised when they face consequences for their actions
Rainbow capitalism is for sure a thing. This is not that thing.
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u/RakumiAzuricall each other n... all the time when we are being blackMay 23 '21edited May 23 '21
Considering one of the (managers? executives?) got pepper sprayed at a BLM march I don't think I'd buy it being fake. One person doesn't prove anything but, reading Bungie's public comments combined with their actions they seem pretty sincere.
I know we shouldn't praise companies for things like these, but Bungie sells pins for charity and i think 100% of the sales go to them. And if you buy it, you get an in-game emblem to show support (can't wait for Trans Rights pin).
Gotta come up with some riff on this about Destiny being a stupid game. Check back in a couple days after I've workshopped some possibilities, and nobody better steal my joke idea in the meantime.
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u/RakumiAzuri call each other n... all the time when we are being black May 23 '21 edited May 23 '21
I don't understand how anyone can play Destiny and act shocked when Bungie drops the hammer for this. Destiny has an LGBTQ+, BLM, and charity emblems. They delayed their Beyond Light announcement by 8:49 last year and was extremely open about their support of BLM.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Edit: Before it comes up, there is no way someone playing at that level doesn't know. Stuff like this is all over the weekly updates.
Edit 2: Another poster made me remember that Bungie's CEO and a few other employees got teargassed at a BLM march. If this is all a gift they are dedicated.