@penstrol: "Imagine YOUR home country being depicted as a lawless hellhole so that a bunch of neckbeards could feel good about indulging in a fantasy where a foreign country's military can arbitrarily come onto your soil and shoot people. Because your government, law enforcement, military, and social institutions are too weak/inept/corrupt to deal with the problem. Still think Bolivians are over-reacting?"

I played Wolfenstein: The New Order that depicted the UK as an autocratic, authoritarian hellhole where neckbeards could indulge in a fantasy where a literal one man army from a foreign military could come onto our soil and shoot people because our government, law enforcement, military, and social institutions were too weak/inept/corrupt to deal with the problem.

I honestly don't care how good or bad my country is depicted in a video game because I'm playing it for entertainment, not historical documentation or social commentary. The only time I've ever disliked my country being depicted in a video game was The Order 1886 and that was because the game turned out to be over-hyped trash.

I still think Bolivians are over-reacting.

@esqueejy: Then I apologize, I had not read the original interview in which the question was put forth to them.

That being said, I still find the reasoning behind it to be at odds with the message that they're trying to convey. It's a long and profound thought process that, although won't affect my enjoyment of the game, makes it sound as if they didn't reach that conclusion naturally, where as a simple "Because we can." would have sufficed as a valid reason to feature a female protagonist in the trailer.

Chris Rock pretty much summed up my opinion on this back in 1996...

"<Derogatory Term> always want credit for some **** they supposed to do. A <Derogatory Term> will brag about some **** a normal man just does. A <Derogatory Term> will say some **** like, "I take care of my kids."... You're supposed to, you dumb ************! What kind of ignorant **** is that? "I ain't never been to jail!"... What do you want, a cookie?! You're not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-having ************!"

Just replace the <Derogatory Term> with the term "Progressive Media/Developers" and the examples with the phrase "I think women are people too!" and you're set.

@Jdzspace: Pandering to a very vocal crowd who will grant them immunity from critical opinions, maybe?

What I don't understand with this trend is why a female version of an already established, pre-existing character seems more desirable than an original female character with their own personality and character traits. Why is the gender identity politics equivalent of being given your brother's old t-shirts as hand-me-downs what we're aiming for now?

@sSubZerOo: Because from my anecdotal experience, for nearly every sarcastic troll on the internet, there is a completely sincere moron who agrees with them.

If it's not 1:1, it's pretty damn close.

@ivory_soul: "Good thing there's no such thing as racism towards white people. You can't be racist to people who invented racism."

AHAHAAHHAHAAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!

What ever you do, don't step outside into the real world or read a history book. I've heard that reality hits like a freight train.

Hahahaaha!

That new pose doesn't do anything to address any of that guy's complaints on the forum.

Happy belated April Fools to Fipps I guess.

@bigfatmistake: Says no one cares, still keeps crying.

Your 7 year-old logic is infallible.

@bigfatmistake: Cares enough to bitch about a hypothetical situation he invented, then says "Who cares?"

Your 8 year-old logic is infallible.

So the whole part about her being a seasoned killer is absolutely fine, but a 'sexy' pose isn't?

Yeah, I'm not that fussed about a single emote being removed from the game, but as someone who hasn't gotten into the closed beta, It just doesn't sit right with me that the game isn't even out yet and the perpetually offended are already looking to bend it to their will.

I'd like to at least play it before the PC crowd try to turn it into bland, inoffensive, gray mush.