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Let the record show that all three of the deaths so far this week have been from explosions. Like I’ve said before, explosive damage vs. the player is OP relative to all other damage types in the game.

You can’t bring up gender or sexuality these days without being dragged into the ongoing culture war. Even when you’re dancing on the edge of these topics, all it takes is one person with an axe to grind to send the whole thing spiraling out of control.

But we’re going to try anyway, because I have faith that you folks are reasonable and level-headed, even though you come from a lot of different points on the political spectrum. Just be cool and remember that the people who disagree with you aren’t villains. Also remember that a lot of us are coming from part of the internet where people are not so nice, and that tends to make people defensive.

Anyway, preamble over. The question Rutskarn presents is this: What do we think of games where your companions have player-oriented sexuality? People aren’t “gay” or “straight” but instead “attracted to whatever the player is”.

Well…

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I love Rutskarn’s idea of someone trying to coach the Supermutants to say cool one-liners, but they come out horribly mangled because they supermutants are too dumb to grasp the idioms at work. So I thought I’d try to take some famous bad-ass phrases and imagine them shouted by a moron who didn’t understand their own words:

I AM HERE FOR BUBBLEGUM!

MY LITTLE FRIEND SAYS HELLO!

YOU ARE THE DISEASE AND I HAVE MEDICINE FOR IT!

WE FIGHT OR WE DIE!

This is fun. Try it.

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.