It’s a video about sexuality as a gaming mechanic. The same way you might play as a mage or a warrior, you can choose who your character is interested in. Except you don’t realize you have an option until someone else that played the game in a different way tells you. There’s a focus on bisexual erasure as well.

If the video is too long for you, watch the first twelve minutes and you will get the gist.

You can read the transcript here: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=iZGkxUTbDqw

Watching this now, it’s hard not to think about social media and how the ecosystem is tailored to make you see exactly what you want. We will always interpret the world though the lens of our personal past experiences, but tech is able to steer us away from anything that challenges our point of view these days. It’s a common practice for big companies to edit their products to comply with the demands of specific cultures or the powers that be.

There are the players and the world. There are well-crafted narratives and player choices. Being able to role play as much as you want is good, and the same can be said of a world that adapts to your decisions. On the other hand, experience something that is beyond or at the edges of my imagination has great value, and a world whose personality changes solely for my benefit is limiting in a way I’ll never be aware.

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    You can read the transcript here: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=iZGkxUTbDqw

    OP mentioned it first. I’m just thanking them for giving me that so I don’t have to do any work to search it out myself. I’m not paid to do any advertising for this website.

    This is probably my first accusation of being an advertiser. I’ve seen other people get accused of advertising or being shills before and saw that it was pretty difficult for the person to convince others they were just a regular human person without any profit motives. I’d prefer if you thought I was a normal human, considering I bothered to defend myself, but feel free to think I’m an advertiser I guess?