You keep talking about reading the study, but the specifics of the study are irrelevant because the study is simply the justification for businesses to act a certain way. As I said, what is the conclusion of the study? We know it, that toxic fanbases lose businesses revenue. If the study is true, how should people take the findings? Obviously, it is going to be censorship of people who bought the game and are "toxic" because that will make companies more money.
"The study doesn't align with my worldview, therefore I will stick my fingers in my ears and ignore it while i shout "lalalalalala""
The research provides actionable items, the supporting studies support the research. You haven't taken 3 seconds to read them, which shows you are not interested in a good-faith argument.
The issue is that businesses have used "toxic fans" as a scapegoat for a long time to cover up their own failings, you should be worried about how they'll use this to legitimise doubling down on their behaviour.
Just because some businesses have done that (and they have), doesn't mean the studies and the research presented are incorrect, or that all businesses have done so.
As to the BG3 comment, I didn't say anything about having an issue with bear sex, projection from your part. I'm pointing out that a core customization feature, that being the ability to customise the size of a female characters breasts, is not in the game, but other things such as bear sex which are much more niche than character customization are in the game. If you want to be a circumcised or uncircumcised male? Well and good! You want to be a large breasted woman? Not allowed. Funny to use the "rules and lore" comment, because based on BG3 all PCs have the same size breasts! This feature has been attacked for a long time as being an aspect of toxic masculinity, now it's gone, funny how that works.
So much to unpack here. First of all, you're assuming there's some ulterior motive to the lack of breast customisation in the game, attributing it to toxic masculinity, yet (to my knowledge at least) this has not been stated / claimed by the developers. Second, you keep on ignoring that the game does not only allow for penis customisation, but also vulva customisation. If this was about "toxic masculinity", for sure they wouldn't allow for different kinds of pussy, right?
You're trying to red herring this whole thing when the actual explanation may be much simpler: Their game engine does not allow for the hundreds / thousands of items and body types to appropriately scale with breast size, and therefore they decided to invest time in other things other than to model every single piece of clothing in the game so that you can fap to bigger boobs. Genital customisation does not impact your armour and clothing, therefore they decided to allow for it. Since this is a fantasy game and they wanted to be more inclusive, and the game includes explicit sex scenes, they decided to allow for female looking characters to have a penis, and vice-versa.
Edit - To add upon the above, I may be wrong and you may be right, but I genuinely think you and others are reading way too much into this because you have this preconceived notion that just because some developers / people are stupid, that everybody must inherently be stupid.
Also love the Popper comments, as if Popper's ideas are the be all and end all of thinking. If you want to educate yourself, I suggest reading Dewey and Mannheim (critically of course) you'll hopefully be able to understand where the general trend of how these ideas you're promoting end up.
They are not, but perhaps studying a bit would go a long way into understanding what's actually happening all around us. Any recommendations on what to read from Dewey and Manhheim?
I can see people getting lifetime bans in the future for misgendering / incorrect pronoun use
This is an oversimplification of a bigger issue and a conversation that I don't think a lot of people are prepared to have. My 2 cents? It depends on how someone is being misgendered. Misgendering someone because we assign gender characteristics based on what we see or hear? I don't think that should be a problem, nor a bannable offence. Using the incorrect pronouns because we're not used to using whatever pronouns people want (and I'm not entirely in favour of this whole many pronouns thing that has happened recently)? Also not a bannable offence.
Misgendering/using the incorrect pronouns to bully someone? And I mean proper bully? Should be a bannable offence, the same way bullying someone by using any of their physical or mental characteristics should. But I also think there should be a proper warning system before we reach the point of banning people since I believe that most of us, when given the chance, are able to grow the fuck up and not be dickheads.
