Summary
David Gaider is responsible for writing Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition, crafting much of the initial lore that underpins the series. The writer took to the social media site Bluesky to chastiseDragon Age: The Veilguard’s usual detractors, who claim that the game’s female characters are masculine-looking.
“The females aren’t hot enough,“Gaider writes, in a mocking fashion. “Yet because they’re clued into the notion this is obviously incel behaviour, they’ve swapped out “unattractive” for “masculine” and thus “transgender” because that’s a framing that makes them seem political instead of porn-brained. But we all know what they mean.”
Gaider references the character Cassandra from Dragon Age: Inquisition, who was the target of a similar campaign a decade ago, “And here I am, recalling how this has been a thing ever since some dude whined 10 years ago about Cassandra actually being a man, posting over and over about her giant jaw and posting phrenology pics to scientifically prove why his pee-pee remained flaccid.”
Are We Still Doing This?
Inresponse to a commenterwho makes the ludicrous suggestion that because Gaider is a gay man, he can’t know what an attractive woman looks like, the writer said, “If it was just a matter of them not finding characters attractive enough, that’d be fine. That’s not just it, however. They’re angry at any game which doesn’t supply them with characters they specifically find attractive and grasping at reasons why they’re being denied. Quite something else.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the latest target in a loosely organised harassment campaign that ostensibly rallies against diversity and inclusion in video games, but, in reality, is just sexually frustrated individuals shouting into the void about characters who don’t meet their personal attractiveness standards. We’ve seen several characters targeted: includingKay Vessfrom Star Wars Outlaws,Aloyfrom Horizon andAngela Oroscofrom Silent Hill 2.
These people often insist that a game will fail for not catering to their convoluted opinions, but even if the game does exceptionally well, as with Metaphor: ReFantazio and Silent Hill 2, they simply don’t acknowledge it and move on to the next target, which in this case is Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
According to the outraged, Lace Harding has an Adam’s apple. Those somewhat cognizant of human anatomy will know the thing these individuals are drawing red circles around is called a throat… and yes, women have them too. Alas, the least intellectual conversation in humanity’s long history rages on.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases October 31 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
