As if it's not bad enough that Lucasfilm is talking about making a TV series that's basically going to be "The Sopranos" in space, now they're including an expansion module for their "Star Wars: The Old Republic" video game that features a planet where players can engage in same-sex relationships.
Of course, in the "Star Wars" universe, where siblings can swap smooches, same species relationships are something of an anomaly, too.
Oddly, people are annoyed not so much by the inclusion of "same gender relationships, or SGR's" as they are by the fact that these hook-ups are segregated to a single planet.
Gee, and I was worried about kids learning bad lessons from "Grand Theft Auto."
Well, I guess that the Old Republic really did fall because it was rotten from within, like a great old tree, as it said in the prologue of the novel "Star Wars." This proves it.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/01/14/star-wars-game-segregates-gay-cha...
According to the linked article, it seems like it's just for casual hook-ups.
"The gay planet will appear only in an expansion pack called “Rise of the Hutt Cartel,” and it will include characters with canned, flirtatious dialog for same-sex players."
It doesn't address players using opposite-gender characters.
My objection is more to there being any sort of need to include sex play in a Star Wars-affiliated game.
I suppose the argument could be made that humans can play any number of other species, even robots, and nobody thinks that's weird. And yeah, when I was a kid, I always put my Han Solo action figure in the same storage compartment as my Princess Leia action figure.
But this just seems...wrong. There's a graphic element to video games that wasn't available to action figures with the clothes molded on, you know what I mean?
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