Perhaps one of you would care to point out where I (or anyone else for that matter) called for the objectionable scenes to be stripped from the game entirely? I'll give you a hint; I never have, and I haven't seen anyone else doing so either.
I apologise if I got carried away, but that kind of attitude (wholesale dismissal of perfectly legitimate criticism because you personally like the target of it) really pisses me off. It adds nothing to the discussion whatsoever, since we all already know that some people will either not have a problem with it or actually like it.
You have been all but demanding for the scene to be changed, and/or parts of it to be removed for weeks, and while you are entitled to that opinion, you are not entitled to get pissed off because someone else has a differing viewpoint. You got all indignant at E-Dog because he felt the scene had merit, and was important to the story, as do the majority of us, even if we do not all like every aspect of it, we see where he was going with it, why it is there, and the importance of it to the world building he is trying to do.
When you come into a public place and complain about something like that, you have to expect that there will be people that defend it as well. I understand you don't like it (I think we all get that by now), and I agree that it would be nice to allow them to 'finish the date' or something like that, which could even be done with a couple of lines on a black screen, but the rest of it I feel works, including the sex on the street. I love Lin, but I have not been training her (and everyone else) to strip and more in public all of these months for nothing. I mean it's not like we make her have sex with another guy, we did not participate in an 'orgy' (no matter what any one wants to call it, there was no sharing), and if we do everything right, we can help a lot of people. The whole point of it is to show that treating people with love works better than treating them as property, and personally, I think that's a good thing all around.
Normally I agree with you man, but on this one I think you are going a bit overboard. We can discuss the merits of the scene, and possible alternatives, without getting upset about it and yelling at each other for having alternate viewpoints. If Runey wants to make an alternate path through that event, then more power to him, that's a pretty damn nice thing to do, but if he doesn't, getting mad about it isn't going to fix it, and it won't convince anyone to change their mind, it's just going to piss them off too, and that isn't a way to have a productive discussion. Like now, we are discussing
how to have a discussion, rather than talking about the topic itself.
Either way, take care, and I hope you have a good night, day, or whatever it is for you now.
