4zb4 wrote
The housewives, slaves and Petrus wives are, well, trained to just be homemakers and/or slaves so it doesn't make sense for them to hold an enlightening conversation when it's unlikely they received any kind of academic education.
Well, we could make the housewives sci-talk about cooking, laundry, kids (cooking kids

).
I know I'm suggesting this in gender equality thread. Please don't throw me to angry housewives.
4zb4 wrote
You're not playing an all-knowing monster encyclopedia of a character. You were raised by hippos. You are not smart. The only way you learn and become smarter is by reading books about gods and talking about science with people, which isn't really relevant to say, identifying the sex of a given monster or animal.
If you can't immediately tell what a monster is by looking at it and using common sense, then it makes absolute sense for the player to refer to the monster as "it".
I like this explanation!
4zb4 wrote
To make things even more confusing, maned female lions are also a thing in the real world.
4zb4 wrote
Again mutant bunnies are the exception here (since you can't tell at a glance what sex a rabbit is without having in-depth knowledge of them) but that might be a gameplay issue since it lets you know that two bunnies might mate and produce more horrid offspring to kill.
I too think it's mostly for gameplay reasons that bunnies have noted genders. Even though you generally slaughter them all, so it doesn't make that much of a difference.
4zb4 wrote
It would not make sense for the player to say, use the look command and hover over an NPC and see, for example "A Lunethia guard stands here. Xhe does not care about you" because it would make sense that the player, being from a society that uses only "he" or "she" to try to use what they believe is the most appropriate pronoun.
Agreed.
4zb4 wrote
Dialog from NPCs however could be fine, as the player would be able to audibly hear what the person is saying and any confusion produced on the part of the actual real-life player of the game would make perfect sense and be entirely appropriate.
Why not.
4zb4 wrote
However I like the idea of having a randomly assigned player character even better. i.e. no choice of whether your player is male or female.
I think this would be the best, too.
4zb4 wrote
Perhaps the idea of being able to assign pronouns would best be relegated to a menu option, and otherwise defaulted to player sex?
That actually sounds great. Way better than picking your pronoun at each game start.
4zb4 wrote
I think it'd be best just to leave the chest bare, although with a different sprite for male/female so they are distinct.
I like this.
chaostrom wrote
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Let's not forget that the very premise of the game isn't politically correct.
Yeah, and it should retain it's humor and silly jokes.

But I think it's possible to try some changes and not go overboard.