psychtrauma

Your claim is that all meaningful communication is arguing?

I can and do recommend therapy to everyone.

> It doesn't fill me with joy that a 2020 game would make that choice.

> You are working from your assumption, here.

I can rephrase: "It doesn't fill me with joy that any game company in 2020, particularly one known for encouraging modding, would hard-code marriage as between a man and a woman"

Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

What's the difference? The outcome is the same.

Occam's razor suggests to me that some people in the design process defined marriage as being strictly between a man and a woman, and nobody else cared enough to change this.

It doesn't fill me with joy that a 2020 game would make that choice.

Also the choice to have characters default to open homophobia, and for that to be used as a positive in promotional material, is not an indicator of a gay-friendly organisation.

Indeed. I have no reason to argue and no real need to persuade others - I just wish to observe and live my truth.

> I think you are failing to consider those who faced trauma and failed to handle it.

I would have previously agreed with you, and I think that is an important viewpoint that is useful to contemplate deeply. But, I now wish to reject the point of view that I should be proud because I faced my individual trauma somehow 'better' than those other people.

Those other people shouldn't have faced that trauma either.

'Resilience', in this sense, is usually presented as a positive personal trait to be proud of.

However, (after a lot of therapy), I see it more as a simple reflection of the undue trauma I faced and was required to handle.