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This occurs in the kindred spirits quest when you're locked in a cell along with Sliske, and he is 'flirting' with the Dragonkin guard.

I get that this quest was made in 2016 when casual jokes at the expense of trans people seemed to be socially acceptable, but my only thought when seeing this was, "this must have been a temporary placeholder sh*t-post from one of the devs working on it, and somehow wasn't noticed when it came to ship the product".

Is there any reason this needs to be in the game? 'Hurr durr I identify as an attack helicopter' type jokes were never funny to begin with.

Queue incoming down-votes for bringing up this in the first place.

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over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

So this isn't a trans joke. I can see where you're coming from with the wording being similar to the meme, but this wasn't the intention.

As I recall the writer of this joke was referencing a subclass of the furry fandom, with scaleys being furries who have avatars that are lizards or dragons or similar, rather than a gender/pronoun choice. So at this point Sliske was hitting on the guard by implying they're part of the furry community, nothing more.

I'll put a job in to tweak the wording, but this was absolutely not intended as a trans joke.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by NightfallRS

Thank you for using your time to fix REAL issues with the game

Took about 12 seconds to fix to be fair, hardly even classes as time spent. I was going to make a cup of tea but did this instead.

Ironically checking/replying to these posts took longer. ;)

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by CutLonzosHair2017

Placating to imagined slights does more harm than good in my opinion. Either way though, not a big deal.

I disagree. There was the chance to make the game experience better for some at literally no cost to any other players (the joke has not been removed, just rejigged).

It cost me a cup of tea, I'm ok with that price.