Oh. Have been away from the forum for a while, and thought the thread'd just died down back in January indeed.
I am not sure as to how the whole fetish-ey sexist tangent or whatever it was ended up being raised, but I suppose the very fact that the discussion got suddenly reanimated is somewhat encouraging what with how tectis23's rant in the General forum from a month or so ago got quickly nipped in the bud, although some people there tried to be more or less reasonable and/or constructive with their comments. The tone of the OP was not exactly in any way contributing to a civil discussion, though.
I did see the release date reveal trailer, and had a mixture of hope and - pardon the term - cringing from seeing the "body type" option in the character creation menu. On one hand, it could just be every body build lumped together, same as the voices, so it's a selection of male and female bodies of different bulk (maybe even more than just standard/muscular - perhaps we'd have skinny characters too?), just on a single selector (although the fact that there's still these awful selectors instead of an easily readable grid of options sure makes me worried about the character creation UI in the full game)... or it could just be this post-modern euphemism for gender/sex yet again. Elden Ring having the players select their "body type" but immediately gendering them in the first cutscene in the game and locking voice options to it says a few things as to the degree of the frankly pointless charade that's being put on all for the sake of "inclusive" language...
...Some people would always find other things to be offended by - like how people would see the portrayal of elves from Larian's previous game (guess which one) as a Native American caricature, or how the gith are an Asian one. Sure doesn't stop them from slobbering over Astarion and his racist, sadistic arse, though - speaks volumes to the degree of hypocrisy on display (and shows how it's enough for a character to be a pretty twink boy to be forgiven for the modern cardinal sins. Were he not attractive, I imagine he wouldn't have gotten the pass).
