Jimquisition: Mass Effect 3 And The Case For A Gay Shepard

[Something Amyss]

I'm expecting the same excuses to come up anyway. And especially the people who blew through several of them, changing their story to conveniently dodge the real issue.

Also, Freddie Mercury is a great example. He slept with a lot of girls in his life but was gay. I guess him sleeping with men doesn't mesh with the canon Freddie, but whatever.

 

[Varya]

Awesome video.
Also feel ridiculously proud that a quote of one of my posts showedup of 0.1 seconds in the video. I'm famous now

 

[Imp_Emissary]

If that's what you want to do that's fine. It would have been nice to have a disclaimer to warn us viewers. I'm libertarian about it. As long as your not forcibly raping someone, stealing from someone, hurting someone (unwillingly), and/or killing someone I don't care. But just give me a heads up that your doing something that might offend.

P.S. I will probably still watch but the heads up will still be nice.

Ummm....If your talking about his last video (The gay love story) there was a warning right before it started that said it would be graphic. Two if you count the age gate.

 

[Something Amyss]

Awesome funny video, great points. I wonder if shoving the rubber cock-bat in your mouth was necessary.

Based on what I've seen in past videos, like with his chainsaw sword, I'm beginning to wonder if Jim has some special fixation with melee weapons. Not that there's anything wrong with that. A man and his giant purple weaponized dong can be a beautiful thing.

Fortunately, he got the US version. The Japanese version has the veins and head edited.

 

[burningdragoon]

I have a problem with the gay relationship option. It's the same problem I have with the straight romance options and the cheating non-gender but looks like a girl so everyone's happy romance option. It's usually terribly written, usually unbelievable and any physical intimacy between two character models almost always looks stupid goofy.

...which of course doesn't mean I don't do them, I just admit they feel pretty stupid on the (w)hole.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Was that Jacob? They bothered to bring him back?

 

[CrazyBlaze]

urgh. I would have thought we were done with this topic last week. Oh well. At least this week the video wasn't boring and unintersting and tried to make itself funny by inserting a penis joke every other second. Now can we move on to something actually intersting?

 

[Mikeyfell]

There are real men, in real life that you're free to choose to suck off.
I guess that makes you canonically gay too.

Thank god for you Jim, you eloquent wordsmith, you.

 

[Dastardly]

Mass Effect 3 And The Case For A Gay Shepard

Apparently last week's episode of Jimquisition was far too subtle for some folk, and it threw up a lot more questions than answers. It also sparked a debate in which some of the dumbest arguments against the inclusion of a gay game protagonist were ever heard.

Fortunately, Jim Sterling is the national authority on doing kissing with men, and lends his razor-sharp insight to this discussion for the final, righteous time.

It needed to be said. And it needed to be said in exactly this way. Thanks, Jim.

 

[Aureliano]

Good video, Jim. Sadly no you aren't going to be able to cure the internet of being full of the socially and/or politically retarded without some drastic social engineering or serial murder though. So I suspect that the uncountable number of homophobes will remain secretly masturbating to gay porn in their basements and proclaiming how gay people are bad to the rest of the world for a long time to come.

Hope ya checked the bat out and/or cleaned it a little before 'using' it though, man. Not sure where that thing's been.

 

[Waaghpowa]

I'll admit that I didn't read much of the comments on the last video, but people brought up pedophilia? Really? Get the fuck out.

 

[VladG]

Jim adds another famous weapon to his fearsome arsenal, right next to the Lancer.

 

[dtocs]

Considering the ending of this Jimquisition i think I will share my personal opinion.

Well now, I do have a problem with gay people. Aka they are sick in the head and whatever excuse medics came up in USA when they realized they can't cure them did not just made them normal... Look, curing schizophrenia is not easy either. If possible at all.

That said excuses debunked in this video are pathetic indeed.
And pedophilia and homosexuality are indeed vastly different things. That said, both are cases of mental disorder but vastly different ones.

Wait, really... Ok ... Lets think about this one...
1)It's normal to want things that make you happy
2) Your sexual organs cant tell the difference between other sexual organs(only your brain can)
3)They respond to physical stimulation
4)Arousal is all in the mind,your mind decides what you like.
5) Using your logic, should we bring it forth that people who only find models attractive are mentally unwell, as well as people who dont want to have sex with fat,disfigured or handicapped people of the opposite gender.
6)or should we say bisexuality, homosexuality and heterosexuality are all normal verations of sexual desire just as we say someone who doesnt find every women attractive isnt mentally unwell.?

 

[Ukomba]

After last week, not sure I even want to click on this one.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Well said Jim.

Very well said.

I'm homsosexual Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite video on the escapist.

 

[Spongebobdickpants]

Considering the ending of this Jimquisition i think I will share my personal opinion.

Well now, I do have a problem with gay people. Aka they are sick in the head and whatever excuse medics came up in USA when they realized they can't cure them did not just made them normal... Look, curing schizophrenia is not easy either. If possible at all.

That said excuses debunked in this video are pathetic indeed.
And pedophilia and homosexuality are indeed vastly different things. That said, both are cases of mental disorder but vastly different ones.

But what's most important here is that developers, Bioware, don't owe anything to anyone. If they want to include whatever new content it is entirely up to them. Your only choice is to either buy their game or don't buy it. It's as simple as that. Attacking writers for example is childish and outrageous. You may disagree with them or consider their creation abysmal.. But the only thing you're entitled to is ability to skip their game and don't buy it.

Mental disorder. They are sick in the head. Sir i would kindly request that you gtfo these forums,political/ideological differences are what make this forum great but you describing peoples sexual orientation like its a disease that needs curing for humanity's sake makes me sick. Face it you are just as ignorant and bigoted as the people who compare homosexuals to paedophiles. As jim said if you just said you were homophobic and had personal problems with it thats a position i could understand but to just say nope they are sick and need curing is disgusting.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Considering the ending of this Jimquisition i think I will share my personal opinion.

Well now, I do have a problem with gay people. Aka they are sick in the head and whatever excuse medics came up in USA when they realized they can't cure them did not just made them normal... Look, curing schizophrenia is not easy either. If possible at all.

That said excuses debunked in this video are pathetic indeed.
And pedophilia and homosexuality are indeed vastly different things. That said, both are cases of mental disorder but vastly different ones.

Wait, really... Ok ... Lets think about this one...
1)It's normal to want things that make you happy
2) Your sexual organs cant tell the difference between other sexual organs(only your brain can)
3)They respond to physical stimulation
4)Arousal is all in the mind,your mind decides what you like.
5) Using your logic, should we bring it forth that people who only find models attractive are mentally unwell, as well as people who dont want to have sex with fat,disfigured or handicapped people of the opposite gender.
6)or should we say bisexuality, homosexuality and heterosexuality are all normal verations of sexual desire just as we say someone who doesnt find every women attractive isnt mentally unwell.?

I think you are probably wasting your breath trying to take any sense into someone that takes that stance. They typically won't budge.
On topic: Hilarious video. I can't believe anyone has an issue with it. It never bothered me in any other RPGs I've played either. Although, I should add that I feel the romances in almost all Bioware RPGs feel hugely tacked on and unrealistic, gay or not.

 

[.J.a.T.]

Were I gay, I just might do it with Jim.

But since I'm not, I remain to be uneased by the Gay Shepard cutscenes.

Feels awkward when you're into roleplaying RPG's.

 

[Uriain]

I think the biggest point here is this.

As Jim said, "If you don't want a Gay Shep, you wont have any of the scene's, romance plot, dialog to deal with"

There is a general "it doesn't do everything I want it to do so i'm going to complain" mentality. A prime example, the HUGE butthurt over MP being included in ME3. THEN, once people got a chance to play the MP, the HUGE butthurt over not having enough things to do, and the rumors of map/enemy content.

There needs to be a serious pause taken by the general public, maybe take a few min to give their collective head a shake and realize that, at the end of the day, its not the end of the world, so give it a rest.....