SwiftCrack
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Card Combat ended with DBZ: Legend of the Super Saiyan.
Feel free to enlighten me on the history of gender construction in early Germanic tribes, I'm listening.
I think the best implemented gay character, by far, has been Mustawd in his RPGCodex account.
It was a great character and his homosexuality was a piece of that character, but did not define him.
regardless of the muh homos thing I feel like this game is going to get heavily overshadowed by expeditions vikings and thus end up as a commercial failure(even for indie standards)
regardless of the muh homos thing I feel like this game is going to get heavily overshadowed by expeditions vikings and thus end up as a commercial failure(even for indie standards)
What's hilarious is that SJWs would rather feel important and morally superior than actually achieve their stated goals of tolerance/acceptance of diverse groups, such as LGBT. They'd rather be obnoxious and annoyingly hipster and in your face about how you should feel and blah blah blah.
B) About LGBT in muh-vikung-times: The reaction to odd people would obviously vary from place to place and in different times. (just as it does today)
Some tribes and cultures, especially those in connection with the east and with various steppe and nomadic cultures, would likely have a respecting or even mildly positive attitude towards what we'd call trans people. (see the many concepts of "soft men" as seers, prophets, shamans - Scythian "enaree" etc.)
Gay relations (in some Germanic areas) were sometimes encouraged in a ritualistic or cult context (analogs would be Macedonian and Greek military cultures): http://www.connellodonovan.com/heruli.html
As you can see in this article, those attitudes would've changed a lot with the introduction of Christianity - accusations of crossdressing or a swap of gender roles might be used as taunts or insults, but there's still an underlying acknowledgment of people like this who just exist and may have magical powers, so you'd better not piss them off.
http://seidh.org/articles/sex-status-seidh/
I think this game is set quite early, not really the true viking period, so the influence of Christianity might be less of an issue. And as the article explains, even if homosexuality was frowned upon officially, it mostly wasn't punished by law. (and of course, there's that wonderful attitude that being bummed is degrading, while doing the thrusting is a-ok. Same with having sex with your male slaves, no harm in that. "Apparently the Norse prejudice was not against male homosexuality per se, the desire of a man to make love to another man, but against a man’s taking the woman’s role in a sexual relationship.")
It obviously depends on how they include this stuff, but there is some evidence and reasonable speculation to base it on.
Thats a bloody lot o supposition, might haves an wishful thinking there. I mean yeah sure the gays existed, always have an always will do, but it were regarded fairly much same as anywhere else when a majority looks at a minority, they were disgusted an far more fuckin judgemental than us modern folk.
Eh? I can read it just fine.Neanderthal, mate, you're a good poster and all but your unusual writing style makes it really hard to read sometimes, just saying.
Neanderthal, mate, you're a good poster and all but your unusual writing style makes it really hard to read sometimes, just saying.
Of course, because they could buy a ticket and take the next flight, right? Or maybe because globalization and the internet were a reality back then. You need way more than this to make conclusions about vikings attitude towards gender. Maybe you are right, maybe not. The only thing I'm sure is that you don't provide any good arguments to sustain your conclusion.
This is all from sources as close to the period as you can get, rather than imagining that the Norse for some reason did what a far off, foreign culture did.