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Oh, you really set yourself up for this one. Let’s dismantle this nonsense piece by piece.

"Review bombing? Quite an assumption, there; I have better things to do with my time."

Oh, so you’re totally not review bombing, but somehow you keep leaving 1-star reviews specifically on games that include LGBT+ content? Yeah, that’s review bombing, my dude. If it walks like a bad-faith troll and talks like a bad-faith troll… well, you get the idea.

"Well done completely ignoring anything I actually posted and screeching 'bigotry' because you can't handle anyone not agreeing with nonsense.

Ah yes, the classic "I'm being oppressed because people are calling me out." Nobody’s “screeching.” Your words speak for themselves. You’ve said pansexuality is “imaginary,” that biromantic asexuality is just a “low sex drive,” and that queer people have no place in VNs. That’s bigotry, not a “difference of opinion.”

"You do realize many gay, bi, and trans folk don't agree with any of it and call it out, (don't like the 'queer' label, either) as I've said?"

Sure, some LGBT+ people don’t like the word "queer," but many do. You don’t get to cherry-pick a few conservative LGBT+ voices and pretend they speak for everyone. That’s like finding a single woman who hates feminism and saying she speaks for all women. That’s not how this works.

"The otome (a Japanese word) genre of VNs always referred to a female protagonist with male love interests, until some Westerners 7+ years ago decided it meant something entirely different."

Except… nope. Japanese devs have been making customizable otome games for years—games that allow gender choice, nonbinary MCs, and even female love interests. Are you gonna tell Idea Factory, Koei Tecmo, and Voltage that they’re wrong about their own genre? Go ahead, I’ll wait.

"The whole 'Westerners know better than people from the country of origin' is working out real well for Ubisoft, isn't it?"

First off, Ubisoft? A company that’s French and known for its AAA corporate greed? What does that have to do with indie otome games? Oh right, nothing.

"What next; gonna tell me that Bara is something other than M/M relationships, aimed at men? You'd be wrong on that front, too."

Literally nobody brought up Bara. You dragged that into the conversation for no reason. Are you just throwing around VN terms to sound smart? Because it’s not working.

Bonus Round: Stop Saying "Sweetie," "Honey," or Any Other Condescending Pet Name.

If your argument relies on belittling people’s ages to make yourself seem smarter, you don’t have a real argument. It doesn’t make you sound wise, it makes you sound insecure and desperate to act superior.