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No.

If those things are added for the sake of adding them, they are distracting. It is an artificial thing. Every stone is hand crafted and put there with a purpose. If there are things that only scream: look, how inclusive the setup is! The developer scratched all check marks for diversity and representation... Nah. That's screaming to me, that they care more about self represenstation and virtue signalling than about the story.

So if there is a story purpose or it is part of the main story, ok. Tell the story. Otherwise, it breaks immersion. Makes you wonder why it is there.

While not lgbt, nor a game, I recently watched Red Riding Hood (2011), an adaption of the fairy tale about the wolf and, well, little red riding hood. There was a priest that had an entourage of soldiers. Two of them were Black and one looked Asian. While such a thing might have been historically possible, it distracted. It served no other purpose than to show off the film makers virtue. They could have hand waved it with an introductory line, that the priest would have been a travelled man that collected all sorts of exotic followers and gear. Must have missed that. Oh, and the immersion breaking was, because none of the remote villagers even bat an eye about seeing those soldiers. Most of them never would have left their village. They are not cosmopolitans. All that was missing was a lgbt subplot to round it off - and none of the religous villagers having an issue with that to fully break immersion.

For rpg, if there is no romance in it, why even mention the sexuality of characters. If the game developer does, but does not include romance related plots, that was an informed quality of the character for the sake of mentioning it.

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Are you complaining that a fairy tale wasn't historically accurate???

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I wrote what I am complaining about and why. I even wrote that this particular thing could have been historically accurate, but was not explained. So it left the viewer wondering why it was there, and it was presented in a way that protrayed remote villagers in a dark ages setting as citicen of the world with modern attitudes. And they could have easily explained it away without trying.

Adding modern things in such a way is cheap and immersion breaking. For movies and retellings it is also cultural appropriation, if you change certain things.

There is another way! Like they did with Sherlock Holmes, when they just made a retelling in modern times. There is that tv series, where "Watson" is a women and happens in the USA. And the other one that told the classic tales, but with a modern setup, including smartphones.

I am playing games and watching movies for entertainment, and not to get spoonfed the agenda of the creators of those things. If it serves no story purpose, what purpose does it serve? And those things are fully artificial. Everything serves a purpose. My interpretation is, that it serves to show off the virtue of the creators. To "educate" the public with their values and agenda. That is manipulation. I do not want to be manipulated, no matter how noble someone might think the cause is.

Also I have the opinion, that if outside factors like agenda of the develoeprs decide the story elements, that quality suffers. The things are not written to improve or tell the story. They are written or changed to achieve some goal. Like to be compliant to this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority  . It is also the concept why this here is usually not adding to quality  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Executive+Meddling&ia=web

So, no, I was not complaining that a fairy tale was not historically accurate. I was complaining that they changed certain things for the mere sake of checking some checkmarks.

Now, if you were to make a game/movie about little red and the resident tomboy nicknamed wolfgirl and their secret relationship as a plot device, since the religous people would not allow it, that would serve a story purpose.

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you both need to touch grass

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