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[Reelya]

Also, "two straights"? What does that mean?

Pretty sure they just mean a heterosexual couple.

[scriver]

Homosexuals can seduce men in CK2, so bisexuals could be relevant, although how they wouldn't just be more OP than homosexuals is a question. Likewise, Asexuals likely couldn't seduce anyone, or have a low modifier to it. Not sure though.

I thought characters in ck2 could only seduce people of the same sexuality of themselves? For example, homosexual men could only seduce homosexual men. I usually only go seduction when I end up with female ruler since it's such a good way to counteract the female ruler malus.

Also, "two straights"? What does that mean?

The two straight sexualities: Straight heterosexual and straight homosexual. Absolutely no bees involved.

[pikachu17]

Homosexuals can seduce men in CK2, so bisexuals could be relevant, although how they wouldn't just be more OP than homosexuals is a question. Likewise, Asexuals likely couldn't seduce anyone, or have a low modifier to it. Not sure though.

I thought characters in ck2 could only seduce people of the same sexuality of themselves? For example, homosexual men could only seduce homosexual men. I usually only go seduction when I end up with female ruler since it's such a good way to counteract the female ruler malus.

Okay, I said that wrong, but what I meant was bisexuality would have more relevance than just fertility percentage, since they could maybe seduce everyone with a compatible orientation, while asexuals could seduce no one.
That sounds like bisexuality would be automatically better than homosexuality though, and asexuality is a straight up bad thing, so no idea how it could be improved to be more balanced.
It should be noted I did not read the CK3 dev log, and I have played very little CK2 for myself.

[Iduno]

I didn't read it, but giving children sexual preferences does seem .... off putting.

It seems like the sort of thing you could have get revealed slowly over time. Like identifying a weapon in a roguelike by using it repeatedly.

[Rolan7]

I kinda wanted to go on there and correct some of the incredulous-seeming people just in case they were truly confused, but I saw a couple cases of them going rabid on their own alt-right members over misunderstandings.  Besides, the *complete* lack of comments calling the article out on its dishonesty suggests that it's very heavily moderated.  Which makes the literal Nazi image spam all the more telling.

There's not going to be any children in sexual situations in CK3, fucking obviously.  But this article made a purposely vague statement that could be taken that way, so it was taken that way.

I can be pretty obstinate about this kind of issue, I know, so I *try* to keep an open mind.  I'm pretty sure I don't approach such depths of hatred and, more importantly, dishonesty.  It's depressing seeing them lap it up.  I wish they were as rational as they probably think they are, so we could learn from each other.

[pikachu17]

I kinda wanted to go on there and correct some of the incredulous-seeming people just in case they were truly confused, but I saw a couple cases of them going rabid on their own alt-right members over misunderstandings.  Besides, the *complete* lack of comments calling the article out on its dishonesty suggests that it's very heavily moderated.  Which makes the literal Nazi image spam all the more telling.

There's not going to be any children in sexual situations in CK3, fucking obviously.  But this article made a purposely vague statement that could be taken that way, so it was taken that way.

I can be pretty obstinate about this kind of issue, I know, so I *try* to keep an open mind.  I'm pretty sure I don't approach such depths of hatred and, more importantly, dishonesty.  It's depressing seeing them lap it up.  I wish they were as rational as they probably think they are, so we could learn from each other.

To be fair, it is a somewhat darker medieval game, so it's not necessarily the case that there's not going to be any children in sexual situations in CK3.
However, nothing he stated suggested that the dev log actually said anything like that would in fact happen.

[hector13]

CK is darker relative to what? Like, I’ve put over a thousand hours into it, and you can murder children (and also be murdered by children!) but the sex side of it is quite heavily glossed over, regardless of your ability to seduce your family.

There are certain things game devs can do, reasonably, but I don’t think paedophila falls into that categorely.

[A Thing]

Yeah that doesn't seem to be something that would be added or anyone would want to add. There's more than enough ways for an evil character to happen in CK already, no real need to go into anything like that. Would it possibly more realistic? Sure, but I'd rather not it be something I have to deal with in CK3 tbh. Don't really need the Lives of the Twelve Caesars-esque gratuitous detail into vile acts in my sorta dark grand strategy horse marriage simulator.

[scriver]

It should also be noted that the apparent age of the character model used in the screenshot does not necessarily match the age of the character. In CK2 they used the same pictures for children regardless of whether they're newborn or 15.99 years old. Most of the childhood events involving romance or sexuality all happen during the teen years, but the character still has the child portrait for them. If you didn't know the character were older, it could look very weird with how the seemingly-from-their-portrait-6-or-7-year-old-child character is getting an event about lusting after the blacksmith's daughter.

It should also be noted that all of said childhood events involving romance or sexuality are very coy about it in an innocent "schoolboy crush" kind of way. I don't think for a moment that this move for ck3 will involve children having sex and even less so paedophilia. It's an outlandish jump-of-conclusion that that article writer makes.

[Kagus]

I don't think for a moment that this move for ck3 will involve children having sex and even less so paedophilia. It's an outlandish jump-of-conclusion that that article writer makes.

Glitterhoof is still my waifu though.

[methylatedspirit]

Is it bad that I cannot follow Intel processor codenames at all? Tell me, what generation does Sandy Bridge refer to? No clue? What about Apollo Lake? Whiskey Lake? Broadwell? No, seriously. What's the damn point of these codenames? And the hell only begins, those are the well-known ones. How about Crystal Well? Arrandale? Devil's Canyon? Fuck do any of these mean? I call bullshit on Intel saying "formerly", since they still give codenames to the new ones. Seriously. Why. Who wants this. It's cooler this way, but good fucking luck trying to figure out which one is which!

Seriously, fuck these things. Just no. Get the absolute fuck out of here. And why do some people insist on referring to the processors by their codenames only anyway? What's wrong with just saying nth Generation and their class (i3, i5, i7, etc), for example, 4th gen i5? Failing that, why not just the model number? Cool factor? Maybe it would be cooler to know what the hell you're talking about.

Look, I just hate it whenever things are obfuscated behind unnecessary codenames that serve no purpose but to be fluff. I just have shit memory in general, so every single unit of memory counts. I routinely forget the names of people, so much so that it's some kind of honor when I do remember them. I envy people with better memory who can store these things in memory without banging their heads against the wall.

[bloop_bleep]

Maybe it's because it makes the names more memorable and less technical, so it's more conducive to brand-making. It's easier to talk about the latest Broadwell rather than "gen 5.6 build 192329.3192329."

I've noticed the math, engineering, science types tend towards ridiculously generic names (Extremely Large Telescope? Really?) so I have a feeling the sand-benders and polygon-pushers didn't come up with this one, but rather it was a product of the marketing department.

[Uthimienure]

It's probably the same in lots of industries. Crap, in a stupid low-tech recreational vehicle engineering job I had to deal with meaningless code-names for products... how about "teacup" for an air conditioner? They seemed to want to hide the identity of projects from the competition. As if any of the outdated tech was worth trying to steal in the first place. Haha!

[Yoink]

My phone (an LG V20) packed it in yesterday.
After all the effort I've gone to getting replacement batteries for the damn thing... seems kinda doubtful that it'll bounce back from this one. The screen appears to be fucked but I've no idea if that's all it is. Before that happened it had already started refusing to charge.   

[bloop_bleep]

Did you have a case?