"crocobaura;c-18085135" wrote:
I think the sexual non-discrimination is deliberate. It promotes the free love, LGBTQ and transsexual communities they have been otherwise actively promoting. I am more bothered by the fact that my sims get an automatic pink bar with whichever sim decides to do a random declaration of love. Some of those sims my sims hardly knew, being smooched when they hardly knew them is considered assault nowadays, not love.
It sounded like you were equating indiscriminate woohoo with being LGBTQ because you lumped them together as bolded above, and then proposed "So, maybe it's a lazy way to code relationships in game and not a desire to include LGBTQ representation but the fact remains that sims do not discriminate and have an anything goes approach to relationships."
How could it be or not be, a desire to include LGBTQ representation, unless you thought LGBTQ representation was connected with indiscriminate woohoo? Anyway, you seemed to be saying that wasn't your intention, and I am not moralizing for or against polyamory or monogamy myself, just pointing out that polyamory has nothing to do with whether someone is straight, so representing LGBTQ people isn't the same thing as promoting or representing polyamory.
The game does ignore orientation and relationship status and treats all Sims like interchangeable parts, which is annoying to most everyone because if your Sim is in a relationship, other sims don't seem to recognize or respect that.
It does need some kind of solution, but that's not about LGBTQ representation, more like lack of memory, consequences, or any way to have a Sim act like their actual supposed description, whether it's traits that don't matter, or orientation that doesn't matter.
Gay, straight, or Pan, there's hardly any point in Sims getting wed in the first place because they act just as unattached as they did when single, regardless. It's a larger problem, that nothing literally matters with Sims4 sims and it makes them boring or impossible to get immersion with.
