“‘Chances are,’ Brooks suggested, ‘it came from someone asking the question “When I cast Project Image, and an illusionary copy is made of me, what gender is it?” and in an effort to get back to work, they decided to add ILLUSIONARY to the list of genders. Then in this imaginary scenario someone asked “What gender is a Skeleton? If it’s animated bones of the dead, could it be made up of multiple people’s bones, [and] then what gender would it be?” I’m guessing about now a producer would have dropped by [and] said “Just add it to the list and get back to work.”’ … As for the EXTRA genders, Brooks says they’re kind of like extras in a movie. ‘If you have a big scene with a battle going on with many creatures potentially dying, [those creatures] could be assigned to EXTRA3, and then in scripting you could see when 30 EXTRA3 creatures have died.’ So, in the Baldur’s Gate pocket of the D&D world, if you are so unimportant in the grand design that your highest purpose is to be one of 30 anonymous villagers wiped off the map by a fireball, then that is your gender.”
— This article about why there are 19 genders in the Baldur’s Gate engine is maybe the best thing I’ve read all year. (via secularbakedgoods)
There are 19 genders and one of them is SKELETON, pass it on
The real gender was the calcium infrastructure that supported us along the way…
here’s the list from the tweet linked in the article. there’s actually no SKELETON, too bad 😦 but there is SUMMONED_DEMON
Honest to god I can’t understand anything any of them say.
It’s two gay guys using hockey terms to catcall the two presumably straight hockey players (riley and jonesy) who then counter by being comfortable enough to accept the compliments. The conversation then continues along to describe different words and terms for a variety of queer folk as if said words were also hockey players. So when they say a word got cut it’s merely a euphanism for people agreeing not to use that term. The whole scene is two (presumably straight) men being educated gently on the subject by two gay men and listening rather than bickering.
this dialogue is like something out of a greek drama it’s both downright melodic and utterly incomprehensible
Letterkenny is 100% the inheritor of Shakespeare’s legacy.