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<p>Your mileage may vary on his opinions on certain individual examples from BioWare games that he brought up, and I cannot comment on Hades and The Last of Us 2 because I've never played them, but I very much agree with his main points about how LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream video games tend to be superficial and shallow because major game companies want their games to appeal as many people as possible, thus they're still unwilling to take too much risk so they won't offend the gamer bros too much. Honestly, this is how I feel about BioWare's games in general, despite BioWare's reputation as a progressive game company, especially when it comes to queer representation. I would give BioWare the benefit of the doubt for Juhani because she was the first confirmed queer character in both BioWare games and Star Wars, but when it comes to BioWare's original IPs, they could have done better.</p>
<p>I also strongly agree with him about the importance of us LGBTQ+ gamers supporting indie queer developers and their work, instead of relying on mainstream video games (and mainstream media in general) for queer representation.</p>
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<p>That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my <cite>KotOR</cite> footage to my friend.</p>
<p>That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my <cite>KotOR</cite> footage to my friend back then.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; was the first and only James Somerton video I have ever watched. I did not subscribe to Somerton's channel, nor did I have the time nor enough interest to watch any other Somerton's videos. No YouTubers I followed referenced Somerton's videos or were associated with him, and no one in my social media circles talked about him either. Therefore, after watching &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; in November 2021, Somerton simply went off of my radar until his plagiarism scandal broke out in December 2023.</p>
<p>After the James Somerton's plagiarism scandal broke out, it was revealed that &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; plagiarised a paragraph of Robert Grosso's article <a href="https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/queer-characters-in-gaming-brief-history">&quot;Queer Characters in Gaming - A Brief History&quot;</a> on TechRaptor and ripped off Verity Ritchie's (also known as verilybitchie) video essay <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGkxUTbDqw">&quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&quot;</a>.</p>
<p>&quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; was not covered in Hbomberguy's &quot;Plagiarism and You(Tube)&quot; video, so I did not realise that Somerton's video essay about queer representation in video games was also largely built upon other queer creators' works without credit, until one day before I began to write this post, when I searched about the video myself and discovered the sources through the website <a href="https://tustin2121.github.io/James_Somerton_Transcripts/videos/TQNKEkrPEfI">James Somerton Transcripts</a>. This led to me watching Verity Ritchie's original video as well as listening to and reading their <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-somerton-3-94126743">Patreon post and podcast episode about Somerton ripping off their video</a>, realising that the main framework and talking points from Somerton's video was actually from Verity's video.</p>

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&lt;p&gt;Your mileage may vary on his opinions on certain individual examples from BioWare games that he brought up, and I cannot comment on Hades and The Last of Us 2 because I&#39;ve never played them, but I very much agree with his main points about how LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream video games tend to be superficial and shallow because major game companies want their games to appeal as many people as possible, thus they&#39;re still unwilling to take too much risk so they won&#39;t offend the gamer bros too much. Honestly, this is how I feel about BioWare&#39;s games in general, despite BioWare&#39;s reputation as a progressive game company, especially when it comes to queer representation. I would give BioWare the benefit of the doubt for Juhani because she was the first confirmed queer character in both BioWare games and Star Wars, but when it comes to BioWare&#39;s original IPs, they could have done better.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also strongly agree with him about the importance of us LGBTQ+ gamers supporting indie queer developers and their work, instead of relying on mainstream video games (and mainstream media in general) for queer representation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my &lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt; footage to my friend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my &lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt; footage to my friend back then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above, &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; was the first and only James Somerton video I have ever watched. I did not subscribe to Somerton&#39;s channel, nor did I have the time nor enough interest to watch any other Somerton&#39;s videos. No YouTubers I followed referenced Somerton&#39;s videos or were associated with him, and no one in my social media circles talked about him either. Therefore, after watching &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; in November 2021, Somerton simply went off of my radar until his plagiarism scandal broke out in December 2023.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After the James Somerton&#39;s plagiarism scandal broke out, it was revealed that &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; plagiarised a paragraph of Robert Grosso&#39;s article &lt;a href=&quot;https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/queer-characters-in-gaming-brief-history&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Queer Characters in Gaming - A Brief History&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; on TechRaptor and ripped off Verity Ritchie&#39;s (also known as verilybitchie) video essay &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGkxUTbDqw&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; was not covered in Hbomberguy&#39;s &amp;quot;Plagiarism and You(Tube)&amp;quot; video, so I did not realise that Somerton&#39;s video essay about queer representation in video games was also largely built upon other queer creators&#39; works without credit, until one day before I began to write this post, when I searched about the video myself and discovered the sources through the website &lt;a href=&quot;https://tustin2121.github.io/James_Somerton_Transcripts/videos/TQNKEkrPEfI&quot;&gt;James Somerton Transcripts&lt;/a&gt;. This led to me watching Verity Ritchie&#39;s original video as well as listening to and reading their &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-somerton-3-94126743&quot;&gt;Patreon post and podcast episode about Somerton ripping off their video&lt;/a&gt;, realising that the main framework and talking points from Somerton&#39;s video was actually from Verity&#39;s video.&lt;/p&gt;

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> I also strongly agree with him about the importance of us LGBTQ+ gamers supporting indie queer developers and their work, instead of relying on mainstream video games (and mainstream media in general) for queer representation.
That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my {% cite "KotOR" %} footage to my friend.
That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my {% cite "KotOR" %} footage to my friend back then.
As mentioned above, "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" was the first and only James Somerton video I have ever watched. I did not subscribe to Somerton's channel, nor did I have the time nor enough interest to watch any other Somerton's videos. No YouTubers I followed referenced Somerton's videos or were associated with him, and no one in my social media circles talked about him either. Therefore, after watching "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" in November 2021, Somerton simply went off of my radar until his plagiarism scandal broke out in December 2023.