I’m reluctantly checking in every few days or so, or once a day to moderate and delete reported posts. Robert Yang: I wish I could delete the Steam forum for my game, but Steam forces you to have a forum so I have to keep it there. Kotaku : How effective are the tools that you have to moderate your Steam forum? Are they fairly basic or can you exercise a pretty decent degree of control within the whole thing? I guess that’s the age old conundrum with identity and assimilation. Yeah, it normalizes it but it also trivialises it. Robert Yang: I’d say that’s a good way of describing the trade off there, or the stakes of talking like this. Kotaku : It does feel like a normalization of the idea of being like, “Yes, I’m attracted to this person who is the same physical sex characteristics as me, and I’m OK with stating it out loud.” But I do suppose I could see also how it might trivialize the idea of what people who are actually gay go through. I think that’s kind of what games and video games and comics, a lot of those uses of language are merging in this weird way that I haven’t really figured out yet. I guess I’m OK with that, that’s not the worst thing. That’s their way of expressing love for this licensed property or image or whatever.
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A lot of that fandom is pro gay, pro-LGBT people talking about how gay they are for these characters. Like the Captain America stuff, or Star Wars with Poe Dameron. But it seems a lot more common or widespread to say video games made them gay for certain characters or something than it was before. As a gay person, I don’t want to take away the politics of being gay. Robert Yang: I feel like the idea of being “made gay” is losing its meaning, though. It’s not people being outwardly shitty, but it’s this big disclaimer of, “DON’T WORRY GUYS, I’M NOT ACTUALLY GAY” followed by, essentially, the idea that homosexuality is a joke. Kotaku : Yeah, it is that kind of other thing. This game, my girlfriend saw me playing it, and then I played it more.” A lot of comments like that, that kind of almost border on homophobia a little, but I’ll let it slide because I see much worse abuse inflicted on me. A lot of people are just having fun with the Steam reviews, saying “This game made me gay. That’s 200 something positive reviews or something, 300 something reviews total. Kotaku : How has Radiator 2 been received on Steam so far?