07-28-2023, 09:42 PM
(07-28-2023, 08:51 PM)JOELED Wrote: I've read all of the replies here over a few times and I genuinely don't understand what the problem is for having it be a command for BORG/AI. Roxy has it all coded up and ready to submit (after the PR she submitted today fixing ID changing pronoun hover goes through) and it feels like the best solution for this QOL problem.
Yeah, you don't understand it because you see it as a QOL Feature, while, in fact, it very much isn't.
Petsonally, i see any form of personality in borg as fault NT would very much like to try to get on top on. And i really don't like the trend of borgs being humanized.
On the other side, i recon people would like to play their borg with a personality they enjoy playing. And identification with a gender is for many people a very important aspect of their personality. While i feel people get attached too strongly to their character for their own good (we can see this on the arguments brought up when we talk about stable mutagen or polymorphism), in this case this is very mundane where nothing is really on the line.
All in all, i agree with the suggestion pali made:
Take the gender of the mind/the character you selected at roundstart for latejoin/roundstart borgs.
This will make it clear this is not something meant for the borgs to be selected at will and instead be something that comes from the faulty technique of rewiring brains for microprocessors.
Also, this will remove any chance for people to put in "here, change your gender to..." laws, which would normally be something needing to be dealt with by admins.