Geralt from the Witcher fits nicely on this list.

Sims 4 already did that.

Male and female are proper words. OP used them for both. It’s fine.

She was my bisexual awakening before I ever even realized it lol

Velma’s short skirt and knee highs though…

Women enjoying the same things as men? Why, I never!

It depends on the genre of the game.

Fighting games like Mortal Kombat? Put the men in skimpy outfits that show their muscles like the women.

Survival game? I don’t need to see the characters sexualized while they’re trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. Give me character depth and growth, empathy, and strong story-telling visuals. I’ll fall in love with man or woman that way.

I somehow missed all news about Life by You. Yikes at some of those screenshots of development. The art style was…oof.

This genre desperately needs more competition and I’m happy Paralives has survived to see the light of day. I remember learning about it a long time ago and was very hopeful then. The dev team seems really responsive to what the fan base wants as well!

AI slop will do that

It looks like they’ve implemented a Storyteller type feature similar to Rimworld to help guide storylines. I’m def intrigued and hopeful!

No, not at all! The early release got pushed back, but it’s really going to happen this upcoming Monday.

Been in development for about 7 years now. It’s a really dedicated, if small, team.

If it’s a contributor, then it isn’t all fucking made up, now is it?

If you read the article and the study it references, selective sex abortion has affected these numbers.

Its not the only reason, but this is also not my only comment about it here.

Turns out when you allow sex-selective abortions and inflate the importance of men above women, there’s more men in the population and more competition for being able to procreate.

TLDR There’s too many men around.

Reproductive-age populations show a growing male surplus around the globe as aconsequence of declining mortality, narrowing sex differences in mortality, and sex-selective abortions in some countries. Population structures are important determinantsof marriage markets and childbearing. In this study, we estimate the past, current, andfuture difference between the male and the female total fertility rates around the worldusing an established indirect demographic approach drawing on data from the UNWorld Population Prospects. Our results indicate a crossover from historically highermale fertility to increasingly higher female fertility, which occurs globally in 2024.This shift is not toward parity, but rather reflects a growing disparity driven by theincreasing male surplus at reproductive ages, which exerts downward pressure on malefertility rates relative to those of women. The difference is expected to grow to up to20% in countries like China and India, where sex-selective abortion has reinforced seximbalances in population structures. Overall, we highlight the growing sex inequalitiesin reproduction and call for more research on sex differences in fertility.

Here is the study that this article is based on.

“The key finding is that we are observing a shift from a higher total fertility rate among men to a higher total fertility rate among women, which has occurred globally in 2024. This shift is driven by an increase in the proportion of men in the population,’ explains Schubert, a researcher at the MPIDR. Schubert and his colleagues attribute this to long-term trends such as falling mortality, narrowing mortality gaps between women and men, and the link to sex-selective abortions in some countries.”

Why fix it when it’s the truth?

The companies are the ones who paid the tariffs directly and then passed the cost onto their customers.

Why not both? This could help existing dogs live better lives.