You weren’t talking in a general manner, you invented a very specific scenario in which someone might want to change their name.
I wasn’t talking generally either: I was addressing the scenario raised by OP. Stop pretending I was saying something I wasn’t.
Oh so you’re completely ignoring the context of OP’s decision and pretending that I’m making a blanket judgement on all name changes, glad we cleared that up.
I’m not saying it’s disrespecting the family name, I’m saying it’s disrespecting his father specifically, and that’s fine.
I think the religious opinion analogy is slightly different, this is someone who:
That is a valid thing to do, but it is directly disrespectful to the other person because it directly expresses the fact that they don’t like them.
It is fine to not respect people based on their choices and behaviour. It is fine to express disrespect to people you don’t respect.
No, you’ve misread my comment: the tokenisation is lazy, having characters whose sole defining characteristic is their gender or sexuality (or race, disability, etc.) is lazy, failing to make them fully rounded characters beyond their superficial traits is lazy.
What Daniel is talking about is presenting these issues in a modern framing, in a time period which understood them in a very different way.
This is exactly what KCD2 has done well with this particular romance option, having the characters be rounded individuals first with ambitions and flaws, and also give them the opportunity to explore their sexuality in a way that occurs naturally through the game (depending on choices you make).
It looks like he’s really commenting on the way these relationships are portrayed in KCD2 compared to other games, but he doesn’t specify which other games he’s on about so it’s hard to say exactly what he’s referring to other than a general perception of modern media lazily inserting LGBT characters without integrating them more deeply into the setting or narrative.
How is it not? If you change your name to specifically distance yourself from someone then that is a sign that you don’t respect that person.
Maybe you really don’t respect someone and want to show it, that’s fine. It’s ok to not respect a person if you find them unworthy of respect.
There are several valid reasons to change your name, wanting to disassociate yourself from someone is completely valid. For example, Austrian composer Thomas Wanker changed his name to Wander, more for practical reasons.
It is still disrespectful, I’m not saying that disrespect isn’t justified. My original comment was pointing out the cycle of disrespect caused by OP’s position.
I’m missing the context of people mocking the name, where was that added? OP only says ‘hates dad’s name’.
If people are mocking your name they are mocking you, changing your name won’t stop that.
The game has a gay romance option, which is something that you can unlock over the course of the game with the right dialogue options and is fairly tastefully done. The game is very intent on being a 1403 simulator and the characters are all written with that in mind, but it’s nice that the game recognises that gay people would have existed regardless of the cultural attitudes at the time.
I think his comments refer to the implementation of the romance in the way that it doesn’t feel like it was put there so the studio could boast about how progressive they are.
Changing your name in order to disassociate yourself from someone (especially to a name from a TV show you have no connection to) is also disrespectful, does your argument work both ways?
Ease of management and surveillance (most such tools marketed at schools are Windows only), first class integration into active directory for user and computer account management, hardware agnostic (rules out macos), and it’s already integrated into the IT team’s systems and processes so switching would be a major effort.
He’s saying that Android is locked down bloated and filled with spyware.
I think it was the steamdeck comparison that is drawing this response, as gamers finally have a device that isn’t restricted to a single OS and is completely under the users control.