[HN Gopher] Legalizing Gay Marriage in Crusader Kings III with G...
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       Legalizing Gay Marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
        
       Author : ice3
       Score  : 79 points
       Date   : 2021-04-05 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mabbo wrote:
       | It seems odd to me. Paradox is a Swedish company, and Sweden is a
       | fairly liberal country. Same-sex marriage was legalized in 2009,
       | and even the Church of Sweden gave the go-ahead on performing
       | same-sex marriages the same year.
       | 
       | The game logic around this is simple enough that changing two
       | byes fixes it, so it's not a technical issue.
       | 
       | What gives?
        
         | p1necone wrote:
         | Presumably dedication to historical accuracy. Although were
         | there really _no_ cultures in that era that allowed same sex
         | marriage?
        
           | chaorace wrote:
           | CKIII has several "fun" toggles for ahistoric behavior, so
           | I'm not sure if this argument fits. For example: you can flip
           | the default inheritence system to favor women or even make
           | the majority of people homosexual.
           | 
           | I'm guessing it's just more or less something they didn't get
           | around to implementing. Perhaps they wanted to tackle it in a
           | future patch or DLC (I can see this happening if turning this
           | on somehow led to buggy behavior in other areas)
        
         | crooked-v wrote:
         | My personal guess would be that there's some kind of non-
         | deterministic game-state-exploding bug tangled up with the
         | marriage checks, and that the amount of work to fix it puts it
         | at the bottom of the list after new feature work.
        
         | jeffchien wrote:
         | Their official stance [1] is:
         | 
         | > You can make same-sex relations acceptable, but marriage will
         | still only be opposite due to historical constraints.
         | 
         | Other than their official stance, I wonder if it's because
         | they'd need to script in the in-game church's (presumably
         | negative) reaction to this. Also there doesn't seem to be
         | adoption in the base game, so maybe they didn't want to hand
         | the player a quick path to a game over?
         | 
         | [1] https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/index.php?title=FAQ
        
         | golemiprague wrote:
         | There are still big parts of society who are against legalising
         | gay merriage and many are afraid to even admit it because of
         | cancel culture and the power the gay community have especially
         | in the media.
        
         | inshadows wrote:
         | Then it must be a political issue, right?
         | 
         | Or maybe it's just a simulator of dark ages where same-sex
         | marriage just wasn't. Go ahead, point out my wrong usage of
         | "dark ages".
        
       | sharkjacobs wrote:
       | This is cool. This is what I imagined it would be like to program
       | computers when I was a kid.
        
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