It's like there is something about the progressive kuru that makes these mutants unable to create likable, believable, and relatable characters as well as compelling story lines. Their default mode seems to be "I'm writing about my anime avatar in a game that is all about ME-EEE-EEE-EEE and my bel-eee-eee-eee-efs to own the phobes and chuds and FUCK YOU TRUMP!!!!111111"
Others have made the point that a lack of life experiences and trying to write when all you've ever done is marinade in the progressive hell of higher ed is a big problem, so I'll point out another one.
Art is not inherently right wing, nor is reality -- I've heard these arguments before and they seem self-flattering.
But the honest portrayal of reality and of characters will demonstrate that many values and traditions that the writer may not agree with still have their virtues, and their appeal, and often the ring of truth no matter what age you may be living in.
Take Alan Moore's eternal (and hilarious) frustration with the way audiences cleave to Rorschach. In his mind, he did everything he could to make Rorschach an appalling figure: he's short, he's ugly, his hygiene sucks, he lives in filth, he's a misogynist with a fear of sex, and he's a hypocrite in his cheering for the use of the atom bomb while being totally broken over bearing witness to Ozymandias's master plan. But Moore did not make a point of laughing at him or reducing him to a figure of insult: he portrayed him negatively but honestly, showing that his unbending, black-and-white morality would not allow him to live in Ozymandias's new world, and it's his foresight that almost certainly will undo it, despite his death.
Moore wanted us to see a psychotic goofball. The audience saw a morally virtuous hero who would die for his beliefs. And while Moore is an excellent writer, he's such a self-impressed shitlib that he claims not to understand this reaction to this day.
Now take writers who are even
further indoctrinated by even
less intellectually rigorous dogma, and with even fewer life experiences (I don't really know Moore's background, I confess, but he doesn't come from the era where one went right into comics from college or art school). It's not just they're incapable of portraying things they disagree with entertainingly or honestly; it's that there must be
no mistakes on the audience's part of what something means.
"Aqun-athlok" is a fantasy term that might be open to mean something other than the very specific gender-nonconformity we envision? Can't have that, stick the term "non-binary" right in there! These factions are morally gray? Nonsense, this is a hero, everything he/she/they does is Simon Pure, make sure even the pirates don't steal from marginalized peoples! The Tevinters have some sympathetic characters among them? Don't portray a lick of the slavery that's been present since the first game; otherwise every Tevinter is a piece of shit who needs to die!
No nuance, no shades of gray, but most of all no room for the audience to interpret things and possibly get it wrong. Just look at the retarded arguments over the movie adaptation of Starship Troopers sometime, and how pants-shittingly furious the "media literate" get over people enjoying it as a fun dumb action movie and cheering humanity against the bugs. "Wrong" interpretations like that simply cannot be allowed.
... even if it turns your writing into absolute dogshit. There are priorities.
