In my opinion, that really does go beyond being an "easter egg" and into being "personal activism", which has no place in a professional studio.
Flip some narratives on the of the personal activism and you can easily see how it was incredibly unprofessional behaviour. That his activism is more accepted nowadays doesn't make it less unprofessional back then. It was good that he was fired for adding this to the game.
So waaaaaaait.... If "personal activism" has no place in a "professional studio," i.e. a workplace, does that mean that...
Oh wait, going for a nazi reference means I lose the argument. Never mind. Suffice it to say, you're being ridiculous.
Are you also a free market advocate? Because the free market decided that it was just fine for The Sims to support gay romance and same sex marriages (with the franchise grossing over $5 billion in sales), and in fact it's gotten much more inclusive and "woke" over two decades.
Do you also believe that the fact that abolitionists are more accepted nowadays doesn't make it less unprofessional back then?
You're nothing more than yet another angry old bigot who's on the wrong side of history, so your opinion really doesn't matter, and you should keep it to yourself if you don't want to be publicly criticized and reviled.
You only consider it "personal activism" because it was politically transgressive at the time. And unjustifiably so. If it hadn't been it would've obviously just been an easter egg. And now that we are all on the right side of history (thanks to people like him), we can recognize it as such.
What makes you think that only gay people support gay rights for their own team? I know a hell of a lot of straight people who vigorously and sincerely support gay rights, not because they're "rooting for the team", not because they're "virtue signaling", but because it's the right, moral, ethical, logical, and decent thing to do.
You should get out more and make different friends, and actually get to know some real live gay people, before you talk so much shit about them like that, and presume to know what their motives are.
>Straight people don't like homosexuality shoved down their throat by all the gay people that want the world to accept it.
No, hateful bigoted assholes don't like homosexuality. Stop talking shit about straight people, too. Most straight people have no problem with homosexuality, because there's nothing wrong with it, and it's no threat to them, so they're not hysterically frightened by it like you are. You're getting rightfully downvoted, flagged, and deadened because what you're posting is wrong, close minded, stupid, and bigoted (and because you're whining and butt-hurt about the totally justified downvotes your earned, too), so the moderation system is working perfectly as it was designed.
Maybe it's because you're a bigot that you said you "have a hard time getting a single opportunity and feel lucky when we get a job". Bigots should have a hard time finding jobs. That's a good thing. Nobody wants to work with them.
Flip some narratives on the of the personal activism and you can easily see how it was incredibly unprofessional behaviour. That his activism is more accepted nowadays doesn't make it less unprofessional back then. It was good that he was fired for adding this to the game.