They were supposed to have the highest INT of all races, and lived in the darkest fucking place. That sounds like something an american inv..... you know what nevermind.
RP in a cRPG is about +gooderer stats and +biggerer numbers. I am not the pixels. If I have to stare at an ass for years I would like it to be a good looking one at least.
You sound like a jock that still hangs on to his glory days. If you don't have that "fuck what other people think, they are all assholes anyway" energy going in your 30s, you probably have some case of arrested development.
In my experience: the guys who are the loudest about this shit are almost always the ones who are in the closet themselves. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"