There are some games with perfunctory romance elements that assume it just doesn't matter if you're male or female, gay or straight - Skyrim, for instance, has one of the most egalitarian (if shallowest) romance systems around.
In light of this, it seems odd that though many big-budget games are obsessed with portraying simulations of ourselves in fantasy worlds, we still face a particular dearth of uncensored sex, or even interesting romance systems that lead to light petting, outside of Japan.
Now, of course, I acknowledge that there are problems with India's romance system.
Although almost completely overshadowed by Arabic during the period of Muslim domination, Mozarabic nevertheless maintained a completely Romance sound system and typically Romance grammar.
If Joaquin Phoenix can romance an operating system, can I love a building?
While the narrator thinks she's in a dystopia, a future historian that she meets is unsettlingly persuasive in her belief that it is our time, with its romance, its consumerism, its systems of marriage and motherhood, that is dystopic.
In the time before the French Revolution, the civil pound also played the role of the apothecaries' pound in the French apothecaries' system, which otherwise remained a standard system of the Romance (24 grains per scruple) type.
The distinction must have been reflected to some extent in Late Latin or early Romance, for, even after the system of vowel length was lost, light, or "open," syllables often developed in a different way from heavy, or "closed," syllables.
Less than stimulated by the romance of the Dewey Decimal System and born lazy, I made for the smallest book I could find in the stacks, which by sheer chance was something called "Six Plays by Kaufman and Hart".
More recently, Spike Jonze's Her involved a romance between man and operating system, Alex Garland's forthcoming Ex Machina debates the humanity of an android and the new Avengers movie sees superheroes battle Ultron - a super-intelligent AI intent on extinguishing mankind.
Act I: a flutter of Twitter broadcasts, tagged "amazonfail," declaring that Amazon.com had wronged the gay and lesbian community by removing adult books, namely gay romance novels, from its ranking system and search results.
