100/100. I haven't played all of them a ton, like I played Saga Frontier on emulation for a few hours when I was backlogging the PS1 RPGs. I actually finish very few games, especially since most AAA stuff either ends the main plot 20% in or else the final third of the game is bloated with collectathons and BS to drag out the runtime a little longer. I like to try new things though, so I experiment a lot.
It's not some big gotcha: it's unethical because consent is impossible to achieve. You have to have been alive for quite a number of years before you even have the cognition and experience to form an opinion about existing.
But that doesn't just mean creating new beings is good because it's impossible to consent. How would that apply to anything else?? By some logic (if you ignore obvious pain signals) animals can't "tell" us they don't consent to being butchered and eaten but that doesn't make eating meat ethical either (I'm not vegan btw.) Having sex with an unconscious person is rape, because they can't consent.
There may be suicidal animals who want to be eaten and there are certainly people who enjoy non-consensual sex and people who like being alive and believe their existence is a gift. The outcome still doesn't excuse the act in these cases.
In all seriousness, visit your local library and ask them about it. Most library systems work with local authors to promote their work and regularly hold meetups and workshops for writers. Many cities have local zines, publishers, and anthologies. By getting to know your local writing scene, you can find opportunities to do readings of your work, have works published in collections, and so on.
I haven't absorbed much about this release yet, but with talks of selling the company, and how massive a success elden ring is, and now this... I'm just saying, the signs are all there. ER is going to be FROMs Skyrim: so successful it destroys the good part of the company.
Anon discovers religion, inshallah may the spirits watch over him.
I've even seen a moderator on Lemmy describe "freedom of speech" as nothing more than a right wing wolf whistle and banning someone.
A minor point (but maybe English is a second language): what right wingers do is "dog whistle," as in a sound so high-pitched only dogs can hear it. A "wolf whistle" is, funny enough, a kind of non-verbal cat-call. That is, it's a sound expressing interest or approval, specifically its the hi-lo whistle like Phwooooot- WOOooooo.
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The Tales series: Tales of Arise, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Zestiria, et al.
And the Mana series: Legend of Mana, Vison of Mana, Secret of Mana, et al.