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Exactly, someone gets it. It presents a plausible situation, and lets the audience pass judgement on it. It's kind of a precursor to the whole theme of the game. First it's Seth who is presented as a jerk, and the next morning it is Ellie who is presented as being a jerk.

They do and I wish they would stop.

That's pretty impressive! Good luck to you guys

There are no LGBTQ themes in The Last of Us II, I'm sorry, but if you cannot see that, you are no better than the people you are criticizing, because you think of LGBTQ inclusion as if it's automatically political. Both of you view them as political puppets at that point. The inclusion of a gay couple, is not political. TLOU2 never makes a fuss about the included characters LGBTQ status, it's all seamless and natural. Like it should be. LGBTQ people are not defined by their LGBTQ status. You can't just lump them together, like that is all you need to describe them as individuals. If the game had made any mention of BLM it would not make sense, because it doesn't exist in the game world, so of course I'd not approve of it. But if it existed in that universe, mentioning it wouldn't be an issue, unless they automatically pass judgement on it as well. I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I actually think that @m76 is (at least particaly) right. I've not played through the entire game yet but to the best of my knowledge, the only time when LQGTQ+ social/political themes come into play is the "bigot sandwich scene" and the flashback sequence that plays out the events that led up to this from the previous night. Note that in the video it plays chronologically, which is the opposite way from how it's presented in the game. I find these sequences interesting because it's obvious that it frames the Seth character as being in the wrong it doesn’t really frame Ellie as being entirely right either. She's short-tempered, confrontational, and has a dismissive attitude especially towards Joel and later Seth when he is trying to apologize. It presents itself from a certain perspective, in this case, an LBGTQ+ positive one but lets you make your own judgment about these characters handle the situation. Which in my opinion the 100% right way to do it.

I think darksiders and DMC are pretty underrated compared to FF for some reason.

I usually watch some gameplay in YouTube and read about the game a little bit. If it sounds interesting to me I would probably purchase the video game.