Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    They already gave up a few days after release when the initial troll rush got bored. They usually aren’t the ones actually playing the game, they’re absolute loser fragile snowflakes.

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    11 months ago

    They deliberately make their world a darker place and then complain about how dark the world is.

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    11 months ago

    I went to a comedy show in a somewhat “progressive” red area last night and the comic made a joke about pronouns (not in a negative light) but as soon as he mentioned pronouns pretty much the whole audience started booing at pronouns. It was pretty sad to see.

    I genuinely cannot understand why anyone gets hot and bothered over pronouns. It’s crazy. They’re crazy people.

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      11 months ago

      Because the american education system failed them and they don’t even know what pronouns are, they just know that someone told them that they have to hate it with a passion.

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    11 months ago

    I was looking at the Steam forums for Starfield earlier after googling some quest I was on.

    Dear lord are they out in force.

    And the twists and turns they are making to explain why they think the pronouns should be removed from the game without saying it’s because they are easily triggered right wing fucklets is almost impressive.

    And as expected, quite a few phrased as “as a libtard, even I think this should be removed for xyz retarded reason”.

    And as we all know, any post that starts with “as a POC/WAMAN/RATIONAL PERSON” means some MAGAt jackass trying to be clever.

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      11 months ago

      It would be so funny if someone made a genuinely fantastic video game, and it starts with picking a gender and all, and then the first cutschene is that person transitioning. It doesn’t matter for the plot and never comes up again in the game, because he or she is now just that. Can you imagine how they would freak the fuck out? I saw that other cunt’s artery explode because there was a screen in starfield that asks you for your gender and you had more than two options.

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      11 months ago

      “As a black trans man I think there’s too much wokism and POC in this game, and all the females are ugly and shouldn’t be in leadership positions because that’s unrealistic and they also talk back way too much.”

      • Average daily Steam forum user
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    11 months ago

    Sci-fi and Horror two genres that really aren’t know for their conservative values and the media often pushes social norms. Not sure what they were exspecting

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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      11 months ago

      Yes, but, a lot of the capital-g Gamers are reactionary howler monkeys who can not handle anything not specifically geared towards cis, straight white men, so I’m not surprised they lost their shit at a menu option.