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.
Who gives a shit?
Conservatives do excel at being outraged over nothing so this makes sense.
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.
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.
They’re
OMG that’s a pronoun!
They can’t understand it and their brains are small enough that not being able to understand something makes them mad.
because of biblical interpretation, I assume.
oh no!
anyway…
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.
What a bunch of fucking snowflakes.
All because some fat man baby shat his/their depends.
If you look at his previous track record, he specialized in making fake outrage videos for attention in the World of Warcraft scene
Oh no…please …stop
…don’t—-come back…
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.
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.
“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
Pronouns, body types, “replaced white people”, female leaders, etc. - all part of the daily threads I’ve seen on the Steam forums.
Some of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered are present on steam communities and comment sections.
I’d it wasn’t a problem in call of duty shoot a man when Richard Nixon respected our pronouns it isn’t an issue now. They just hate whatever they’re told to.
They deliberately make their world a darker place and then complain about how dark the world is.
It’s their universal shtick.
Like, complain about the economy, then when they are in power, ruin the economy.
I think this is what conservatives call “virtue signaling”.
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
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.
Horror two genres that really aren’t know for their conservative values a
Objection. It’s obviously a huge genre, but there is certainly conservatism to be found there. I point to the xenophobia of Lovecraft as an example and the tropes of teenager slashers where “slutty” women die and “pure” women live, and Black people tend to not live long.
Never look up the name of Lovecraft’s cat. Dude was every kind of The Other-phobic there WAS.
Other-phobic
Honestly, the “cosmic horror” or the mere fear of the unknown kind of plays into that as well.
One could argue there’s something inherently racist in sci-fi horror that depicts aliens as monsters when in fact they might just simply be different intelligent lifeforms with their own set of needs…
There might be sometimes problems among intelligent lifeforms to properly understand / communicate, or conflicts in our goals. But painting everything alien/unknown as inherently scary is kind of racist, even if in some situations it might be written in our instincts to not trust that which is unfamiliar.
I wasn’t even talking about his horror, to be honest. The man himself was a hot mess of being afraid of everyone different. As well as being oddly picky about who he applied it to - he was extremely antisemitic but married a Jewish woman. He hated gay people but one of his best friends was gay. It was like he hated the idea of Others but was ok with an very few individuals on a very personal level.
As for what you’ve brought up, that’s often, I think, why SF can be used to explore racism or themes of racism. By making a complete alien The Other, you can look at and explore ideas that would nowadays get folks screaming “WOKE!!!” if you tried to explore it with races of people.
