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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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My man's complaining about being constantly taken out of the immersion
Oh, is it asking your pronouns every time you enter a new planet? Every time you boot up the game? Every time you're introduced to a new character? Yeah, wow, that's so excessive
Wait, what's that, only during the character creation screen and then never again?
Has your brain been eaten by maggots?
"People exist outside of this tiny bubble and that's terrible!"
Suburb brain, not even once.
Its like bro you're creating a character the game hasn't even started yet.
Dumb question but wouldn't the game using your preferred pronouns actually add to the immersion?
Like I guess I play games differently because it doesn't bother me if I play a boy or girl character but if you are so hung up on the game asking your pronouns it seems like that's the kind of person that would WANT the game to call them by their pronouns.
Yeah, of course.
He's not actually upset about "immersion". He is upset because to him, this is a reminder that his side is "losing the culture war" as he feels. That the natural hierarchy, that right-wing ideology is based upon, is being disrupted because those at the bottom of the totem pole are being acknowledged as members of society on the same level as him. This kind of thing is unnatural and unacceptable to chuds.
Fun fact: the bottom of the totem pole is the most prestigious place
Huh, TIL
I feel like if I said "top of the totem pole" when referring to people at the bottom of the hierarchy, people wouldn't get it though.
It's like Jesus said: "Fuck the marginalized of society."
Also they are the fucking dorks that made this whole "culture war" in the first place. Try explaining to one of these people that they've walked by transfolk irl and not even realized it, like at all. It doesn't compute to them. They seem to think that trans only existed in the last 2 or 3 years. I had that convo with an ex-coworker because he thought there was a whole ass army of men dressed as women waiting to bum rush every public restroom to scoop up little girls.
They think every trans person is a caricature like in their memes
Yes. His rant about immersion makes no sense. Also ranting about "current day" over and over again as if California invented gendered pronouns in 2020 and they wouldn't exist in the future?
It seems to me that he is so caught up in the culture war news cycle that he is unable to understand that these things exist outside of that and his brain is unable to process the word "pronouns" without thinking of Steven Crowder. Like some kind of twisted pavlovian response.
This right here is really probably what it is. Why weren't these incels throwing hissy fits about picking genders pre-2020? Like, idk you could pick your gender in Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowwind, and any other Bethesda game. Does Starfield allow for [they/them] because if that is the only difference, then it's absolutely a Pavlovian response caused by shit like Chowder, Carlson, Shapiro, et al. And it's frankly disgusting. And I guess back to the old question, do these people not recall learning about pronouns in their language arts classes back in school before they dropped out? Gonna find out if this person has Twitch account and gonna hop in chat and start calling him "her".
California has plenty of chuds. Take it from me.
I did actively notice that there is writing specifically included to take advantage of the fact they have a pronouns selector. The first example I spotted was a "hey new girl" from one particular npc, which would then refer to me with that moniker a few too many times thereafter.
I feel like if I noticed it and felt like it was included specifically for doing gender affirmations then it probably sends people like this into an absolute frenzy, which makes me laugh.
I mean, selecting gender has been in games since well before pronoun discourse. That's literally the "Prof Oak asking if you're a boy or a girl" stuff. The divergence comes when you have a masc body/face with "she/her" pronouns or sth.
What the Epic G*mer chuds fail to realize is that they receive gender affirmations themselves in their "nonpolitical" games where everyone must play a grizzled middle aged white man that kills otherfied less-than-people to avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his camera-oogled teenage daughter figure while also sometimes having le sexy cishet sex.
It doesn't show up in the clip but the game actually has John Oliver pop up in a live feed every 5 minutes to yell "IT IS 2023 AND THERE WAS A CHEETO IN THE WHITE HOUSE" at you