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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.

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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 136 points 1 year ago

It's just hilarious to me that these snowflakes are so triggered (remember when they made fun of liberals for that?) by the mere option to change your pronouns that has absolutely zero impact on the game. You can entirely ignore the feature if you want.

Let them be angry and make fun of them when they do, they deserve the ridicule.

[-] hanni@lemmy.one 55 points 1 year ago

They still call liberals fragile snowflakes. Cognitive dissonance has never been an obstacle.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s practically a cliche at this point because it’s so true, but it's always projection.

[-] teft@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Projection. Always.

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't mind being called a snowflake, snowflakes are fucking cool geometric nature crystals and each one is unique. It never fails to make me smirk though being essentially called thin-skinned by someone who is quite clearly exceptionally thin-skinned.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Everyone has to think like them. Everyone has to act like them. Any deviation from what they consider the norm is bad and evil and must be avoided.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

You know that's what they think about you and your pronouns being "forced" on them right? It's hard to reconcile.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

My dude, it is a menu bar that defaults to match the gender of the body type you chose, male or female, that you only have to touch if you want to change it. That’s not anything being “forced” on someone.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's ridiculous. That is that they think though. Idk how anyone reaches that conclusion.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I misread your comment. Clearly, I need some food lol

Anyway, they get there from genuinely believing that having to accept that other kinds of people exist is it being forced on them. It’s why this type also complain about seeing Black people in fantasy - because to them, their escapism is getting away from all those other kinds of people, and having to acknowledge them for even a second ruins their immersion because it breaks their twisted fantasy.

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

All g an appropriate response. Idk. They are not bad or unreasonable people. They have been told that their way of life is being threatened and their children endangered and blah blah blah. They are hateful and ignorant, but in many ways they're just normal people. I struggle to find ways to change minds on these issues

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Then they get angry when you marry in-game and it doesn't specifically say "Man and Woman". They literally cannot ignore it. They need to be called a man, and they need their SO to be called a woman by a video game.

[-] Sektor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's all marketing.

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