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Oh no... the biggest assholes in the universe are threatening to avoid these games... whatever will we do? Who is going to call people racial slurs over multiplayer now?
Oh no! Developers will have to choose between catering to bigots and catering to literally everyone else! What ever will they do?!?
Seriously, I hope bigots continue to just remove themselves from all aspects of society.
If the bigots would remove themselves from the voting booth that would be awesome. Is there some way we can link voting to being open minded?
Get voting sheets to list the candidates’ pronouns and the problem will immediately resolve itself.
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 rather than have empathy for others and realize how their actions might affect others, they'd rather focus solely on themselves and make everything about them and how they're inconvenienced.
it’d make some amount of sense if they were actually inconvenienced but i’m still not understanding the inconvenience tbh
It goes against their view that everybody is "normal" like them (white, cisgender, etc.)
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.
Stops them hating the late-stage capitalist society which is what's ACTUALLY causing them grief
They’re
OMG that's a pronoun!
Most of those people are unable to identify a pronoun in a sentence.
They can't understand it and their brains are small enough that not being able to understand something makes them mad.
Subscribe to some conservative YouTube channels or Instagram accounts. Pronouns, LGBTQ, racec etc. are brought up and criticized CONSTANTLY.
Conservatives do excel at being outraged over nothing so this makes sense.
Who gives a shit?
Good. Less jerks then.
You'd think so, but weirdly enough, conservative "boycotting" more often than not seems to include buying and engaging with the things they claim they're not using.
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 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."
I think this is what conservatives call "virtue signaling".
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.
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.
What a bunch of fucking snowflakes.
Oh no…please …stop
…don’t—-come back…
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
If conservatives were smart they wouldnt be conservatives.
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.
I'm only somewhat aware of the Starfield issue, but this headline is raw clickbait.
Pronouns make them angry a lot. I am not that shocked.
If you misgender them, suddenly they care A LOT about their pronouns.
Maybe that’s the key to shutting them up. In person, anyway.
“Ma’am, everyone has a right to exist”
anger intensifies “I’m not a woman, I’m a MAN!”
“Oh, so you do care about pronouns then”
I'm betting a lot of them will still play it--and just claim boycott to fit in with the other chuds. Wtf difference does it make anyway? They like to pretend they have major influence while in reality all they get is a silly blurb like this pointing out their snowflake behavior.