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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?
SF is single player only.
Yeah Ok, but there are message boards and mod communities and social media. Anytime bigots voluntarily remove themselves from the conversation is a win.
They don't though. Look at the Steam forums. Lots of accounts not owning the game are pushing their garbage rage bait every day.
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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.
In the voting booth, you can pick male, female and other.
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.)
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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!
They can't understand it and their brains are small enough that not being able to understand something makes them mad.
Most of those people are unable to identify a pronoun in a sentence.
Subscribe to some conservative YouTube channels or Instagram accounts. Pronouns, LGBTQ, racec etc. are brought up and criticized CONSTANTLY.
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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.
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.
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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.
What a bunch of fucking snowflakes.
I'm only somewhat aware of the Starfield issue, but this headline is raw clickbait.
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.
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.
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.
TOS Star Trek had a great episode called Devil in the Dark dealing with that subject, where an inhuman monster is killing miners and it turns out that it was an intelligent life form that was protecting its eggs.
The Horta did nothing wrong!
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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.
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Oh no…please …stop
…don’t—-come back…
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.
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