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.
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.
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.
Saw some steam discussions about Homefront: The Revolution (was only interested in it for the TimeSplitters 2 rom in the game) about how people think this is exactly how China will invade the US. I’m sitting here like “…no.”
For now. It’s possible it can go multiplayer though like Skyrim and Morrowind through 3rd party apps/mods. I currently host a for fun pop up multiplayer Morrowind server using tes3mp. Skyrim has a similar 4 person co-op mod.
Not the way it is relevant for the point he was trying to make.
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.
Conservatives boycotting means they’ll buy something they wouldn’t buy otherwise and then bitch about it.
It’s bizarre.
Like with the Budd thing a while back, sure, they do in fact normally do buy some Budd, but when they got their panties in a bunch over the LGBTQ stance Budd took, they bought truckloads of it, to then destroy it. They still bought a shitload more Budd than they normally would.
It’s bizarre.
But in line with the rest of their behavior, since everything they do and say these days is completely unhinged.
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.”
- Average daily Steam forum user
All because some fat man baby shat his/their depends.
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.
Not enough white people in space!!!
I think this is what conservatives call “virtue signaling”.
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.
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”
lmao
Star field already made it’s cost back right… so what the fuck does a boycott do?
“We made enough money,” said no capitalist ever. To be clear, I don’t support this boycott, but it is an effective form of protest because the company expects to make more money. Which they will, because bigots are more powerful than they should be, but aren’t as powerful as they like to imagine
I mean something that has to be realized is that this isnt like bud light. Bud light has very low margins, video games are dependent on most of the money coming in when the game is released. To assume the lowest confirmed numbers Starfield has already made 420 million dollars. Even if Bethesda is the worst run company, that’s enough money to run the game for a while
Virtue signal to their fellow hatemongers.
15 idiots big mad.
This is just rage bait. You folks are predictably taking the bait and running with it.
I don’t see any rage here. Can you please quote the rage?
The rage is within them, and it’s coming out as smug finger pointing. They don’t know what The Conversation is, and they think they can just cargo cult criticize it.
Sorry… you think finger pointing is the same as rage? I don’t think you understand what ‘rage’ means. And now everyone here is also in a cargo cult? You say a lot of very silly things.
My dude, I have literally seen, on the Fediverse in a gaming comm today, someone linking to all the places you can get the mod to take the pronoun option out since Nexus Mods won’t host it, and it’s currently at a 50-50 like to dislike ratio. These people are legit out there. It’s not as fringe as we want to think it is.
Lol you are talking about 20 people living in their basement. You really need to touch grass and get perspective. A few people on fucking lemmy 🤣 is not even a remotely representative population.
Oh wow your name makes actually sense. Carry on good sir, don’t forget the narwhal bacon
It’s an old code but it checks out.
