The Onion

A real gamer in their habitat, so rare to find it on lemmy.

What minority you want out of your game today?

Shit I got banned from steams Halls of Torment forums by a trans for saying I did not want identity politics in the games I play.

I've played Halls of Torment. It's a Vampire Survivors style game (pick a character, kill hordes of mobs). Where the hell did you find identity politics in it? Does the "back story" of a character on a wiki say they are trans or something?

"Trans people need to stop being in my face by acknowledging that trans people exist if I go looking into the extended backstory that isn't part of the game at all!!!"

How do you square what you're saying with the very easy to find data (look it up) that says that trans people are disproportionately killed by a large amount and the easy to find laws being passed around the US using taxpayer money to specifically target trans people by denying them recognition and healthcare?

When trans people "relax the fuck out and just live life" they end up being denied jobs, medicine, and sometimes their life by bigots. What do you think they're supposed to do?

Maybe they will stop screaming when we stop murdering them. https://www.statista.com/chart/30779/map-of-trans-and-gender-diverse-people-killed/

Interpretation note: there is a smaller list of cases where it's confirmed they were murdered for being trans. There is a gray area between likely and unlikely that trans-hate was the motive.

Haha, you have to create a new troll account now because you fucked this one up.

It's not the alt-right! It's just...*proceeds to regurgitate bog-standard alt-right talking points*

FTFY

What exactly do you mean with identity politics in the game? Why do you even bring it up on the forums? Is the game letting you select pronouns? Do you pick a body instead of "sex" in the character selection screen? Are you forced to undergo gender reassignment surgery upon logging into the game?

Also, gender does not mean sexuality. They are 2 separate things.

I am not trans. I am not LGBT. I'm an ally but i have never had any issues with LGBT people. Never ever have i felt like anything is "shoved down my throat", forced or whatever on me. Never have they ever even had a big conversation about it with me. The ONLY thing we talked about was when i meet someone and they tell me their pronouns. He, she, they or whatever else they want. Then i respond with "okay cool" and thats the end of it.

I really don't understand why you feel like its the only thing we talk about? The right brings it up 24/7 and when they see anyone even with a pride flag in their profile, or maybe their pronouns, they have an absolute baby meltdown.

The issue is you mate. Even how you say "banned by a trans". Who talks like that? You seem uncomfortable with it and therefore annoyed and upset. Chill and stop worrying so damn much about others...

Hey look, they wrote an article about you.

https://reductress.com/post/trans-peoples-issues-alienate-the-working-class-says-democrat-whos-never-met-either/

Wow you went mask off real quick there.

Few things to point out in case you didn't know them:

1. Gender has literally nothing to do with sexuality
2. Trans people are literally being killed. Thinking they are annoying for discussing that in public says a lot about what your priorities are.
3. All art is political and games are art.
4. I feel like every time recently people have complained about trans stuff in games it's because the dev added an option to select your pronouns... In which case, it literally does not affect you as soon as you finish character creation.

Nah. It's you. The problem is you.