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It's not surprising to me really given that gamers have thrown fits over past games using types instead of 'female' or 'male' but I guess I just can't get over how fucking stupid it is to care so much that you download a mod that reverts the text in a character creation menu. The slightest change in language in order to be more welcoming to other players is treated as the downfall of society by these people.
(For context, this is on nexusmods)
That probably 3 guys creating account and redownlofing it to make a point. No way so much people are this dumb.
chuds gonna chud
It...It's you! THE HE/HIM-RO OF KVATCH!
so they would rather take the time to install a mod than just see this screen for 7 seconds?
And would remind themselves of this "travesty" of a character creation screen every time they turn the game on and it loads their modlist, instead of just the few times they create a character.
I think they just want to be angry, but are also lazy. Which is why they always pick the character creation stuff to get mad about. No sense getting mad about a quest 30 hours into the game, that takes effort to get to! But the character creation screen? Even a monkey smashing random buttons could probably reach it no problem.
…for a game they already paid for!
And they accuse us of virtue signaling when they are incapable of shutting up about being good little conformists for 10 seconds.
Love that for them. Its great that we're getting accuaed of newspeak for checks notes caring about how our words affect other people, while these dorks are out there literally controlling language and erasing things they dont like
tangential: the "body type" stuff is annoying because stuff like pronouns and voice options just end up getting tied to the choice anyway in a lot of games. i get that it's like a liberal baby step in the right direction but the form (at least in mainstream or AAA) is still doing a lot to uphold Gender and has a long way to go.
all games should embrace sims 4 thought
Saints Row 2 stays winning. Choose any of six voices. Gender slide, not binary. Pronouns just the Boss. Can wear all clothes not locked behind gender .
and you're canonically transfem, but that's never remarked on beyond some Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "aunt viv did you do something with your hair"? lampshading
Maybe it's just the games I'm playing but in my experience most of the time when games have "body type" instead of gender they also have separate pronoun and voice options.
Elden Ring didn’t, that’s my only experience with it.
i don't really play AAA games, but a couple i can think of are Cyberpunk (character gender + pronouns tied to voice), and Elden Ring (pronouns tied to body type). Oblivion Remastered obviously does it too. Cyberpunk is the especially irritating example for various reasons. Baldur's Gate 3 set a new standard which i'm hoping becomes more the norm. like i said i don't play many games like this but i personally haven't seen one with body types that isn't also essentialising in some way. would like to hear about them!
Whatever you do, don't look at the steam forums for this game. The amount of possible slop is unreal, like with starfield
20k freaks wasted their time down loading this, 99% of people that bought the game are just happy and having fun, oblivious to this nonsense
Idk if I’m crazy but when I was 5 years old I found out Blue was a girl instead of a boy and when I was 8 I found out the same about Metroid.
None of this effected me in any way and I just want to know why gamers are so emotionally stunted by content.
Metroid is a girl???
Finding out sheik was Zelda was basically the first step in turning me trans
I just want to know why gamers are so emotionally stunted by content.
Because they don't leave the house
Blue? From Pokemon? The one that was the corrolary to Gary in the anime?
Dont pretend Gary wasnt girlgang material 😤
Blues Clues
Lol, that makes more sense. I guess I had gaming in the brain from Metroid.
if it makes you feel better, i thought the same thing
You just blew my mind.
the devs didn't even do anything because pronouns are still tied to it. this was literally a performative virtue signal and the chuds are performatively making a mountain out of something you interact with for five seconds ahead of dozens of hours of gameplay where you spend 90% of the time not seeing your character and most of the dialogue about you is second-person.
spoiler
also the porn mods are better in skyrim and will continue to be better in skyblivion.
How am I supposed to make my bosmer femboy?
Uh, you allow women characters? OK Mr. Sir Wokesalot. I'm gonna create a mod to get rid of the option to play a female character.
The least gay thing is checks notes when it's all muscular men?