— “Fuck you, falling into a world and just getting lost! No, no, no! Current-fucking-day! You take everything we love — all our immersions, all our fantasies, all our escapism — and you can’t help shovel your dogshit, fucking-crap ideology into everything!”
— He won’t fucking shut up. Knock him out.
[Challenging: Success] — The wavering of his voice, the tears dewing in his eyes, the erupting tantrum; he isn’t acting like the usual grifters you’ve seen. He believes this. Video games are the only thing that he has. You can see before you the faded afterimage of a friendless little boy, kneeling alone in a patch of playground grass and clover. He’s been this way forever.
— Don’t go soft on a display this pathetic. Make an example out of him. His little computer-buddies need to be too ashamed to agree with him in the open.
What fucking Disco writer is secretly running this account, goddamn, how do you nail it every fucking time?
I like how how every half-light suggestion is to kill someone like a wild animal or crawl into a corner and cry
It always blows my mind how angry capital G Gamers get about games where you very much have the option of playing a cishet guy but can also choose to play as someone different
They’re viscerally angry that they’re no longer the only target audience for nerd media.
They don’t actually like video games, they just like being catered to.
Video games are fucking awesome and infinitely varied, so much more than any other kind of media, they’re for everyone and that rules you fuckin chud dweebs.
Yeah, you’re right, it’s just so weird to me, like I didn’t mind playing as non-white/male characters in games when I was a literal child and it’s not like I was a super enlightened 10 year old or anything
one of the most popular games from my childhood was tomb raider where you were forced (at controllerpoint no less) to play as a woman
it was wildly popular
You should see them when a game doesn’t even offer a white cishet option! They go Thermonuclear!
This is why “white genocide” actually does have a meaning beyond “racial integration.” If you take away a white person’s ability to live as the undisputed master of the universe—to take his own experience as normal and privileged, and to presume all others to be debased copies of his own primary existence—then you take away his whiteness.
from Buffalo Skulls
presume all others to be debased copies of his own primary existence
Would this be like thinking walking through a super market to buy apples and bananas before going to the baseball game is primary and then assuming someone in India is walking through an open air market to buy mangos and papayas before going to the kabaddi game? Like they can’t imagine another structure to society, just superficial changes to the underlying permanent, ‘natural’ structure?
If the game was absolute dogshit I could see being annoyed by features that seem pointless. If the core of a game is shit, spending money on QoL features for small demographics seems ridiculous. Make solid mod tools and a solid game and it’ll get sorted anyway.
“Small demographics” like… women.
This isn’t just for trans people.
Hell even as a cis man I might want to play a woman, and I’d sure not want my immersion broken by other characters calling my female character “he” if I did so. Like its a roleplaying game, its cool to let me play a role.
I’m a cis man who rarely plays as a male character. I play games to experience something different, not to engage in power fantasies.
This guy is upset that the game reminded him that the real world exists, where he feels like things are moving away from a white male centered society. It shattered his power fantasy and reminded him he’s an insignificant loser shouting into the void.
Gamers by and large have no idea how video games are made and rarely are they curious to learn. This is one of the classic misconceptions: that there is a finite amount of a perfectly malleable resource (time, money, effort) that goes into creating a video game, and therefore the lack of any feature that you feel is missing from the game can be directly attributed to the presence of any other feature you feel is extraneous. In this case, pronouns are just one of many character creation options in an RPG – the game genre that is all about the player creating and playing as a unique a character. It’s a feature that’s easier to implement than, say, even one more face customization option, and not meaningfully different in implementation from the classic “are you a boy or a girl?” option.
But development resource management’s not really what you’re complaining about, is it? You mentioned something there about “small demographics.” Your point, your actual point, was about people whom you despise receiving any validation from a hobby that you believe should exist for you and only you.
My man’s complaining about being constantly taken out of the immersion
Oh, is it asking your pronouns every time you enter a new planet? Every time you boot up the game? Every time you’re introduced to a new character? Yeah, wow, that’s so excessive
Wait, what’s that, only during the character creation screen and then never again?
Has your brain been eaten by maggots?
Dumb question but wouldn’t the game using your preferred pronouns actually add to the immersion?
Like I guess I play games differently because it doesn’t bother me if I play a boy or girl character but if you are so hung up on the game asking your pronouns it seems like that’s the kind of person that would WANT the game to call them by their pronouns.
Yeah, of course.
He’s not actually upset about “immersion”. He is upset because to him, this is a reminder that his side is “losing the culture war” as he feels. That the natural hierarchy, that right-wing ideology is based upon, is being disrupted because those at the bottom of the totem pole are being acknowledged as members of society on the same level as him. This kind of thing is unnatural and unacceptable to chuds.
It’s like Jesus said: “Fuck the marginalized of society.”
Also they are the fucking dorks that made this whole “culture war” in the first place. Try explaining to one of these people that they’ve walked by transfolk irl and not even realized it, like at all. It doesn’t compute to them. They seem to think that trans only existed in the last 2 or 3 years. I had that convo with an ex-coworker because he thought there was a whole ass army of men dressed as women waiting to bum rush every public restroom to scoop up little girls.
Dumb question but wouldn’t the game using your preferred pronouns actually add to the immersion?
Yes. His rant about immersion makes no sense. Also ranting about “current day” over and over again as if California invented gendered pronouns in 2020 and they wouldn’t exist in the future?
It seems to me that he is so caught up in the culture war news cycle that he is unable to understand that these things exist outside of that and his brain is unable to process the word “pronouns” without thinking of Steven Crowder. Like some kind of twisted pavlovian response.
Like some kind of twisted pavlovian response.
This right here is really probably what it is. Why weren’t these incels throwing hissy fits about picking genders pre-2020? Like, idk you could pick your gender in Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowwind, and any other Bethesda game. Does Starfield allow for [they/them] because if that is the only difference, then it’s absolutely a Pavlovian response caused by shit like Chowder, Carlson, Shapiro, et al. And it’s frankly disgusting. And I guess back to the old question, do these people not recall learning about pronouns in their language arts classes back in school before they dropped out? Gonna find out if this person has Twitch account and gonna hop in chat and start calling him “her”.
I did actively notice that there is writing specifically included to take advantage of the fact they have a pronouns selector. The first example I spotted was a “hey new girl” from one particular npc, which would then refer to me with that moniker a few too many times thereafter.
I feel like if I noticed it and felt like it was included specifically for doing gender affirmations then it probably sends people like this into an absolute frenzy, which makes me laugh.
gender affirmations
What the Epic G*mer chuds fail to realize is that they receive gender affirmations themselves in their “nonpolitical” games where everyone must play a grizzled middle aged white man that kills otherfied less-than-people to avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his camera-oogled teenage daughter figure while also sometimes having le sexy cishet sex.
Fun fact: this is what virtue signalling actually looks like.
Whatever Mr Shouty divorced man actually thinks, he’s not acting like this because he cares that much about pronouns but for the approval of his garbage audience.
Fun fact: this is what virtue signalling actually looks like.
Whatever Mr Shouty divorced man actually thinks, he’s not acting like this because he cares that much about pronouns but for the approval of his garbage audience.
Same deal whenever some chud makes a performatively “aren’t I cool” clown face while eating le steak and drinking le whiskey while holding le cigar to trigger the wokes.
I though gamer nerds liked having robust character creation.
