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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can go as cis-conservative as you want with your pronouns in the game. No-one is forcing those conservatives to give in to their innermost desires.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The temptation is sinful to them in the same way that their murders and violence are righteous.

They don't realize the God they worship is Mammon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You can be whoever you want in Balders gate 3 (genitals included) yet Starfield crosses the line?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tbf most conservatives probably haven't played BG3 or know much of anything about it/forgotten realms. They aren't exactly the target audience

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wasn't really interested in Starfield...until now. Let's play Starfield.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

thats has the same energy as the people who think pretty much anything can turn someone gay

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like this whole pronouns in starfield thing is actually astroturf to draw attention away from Bethesda being evil and abusive to trans people who worked for them. Plus it drowns out any news about the game's actual qualities or merits, which like all Bethesda games at launch, seems to be lacking.

There's so many reasons to be actually mad at so many things, and all this culture war bullshit is deliberate smoke to keep people running in circles.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

But wouldn't it be great it they did? I could start playing games online again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This will pair eell with their botcott of reality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I just wish it was a better game they were cutting off their nose to spite their face with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's a single prompt during character creation. The default option is always cisgendered. Literally 30 seconds or less and you never have to think about it ever again. In fact, you can ignore it entirely and it'll have been as if it was never there. Woooow such controversy.

I refuse to believe anybody is actually dumb enough to boycott the game over this. There are plenty of fucking legitimate reasons to not buy it, but having the option to select alternative pronouns during character creation is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

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