Starfield is the latest game to be boycotted by conservatives. This time because of pronouns

It's just hilarious to me that these snowflakes are so triggered (remember when they made fun of liberals for that?) by the mere option to change your pronouns that has absolutely zero impact on the game. You can entirely ignore the feature if you want.

Let them be angry and make fun of them when they do, they deserve the ridicule.

Between this, BG3 having non-binary options and same sex romances, bud light, etc doing things to let others feel noticed - Conservatives are gonna have nothing left to enjoy from boycotting.

I’m ok with this.

Must be exhausting being a conservative and being terrified of everything.

Oh I really doubt many are boycotting it, just poking the anthills that are their fanbases and communities to keep them engaged

Reminder that every decade, conservatives whined about something fucking stupid.

2020s. Pronouns. Trans. Blue hair?

2010s. Gay marriage.

2000s. Gay representation on TV.

90s. Video games. Rap music.

80s. D&D. Gay people existing.

70s. Rock music. And interracial marriage?

60s. Hippy culture. Being antiwar.

50s. Fucking hips shaking on TV?

"you can’t help shovel your dogshit fucking crap ideology into everything." he froths, while shovelling his dogshit fucking crap ideology into everything. What a weapons-grade bellend.

Baldur's Gate over here wiping its tears with hundred dollar bills

I wish conservatives would just say the quiet part out loud and stop insulting everyone's intelligence. Own your bigotry. Don't be a wuss. Oh wait. It generally has to do with pre-emptively distracting from obvious predelictions towards pedophilia. Nevermind then.

Super weird, because after 20 some odd hours in, I can't remember pronouns even coming up outside the creation screen.

Lol go ahead, others will enjoy the games while conservatives throw their hissy fits.

Lol I cannot express how little I care about which random thing our reactionary hyperconservatives have decided they need to boycott this week

Good, no one wants them around anyway.

Their loss. Who cares?

I don't know if anyone knows this, but the Steam forum moderators are pretty far right as well. I'm currently banned for mentioning Nexus mods, in a 100 page thread about the site itself. The conservative attacking pronouns and free speech, are not banned. You can find plenty of threads with conservative alt-right talking points about pronouns and anti-transgenderism, including insulting and degrading behavior. These threads stay up. Meanwhile, myself and others who defend trans activism, are banned. I appealed the ban, and get no replies from any moderator over multiple days. It's fucking disgusting how the site is being moderated. I'll post the ban reason and what I said, below:

"Nexus only bans mods made for bigots They don't want to support any content that promotes bigotry and allows people to pretend certain marginalized groups don't exist. Trans people are part of the game, and anyone trying to erase them is acting on bigotry. You are perfectly free to mod the game yourself or get the mod elsewhere. You just can't get it from nexus mods."

Ban Reason: This post contains material that promotes software piracy. cheats, or exploits. This type of content is not allowed on the Steam Community.

When Twatter finally dies the media is going to have to work that much harder to find the one guy somewhere who is outraged by something. I wonder if we are going to see a return of the Midwest Safaris, complete with interviews with retired folks in small town diners.

Imagine being such a snow flake that what words people use to describe themselves makes you so mad

Starfield and BG3 aren't being boycotted. Those are just empty threats. Remember all the other times people said they were going to boycott their favorite games, and actually did it? Neither do I.

I'm boycotting it because I'm not a fan of 16-28 FPS and I don't have a $5000 PC to actually run it.

Conservatives when basic linguistic morphology groups are present in the language of any given media.

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

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

I don't know any conservatives irl who have complained about this, has anybody actually met someone who said that to you in person?

This just feels like people are trying to make something out of nothing to stay relevant

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.

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

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.

This will pair eell with their botcott of reality.

No they aren't

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

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.

Oh no!

Anyway...

The best part about it is that you have to go out of your way to change the pronoun. If you choose the male presenting body, its shows he/him by default and the same with female presenting and she/her,

Great. Now I have to go buy this game.

Yeah the outrage is really hurting Baldur's Gate. 😆

It's the school and library and medical care stuff that's really dangerous, this is a distraction.

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I mean, liberals boycotted Hogwarts Legacy because of J.K. Rowling (which was not even involved in the development). It seems to me that people just like boycotting stuff in general

It's true. I'd love to have this place but with a larger more representative user base.

For me it's not just the pronouns, the whole game just really forces a lot of fake forced diversity. Same as Far Cry 6. The characters aren't believable. The game itself is a 4/10.

You have Baldur's Gate 3 which has great diversity and gender fluidity but it just works because it's not obviously rammed down your throat in an obvious way. That subtlety makes it feel like it fits perfectly. While Starfield is just contrived, and it shows.

This entire topic is going to be the most cringe thing ever in 20 years when clearer heads look back and think "They came up with new pronouns?! Why? That's retarded!"

It's going to make Jnco jeans, mullets and tribal tattoos looks normal.

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It's amazing how you people just fall for rage bait all day. One sheet the other. Just looking for mostly non stories to be pissed off about.