• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    You have 5 games with a male protagonist.

    Were people this unhinged about CJ being black?

    I will never understand people like this. Some video games you don't even play as a human, if I can empathise with a pink blob like Kirby then cis dudes can handle putting themselves in the shoes of a female character. Like holy shit, when has the protag of GTA ever mattered?

    I give it five minutes before losers mod her to have big anime tits or something. Gamers are pathetic.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      Were people this unhinged about CJ being black?

      I remember seeing a mod to make CJ white and the Grove Street Families a neonazi gang featured prominently on some modding site (I think it was what later became/is now Nexus) in 2010 or thereabouts, so I'm gonna say the answer is that there have always been weirdo reactionary nerds and a broader reactionary undercurrent to American counter culture in general, which just came to a head and crystalized into the modern reactionary nerd movement with Gamergate.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      five minutes before losers mod her to have big anime tits or something

      Maybe Take Two's ridiculous crusade against mods will do something good for once.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Her being non-anglo on top of being a woman is almost certainly making reactionaries mald even harder. I hope there's a line in the game where she gives her pronouns because the sheer amount of dunk-worthy freeze-gamerfrothingfashpronouns takes it would generate would be a sight to behold.