"Unlike you snowflakes, I'm not so easily triggered."
I think the only logical thing is for CA to add pronouns and make them mandatory.
He seems like the kinda guy that might actually do that.
Eric for sure seems like such a chill dude.
I'm not the biggest SDV fan but I follow the community enough to know he really cares about the fans.
He'd have to redo a bunch of code since gendered language is determined by your binary sex in the game. I think he just doesn't want to deal with all that. It would be pretty suspicious if his next game doesn't fix this issue though.
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(seriously why are so many gamers so vocal about their reactionary views, has anyone looked into this?)Man children who are angry that their once special exclusive hobby is mainstream and attracting new customers which result in companies catering to them even if it’s the tiniest, unnoticeable things. Likely anti social freaks who flocked to sites like 4chan and Reddit during their youth or during gamergate and became even more anti social after consuming ungodly amounts of porn and gore and more porn
I find it a bit weird the g*mers are losing it over... Stardew Valley? A peaceful game where you grow fucking cauliflower and try and find a cute husband.
But have you considered that some of those video game husbands might be gay? Truly, the west has fallen and billions must die.
Stardew has had homo gay from launch, idgi. Is this like some subset of LGB gamers who drop the T or some shit?
i can at best give my perspective having a friend whose kinda sheltered and lack of empathy causes this situation.
Some people dont like change, and like others mention its because its something theyre not used to or dont understand, and hate the fact that its changing their norm.
To give context about a chat I had litterally yesterday. Paper Mario and the Thosand Year Door has an infamous character Vivian who in the original Japanese version, is a crossdressing male whose infactuated with mario iirc. The english translation has always been wishy washy about what gender Vivian is, to the point that one of the changes in the script of the remake is they "withheld" the sirens relationship.
I basically told him back in the early 2000s, being gay was a huge issue (while being trans back then was less of an issue, at least publicly) while the script only changes today because being trans is more of an issue now for conservatives than being gay is. While I personally think that it shoulda stayed as Sirens, or at least, Siblings (as it doesnt in particular say any character is a specific gender, while staying true in context of the game and being alliterative), some people see changes like these in games to be highly reactive.
Weak-minded simpletons with no true social awareness who just do what all the other 4chan-poisoned idiots say in a desperate attempt to belong to a subculture so they don't have to be alone
Genuinely a lot sadder than just being a lonely autist.
I don't think it's quite right to turn on a solo dev just because he didn't respond quickly enough to transphobic abuse. It's not like he has a PR department. I do hope he responds, though.
Yeah CA seems pretty chill. I mean Harvest Moon didn't have gay marriages for years, maybe even after SV came out (I can't remember exactly). And you can change your gender ingame too. And you can date multiple people. And have a platonic monster relationship. And everyone is Bi. So I'd be a bit surprised if CA didn't dislike this doxxing or was anti-trans.
Plus the issue of gamers being gamers have been happening a long time ago. Back when modding for SV was still getting up and running, there were mods that turned non white characters white or lesbian/gay characters straight lol. Now the latter one, there are a bunch of horny mods so I could’ve just brushed it off as whatever if it weren’t also paired/recommended with the race swap mods.
Strike me down if turning non white characters white and gay people straight isn't funny. It obviously comes from the mind of the fragile-est, childish-est demon gamer, but it feels like that picture where the guy goes
"Stop texting my girl"
"Who is this?"
"Why does that matter?"
"Cause I was texting Beyonce last night and I was hoping this was Jay Z"
"Okay, that was funny, but seriously, stop."
I don’t think it’s funny. I just see them as extensions of those horny fan fictions where people are making straight characters have sex with each other or non straight characters having sex with straight people. I suppose the difference is that most fascists aren’t putting effort into writing and they’re drawn to code more because it’s “intelligence”, and it’s relatively more acceptable compared to yaoi
That's a fair point too. I meant funny like gross out humor. Like it's so ignorant it makes me laugh. But absolutely valid
The petition is from September of last year, but idk when the doxxing and such really started or anything. Seems like it's probably been an issue for more than just a couple of days, though
Do the characters even refer to you outside of the name you enter? I’ve only played up to maybe half of the game and don’t remember much
They don't, so I'm confused what the purpose of this feature would be. You character does have a gender, and that gender does affect how characters react to do, so maybe that's what players are looking for? But gender doesn't otherwise affect how you look like in any way.
Yes, they do. Alex calls you a guy in one of his lines for example. There's a whole mod for gender neutral language.
Saw part of this blowup yesterday and was debating if it was weird video essayist bait or something just terrible.
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It wasn't marked by Shinigami eyes so I was honestly confused because it popped up on the account I use to watch minecraft LPs and skit comedy stuff. Clicked on it, looked at the comments and got my answer pretty fast and then just made sure to do some marking so that maybe someone else in the future doesn't have to wade into such a shithole.
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I remember Harmful Opinions from the gamergate days. He was a chud back then too.
This is why my lawn has those booby trapped Palestinian flags everywhere but trans
The article seems mostly focused on people being mad at ConcernedApe. Hasn't ConcernedApe always been good about this stuff?
Pronouns are already in Stardew Valley though.
What (conjugation of to be) _ going to do, try to operate without _ ?
