• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    10 days ago

    Also Nintendo has stated that Zelda games are popular with women as far back as the N64 era.

    If they're "woke", they have been "woke" since the 90s lmao

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      10 days ago

      Makes me think of how women literally saved Gundam '79 when it was coming out because they were the main people watching it.

    • pooh [she/her]
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      10 days ago

      They've also had a canonically trans Mario character as far back as the 80's (Birdo/Birdetta), even though the trans part wasn't handled the best originally: https://www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/birdo-gender-trans-female-male

  • blame [they/them]
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    10 days ago

    Solitaire is woke because it claims there can be female rulers.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    He's got the causation backwards, each generation of big-time fans ages into gamedev and journalism and brings things closer to what they already liked

  • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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    10 days ago

    they're trying to make me gay by making Ganon so fucking hot that I want him to pin me against the wall and...

  • Enjoyer_of_Games [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    In the 2000's there was a right-wing animated TV show called Drawn Together starring Adam Carolla that had a main character who was a direct analogue of Link. The main character trait and running joke was that Link was gay. Link being gay coded was already uncontroversial with conservatives all the way back when the wii was a hot new console and plastic guitar controllers were cool.