Imagine being a straight white man and feeling underrepresented in videogames.
white fragility is hilarious.
The first one is hilarious because you’ve been able to change your gender at will in the Souls games since the very first Dark Souls. DS1 you use a ring. DS2 you use a coffin. DS3 and everything after you just use the respec system and alter appearance.
“THE NATURE OF YOUR BEING HAS CHANGED.”
Though it is weird hearing the dialogue use pronouns for every character but yours. You’re still trying to be the Lord of Cinder or the Elden Lord even if you’re a lady, but they will say Lady Rennala. Go figure. 🤷🏻♂️
In a lot of systems, Lady is an honorific inherited or gained by marriage, but Lord (or equivalent) indicates the person is the main titleholder.
You’ll also see some fiction avoid the title “Empress” for the same reason.
I recently got Lunacid, a RPG that takes inspiration from Kings Field and Shadow Tower lineage made by a solo dev. It’s a great game I suggest you pick it up btw.
It has pronouns selector in character creation with some zhe/zher stuff. It has no affect on any in game dialog or stats. The dev put it in just to get people like this upset. I didn’t realize this until I looked in the steam community discussions and saw the amount of genuine seething with the devs themselves taunting in the comments.
The amount of people who genuinely get hot and bothered by this was surprising to me. I’m not really a gender identy orientated person so its not something I feel strongly about however I respect its important for some and just moved on with the game. Good on the artist for the power move making the bigots and squares salty at the cost of some sales.
that’s genuinely how fragile, how weak minded they are: they cannot fucking stand even the mention of other, much less it’s existence, without it becoming part of their cultural war on ‘woke’.
what a sad little life to lead, constantly worried about what some videogame somewhere has in it’s content.
I don’t like corporate consolidation, but these guys reasons are ridiculous. I’d argue that the “woke mind virus” is what infected these guys to chirp “woke woke” at every little thing. You think Sony gives a shit?
The obvious absurdity should make it clear these comments can’t be taken seriously.
Second hand cringe and embarrassment just reading it
Honest question: Isn’t cringe actually just second-hand embarassment? That is, isn’t cringe when you see someone else doing something embarassing?
You might be right. English is my second language so maybe I interpret them differently. For me they describe two similar reactions, but quite different feelings.
Nobody cares about your anti-woke bullshit crusade. Grow the fuck up.
Ah yes. Nothing runs a game quite like having options
fucking embarassing takes from fans of a game that secretly gender swapped chracters in multiple installments intentionally to get a message to them that assigned gender at birth really doesn’t matter. these dipshits think the small independent game studio being bought by a big megacorporation will turn the small org woke? laughable. from software has always been woke if you had any media literacy at all. no megacorporation is or can be woke. there are reasons to be sad about this (art works best when made from passion, not from being told how to make it by shareholders), but these fascistic fucks are butthurt for all the worst reasons
Imagine learning about Marika/Radagon and not getting the whole 2 souls 1 body gender issues
From software is no small nor independant tho. They have 400+ employees and are owned by Kadowaka since like 10+ years
yeah i felt i was using that term a little too loosely. they were sort of in a mid size studio position that defies categorization. just like so many things in the modern world, we’re slowly shifting into a place where there is no more of this middle class of studio. it’s all megacorps and solo devs.
Damn gamers still be the worst huh?
Please, this isn’t just gamers.
So dumb. At least some of the characters will be black and gay.
everyone will have pronouns
Yes, that’s how English works, everyone has pronouns unless you want to use their name every time they’re referred to.
The internet is so stupid that the people who are being stupid and the people who are being hilarious cannot form a legible Venn diagram
“Asking for pronouns is woke, therefore pronouns are EVIL!”
I’d like for them to stop using them altogether and only use names just to “trigger” us.
I have a friend who didn’t use pronouns when talking to or about others for a while. Turns out they were struggling with their own gender identity and they started using pronouns again once they figured themselves out.
This was a heartwarming and satisfying story arc.
open racism sexism and homophobia
Oh man, next they’re going to introduce a divine being that can freely morph between female and male sexual characteristics. Or a magical femboy twink who visits peoples dreams. God imagine if FromSoftware started doing social commentary on the crumbling state of our hierarchical institutions, with a focus on how those who try to suppress the natural order of the world are responsible for all the problems.
Good thing art isn’t inherently woke, otherwise some of these commenters would have a thought.
Now half of the NPC’s in Elden Ring
NPCs*
I would say the commenter is both bigoted and dumb, but the former adjective made the latter redundant.
I mean Sony will ruin it. But I am banking more on them introducing mtx garbage and loot box bullshit and all the other things that make modern AAA a fucking dumpster fire.
Yup. The right wing “game commentators” are staging themselves to be able to say “I told you so” even though they absolutely aren’t interested in talking about the real issues of modern AAA games.
