Article by 404 Media: The mod repository Nexus Mods removed a mod that allowed bigots to circumvent pronoun selection in the character creator of “Starfield”. The bigots then pretended to be very outraged.

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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    1 year ago

    Personally I am convinced that 99% of that is just performative. They know it’s bullshit to get angry about pronouns, but they do it because it generates attention and serves as a anti-LGBT+ dog whistle.

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      1 year ago

      I love the video of the British dude absolutely losing his shit about it, then picking up the controller and continuing to play

      Like he screamed and cried for 3 minutes about pronouns then went ahead and kept playing the game he was calling evil and boring

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        1 year ago

        That’s how it starts, first you play videos games, then next you start wearing knee high socks. They should start prepping a funeral for their soon to be dead name.

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      Call em SJWs. They are the pink haired raging liberals they fought against for so long. Became the thing they swore to destroy.

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        They have always been like this. As they say: “It’s always projection.” The right-wingers assume that other people behave the same way they do, but more often than not people simply don’t.

        Years ago during GamerGate, it was the same shit: They’d cry about collusion, bribery and worse and when you poked into it, there was nothing to it. It was all conjecture. deliberate misrepresentation of events and fake outrage.