Sorry about the freeze-gamer posting. It's good news tho.

“We are for inclusivity, we are for diversity. If we think someone is uploading a mod on our site with the intent to deliberately be against inclusivity and/or diversity then we will take action against it.”

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Does Starfield even require that you select pronouns? Most games I've played with a selection (Sims, Forza Horizon, Baldur's Gate 3) just default them to the characters' body type

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 year ago

      It does and then completely ignores them. I select they/them and have been misgendered multiple times by NPCs.

      So in that way it's pretty true to life

      • Azarova [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        I select they/them and have been misgendered multiple times

        realism in games is getting out of hand agony-yehaw

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        1 year ago

        And yet your robot buddy will call you Boobies if you entered that as your name.

    • immutable@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It gives you the defaults for the body type and then allows you to change them if desired. I can’t imagine getting worked up over it, in like a billion hours of gameplay there’s 5 seconds easily missed where they acknowledge pronouns exist, the horror.

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, like the rest of the game should be up their alley with all the copaganda and fash apologia there is.

        • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Damn I didn't know all that. I quit an hour in after realizing the hype about the space adventure was pure bullshit and they made an inferior travel system to No Man's Sky

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I haven't played it myself.

      It's a pity because Bethesda is historically an anti-trans studio who fired someone for being trans, from what my trans comrades tell me.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I heard they fired an ESO artist who was trying to take leave for gender affirming surgery or something like that.

        It's all rainbow capitalism until it inconveniences the bosses.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          I don't think they're the same devs. ESO I recall is a different team under Bethesda publishing group, not game studios.

          • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah, ESO is from ZOS, IIRC that's Zenimax Online Studios or the like. Absolute dogshit company in general which is a shame because ESO is all the cool, weird shit in Elder Scrolls that the mainline hasn't touched since Morrowind outside of the brief aside in Oblivion with the Shivering Isles.

    • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      It defaults to the cis pronoun of your character. You have to actively change your pronoun, if you don't go up and select your pronouns to change them it's not part of the process.