Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.
Great. Now I have to go buy this game.
You can be whoever you want in Balders gate 3 (genitals included) yet Starfield crosses the line?
The BG3 steam forums were full of alt-right shills screaming about pronouns when the game launched. It’s just that starfield is newer so that’s where they all moved.
I swear, the more I read about the Steam forums, the happier I am that I never go on them.
Tbf most conservatives probably haven’t played BG3 or know much of anything about it/forgotten realms. They aren’t exactly the target audience
It’s based on DnD which according to them is devil worshipping satanism.
BG3 was so well received, they couldn’t use the term “Go woke, go broke”.
Starfield has a lot more flaws in that regard.
This entire topic is going to be the most cringe thing ever in 20 years when clearer heads look back and think “They came up with new pronouns?! Why? That’s retarded!”
It’s going to make Jnco jeans, mullets and tribal tattoos looks normal.
I believe it will be more in the vein of “Those people complained about having more options in a game? What a dumb hill to die on”
They’ll be saying “Yup, our ancestors were barbarians. In the 1950s they would give lobotomies to people that were mentally ill. In the 2020s they would mutilate the sexual organs of those who were mentally ill. We do not look kindly onto those practices today now that we know better”.
Do you think people got lobotomized voluntarily, dumbass?
There may be a bit of a difference there, but don’t let the facts get in the way of your bigotry.
You want to mutilate people who have a mental illness. You make me sick.
You make me sick.
Hope it takes a turn for the worse 🤞
Starfield and BG3 aren’t being boycotted. Those are just empty threats. Remember all the other times people said they were going to boycott their favorite games, and actually did it? Neither do I.
I remember back in 2016 conservatives screaming they were going to boycott Hamilton because of the cast making an appeal to Pence at final curtain, and people laughing hysterically at them because back then, there was no way any of them claiming they were going to boycott would have been able to get tickets in the first place.
They also proclaimed that they were boycotting the Star Wars sequels and claimed that they would tank at the box office thanks to the boycott. Instead the films did really well.
(I have my problems with those movies due to the plot, but having a woman main character and a black main character wasn’t an issue for me.)
Ironically I think a lot of problems with those movies, particularly the last one, is they actually listened to the screeching conservatives and minimized Finn and Rose.
That, and J J Abrams can’t write an original script for the life of him.
No, they try to boycott, but since they only represent a small fraction of the world, it doesn’t pan out as such.
Where is that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 boycott-failure screenshot when you need it?
And that is the result every time.
Conservatives when basic linguistic morphology groups are present in the language of any given media.
Lol I cannot express how little I care about which random thing our reactionary hyperconservatives have decided they need to boycott this week
I boycotted it because it runs like shit and is boring.
I just wish it was a better game they were cutting off their nose to spite their face with.
The best part about it is that you have to go out of your way to change the pronoun. If you choose the male presenting body, its shows he/him by default and the same with female presenting and she/her,
Good, no one wants them around anyway.
I wish conservatives would just say the quiet part out loud and stop insulting everyone’s intelligence. Own your bigotry. Don’t be a wuss. Oh wait. It generally has to do with pre-emptively distracting from obvious predelictions towards pedophilia. Nevermind then.
They won’t go mask off again.
Rebranding neo-nazis as “alt right” allowed them to ride a wave of plausible deniability onto platforms they’d never dreamed of.
When they triumphantly revealed themselves at Unite the Right, they lost a huge amount of that ground.
So now they never admit it, no matter how obvious they’re being. They will remain unnameable.
Call them bigots and they’ll tell you you can’t or else you’re a bigot yourself. 100% projection and deflection, every time.
I don’t know if anyone knows this, but the Steam forum moderators are pretty far right as well. I’m currently banned for mentioning Nexus mods, in a 100 page thread about the site itself. The conservative attacking pronouns and free speech, are not banned. You can find plenty of threads with conservative alt-right talking points about pronouns and anti-transgenderism, including insulting and degrading behavior. These threads stay up. Meanwhile, myself and others who defend trans activism, are banned. I appealed the ban, and get no replies from any moderator over multiple days. It’s fucking disgusting how the site is being moderated. I’ll post the ban reason and what I said, below:
“Nexus only bans mods made for bigots They don’t want to support any content that promotes bigotry and allows people to pretend certain marginalized groups don’t exist. Trans people are part of the game, and anyone trying to erase them is acting on bigotry. You are perfectly free to mod the game yourself or get the mod elsewhere. You just can’t get it from nexus mods.”
Ban Reason: This post contains material that promotes software piracy. cheats, or exploits. This type of content is not allowed on the Steam Community.
Steam administration as well.
Fortunately you’ve got this left wing echo chamber to vent in for solidarity.
I’m with you comrade 🫡
Thanks, mate. I’m still pissed. Can’t do anything but, like, fuck them and fuck the system. Stupid conservatives arguing their free speech is so absolute they should be able to take over Nexus mods and FORCE them to publish the bigot mods. They hit me with the “I may disagree with what you say, but at least I’d defend to the death, your right to say it,” then cheered when I was banned. They’re so fucking thickheaded.
Unfortunately, the far right has deeply inflated and influenced make gaming culture, particularly since Steve Bannon weapon’s then for Trump’s original election campaign.
Is this a surprise? Many gamers unironically use the PCMR term. We all know where master race idea came from. Even those that use it ironically often reveal themselves when talking about BLM etc.
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I’m honestly really pleasantly surprised that Nexus Mods are willing to take this fight head on. That they are willing to tell these potential customers to sod off, and that they have the tact and understanding to tell the difference between a superficially benign mod with a malicious purpose like this, and the many vulgar mods that they do allow on the site. (Shout out to Schlongs of Skyrim, you magnificent beast)
Gamers, in the general, being the worst people I don’t have high expectations from gaming companies but it all seems to be moving slowly in the right direction, even as gamers gnash their teeth and waddle their fingers.
This will pair eell with their botcott of reality.
Oh no!
Anyway…
I’m boycotting it because I’m not a fan of 16-28 FPS and I don’t have a $5000 PC to actually run it.
I’m easily running it on a 2 year old 1200€ laptop.
A desktop that can run it would be closer to 800€
Mine is about 5 years old with a ryzen 5/ GTX 2080 and a hard drive that spins. I’ll upgrade it at some point, but not to play one game. No Man’s Sky works quite well on my rig.
Weirdly, the worst frame drops are in the cut scenes.
When you’re in New Atlantis, taking mass transit anywhere, the train pulls out of the station at a good 5-10 fps.
It’s because the cut scenes are also loading screens so they actually have a lot going on. I’ve been playing on xbox series x and it runs as well as you’d expect on a console, so not really complaining there. I’m having fun at least, j7st need to keep away from all the negativity surrounding the game.
You would think that, for a static loading screen, that’s the same every time, it would just be a video clip and not generated live, in engine.
