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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 223 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wait, the mod removed the option to set a gender in the character editor? Why don't these people just make a male character and be done with it?

[–] darq@kbin.social 177 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Because it's not actually about the pronouns. These people aren't actually angry about pronouns.

They're angry about trans and non-binary people. They're angry that people are growing to accept these people, who they do not think should be accepted. They are angry that a group they don't think is normal, is being accepted as normal.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it's even about that, they're angry because the want to be angry. The why doesn't matter, if the current right wing outrage du-jour had been... I dunno, left handed people rather than trans people, you'd see all the same people working themselves into a screaming tantrum if a game or movie had a left handed person in it.

[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

For sure. And when there’s not enough people focused on trans people they’ll shift their focus to some other marginalized group to harass.

These limp dicked losers have literally nothing better to do but jerk each other off in their seedy racist forums and message boards.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, it's very much hatred. The same hatred they had for black or gay people.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the "replaced white people". And the female leaders. If someone wants a taste, go through the Steam forums for the game. It's a complete deranged mess.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Steam forums are the absolute bottom of the barrel for game discussion, maybe tied with 4chan.

[–] DJVIIIMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's roll it back a bit. There's a bit of a difference between "accepted" and "tolerated". For the most part, the trans community is merely tolerated by the majority of the country.

[–] darq@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what the point of your comment is.

Trans and non-binary people are becoming more accepted as normal over time. The people screaming about pronouns don't actually care about pronouns, they oppose that gradually growing acceptance.

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[–] ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They need to force their views on others. If anyone believes what they believe, then they are suddenly just like everyone else instead of the bigot they know they are deep down

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They aren’t really forcing their views on anyone though, they’re just jacking themselves off. No nonconforming person is going to download this and inflict it on themselves, and they have no reason to use it themselves unless they’re just really closeted and lack the will to not express their own nonconformity. It can literally only exist to rile people up who sought out the mod specifically, which includes only them.

[–] ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they weren’t trying to force their views on others they’d just make their character a guy and move on. They go through the trouble of coding this mod to push their agenda on others.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I'm trying to say though is that most of them just do make their character a guy and move on. They don't need the mod and the people who they think do need it aren't going to install it. It's not just a transparent attempt to ignite culture war arguments online, but it's a stupid and ineffective one.

[–] AmbleHamble@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The point of the mod is not to change something in game, its to appear in the list of mods and remind some people that they are hated and bigots will never stop hating them.

Its a weird "I was here, and I hated x people".

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have trouble imagining enough people wanting to download a mod to do this to get it to appear on anything but the most recent releases list, and to only be on that list long enough for some other mods to get released.

[–] AmbleHamble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the type of person that would do this wouldnt be opposed to spoofing the number as well. And they can just keep reuploading the mod so it's always appearing in the list.

The point is, their ineffective methods still worked a little. Ruining someone's day, hour or even minute is validation enough

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

Apparently nexus mods has some sort of ad sharing with mod makers. Could be a grift. Grift is popular among right wingers, possibly because they are on a fundamental level stupid.

Some grifter makes an anti "woke" mod that probably took 5 minutes. A bunch of stupid chuds download it to pwn the libs. Grifter makes money. Chuds feel good about their shitty lives.

[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Then they couldn't do their performative outrage, which is all they have.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Because REEEEEEEEE

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because they're little fucking babies.

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Looking throughout history, aalways have been

[–] DJVIIIMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What difference does it make that they don't?

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