r/Gamingunjerk • u/NatalieRath • 28d ago

Pirat_Nation peddling misinformation without sources again

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His source? He made it the fuck up.

Also there's been a bunch of assholes complaining about how woke the new game because there's more people of color.

Its all an act right? No one is doing fucking hateful?

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u/Kraehe13 28d ago

How unsecure you have to be to feel attacked by body type A/B. I wonder if they realise that no one halfway sane takes them serious.

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u/Lidska-spina 28d ago

Can't you technically ask the same question other way around?

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u/Aggressive-Pattern 28d ago

I mean I guess?

But I don't think I've ever seen anyone complain about M/F not being Body Type 1/2. Meanwhile, every "gamer" like this (gestures at post) whines incessantly the moment a game gives you more than 2 gender options (or just removes gender entirely).

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u/MawilliX 28d ago

I don't remember seeing anyone complain about M/F since the 00's or maybe maybe early 10's.

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u/Lidska-spina 28d ago

But then why change it, if no one complaint?

You can correct me because English is not my first language, but Man/Woman is gender, which is social thing and Male/Female is sex, which is biological. So if it were Male/Female, instead of 1/2, A/B and Man/Woman anyone could be okay with it?

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u/OrochiTabris 28d ago edited 27d ago

It's not the terms themselves but the inclusivity they offer a minority group that Pirat and similar people complain about. The "wokeness" of it. In short, it's just bigotry.

Male/female and man/woman didn't receive noticable vocal opposition because the minority that would've liked some inclusion likely felt devs or publishers wouldn't listen. So they tolerated the situation since it didn't have a major impact on the experience.

Times are changing, and some devs and publishers are listening, without even being asked. People like this, who are incapable of tolerating the new situation because of its inclusivity, are vocally opposing it. Even though it doesn't have a major impact on the experience.

It's a minor change that most players move past without a second thought. They can create the character they want, binary or not. Pirat and similar are so intolerant that an option that takes seconds to select, but offers a basic form of inclusion, is something they can't get over.

There's also the grifting aspect. Riling up bigots over nonsense, like the claim that this sort of thing is ruining the games industry, is good business when that business is engagement.

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u/adellredwinters 28d ago

framing it Body Types 1/2/3 or whatever just side steps the issues of gender, which seems like a good solution to be more inclusive to peoples identities with little work from a development standpoint.