I love that pronoun choices cause so many chuds to melt down, please add them to everything 
(also for other reasons of course)
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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I though gamer nerds liked having robust character creation. 
"the last thing i want to do in a big immersive experience is create a character"
Please give me a pronoun slider except when you move it all the way to "man" it doesn't let you select it
It always blows my mind how angry capital G Gamers get about games where you very much have the option of playing a cishet guy but can also choose to play as someone different
They're viscerally angry that they're no longer the only target audience for nerd media.
They don't actually like video games, they just like being catered to.
Video games are fucking awesome and infinitely varied, so much more than any other kind of media, they're for everyone and that rules you fuckin chud dweebs.
Yeah, you're right, it's just so weird to me, like I didn't mind playing as non-white/male characters in games when I was a literal child and it's not like I was a super enlightened 10 year old or anything
one of the most popular games from my childhood was tomb raider where you were forced (at controllerpoint no less) to play as a woman
it was wildly popular
I do wonder how Tomb Raider would be recieved if it was released today just as it was 1996, but with modern graphics.
Like on the one hand, forced to play as a woman. On the other hand though, if Lara had the design she had in 1996 would they not mind because she fits their traditional ideas of what "hot" is? Like modern Lara seems to piss them off I know that (even though she's still very much hot) but would old school Lara in modern graphics piss them off if it was a new franchise being released for the first time today? Makes me think.
I feel like it would suffer Seinfeld Syndrome and nobody would give a shit about it at all
fr, I was also a Jill Valentine "main" in Resident Evil (admittedly some of that was because you got to hang out with the GOAT Barry Burton but still)
saaaaame
the master of unlocking > some dude called chris
She got a grenade launcher too
Kids almost always have to be taught racism. Like they'll pick it up from their elders but it takes a few years.
It's extra funny because it's such an unoptimized mess that it actually is still only targeted at them because they're the only ones who can afford the hardware needed to play it
Also saying "twatwaffle" is incredibly soy lmao
If the game was absolute dogshit I could see being annoyed by features that seem pointless. If the core of a game is shit, spending money on QoL features for small demographics seems ridiculous. Make solid mod tools and a solid game and it'll get sorted anyway.
christ, he looks like he's about to cry lmao
The expression he's making when he TABS BACK IN ANYWAY after that rant had me rolling.
The revolution cannot triumph without the deliberate execution of gamers
They don’t have pronouns in space
"This guy after hearing there are also no pronouns in space"
Poor fella
Also, g*mers get the wall CMV.
and that's why i support authoritarianism, cause this asshole thinks he supports "freedom" but he's a fucking liar so he needs to be in a pit with some lead implanted into his brain.
Pronouns are my favorite thing.
lol and then he just tabs back in brother you spirit is broken lol
I truly can't imagine having a life so devoid of hardship that the existence of pronouns makes me angry
“Muh immersion” is the “but what about the children?” for 
I am embarrassed for him
I am embarrassed for his close relations who haven’t beaten him with socks full of nickels
Just set it to he/him and get on with your life, jeez. Its like screaming at a changing table in a rest room because you don't have a kid. You might not need it but someone else may. The world does not exist to facilitate you personally.