• RiikkaTheIcePrincess
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    221 year ago

    option to choose pronouns fills them with blind, seething rage

    Yeah I was there when BATTLETECH (still dunno why its name has to be so LOUD :P ) launched. Every hatefool was raging about it, apropos of anything or nothing. Try to talk about any part of it and it’s “OH YOU MEAN FUCKING PRONOUNWARRIOR?!?!” and a bunch of incoherent senseless bile. There’s a sizeable group of people who deeply love being offended, and it’s not us (queerfolk/LGBTQIA+/QUILTBAG/GSM/whatever). Like, I’m neck-deep in queer over here and every time I play a game with a pronoun selector at the beginning I promptly forget about it but oohhhh nooo, not these bellends. They somehow think a button at the beginning of the game that matters like three times ever has entirely DESTROYED videogames with LIES and FALLACIES 🙄

    They’d be a joke and an insignificant oddity if they didn’t deliberately make messes of everything else (say, going to MWLL/other games, ranting about “pronounwarrior,” pretty sure some critters got teamkilled over it…) for no good reason.

    • Rottcodd
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      151 year ago

      They’d be a joke and an insignificant oddity if they didn’t deliberately make messes of everything else

      My opinion exactly.

      In ways, I actually feel sorry for them. In the first place, it has to suck just to be that angry and spiteful, but underneath that, it must really suck to feel so powerless and desperate and insecure that something as trivial and irrelevant as pronouns can send you into a compensatory rage.

      My pity is greatly diminished by the fact that they’re toxic assholes who try to force the world to accommodate their own failures though.

    • @SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
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      31 year ago

      Wait, Battletech? The turn based one? From 2018?

      That’s amusing. I played that a couple months ago. I don’t recall ever selecting a pronoun, but I’m sure I did and then just moved on like a normal person.

      • RiikkaTheIcePrincess
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, that’s the one. There was so much outrage because it had the word “pronoun” in it at all 🤣It’s just a little thing on the side during character creation and its effect is absolutely trivial. Actually I think the other MechWarriors ‘have pronouns’ too if you deliberately open the character editor for them. It’s really the bare minimum, like I’m trying to come up with something sarcastic but those people were freaking out over nnnnooothing like the one word in one game is gonna ruin videogames for them forever, or some crap.

        Which, like… if we could somehow trans so hard they’d go away don’t they think we’d do it instead of just getting yelled at?

    • @Laurentide@pawb.social
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      21 year ago

      Meanwhile, my canonically enby commander is rocking a fabulous magenta mohawk and having fun headshotting all the King Crabs so they can sell them to afford catperson surgery.

      • RiikkaTheIcePrincess
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        31 year ago

        Hah! Good luck with that :3

        (Same but mine doesn’t have the mohawk and doesn’t specifically hunt KGCs :P . )

        • @Laurentide@pawb.social
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          11 year ago

          I’m not hunting them specifically, their cockpits just happen to be magnets for my Marauder’s laser and autocannon rounds. :P

          The first one I saw, in an early “titan” mission, got taken out by a single alpha strike from long range and dropped three salvage. (I renamed it Queen Crab when I noticed that some parts of the mech were white after applying my blue/pink paint scheme.)

    • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      11 year ago

      I just cannot get over what a terrible name “quiltbag” is. How do you say that out loud and not immediately think better of it?

      • RiikkaTheIcePrincess
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        21 year ago

        Well, it’s… pronounceable? Technically?

        Okay I don’t actually like it and don’t know anycritter who does but it’s there soooo putting it there seemed like a good idea at the time? 🤷