The quotation marks are a nice touch. Quality trolling.
To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks
Submitted 1 week ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
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brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 week ago
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I think a question mark in parentheses would also do the trick
savvywolf@pawb.social 1 week ago
Finally, representation for gay people into irony.
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Brooo you can get the title of shithead? Why would you wana be labeled as straight when you could be shithead instead? lol. That’s what I would go for haha
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Yeah I’d much rather take that over any sexuality. It’s a much deeper insight into my personality than just “straight”.
headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Obviously that steam guy was probably coming from a place of bad faith, but the response is maybe imperfect no? This would look pretty bad if the roles were reversed I think. (genuine question I am hoping I am told why this may not be the case; I have nowhere else to ask)
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
It’s okay to take context into account and not just look at it as a math problem. Targeting a minority isn’t the same as doing it to people who make up 90% of society but are whiny.
headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I totally agree that an unacceptable proportion of straight people are whiny about any manner of minority representation, but doesn’t this also affect straight people who are normal about this? Maybe it’d be more fitting to give a demeaning title to homophobes, eg. the steam complainer, but provide regular title to everyone else somehow? Thanks for taking the time!
bilb@lem.monster 1 week ago
I don’t think its ethical to portray straight people in video games at all.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Bioware is well ahead of you. Haven’t most of their romanceable NPCs been bisexual for ages now?
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
Could you please define “potray”? /genq
jlow@beehaw.org 1 week ago
The roles are not reversed, though (quite the opposite), so no need to worry about that:
headerfile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yeah the history of oppression is definitely reason to dislike those that support it, but it seems ill-fitting to have this affect all people who identify as straight no? (Not just cis straight people who don’t support that oppression but also trans straight people and other exceptions, as another commenter pointed out)
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Obviously that steam guy was probably coming from a place of bad faith
The Steam forums actively encourage this kind of bad faith behavior:
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when a post gets a new reply it’s moved to the top of the forums. So as long as people are engaging with a post, even if it’s just to make fun of a bigot, it keeps getting pushed back to the top.
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Users can “award” posts for various things (helpfull, cool, funny, etc) and users have taken to giving ‘Clown’ awards as a way of making fun of posts. Whenever one of your posts gets an award, you are given Steampoints you can use in the Steam cosmetics store.
This results in every game having bad faith posts “complaining” about wokeness so that people will make fun of them with Clown awards as a way to farm Steampoints. The developer bringing attention to it just helps them get more.
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YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I love political bullshit in my fishing games lmao
Wait, no I don’t
thief_of_names@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Thanks for your opinion straight person
savvywolf@pawb.social 1 week ago
In his defense, it isn’t really a fishing game without bait.
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I think you mean “Straight” person
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I don’t think it’s an inherently a “straight” issue to think the topic of sexuality can be out of place at times. I don’t think the topic of sexuality should be taboo like it has been historically but, like many topics, I think there’s a time and place for it. In my eye, the only time I need to know a person’s orientation is when I find someone I wish to pursue something with since it’s a key aspect of my chance of success. I believe what someone does and is into is a closed doors affair; it’s their business, not mine. Plenty of times someone’s sexuality is held above someone’s head, quite literally in the case of this casual fishing game where I feel it doesn’t even slightly belong. In these situations, I find myself made uncomfortable because the topic is very mismatched for the context. We’re standing here fishing, so why are you bringing who you like to bang - or not, as the case may be - into the conversation?
And huh, would you look at that, I didn’t bring my own orientation into the mix because it’s not needed.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
If a community was fighting over something so trivial like this I’d consider leaving the game entirely.
Azzu@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Then you should probably leave every game, because some dumbfucks argue about this everywhere.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 week ago
On this topic, I remember seeing a thread for Frostpunk 2 asking if it had DEI stuff in it.
There aren’t even any real characters in Frostpunk 2. Tf are you talking about DEI for in a game with no real characters?
homewardbone@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Honestly then… it probably didn’t warrant a response that will only bring more attention to their whining
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
Wait… This is an entire game? I’ve seen memes of it and I thought it was about an update to Animal Crossing.
Lumu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
It’s very fun, feels like a return to simple web chatroom type games that I’ve really been longing for. It’s very enjoyable if the idea of casual fishing with some random people seems appealing to you!
millie@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Spam G in support.
Meow meow meow.
DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Game for everyone is a game for no one.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I had not heard of the game, bought it and it’s awrsome. Spent my whole afternoon playing it
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Can’t be that hard to use something like cheat engine to get the money needed for that
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I don’t know if this is a hot take, but I think allowing straight and cis people to identify as such is appropriate, because the alternative assumes that we live in a state of default heteronormativity.
If anything, I want to live in a world where homophobes get mad that if they want to be assumed to be straight online they have to identify like anyone else. No one gets assumed to be straight any more. That’s better imo.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Nothing I enjoy more than asking a good ol’ boy his pronouns.
Toribor@corndog.social 1 week ago
The default should be “I’m horny” but unless I specify you have to guess who I’m horny for.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Maybe one day we can get there, but right now it might be better for a lot of folks if the default was “I’m not horny”.
But I’m with you on the dream.
madjo@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Wow such asexual-phobia! (/s but only a little) Not everyone is “horny”.
bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
heh, this totally reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s dwarves, that spend a lot of time trying to find out what’s under the beard of the other first without asking that akward question xD
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Pan-sexual then, perhaps?
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
as an almost maximally privileged person (cis straight etc), i want my whining fellows to shut the fuck up. Just stop. Stop taking up all the god damn space. Just be quiet. It’s okay not to be included in every scene all the time.
Your point about not assuming people are straight by default is valid. But I mostly just want some cis-het folks to stop embarrassing me by being fucking insufferable.
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
Uh, maybe I will have to specify myself, too. Never tought like that.