To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol, the parenthesis around it. That was a good hit.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Quotation marks?

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oops lol

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• Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shame on those damn straights for choosing to be cis.

  Let’s disrespect them because of their inferiority.

  (Can you see how toxic and weird that sounds?)

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Alternatively: We have gone out of our way to foster a space where LGBTQIA+ people feel comfortable. In a world full of heteronormativity, this is a space where they can truly be themselves.

    And then a straight guy walks into the gay bar, and gets upset when dudes try to flirt with him.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In a world that is controlled almost entirely by heteronormativity, policing straight representation in a queer-friendly game made by a queer developer does not seem like an equivalent situation at all.

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Disrespecting fragile cretins who need to pandered to at all times

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    • Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Be honest, that sounds weird.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How is providing an additional inclusive option disrespectful?

    Is it that you don’t like the price? That’s just capitalism. More demand equals higher prices.

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• bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Straight representation? Lol, what? Like every major branching choice RPG with romance options offers plenty of hetero choices (Witcher, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldurs Gate, Cyberpunk 2077, etc). Even in Veilguard, the first AAA game I’ve played that offers nonbinary choices, still has plenty of hetero representation. Culture wars are so god damn exhausting and unwinnable.

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  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    These are the same people mad at “woke” games for not having white charcters. Their enormous amount of privliage has made them utterly blind to history or context.

    I hate it here. 🙃

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• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Say what you will, but implementing all manners of tags so users can express themselves, just to specifically leave out one is exclusion. “Move aside, heteros, this is our game!”.

  You can argue that they deserve it, that the developer has no obligations, that they are represented everywhere else and that they should play those game instead, but it remains exclusion.

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You got a few downvotes, but you’re not wrong. Another issue is if you have tags for everything except being straight, then it sort of implies that being straight is the default “normal” option, and everyone else has to go out of their way to designate themselves as not normal. It’s something that should be left up to the users to choose, instead of having a default.

    Sort of like if you had race tags for everything except “white”, it would imply that being white was the expected norm, and everyone else has to mark themselves as outside the norm. Or for a more forced-binary example, what if a game had a “woman” tag, but no other gender tags? It would heavily imply that the expected default is “man”, and every woman (or really anyone who doesn’t explicitly identify as a man) has to self-select.

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• RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Huh, suddenly the crying straight gamers care about representation… 🤔

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Apart from them straights not being a Monolith, I feel there is a difference between not being represented and being actively excluded. You know, one is bad and one is worse.

    You can and should leave a “Need a ____ tag” at the forum then. Don’t know why the article is so snarky about that, the poster of that seemed reasonable enough on the first 2 pages.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Look at the steam discussion fourm on that game its a cess put of bitter chuds complaining about this update.

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