Hayabusabruh
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Starfield: "You also can pick your pronoun (he, she, they) and we've recorded all the relevant dialogue to support that choice"
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Raven117
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Fake
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As you can see, matter. They wouldn't change if it wasn't, right?
Catphish
Member
I think I'm ready to depart this fucking planet now.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
It is a sizable market. Microsoft doesn't give a crap about people's identities, they are just chasing the money.
gazette.com
Nearly a third of millennials identify as gay or transgender, study finds
Roughly 30% of millennials in the United States identify as gay or transgender, according to a recent study conducted by Arizona Christian University.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Yeah... it's not due to global warming, destruction of habitats, nature etc...the word "they" will destroy us. That's where we draw the line.
TrueLegend
Member
Oh transgenders people exist all right but most of them dont use twitter and most of them are not born as male and female and chose it. Most transgender people suffer and these assholes have only added to their suffering. They live in their fancy twitter world where they have decided amongselves that they will use pronouns and thats the real problem transgenders face.
Also you are citing wikipedia which is an incredibly racist website relying on secondary links whose linking is decided by wikipedia mods who run mafia and charge people heavily for actual edit.Go do your homework properly.
Topher
Identifies as young
No "it"?
Fucking, CANCELLED!
What if I want to be She and It at the same time? Where is my "SHEIT" option?
Fake
Member
Like every capitalist company.
Raven117
Gold Member
Don't really understand what you are trying to ask me.
Captain Toad
Banned
The fact that they're spending the time and resources to record all of the game's audio to appease this imaginary gender, apparently it does matter.
No wonder game development costs are out of hand. Developers are doing nonsense like this to appease the woke journalists who will score their games.
LostDonkey
Member
What about my fucking pronouns It/that/meatandpotatopie.
How motherfucking offensive I shall buy this game just to burn it!!!!
How motherfucking offensive I shall buy this game just to burn it!!!!
Closer
Member
I'm not even native and even I know you're wrong.
Portugeezer
Member
Cool, it's a video game.
LazyParrot
Member
Not exactly. Singular they has been around almost as long as the plural variant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Yeah, I don't mean this to look down on Microsoft, I am just saying that it would be foolish to ignore such a large portion of your customers.
Putonahappyface
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Raven117
Gold Member
Oh, if they have the budget for it (and the publicity that will come along with this), again, what's the harm?
Captain Toad
Banned
Clearly you're not, because I'm not wrong.
Closer
Member
Alrighty. Ignorance is bliss, they say.
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Fake
Member
I not asking. Just pointing out that 'what they change matter', well, at least for a selective group of people.
This low argument of 'don't matter', 'nobody care', 'minor change' never stand a chance anw. If something is change, whatever the content, for good or for bad, is because something matter. Maybe not for me, maybe not for you, but matter.
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Excess
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I'll continue to state that none of this is ever done for benign purposes, and that inclusivity is not what what we believe it to be. In behavioral science, people perform better or become more engaged with an activity if there are already images or examples of people succeeeding in those activities. Character creation is a great way to exploit this human behavior: Developers seek to increase retention, and retention increases conversion. This is also why a lot of it is shoehorned.
strange headache
Banned
I'm sure the game will now sell like gangbusters to the 0.6% of the population who are concerned by this.
If you can't win an audience by making a good product, you have to resort to pandering I guess.
If you can't win an audience by making a good product, you have to resort to pandering I guess.
R6Rider
Gold Member
You are actually wrong though.
"They" in singular use refers to a person of whom you don't know their gender. This usage has been around for a long time.
Example: Someone calls the police about someone with a deadly weapon. The caller would be asked where "they", which in this case would be the person with a weapon, are or what "they" are doing.
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But hardly ever used. It doesn't really matter that it's grammatically okay, it's confusing as hell. When people start using they you often have no idea if we're dealing with one or multiple individuals. It's horrible use of language.
Don't get me wrong, I think there is a clear need for gender neutral pronouns, even if just for when you don't know the sex of whoever you're referring to, but "they" is a horrible choice.
You mean He/She/Theylicopter and Apache/she/they, right?
Closer
Member
Ok, I'm in love with the bolded one.
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