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My man's complaining about being constantly taken out of the immersion
Oh, is it asking your pronouns every time you enter a new planet? Every time you boot up the game? Every time you're introduced to a new character? Yeah, wow, that's so excessive
Wait, what's that, only during the character creation screen and then never again?
Has your brain been eaten by maggots?
"People exist outside of this tiny bubble and that's terrible!"
Suburb brain, not even once.
Its like bro you're creating a character the game hasn't even started yet.
I did actively notice that there is writing specifically included to take advantage of the fact they have a pronouns selector. The first example I spotted was a "hey new girl" from one particular npc, which would then refer to me with that moniker a few too many times thereafter.
I feel like if I noticed it and felt like it was included specifically for doing gender affirmations then it probably sends people like this into an absolute frenzy, which makes me laugh.
I mean, selecting gender has been in games since well before pronoun discourse. That's literally the "Prof Oak asking if you're a boy or a girl" stuff. The divergence comes when you have a masc body/face with "she/her" pronouns or sth.
What the Epic G*mer chuds fail to realize is that they receive gender affirmations themselves in their "nonpolitical" games where everyone must play a grizzled middle aged white man that kills otherfied less-than-people to avenge his fridged wife and/or rescue/protect his camera-oogled teenage daughter figure while also sometimes having le sexy cishet sex.
It doesn't show up in the clip but the game actually has John Oliver pop up in a live feed every 5 minutes to yell "IT IS 2023 AND THERE WAS A CHEETO IN THE WHITE HOUSE" at you