Massively popular 2D sandbox Terraria has just removed gender icons from its character creation menu, and right-wingers are fuming.

Massively popular 2D sandbox Terraria has just removed gender icons from its character creation menu, and right-wingers are fuming.

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
    58·
    2 months ago

    Man, these right-wingers have nothing better to do than rage about unimportant things, you can still be fem or masc presenting in the game…I dunno what the big deal is.

      • LostWanderer@fedia.io
        13·
        2 months ago

        I keep forgetting that they don’t understand women laid the groundwork for computers and made gaming possible in the present day. Worse, the fact they deliberately suppress this information as it would undermine the patriarchal narrative (which I don’t subscribe to as a man). Desperate misogynists will do anything to maintain an outlook that is always at risk of collapse, as a bit of critical thinking applied to it’s cobbled together structure, will topple it. I long for the day that unnecessary outrage is quelled in favor of useful discourse. I don’t think humanity will come to an agreement on that matter due to our nature…Until serious work is done to rehab worldviews.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      It’s probably a very small number of small-minded people posting on Twitter, but the nature of that platform is that vocal minorities get signal boosted to fuck because of the dunk-tweet format and the algorithm.

      • LostWanderer@fedia.io
        4·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, it likely is a combination of outrage tourists fomenting a vocal minority response and other twats+bots are boosting the message. Twitter is such a cursed social site, if it’s not Grok creating CSAM and undressing women for weird and desperate men, it’s stirring the pot with patriarchal propaganda or shitty hot takes.

    • calliope@retrolemmy.com
      56·
      2 months ago

      I like this quote from the article

      Responding to the ongoing furore, fans of the game brought up incredibly valid questions, such as: “Who f****** cares?”

      • Dave2
        11·
        2 months ago

        banger quote, thanks for sharin

  • prole
    26·
    2 months ago

    These people get mad at the stupidest shit. Meanwhile, literal fascists are murdering people in the streets…

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      8·
      2 months ago

      Yeah and they’re busy cheering the fascists, and they need something to complain about so they pick this. And about people with darker skin tone than themselves probably.

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    Without the icon, how will I know if a character is male or female?! I demand they add a feature so i can see what’s in their pants!

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    26·
    2 months ago

    Do these people not have anything better to do with their lives than complain about a couple pixels being in the wrong place or not giving a set of pixels a gender in the first place?

  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    far right gamers complain that a game that had a gender changing potion for over a decade became woke because of a recent update

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    2 months ago

    I hate when games don’t let me make buff women and girly boy characters. Or weird shaped questionably human creatures by glitching the sliders beyond the minimum and maximum

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    Just booted up the game with the new update and didn’t even realize this during character creation. Its a retro pixel game, you can’t tell shit who your character is after 10 min of gameplay, once you start outfitting it with armor and funny accessories.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    But, if I’m not explicitly playing as a man, doesn’t that mean I’m trans or something? What’s gonna’ happen to my dick, bro?!