Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

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    Reminder that every decade, conservatives whined about something fucking stupid.

    2020s. Pronouns. Trans. Blue hair?

    2010s. Gay marriage.

    2000s. Gay representation on TV.

    90s. Video games. Rap music.

    80s. D&D. Gay people existing.

    70s. Rock music. And interracial marriage?

    60s. Hippy culture. Being antiwar.

    50s. Fucking hips shaking on TV?

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      You forgot “children being taught evolution”, that was a pretty big one. Also birth control pills, which many of them are still fuming over.

      You can also keep going back to when they were insisting radio would rot children’s brains or even further back to when they opposed electrification.

      But at least electricity can kill you. Modern reactionaries take entitled whining to a whole new level, growing physically violent because there’s people out there who are unhappy with the genitals they were born with.

      I guess we’ll never understand the horror of having an extra checkbox in a character creator that they have to look at (but not click, since it’s already what they want by default).

      Anyway, fuck em. They can either accept that society is going to treat minorities with basic human decency or they can stare at the wall for 8 hours a day waiting for new far-right approved content. It’s their live to piss away.

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      every decade conservatives whined about something

      And by the following decade they had been proven to be not just wrong, but actively impeding basic human decency

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        Conservatives have been on the wrong side of every major societal improvement, every major argument, on every major thing.

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              Beau of the Fifth column on YouTube has an interesting viewpoint. Today’s conservatives are yesterday’s progressives who refused to change over time. People don’t get more conservative as they age … the Overton window shifts left and leaves them behind.

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                the Overton window shifts

                That’s how you end up with Bill Maher, who prides himself on his liberal bona fides, is sure that the changes he fought for needed to happen but also that this new generation just goes too far, and completely fails to see that the people he fought against in the 60s and 70s followed the same process as him and ended up in the same place as him.

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                As someone who just turned 43, I find this quite interesting and relatable.

                I mean, if anything I’m getting actively more leftist as I get older, but I do find myself nonplussed when it comes to gender identity and such. Not to the point where I’m against it, obviously, but I do have to work harder to try to understand people who aren’t in my immediate field of experience. If I was less invested in trying then I can imagine that I’d end up being one of those grumpy old pricks who used to be with it before they changed what it was. But ultimately the attitude I take is that how younger people want to present themselves to the world has absolutely fuck all to do with me, and as long as they’re trying to make themselves happy then all power to them.

                On an entirely different level, it’s like bitching that all modern pop music sucks. The music doesn’t (generally) suck, you’re just not the target any more.

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                People don’t get more conservative as they age … the Overton window shifts left and leaves them behind.

                aka “Cant wait until you’re dead”.

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      Maybe swap “gay people existing” for “gay people dying in droves while the government ignored it”

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      90s. Video games. Rap music.

      80s. D&D. Gay people existing.

      70s. Rock music. And interracial marriage?

      60s. Hippy culture. Being antiwar.

      50s. Fucking hips shaking on TV?

      Both sides were against all of that in those times, you’re clearly young.

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        The comment had said “conservatives” which is true. Only recently did Democrats start leaning more towards progressivism, and even then they are still mostly a Centrist party

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          It actually started with the Southern Strategy in the 70s when the Repuvlican party decided to be the party of white resentment. There was a great reshuffling after that into right/ progressive.

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            I mean right, I’m just saying that the general political landscape didn’t flip overnight on some evening in 1976 or whatever. It was a slow shift over the back quarter of the last century culminating in our more modern party structure.

            Conservatives still exist on the Democratic side of the aisle today, but there’s less of them than 5 years ago and that was less than 10 years ago etc etc.