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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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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago

Super weird, because after 20 some odd hours in, I can't remember pronouns even coming up outside the creation screen.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It comes up any time an NPC refers to your player to another NPC, and there are quite a bit of multi-NPC dialogues in the bigger quest lines. But I mean, how likely are you gonna remember or think about every instance they say "he" or "she" or "them?" For most people, this is so insignificant that it's almost like you didn't even have the choice; but for those that hearing their preferred pronouns is uncommon IRL, it would be very apparent and likely very uplifting to be validated.

[-] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Its especially innocuous if you choose the pronoun on the character screen that you're are used to using. Or just leave it at default, which is cis gendered. You have to really go out of your way to make this weird.

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