How am I supposed to identify with my character when they’re a sinisterist freak?
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LGBT representation today is like the interracial representation in the 1970s and 1980s. On-screen Interracial relationships are now non-issue, but it was fifty years ago. The On-screen LGBT relationship is undergoing the same phase from backlash to eventual acceptance. I mean, people don't change overtime and still operate on the values and assumptions they grew up in. Millennials and Gen X are said to be the forefront in lgbt advocacy; but as a millennial, many of my peers are still homophobic because of the things they picked up upon growing up. Twenty years ago, declaring something "gay" to express dislike is 100% normalised. I'm sure many kids who said that and didn't realise the error of their ways now as adults, have become far right.
It's funny. All the people who were crying about interracial relationships are still just as right wing as ever, but they don't stop to think about how their frothing opposition to displaying interracial relationships is gone and had been replaced by LGBT relationships with no real issue and none of their fears about interracial relationships have come to pass. They're completely led around by the nose.
I'm sure many of them are still "against" it but not in the same way. But plenty of them would tell you they've always been fine with it if you asked.
The woke left-handed agenda keeps trying to shove their lifestyle down our throats. I don't have a problem with left-handed "people" per se, I just don't think it's appropriate that we're showing that kind of behavior in video games that get played by children. If they get exposed to that kind of degeneracy they might start to think it's acceptable to live their life that way.
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It still weirds me out a bit that when my grandmother was young this was a real, serious take the majority of people had.
One of my grandfathers was beaten for being sinister. I'm glad we've expunged at least one prejudice to the point where we can safely joke about it.
I have a friend who is right-handed because he was forced to write right-handed by his teacher. In the early 2000s. They're still out there.
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I mean, I'm not a handist, some of my friends are left-handed. But...
Yeah, the left-handers I know are A-OK. All the others I do not know personally ought to be deported to where they came from, though!
Thanks for being balanced about it!
You had so many chances to drop a “sinister” in there
Until the game tries to release a game on the Wii and now the character is suddenly right handed.
Completely ruined Link’s character. Utter betrayal by a company that doesn’t understand one of its most popular franchises or the nuanced and narratively complex reason why he was left handed to begin with (because it is neat)
me, gay, actively eating with my felt hand:
my felt hand
Are you a muppet?
What are you, a cop?
if I was a Muppet I would be a really manly Muppet
Ill never forget how Nintendo switched Link to right handed for Twilight Princess on the Wii because it made for a "more immersive experience".
Only to find out it was a completely pointless change bc motion controls were pure gimmick in TP. You end up just flicking your wrist like a maniac, and it doesn't matter at all that you're lefty or righty.
Twilight Princess is one of the few games I have actually quit playing because the controls were so bad, and one of the only remakes I have ever been interested in as a result. It just made my hands hurt and it didn’t seem to matter what direction you swiped even though that was integral to the controls.
Should have just played it on Gamecube
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Link used to be left handed. Kids are growing up not knowing he is left handed.
Link is lefthanded unless he is facing West.
I have no clue if this is accurate but take my up vote
It is! (in the early 2d games) To save on cartridge space, Link only had sprites made facing one direction. When facing the other direction, the sprite was simply flipped. The manual had a lore blurb about a superstition regarding keeping your shield facing Death Mountain to handwave it.
Starting with Ocarina of Time, Link was given a (mostly) consistent handedness, typically being left-handed but sometimes doing a few things, like archery, right-handed.
The Wii version of Twilight Princess flipped the entire game, including the character models, left to right, making Link a righty to make the motion controls more intuitive for most players. Skyward Sword was then built with a right-handed Link for the same reason.
With Breath of the Wild, Link was made right-handed despite the game not using motion controls for swordplay. The top-down games have kept Link as a lefty, though.
Archery isn't left or right handed. The direction you face depends on which eye is dominant.
sometimes doing a few things, like archery, right-handed
I'm a lefty as hard as they come. My right hand is basically fancy decor. For some reason I intuitively used a bow the right-handed way. I couldn't hit a barn from two meters. Somebody then asked me "why don't you draw with your strong arm?" and suddenly I could hit targets 😅. Still feels weird to hold a bow that way, muscle memory from years of playing Robin Hood as a child, I guess.
Anyway...maybe Link just doesn't know?
game developers: also the main character uses she/her pronouns
gamers: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
IT gets real funky as soon as a character is non binary and uses they/them.
99% of the people being outraged about games with gay characters wouldn't have played the game even if there weren't gay characters
I love minecraft for making all life genderless and sexless meaning you can use your imagination.
For example I always saw minecraft cows as female and gay because they all produce milk and can reproduce with each other.
Life, uh, finds a way
the ender dragon has a gender; the player has killing her as a goal to ensure that the everything in the world remains genderless
Are there even left-handed main characters left? The most famous one that most people know, Link, is slowly becoming right-handed and I'm having a hard time remembering any other main characters who are actually left handed.
Necro is left handed in Diablo 4. I'm left handed and it still feels weird to me.
I couldn’t name you a left handed main character, best I can do is name two games which give you the ability to swap between what hand you use. Those being Minecraft and CS2 (counterstrike 2), with CS2 having a dedicated keybind for swapping what hand you use.
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Hollow knight players: this character has a female voice, and a different character says they are "sisters", other translations they use feminine when referring to them, but the game technically never says it's female, so we use "they" pronouns
Many such cases
Also HK players: this character is gay and Irish. So I'll display his heart on a bookshelf
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Incomprehensirule... It was right there
G*mers
I get it , represent everyone, I'm totally fine with it!!
The only thing I'll say is with life is strange...not every girl in the world is a lesbian 😅just more of a thing I found a little silly.
Life is Strange is only gay if you play it gay. Its an example of the gay button. Unless you opt in, no one is gay, to avoid hurting the delicate little fee fees of the conservatives playing.
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Most of the queer characters in Life is Strange are bi, which is really not that silly.
I thought Dana, Courtney, Joyce, Kate, Juliet, Taylor, Victoria, and Brooke were straight, Rachel was bi, Chloe and Steph were lesbian and Max depends on how you play her?
While true, it does make some sense for lesbians to hang out with other lesbians, to a certain degree
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