https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5GTYzySEs
This one is remarkable, I've watched Callum Upton for quite awhile and always enjoyed his takedowns of studios and all the dumb shit they get up to in order to pull the wool over consumers eyes. Here though despite clearly being quite a part of the gaming community and generally being knowledgeable he comes across as completely ignorant. I went away after getting annoyed at his video and came back to do a more measured response
The video he does is incredibly dismissive and misses the point entirely that people have about gender pronouns and how yes it is a problem if you pander to such a small percentage of people ( At least he admits what he is doing along with other devs ) and he must know he's talking crap because he then like every other ignorant person on this topic decides to resort to gaslighting the audience for the rest of the video going on about how it's no big deal.
Which let's be real, is not an actual argument against gender pronouns, I think that's my biggest problem with this however the NPCs seem to have gotten their firmware updates and this is being repeated across the internet. His comments page as well seems to almost suspiciously be filled with this sort of response of people going "Not big deal" "Why people mad?" and they fucking know exactly what they're doing.
Looks like the devs who do this are just asking for a second GamerGate, except this time it's going to happen in the dev space, not the gamer space. They realised they couldn't really get anywhere with gamers which is why they spam propaganda so often calling us all bigots, so they've been going after clueless and lazy devs who get their ignorance reinforced by these SJWs spamming their comments pages with positive feedback and dismissing anyone who complains.
What is interesting to me is witnessing this shit happen to somebody I've followed in real time. This is how it's done, it seems to be less malicious for a lot of them and more that they simply don't know any better. They get surrounded in a protective bubble by leftists they pander to and they have no idea how bad these people are until the mob finally turns on them after they've gained enough power.
I'm going to state being a wannabe indie dev myself, I'm a dev and I am 100% behind your rights as consumers to boycott this shit if you don't want anything to do with it and yes I know the actual reasons why gender pronouns are bad.
Also, gender is binary, there are only two of them, this is non-negotiable. I can't believe I'm taking a fucking TERF position but here we are lol. Really disappointed with Callum actually as I've pointed people to his videos in the past and he's clearly done zero research on this topic if his reactions are genuine.
Add anyone who says "it's just pronouns" to your enemies list.
They are intentionally shifting the culture toward global communism whether they realize it or not. If they realize it they are evil, if they don't they are dangerously retarded.
It's like the stupid trans-racial flag because they gaslit us over that as well.
They are the same people that let women butt into everything a generation ago, ruining all kinds of entertainment and hobbies and even organizations (eg boy scouts) boys enjoy.
"It's no big deal, stop being a misogynist!" They all said. And now here we are with the next round of infiltration.
It's not JUST the pronouns! It's the absurd "strong wamyn!" It's the Trans Clone (not actually a clone)! It's every goddamn gender shit you can think of!
Don't forget the deliberately shoehorned lesbian and gay couples everywhere even though they're barely a percent of the population.
Not to mention contained in population centers so small, their communities would die out in two generations because homosexuals CAN'T CREATE CHILDREN.
They can create gays though, through a very unpleasant process involving children.
This, I can't believe everyone is fixating on "Lol he's mad pronouns exist!" as if they are the issue, it's about the forced inclusion of them where they never were before in a tired obvious ploy to force in woke agenda featurecreep acceptance.
Being the female clone of a man doesn't make you transgender. You could clone a man and simply remove the Y chromosome to create a female clone. Said clone would have Turner Syndrome, but it would be female.
You could also go a step further and duplicate the X chromosome. I don't know what the consequences of having two identical X chromosomes would be, but theoretically she would either be totally normal or still have Turner Syndrome. We don't really know why Turner Syndrome happens, so the importance of non-identical genetic code in the Barr bodies is unclear.
It's actually a pretty interesting concept from a genetic point of view and works perfectly in a sci fi setting. What would be even more interesting would be a male clone of a female. Subtracting a Y chromosome arguably doesn't remove the "clone" status because there's no foreign genetic code, but does the addition of a Y chromosome mean he's not a true clone? What if they simply edited the SRY gene into one of the X chromosomes?
Fascinating stuff. I'm sure the game doesn't delve into it even a little and just uses "WOW TRANS CLONE" for shock value, but still.
Stop playing their game. If gender is a social construct then so is being human. Beat them over the head with this until they relent.
There is nothing that can be expressed in human language that isn't a social construct.
The "social construct" idea is propagated stupid people who are pretending to be smart.
It's kind of a losing battle at this point, but even using "gender" is a bit of a concession. There aren't two genders (when talking about people), there are zero. There are two sexes. Again, though, losing battle, moot point, all that. Your point stands, and I agree.
Alright, this correction is tad more serious. Don't concede that ground to them. That's not a TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) argument. Well, okay, it's one they would agree with, but it's not exclusively their argument. It's the argument of anyone who can see reality on this topic. Saying that biology is real is not a "TERF argument" and, if it is, we're all fucking doomed so who gives a fuck?
Again, just because TERFs might agree with you accurately describing reality does not mean your argument is "TERF."
Sorry to be pedantic, but I do think especially the second point is quite important.
TERF is just a term feminists came up with to shame other feminists. Nobody should care about that term
LOL yeah I do agree and get your point, sometimes you get involved in the debate for so long you forget which really is part of their tactic. Force you to play along with their stupid language in order to even make a counter-argument. However this goes back to my idea of a second gamer revolution and just sticking it to these fucking people the best way gamers know how, culture and economic warfare.
A lot of languages never had the words sex and gender. There was only ever the equivalent to the word sex so they made up a new word that basically translates to "sex identity". So they are still enforcing the binary truth but don't really get it.
It's funny how Heelvsbabyface's bit (because he did say he was doing an overexaggeration for a bit) revealed a lot of the panderers out of the woodwork quick. Like they were really worried if this caught on and a lot of people went 'he has a point' it would really hurt their sales...
It's just an indicator of how shallow a lot of the writing is for video games, you see the downgrade in just a single series. Like look at the writing for Fallout NV and Fallout 4, NV has sameness relationships but no one cared because they weren't just that as their identity, compare that to today's writing and their entire identity seems to be 'I'm a guy that likes it in the ass'.
The fact that like in reality, pronouns are the laziest way to pretend to be special pisses people off because of the lack of effort.
It also revealed how quickly they spread this shit around to set up their narratives.
Like, Az was basically a nobody in his niche who no one cared about beyond his audience who all absolutely agree with everything he said, if not how he said it.
But suddenly, now his rant is in every corner of the internet. Setup to show "man angry over pronouns" and have every journalist and meme page ready to keep up the facade of "if you disagree with pronouns, you are this man" and keep the power structure in their favor.
Not just journalists, every limp-dicked YouTuber will start gaslighting everyone into thinking that being critical of “pronouns” is ridiculous. The faggot Dunkey has already mentioned it in a video and I’m sure MoistCritikal will be next.
I'm just surprised people expected otherwise, most popular youtubers/streamers etc are part of the grift or retarded. Even with fuck you money that does not seem to change.
Eh, fuck it. Who cares if they frame the anti-pronouns crowd as le angry gamers? Be vocal, pest Bethesda about it, the woketards always get their way because they are willing to throw a tantrum at every opportunity
“Mad about pronouns? How?! They’ve literally always been a part of the English language.”
Fuuuuuck this guy.
Dude this issue is so simple to me. Pronouns are made up delusional bullshit. Why would I want to accept that anywhere?
Callum's arguments are in bad faith. He has chosen a punching bag and isn't even addressing the man's real concerns. As the definition and usage of the word 'pronoun' has been subverted.
I'll tell you this much though. Callum really likes talking about himself. And that's ten minutes of my life that I will never get back.
That’s understating the issue. It isn’t “pandering to,” it’s “reinforcing the harmful delusions of.” Worse, it’s helping to support and normalize those harmful delusions, making it both easier to pull more victims into them, and harder to help the people who are pulled in.
No, it's whoever includes these things signalling that they stand with degenerate evil perverts. At least that's my take nowadays.
They may say the don't stand with degenerate evil perverts, but you won't hear them calling out even the worst of the bunch.
You have one thing wrong here. It's not comment sections full of demands for representation that drives this crap. It's the developers. At least 1/3 of designers, artists, and engineers are dyed in the wool progressives, another third don't care, and the final third is mostly cowardly people trying to keep their heads down and survive. The comments are sometimes used as an excuse to do what the Progressive developers already wanted, but it's never a cause, just a tool to justify the desired effect.
I think I remember saying that they always paint everything they do as small, insignificant concessions. So small and insignificant that if you don't do them, you will be persona non grata.
It has always been about power and control, but it became nakedly obvious to the mainstream the moment they started nuking mods that removed this stuff. It's a minor inclusion and a minor exclusion, not either/ or. Both or none.
Death by a thousand cuts is the Marxist way.
Gender pronouns are a Big Tech social engineering attempt. They aren't elective. You're obligated to participate and they're foisted upon the majority by a hyper-minority. This game is an example of Big Tech attempting to mainstream gender pronouns.
I just found this gold nugget in a comment from Callum, that's sad, looks like he's very much in the dev bubble now and is being courted by the left. No wonder he's got such an ignorant take on this. If he starts having any second thoughts now I bet they're going to put him through an infamous struggle session.