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Madeline from Celeste might be trans!

brap

Banned
This is seriously amazing. We need more trans representation in games. Trans gamers rise up! People think the pill bottle might contain hormone pills. Let's hope so!
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Shagger

Banned
Cool...

Seriously, there's nothing much to say here. Great to see inclusion and acceptance within the world we all love, but most people are accepting, respectful and supportive, but have nothing really to contribute to a discussion like this.

I did see a homophoic twat hilariously overreact on twitter about this but, yeah?
 
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Dev1lXYZ

Member
Fun fact: the name Madeline means ‘high tower’. 😂
Edit: I never finished the game. I’m in the percentile.
 
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-Arcadia-

Banned
Hahaha.

There’s a debate to be had whether normalizing transgender stuff is a good thing, especially when it’s always being pushed on people, but the negatives are well-hidden.

That said, I’ll say that if it’s going to be in the game, this is a very cool way to do it.

They didn’t shove it in anyone’s faces. It’s just a subtle, naturally fitting thing they put in their story. With the composer being trans, it likely comes from something they wanted to do, rather than virtue signaling.
 

Kamina

Golden Boy
Maybe devs should integrate a “trans mode“ in every game, that changes all male NPCs to wear feminine clothing, have long hair and female animations.
Maybe then they will shut up.
 

Shagger

Banned
OK, Stop. Here's the truth.

Madeline may be trans' or on some other part of the LGBTQ spectrum, or indeed not. The flags can be show of support. What actually matters is that THIS DOES NOT MATTER!

Who within the realm of sane even counts this as a reason to perceive the character any differently. Gender identity and sexual orientation are things to acknowledge and recognise about a character, not define them.

That's why when I say I don't care about a character's or person's sexual or gender indenity, because it does not affect my opinion on a human being. One's acts and omissions in life, they do affect my opinion.
 

Ten_Fold

Member
Wtf is a non-binary? I know trans and the lgbtq stuff but I never heard of binary? Shit getting really weird out here man... Anyways I’m glad they didn’t just force it on everyone and just put it kinda out there for those who look at details.
 

Whitesnake

Banned
OK, Stop. Here's the truth.

Madeline may be trans' or on some other part of the LGBTQ spectrum, or indeed not. The flags can be show of support. What actually matters is that THIS DOES NOT MATTER!

Who within the realm of sane even counts this as a reason to perceive the character any differently. Gender identity and sexual orientation are things to acknowledge and recognise about a character, not define them.

That's why when I say I don't care about a character's or person's sexual or gender indenity, because it does not affect my opinion on a human being. One's acts and omissions in life, they do affect my opinion.

I'm pretty sure most people here are of the same opinion.

The trouble is, if no sane person would care about this kind of thing, then why are they including this? For who?

Now, we already know the answers to these questions. They're trying to appeal to the woke SJW crowd on places like Twitter and purplegaf to get woke points. Classic virtue signalling.

Nobody here thinks this matters at face value. The part that is deriving mockery is the fact that they did this solely to get brownie points with insane people.
 
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mcjmetroid

Member
It's a videogame cartoon character...
I.. ah... Don't understand.
Am I trans?
I mean I don't remember everything about my life so maybe I am?

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...but but but... the OST is amazing! ...what do I do now... shit...
Nothing wrong with being trans, just shoving into people's faces is my issue. People who do that prove that they did it for the attention.

If you wanted a sex change so badly surely the idea is to blend in to whatever sex you're converting to.

But what do I know, I just found out that maybe I'm trans.
 
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rofif

Can’t Git Gud
I really wonder if it's loneliness of current world and inability to fit in? Were there always so many trans nonbinary? Homosexuality is perfectly normal and as old as civilization but the recent craziness with nonbinary them bullshit is interesting. Seems like everyone comes out as one of "them". Again - it's none of my concern who prefers what. It just starting to look more like desperate search for own community, trying to fit in and look for attention
 
I really wonder if it's loneliness of current world and inability to fit in? Were there always so many trans nonbinary? Homosexuality is perfectly normal and as old as civilization but the recent craziness with nonbinary them bullshit is interesting. Seems like everyone comes out as one of "them". Again - it's none of my concern who prefers what. It just starting to look more like desperate search for own community, trying to fit in and look for attention
I think it's mostly because it's being talked about now.

Some decades ago you might have been unhappy with your gender and wanted the benefits of the other gender or you simply were annoyed by people acting differently towards men and women. But it's still quite a leap to the realization that you could actually change your gender or just outright say you are non-binary (and still get through with that) and consequently get treated the way you always wanted to. It's just hard to even imagine if it isn't a thing already.

Also, before the internet, people usually knew your sex by just looking at you. So you wouldn't really ever get in the situation where you would find out how the other side was treated. I only realized how great it is to be female when people mistook me as female because of my nickname and suddenly my reputation went from "pervert loner" to "coolest girl online you can talk about anything with".

In short, you take what you can get to optimize your happiness.
 

danielberg

Neophyte
My fucks range from
"More power to her", "who really fucking cares" to "nice weather isn't it?"
 
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Ugh, I hate those empty platitudes. Diversity is both a strength and a weakness. Diversity is something that can happen in numerous ways and the more apt term is heterogenous. The same people talking about "diversity is our strength" will often at the same time promote uniformity and conformity. 🤡
 
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