Damn, I’m popular.
And no I’m not, I’ve used they and them for my singular use myself, but never because someone played with the wrong gendered toys for too long.
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You’ve used it when you don’t know the gender of a person in question, right?
That is the core context. You’ve used it precisely in the way people are asking for it to be used, you just don’t like that they’re not conflating their gender with their sex.
Since you like language so much, you should know “gender” has an etymology completely separate from sex. Its original use had nothing to do with sex at all, but rather heritage.
You can tell how soft someone is IRL when being asked to use a person’s preferred pronoun is word policing and fascism.
I wonder if they lose their mind if someone asks them to use a nick-name? It’s not their legal, god-given name after all.
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He said he’s super macho IRL, you just have to…
lemme check my notes…
Not be on your phone? I guess?
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God so much irony…
Amazing how deluded people have become in their closed circles when they think those who want to preserve language are soft and not the ones who get anxiety because they don’t identify with correct language
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Ya’ll really want to flag this into oblivion. But it’s an interesting question and shouldn’t be censored. Ion brought this to the table over a year ago. Inquiring minds wold like an update. How it is perceived is and if it’s controversial isn’t because of anything I’ve done.
…who in the world would be “alienated” by a feature that allows you to set up how you want NPCs and tooltips to refer to you? It’s literally only visible to the player.
There’s a term for that kind of behavior, getting upset about things that don’t matter at all that escapes me…like, fragile, flakey, easily dissolved…
TRP3 doesn’t change NPC dialogue, quest text or tooltips.
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There’s she and there’s he. Nothing else is needed in a video game.
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Most people really don’t care about pronouns or using they in the singular. It’s extremely common in business correspondence.
You aren’t a silent minority like you think you are. Well, not literally silent, but I’m sure a linguistics master like you understands what I mean.
I really miss the days when we were just anonymous murder hobos.
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In a fantasy world.
With magic.
Where anything can happen.
That’s the setting that needs absolute biological realism where it comes to the binary expression of gender-linked characteristics?
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A lot of blabbering about something that doesn’t need any blabbering.
I can’t believe that there are truly humans out there that will jump through so many hoops to deny biology out of fear of another human thinking they are mean.
I’m glad y’all ain’t the majority by a longshot 
Man I look away from this thread for like 10 minutes…
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funny
“this isnt a political issue”
Jokers in the thread proceed to make it political.
muted…and a few of you ignored. SOO sick of you and your political crap in here.
Surprised you had any left to be ignored tbh
Gotta be close to blanking out the entire forum now. Almost time to start over with a new sockpuppet?
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I personally look at pronouns like this: I will respect people’s choice of pronouns (although, I struggle with using they in a singular fashion as I was not taught to use it that way and I have a hard time relearning things but that is solely my own struggle) however I do question the need to have pronouns in video games, especially ones where you can customize your character as you see fit.
Let’s take WoW as an example, the story has generally referred to our characters in neutral terms like Champion, Adventurer or the Order Hall titles so there’s never really been a big need to have pronouns in the game but then we have games like say, Baldur’s Gate 3 or Skyrim where your character’s appearance can affect dialogue so it makes sense that pronouns could be in those games.
At the end of the day, I feel like the need for pronouns in a video game should differ based on the game.
When I join M+
I says “Hey, thank you for invite”,
when I leave, I say “gg”.
That’s litearlly it. The entirety of communication.
I was kinda hoping for some Letterkenny tbh
Everyone wants Pronouns but what about for the fellas who are waiting for Adjectives?
I feel unseen.
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