Massively popular 2D sandbox Terraria has just removed gender icons from its character creation menu, and right-wingers are fuming.
Video game removes gender icons, and right-wingers are raging
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/29/terraria-gender-icons-right-wingers/
30 Comments
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 57 pts · 210d
Man, these right-wingers have nothing better to do than rage about unimportant things, you can still be fem or masc presenting in the game...I dunno what the big deal is.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 24 pts · 210d
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 12 pts · 210d
I keep forgetting that they don't understand women laid the groundwork for computers and made gaming possible in the present day. Worse, the fact they deliberately suppress this information as it would undermine the patriarchal narrative (which I don't subscribe to as a man). Desperate misogynists will do anything to maintain an outlook that is always at risk of collapse, as a bit of critical thinking applied to it's cobbled together structure, will topple it. I long for the day that unnecessary outrage is quelled in favor of useful discourse. I don't think humanity will come to an agreement on that matter due to our nature...Until serious work is done to rehab worldviews.
eleijeep@piefed.social · 12 pts · 210d
It's probably a very small number of small-minded people posting on Twitter, but the nature of that platform is that vocal minorities get signal boosted to fuck because of the dunk-tweet format and the algorithm.
LostWanderer@fedia.io · 4 pts · 210d
Yeah, it likely is a combination of outrage tourists fomenting a vocal minority response and other twats+bots are boosting the message. Twitter is such a cursed social site, if it's not Grok creating CSAM and undressing women for weird and desperate men, it's stirring the pot with patriarchal propaganda or shitty hot takes.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 4 pts · 210d
& bots.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 39 pts · 210d
I cannot imagine giving this much of a shit about something so unimportant.
calliope@retrolemmy.com · 53 pts · 210d
I like this quote from the article
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 210d
banger quote, thanks for sharin
Zozano@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 210d
Without the icon, how will I know if a character is male or female?! I demand they add a feature so i can see what's in their pants!
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 210d
The Terra Blade is already in the game.
msage@programming.dev · 1 pts · 209d
You can also download Infernum for free.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 210d
Do these people not have anything better to do with their lives than complain about a couple pixels being in the wrong place or not giving a set of pixels a gender in the first place?
Blubber28@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 210d
Generally? No.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 210d
God says your pixel bulges must exist in a politically-pleasing way.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 210d
These people get mad at the stupidest shit. Meanwhile, literal fascists are murdering people in the streets...
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 209d
Yeah and they're busy cheering the fascists, and they need something to complain about so they pick this. And about people with darker skin tone than themselves probably.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 210d
far right gamers complain that a game that had a gender changing potion for over a decade became woke because of a recent update
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 210d
I hate when games don't let me make buff women and girly boy characters. Or weird shaped questionably human creatures by glitching the sliders beyond the minimum and maximum
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 209d
But, if I’m not explicitly playing as a man, doesn’t that mean I’m trans or something? What’s gonna’ happen to my dick, bro?!
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 210d
Just booted up the game with the new update and didn't even realize this during character creation. Its a retro pixel game, you can't tell shit who your character is after 10 min of gameplay, once you start outfitting it with armor and funny accessories.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 5 pts · 210d
OT, but is there a community to post BigotsPostingLs?
I read the sidebar, so I didn't make a post about this.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 3 pts · 209d
Made 🧵
CC @calliope@retrolemmy.com @Mac@mander.xyz @guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip @sukhmel@programming.dev
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guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 3 pts · 209d
Cool! I’m confused why I’m tagged here but I’ll check it out
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 1 pts · 209d
Upvotes in threadiverse means “worth reading.” So I assumed everyone that upvoted this 1) wanted a community like I described, 2) a thread specifically about the tomodachi gender options. Thus I tagged you all.
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 1 pts · 209d
Ahh, that’s what I figured but wasn’t sure
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 2 pts · 209d
np🫡. seems sukhmel didn't appreciate this at all. Oh well ╮(︶▽︶)╭
squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 209d
Sorry I don't know if there is any such community on Lemmy.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 2 pts · 209d
😭 another community to op😭
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squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 209d
Lemmy truly is the "if you want something, do it yourself" platform. 😅
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 2 pts · 208d
😭😭😭