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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

You have 5 games with a male protagonist.

Were people this unhinged about CJ being black?

I will never understand people like this. Some video games you don't even play as a human, if I can empathise with a pink blob like Kirby then cis dudes can handle putting themselves in the shoes of a female character. Like holy shit, when has the protag of GTA ever mattered?

I give it five minutes before losers mod her to have big anime tits or something. Gamers are pathetic.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Were people this unhinged about CJ being black?

I remember seeing a mod to make CJ white and the Grove Street Families a neonazi gang featured prominently on some modding site (I think it was what later became/is now Nexus) in 2010 or thereabouts, so I'm gonna say the answer is that there have always been weirdo reactionary nerds and a broader reactionary undercurrent to American counter culture in general, which just came to a head and crystalized into the modern reactionary nerd movement with Gamergate.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

damn i was just downloading like gta III stunt park and editing some .ini file to make the smg blow up a car in three shots

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

five minutes before losers mod her to have big anime tits or something

Maybe Take Two's ridiculous crusade against mods will do something good for once.