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I know I'm quoting myself but I thought I'd do a short follow up. It's been two weeks since they crossed 5k signatures. They made a post on the 17th, saying that it'd had been two weeks since it started and they still had no reply from ConcernedApe. They then post a format e-mail where you can edit out a few things to bombard his mailbox.People want pronouns in Stardew Valley with the 1.6 patch coming up. Article.
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A snippet of the article.
"7 years ago Stardew Valley changed everything for indie gaming. This farming simulation game created by Eric Barone aka. ConcernedApe is often said to be one of the greatest games of all time. It has amassed a huge fanbase, selling over 20 million copies. There is a huge problem with the game though. When starting a new farm you are tasked with creating a character, but there are only two gender options to choose from. This excludes non-binary players from fully feeling represented in their gameplay, forcing them to select between being referred to as he or she throughout their entire gameplay experience."
That line "There is a huge problem though." That's the battering ram. As Anita said, everything is problematic and they will cause a problem that doesn't exist so they can include their bullshit ideology.
If Concerned-Ape is smart, he won't say anything and will just release the patch as is. Saying anything will drag Stardew into culture war BS.
Two things from this stick out. First is the gender neutral mod mentioned on Nexus, 40k downloads, made in 2016 and still updated today, changes the sex symbles to the ever confusing bodytype 1 and 2. (And they say that don't believe in Binary). The mod author also made a framework mod to insert custom pronouns. Which begs the question, if they can already mod in custom pronouns and shit, why start a petition and mass e-mail the developer over it?
And that's the second thing. This line highlighted in bold, "We know that you will do the right thing." As ever, it's about control and bullying to get what they want, even if it's already available. Stardew is already really open as a modded game, to the point where over the last few patches, Ape has given hooks and code base to mod developers to look over so they can integrate mods better. That's rare for a developer to do that. And of course trannies would want to co-opt that.
The fact they haven't gotten a response from ConcernedApe makes me thing he's coded a script to send all these emails to his trash bin so he can concentrate on actually doing shit and staying out of culture war BS.