A video game just removed gender options, and right-wingers are losing it
Terraria is woke now, apparently. (Getty)
Terraria is woke now, apparently. (Getty)
A major Terraria update has done away with gender identity, and right-wingers are practically frothing at the mouth with rage.
The incredibly popular 2D sandbox game – the fourth most played PC game on the marketplace Steam – released its highly-anticipated 1.4.5 update earlier this week.
One of the biggest additions to the game in its 15-year history, the “Bigger and Boulder” update’s overwhelming list of changes, fixes, and additions include over 650 new items, as well as new bosses, game mechanics, and much more.
The update includes a plethora of changes to the game’s character creation menu, which has scrapped gender in exchange for additional options such as changing a character’s body type and voice.
Naturally, a game allowing further customisability by scrapping a decades-old gender mechanic has anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing gamers absolutely raging online.
Terraria’s community page on Steam is now filled with users complaining about the minor change and accusing the developers of, you guessed it, making the game “woke”.
One user went so far as to claim removing gender symbols from the game’s menu would impact player experience because they might get confused and “accidentally choose the female body type”.
Responding to the ongoing furore, fans of the game brought up incredibly valid questions, such as: “Who f****** cares?”
One user was so bored with the frequent debates about gender options in video games, they instead asked others what they were having for dinner.
“I’m personally making Spaghetti all’Assassina,” another person responded.
Other games that have faced the brunt of right-wing tantrums over ‘woke’ mechanics include Roblox, Cyberpunk 2077, and even The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
Most infamous was the public meltdown from streamer “Heel vs Babyface”, who, after encountering a pronoun option in the game Starfield, began screaming about how “woke” he believed gaming had become.
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