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removed most slurs #1812
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Heyo and also just an honest question because I'm curious, I know this probably isn't the right place to ask but why have you changed "Trap" to "femboy" considering they're not even related. based on my (how I personally see it) limited conservative leaning knowledge. No harm or offence meant, I'm glad you're concerned and want to change the "slurs" to something else |
TLDR as for why trap is a slur: The longer version: To 1. Yes, it is good to have that menu but it’s also majorly offputting for people in the minorities those slurs target and they shouldn’t be there in the first place as this continues their usage To 2. Must modern IDE’s have auto complete and since the starting letters basically already tell you what the term after it should be this shouldn’t present an issue |
Fair enough. I understand your points. |
I have three mostly-independent comments to make: If I may nitpick the methodology here, using one example: The structure of an identifier such as So, to avoid the word 'futanari', you don't really need This simple rename is unlikely to be accepted as-is because it may break existing mods and save files. These are internal identifiers, and as such, they are used within mods and save files as a more human-readable way than just some numbers. Useful for debugging. This is not unresolvable, but it does mean that some extra logic would have to be added to watch for the old IDs and map them over to the new IDs where necessary. For save files, that's pretty straightforward, but mods might be considerably less so. I find it a bit odd that you'd change these identifiers which will never be seen when playing the game, but not change the default values for the gender names options menu in |
Words change meaning. I've never in my entire life heard of someone saying "you f*cking trap" to someone in order to insult or hurt them. Fact is, where I'm from, "Polack" is the standard, non-derogatory word for Polish people. That's because "Polack" became a slur, but only to some people, based on language, geography, etc. Do you see where I'm going with this? Words are inherently subjective. Words are also constantly evolving organically, and trying to manually control language is an authoritarian thing to do by it's very nature. I'll keep saying trap, because it means "person with a penis, testicles, and an androgynous appearance". If you want that word to mean something else to you, that's your decision. If the game is changed then that's cool by me but this feels less like a game dev thing and more like an ideological thing. |
Man I was surprised to see that word in my notifications Also on your definition of a trap it makes sense but traps can also be female. from the way I learned that term it was mostly refering to an anime character who looks like a female but is male and vice-versa (however some people add "reverse" to trap if it's female that looks like male) anyway have a goodday/relevant timezone equivlant |
Please only submit Pull Requests to the dev branch!
Things to include in a large Pull Request:
remove most of the slurs, this is not a perfect solution nor am i the arbiter of all slurs, these are just those that i recognize as the most in need of change.
i would really like to see this changed as this game has helped me on my gender discovery journey and id love to recommend this game to more people but nearly all of them are put off by the usage of slurs in the game
Give a brief description of what you changed or added.
replaced slurs with less offensive words
Are any new graphical assets required?
no
Has this change been tested? If so, mention the version number that the test was based on.
no, as i do not have sufficient experience with the IDE's that build guides exist for nor do i have enough experience with java to try and figure it out, since this is a simple renaming i hope that this is acceptable in this case
So we have a better idea of who you are, what is your Discord Handle?
"thestupidsage"
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