Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

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      Beau of the Fifth column on YouTube has an interesting viewpoint. Today’s conservatives are yesterday’s progressives who refused to change over time. People don’t get more conservative as they age … the Overton window shifts left and leaves them behind.

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        the Overton window shifts

        That’s how you end up with Bill Maher, who prides himself on his liberal bona fides, is sure that the changes he fought for needed to happen but also that this new generation just goes too far, and completely fails to see that the people he fought against in the 60s and 70s followed the same process as him and ended up in the same place as him.

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        People don’t get more conservative as they age … the Overton window shifts left and leaves them behind.

        aka “Cant wait until you’re dead”.