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[–]FediNetizen 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Half the dev team is trans, and the character designer, who is trans, said that Celeste was based on themselves. As chandra said "trans dev makes trans character". So I wouldn't even say this was for woke points.

[–]QueenBread[S] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Half the dev team is trans

"But trans people are only 0,7% of the population!"

Yeah they are, but trans trenders are about 30% of the population these days.

[–]FediNetizen 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Autism correlates with being trans at high rates, programming is a field that attracts a lot of autists (at even higher rates than STEM fields in general), and there's a big pronoun contingent in the gaming scene. It's not surprising you would end up having groups of devs networking on the basis of being trans.

[–]QueenBread[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not really all convinced with your logic. For example, from what I know in my country autism isn't even a spectrum: you either have it (and it shows immediately), or you don't. No thing as "socially functional autists" here. Yet, at least.

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've gotta be honest, if you think it's not a spectrum, then you really need to read up on autism some more. Asperger's as a milder and less-dysfunctional form of Autism was identified back in the 1940s. Since then the term has expanded to note people that display some mild autism symptoms that aren't quite severe enough to merit a diagnosis.

[–]QueenBread[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Different cultural standards. Just like nowadays transpeople are considered normal instead of mentally ill, my country still has the idea that autism is one thing and not a spectrum.

I think gender ideology should tip you off that every time someone says "X is a spectrum", what they really mean is that they want to be included into X even if they're not X.

TL; DR: if only real autists got psychological help and medicines, there would be much much less $$$$$$ to be made. Thankfully, being diagnosed alleged autism is a good way for people to avoid facing their social problems, so win-win: doctors get big money, the person feels like they don't have to change their personality.

[–]VioletRemi 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Game was about woman with self doubt, panic attacks, and big anxiety about being weaker than her fears, and was not able to achieve her goal, instead of climbign the mountain she was falling deeper and deeper down, and in the end she stopped running from fears and achieved her goal.

Through whole game everyone is saying "she" on her, she is perceived as woman even by women NPC's, who giving her advices no man will be able to take advantage of.

And now I've read developer letter about "game was about afraiding of true self and accepting that I am trans, it was the fear of came out, and main motive and story in game is about that" - which makes no sense, because Magdalene was already wearing "women's clothing", everyone was saying "she" to her, she looks like a woman and have breasts, so Magdalene could NOT be trans in closet, only trans she could be is transman in this case. So whole story stops making any sense with this changes. If you are "closeted trans" - you are not making surgeries, everyone not speaking to you your prefered pronouns, and so on.

This pisses me the most, if story had sense with this retcon or was initially made like Magdalene was a closeted trans and then came out near the end, then I could be fine with this game. But such changes like this, which makes no sense are just stupid and are serving agenda of developer.

And developer said himself "When I was writing Magdalene, I was cis man, and I was writing cis woman, but now I am transed myself and I think now that in reality I was writing self reflection and Magdalene was transwoman!". So he is admitting it is senseless retcon, as she originally was created as "cis woman".

There still nothing in game indicated that Magdalene is trans, so she is still woman to me (and to everyone who is not reading twitter of the developer).