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amok: Motoko, for example (Ghost in the Shell) is hinted in the original manga to be a male brain in a female looking body.
Where ? Are you talking about the Masamune Shirow manga or are you calling something else the "original" manga ?

In the manga she is shown having virtual lesbian sex for time to time( it is mentioned that virtual sex is only possible for same-sex partners ) , but she also has a male boyfriend; but it is never mentioned / hinted that she might not be female. Unless the US / English translation takes some liberties with the source material.
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Swedrami: You probably should wait with canceling your pre-order until tomorrow's stream of the new gameplay too.
Maybe they show off character creation as well and in some way you might still be able to explicitly determine or set male or female which apparently is a huge deal for people to be able to do so.
I want to be a Type 3 Japanese submarine but since i obviously can’t this game is not worth my money. Just kidding lol. Who really cares about this stuff honestly? Cheers
Am I the only one that had to google 'Woke'?
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Removing the option for Male and Female seems kind of weird. Why not just allow the player to assign gender if they want but also simply leave the box unchecked if they don't want to assign a gender to their character? That would be the best of both worlds. More options are good and then let the player decide for themselves.

Still in a Cyberpunk world it does make sense that gender would be nothing more than a construct. In the end let's wait and see how the final product turns out before we gather our torches and pitchforks.
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lonewolfgk: ...
Honestly if it's just replacing "chose your gender" by "chose your body type" to make the tumblerinas happy I don't care. After all it's a Cyberpunk game so peoples having all sort of body modification is to be expected, it would be a lot more silly if it was a Witcher game.

Now if they start altering the story, re-recording all the dialogue to replace all pronums by "they", removing "offensive" stuff to avoid controversies, or similar dumb stuff by that, that's when I will start being worried.

That being said I am always wary or this trend of wanting to make stuff more "inclusive", remind me of the "accessibility" craze of sometime ago where everything had to be dumbed down / streamlined because every game had to be accessible to everybody.

For me better "inclusivity" means more games catering to different audience not forcing artificial "inclusivity" in every games.
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LootHunter: So, basically devs just call characters sex a "body type". I'm not sure that tey'll be able to sit on two chairs with this one.
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Crosmando: Dark Souls does the same thing as I believe, a masculine/feminine slider, don't remember an outcry over that. OP sounds like he's overdosed on /pol/.
I know well the dangers of doing that, I recently just severed off from /pol/
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Don't preorder anything.
This is stupid.
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Pheace: Am I the only one that had to google 'Woke'?
considering how the word is just getting thrown around by anyone and not being used in proper context probably not.
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Pheace: Am I the only one that had to google 'Woke'?
No you're not. I had to google it the other day because I kept seeing the word but had no idea what it meant.
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Pheace: Am I the only one that had to google 'Woke'?
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groundhog42: No you're not. I had to google it the other day because I kept seeing the word but had no idea what it meant.
kind of like the *Reeee* thing then which I initially only ever saw in /r/TheDonald for months and then suddenly it started appearing everywhere.
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blotunga: Lmao. I think they handled it correctly. There are no genders in the game. So you cannot really complain.
they'll always find a reason to complain^^ what do you bet lonewolf's the kinda person to call others snowflakes :D
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lonewolfgk: Well thats it, bye bye CD Project Red.

Luckily i did not pre order your Cyberpunk game.

Will NOT buy your game anymore.

I cannot believe CD Project Red went WOKE .

Keep your game, you lost my support and money.
Is it the no genders thing? Yeah, they caved quickly to a vocal minority to make a few extra bucks(or not depending on if they buy it now or not). What can we do?

I wish CDPR would do a reverse like Ion Fury's devs, did.....pandering to special interests almost never works out and makes people happier in large numbers.

I will not stop my wishlisting of it, though....the game looks good regardless.

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Aside: I just saw one of the edited out bits of the OP......is saying one thinks there are only 2 genders hate speech on gog forums? Wtf? So anyone can say there are infinite genders and that's ok but saying there are 2 genders is a no no? smh
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blotunga: Lmao. I think they handled it correctly. There are no genders in the game. So you cannot really complain.
So what will they call everyone in game now if they can't or won't use he/him or she/her? They/them?

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Ueber: My goodness, you are forbidding yourself the most promising game of the next years because of a small, not gamplay relevant detail?

How do you survive everyday life with such a sensitive mindset?

Keep calm and try to have fun with games. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 won't change your gender nor will turn you into a much feared commie lefitist.
I agree OP went a bit overboard with some of the language and was very crude, but a few points:

Some people don't want devs to give in to pandering to outrage mobs, as they usually want and get more later on & some don't even buy such games later anyways.

Taking out gender panders to a small number of people to gain good pr and make some extra money, and is done for the wrong reasons(note they did it now and not back during development proper....meaning they likely did it to appease such people after the outrage and not out of the kindness of their hearts to begin with).
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LootHunter: Cool! Can't wait for installing rotors for my char and becoming attack helicopter.
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amok: If that's included in the game, and that's how you want to play it - sure, go ahead. Though I doubt flight will be included, will probably unbalance the game. However, I do expect some heavy weapons modifications, to be more of a walking tank.

edit - I am also trying to think about any Cyberpunk books / films / games where the characters have flight.... I can't think of any.... so while gender and identity fluidity is quite common in this setting, flight is not. why did you bring it up?
It's a meme online making fun of people making up x amount of new weird genders which make no sense....so one person jokingly said they wanted to be called an attack helicopter if everything was acceptable now or some such.

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Swedrami: If I'm not mistaken that's still the case - for example, when selecting the voice over you'll be able to choose between male or female voice over?
And during dialogue you'll be addressed accordingly via "he" or "she"? I highly doubt CDPR recorded all dialogue lines for a third, fourth or nth time.
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darthspudius: It isn't the case in real life. You can get arrested in the UK for saying that in public.
That's sadly because you guys/gals gave up your guns and look what the happened. Now people in your country get stepped on in the name of tolerance and not offending anyone.
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GameRager: It's a meme online making fun of people making up x amount of new weird genders which make no sense....so one person jokingly said they wanted to be called an attack helicopter if everything was acceptable now or some such.
It is quite a popular meme too. There is this game for example:

Attack Helicopter Dating Simulator
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kai2: Are you sure about that? I'd love to see that law.
In the UK they've fined or locked up many people who said "mean words" as they have no free speech protections and also h8 speech laws in place.

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jepsen1977: Removing the option for Male and Female seems kind of weird. Why not just allow the player to assign gender if they want but also simply leave the box unchecked if they don't want to assign a gender to their character? That would be the best of both worlds. More options are good and then let the player decide for themselves.

Still in a Cyberpunk world it does make sense that gender would be nothing more than a construct. In the end let's wait and see how the final product turns out before we gather our torches and pitchforks.
All very very good points.

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GameRager: It's a meme online making fun of people making up x amount of new weird genders which make no sense....so one person jokingly said they wanted to be called an attack helicopter if everything was acceptable now or some such.
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idbeholdME: It is quite a popular meme too. There is this game for example:

Attack Helicopter Dating Simulator
Nice find...will look into it for laughs(To all: Not at such people obv.) later.

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Crosmando: Dark Souls does the same thing as I believe, a masculine/feminine slider, don't remember an outcry over that. OP sounds like he's overdosed on /pol/.
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Lord_Kane: I know well the dangers of doing that, I recently just severed off from /pol/
To be fair, if one knows how to not be duped into false beliefs that don't hold water one can get a laugh out of the board.

Plus sometimes it can lead to one looking into actual events talked about from a neutral perspective elsewhere online and learning new things.
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