If violence is what you want, it’s what you’ll get.

The games I played as a child should NOT be the games my child plays. If your parents were KKK should you play, “burn the black man alive”? Kids deserve the best we can do for them. And you’re right about this being an example of future change. At least, I hope it is.

You’re wrong. You’re just wrong. You are so wrong on absolutely every point you made I don’t even know where to bring to try to educate you. All this guy did was create an option. Video games do that a lot now. Now your ideal white male Link exists alongside his gender neural one. Get over it or start a civil war. Or…

No. Consumers, by definition, pay for what they want. To earn consumers’ money therefore, you cater to them. So yeah, I do fucking expect Link to be what I want if I’m gonna pay for that content.

But no one would ever bother because there are already a million games starring male protagonists.

Or we can have it alllll! We can have a Star Wars with Luke Han Leia, AND Rei Finn Poe!

No we can’t, because modding exists and it’s great.

Remind me again why competition is so important? Evolution? Progress?

Then this mod isn’t for you. Congratulations! No need for you to be involved.

Isn’t representation great! Woot!

No, no. Variety is the spice of life. We had a Zelda that referred to “Link” as boy. Now we ALSO have one that doesn’t. Yay variety!

Gender is very much up for interpretation. Genetics are much more complex then you want to see. Fe/male are the binary that served primitive evolutionary purposes. But some day soon we’ll need to move past that narrow scope.

Ouch, your dad forced you to play a game where you had to be a woman. That’s some shitty parenting.

It’s really underkill. It could be modded so much more.

Psst. Your ignorance is showing. May wanna zip it.

The real question is, how does this affect you? Do you feel attacked? Is your dominance waning? Do you feel undermined, excluded, fringed? Welcome to the club :)

Video games are, by virtue of being modifiable code, a fluid and personal art form. The developers original intent was that “Link” could be whoever the customer wanted it to be. Hence the naming option.

Your question is valid. My answer is: some kids don’t know if they’re a boy or girl when they’re little. It is confusing. They think they have to pick one of those two options. They don't.

Says the hateful insecure little male.

If your hypothetical story could be modded or fan-fictioned, and you choose to let people modify it, then the only question left is, what was your purpose?