Okay, now I want CG to add Sister to the clones
Not to troll the trolls, but I legit did not know about this character until the haters started publicizing her in an effort to tear her down. For those who are unaware of the Barbara Streisand Effect, this is that in action.
Sky Corps 7 is optional, but could be fun. Sister is the one I want.
Hate to tell you, but if trans ppl left video games alone the video game world would be dramatically worse.
Literally the first national champion in a video game event was a trans woman. She died this week, but her name was Rebecca Heineman. You can learn more about her here:
https://www.them.us/story/rebecca-heineman-obit-death-cancer-space-invaders-atari-gaming-champ
Heineman, who was a self-taught programmer, went on to help develop several iconic video games, including The Bard’s Tale 3: Thief of Fate, Wasteland and Wolfenstein 3D. She was also cofounder of Interplay Entertainment, a studio that went on to create such games as Baldur’s Gate and Fallout
The entire COBOL language was written by a cis woman, Admiral Grace Hopper, who was apparently good friends with a couple trans women and they helped her out on a number of computer innovations.
Then there's Lynn Conway. She literally invented dynamic instruction handling without which none of the video games you love would exist. After that, Conway literally revolutionized how microchips are designed.
You want trans ppl out of your games, but trans ppl and especially trans women are in your games already. They're right there in the code. They're in the compilers. They're in the darn silicon. They do video game art and story consulting. Rebecca won Atari's first national video game competition. Trans ppl are doing historic landmark things that make it possible for you to even have such a thing as a video game to complain about.
And here you are, doing your best to make sure that trans ppl never show up in games.
Who has the political agenda?
It's looking sadly like it's you, my dude. Trans ppl love Star Wars and write stories set in the universe. They co-create the games and they co-created the technologies we rely on to create games at all.
I mean, you can run away from the trans cooties if you want. I understand how much they scare you. I understand how much you might want to yell or cry or curl up in a corner and eat ice cream when you hear that trans ppl exist. But however much you want to avoid the trans cooties, you can't touch a piece of technology without getting trans cooties all over yourself. It's on your skin. It's in the CGI images burned into your brain. Close your eyelids and trans cooties are there.
You're going to have to run a long, long way away and scrub really hard with some really pumice soap and salt water before you can get rid of the trans cooties that you're already soaked in.
I don't envy you the marathon you have ahead. Best of luck, and may you someday tuck yourself into a corner of the world that no trans person has ever touched. Perhaps then you will find peace.
