DrLupo blasts Battlefield 2042 fans for \u201cridiculous\u201d claims over nonbinary character YouTube: DrLupo \/ DICEBenjamin \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo unloaded on several Battlefield 2042 players in his YouTube stream comments after they suggested DICE\u2019s decision to have one of the game\u2019s operators be nonbinary was \u201cunnecessary\u201d pandering. Battlefield 2042 has been roundly praised for adding nonbinary operator Sundance to the playable roster, in a move similar to Bloodhound\u2019s debut in Apex Legends. However, the DICE-developed franchise apparently has several holdouts who are not so pleased with the concept, some of which emerged in DrLupo\u2019s YouTube stream during the early days of the title. They repetitively asked why DICE had added \u2014 in their words \u2014 \u201cunnecessary pandering\u201d to the title. DrLupo was less than impressed, and let them know too. The star, who recently shifted his huge community from Twitch to YouTube, told them in no uncertain terms they should \u201cnever watch [him] again.\u201d At first, the questions were simple. One asked why the character \u2014 Sundance \u2014 had been included at all. Several others weighed in suggesting DICE only did it for publicity and that it made the character less interesting. DrLupo replied, \u201cRepresentation is so important in games.\u201d \u201cA white man like me, I don\u2019t really ever have to deal with that because pretty much every game, there\u2019s always a white guy in it. Representation for marginalized people is important. The best way to say it is, if you have a problem with it, I don\u2019t know what to tell you. It seems kind of ridiculous. \u201cLiterally imagine getting worked up over this,\u201d DrLupo added soon after. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t hurt you to use a different word, at all. It\u2019s just respectful and it\u2019s pretty easy.\u201d The comments continued to roll in, however, including some calling for DICE to remove Sundance entirely. Others suggested they wouldn\u2019t play the Battlefield 2042 character \u201cever\u201d because of their gender identity. \u201cIf you have a problem with any nonbinary people, trans people, anything like that, I\u2019m gonna identify as a f**king problem for you,\u201d the streamer stated. \u201cI have nonbinary in my family, my f**king relatives, and I will f**k you up. It\u2019s really not that big of a deal to just call or refer to a character by how it was written. Do me a favor, shut the f**k up and just don\u2019t ever watch me again, okay? I don\u2019t have an issue with it if you don\u2019t want me anymore. DrLupo continued: \u201cIf you\u2019re not going to watch me anymore [over this], who cares? I will literally protect everybody that f**king needs a place to hang out.\u201d The related segment begins at 3:09:02 in the video below. Sundance from Battlefield 2042 and Bloodhound from Apex Legends are two of the most high-profile nonbinary characters in mainstream gaming right now. Chaos from Supergiant\u2019s game of the year, Hades, is another character in mainstream gaming that goes by \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns, as does Floofty Fizzlebean from adventure game Bugsnax. Pokemon Go players also theorize that Team Mystic leader Blanche is a nonbinary character. More recently, Ubisoft confirmed new Croatian operator Osa was the tactical shooter\u2019s first trans character to join the roster in the game\u2019s six-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DrLupo blasts Battlefield 2042 fans for \u201cridiculous\u201d claims over nonbinary character YouTube: DrLupo \/ DICEBenjamin \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo unloaded on several Battlefield 2042 players in his YouTube stream comments after they suggested DICE\u2019s decision to have one of the game\u2019s operators be nonbinary was \u201cunnecessary\u201d pandering. Battlefield 2042 has been roundly praised for adding nonbinary operator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}