Webfishing, the delightful $5 chat room fishing game released last month, includes a selection of cosmetic titles you can collect to display to other players below your username. Many are goofs, like Little Lad or Shithead. Others, like the Gay, Ace, Bi, and Trans titles, offer players a chance to express their sexuality or gender identity.
One keen intellectual on the Steam discussion forums, however, noticed the lack of a title for straight people and felt compelled to raise the issue (via Rock Paper Shotgun). At time of writing, itās unclear whether theyād noticed the vast majority of other human media that assumes a default straight perspective. Easy to miss, but as a straight guy, I promise you: Weāre doing fine on that front.
And yet, not everyone can read the room well enough that they donāt need to wonder why an indie game featuring a bunch of anthropomorphic cats and dogs might not be centering the straight experience. Itās a skill you develop, I guess. Despite the goofus behavior, however, Webfishing developer lamedeveloper wasāas a sign of benevolenceāreceptive to the suggestion.
As part of its 1.09 Housecleaning Update, Webfishing now offers the āStraightā title. It costs 9,999 in-game dollars. For comparison, other purchasable titles cost $75. Iāll also note that itās the only orientation-oriented title with quotation marks. Pretty good bit.
The Housecleaning updateās other additions include bug and performance fixes, balance adjustments, a Hand Labeler for renaming items, and a Non-Binary shirt and title. Thereās also this note:
- Added the ??? which is accessed through the ??? ??? and ??? ???. Yeah.
Seems fine. Personally, Iām feeling an affinity with the new Creature title. Iāll probably pick that up the next time Iām in the mood for a Webfishing fix.
Because that original threadās been locked, we can only wonder whether the original complainant is content with the added straight representation. If not, thereās always, you know, almost every other videogame.
lol and, why not, lmao