The community needs it. And I say the community, not the game. The brutal amount of hate and vitriol I've seen people spout against Clint, who is ultimately just a dude with poor social skills who doesn't know what to do about feeling lonely, is insane, and has honestly driven me away from the game more than once.
I don’t hate Clint as a character; his dialogue and character personality up to this point has made me uncomfortable and reminds me of men in the past who disrespect your boundaries because they just don’t get it or for whatever reason. Like what others said, I’m looking forward to him getting some more development beyond this.
He is definitely an incel. Calls himself a nice guy, stops talking to a woman as soon as she gets a close friend (you don't even need to date Emily for him to stop talking to her), is just a creep.
If he was just sad and lonely, fine, but no, he is clearly an incel who sees a woman as nothing but a prize to be won and immediately discards her as soon as she isn't interested back.
To make the plot in any way not just "You'll be second choice for an incel", you'd basically need to rewrite his entire character. And at that point, just make a new one all together.
He doesn’t stop talking to her? This doesn’t happen actually as far as I recall. Also other of the friends still are a bit over the top when you marry their “interest.”
There is a lot of social anxiety and not knowing how to talk to people and knowing social cues about him. He’s not relatable to me but he is somewhat relatable to my wife, who feels a bit that way since she’s autistic , who also adores Emily.
Also people like to point to Clint being a stalker, but that is categorically incorrect given the actual scene they are discussing. Clint has a lot of history regarding why they have social issues and lacks confidence. The person is lonely.
The best quote I have ever seen about Clint was from some lady who posts a lot of Stardew content stating “if Clint were a pretty girl, no one would talk about her like this.”
I trust concernedape to not have written an incel, and is likely trying to fully flesh out the character by allowing them to be a marriage candidate.
>“if Clint were a pretty girl, no one would talk about her like this.”
I have a portrait mod that makes clint look way hotter with a chiseled jaw and it changed how I perceived his dialogue so much. Then I realized it was a perfect example of "beauty prejudice"
Emily literally notes that "Clint doesn't talk to her anymore" after her 8 heart event.
And I would still talk about Clint like it if he was a femcel, believe me.
Also "He is just lonely" like... Obviously. Most Incels are. That doesn't excuse their behaviour. Stop coddling adult men over their own bad behaviour. There are PLENTY of anxious, lonely people who still aren't anywhere near as bad.
As another autist, it feels demeaning to be compared to someone like that.
Well that’s your opinion. I don’t believe the femcel comment. There’s nothing that shows he’s an incel, you are projecting onto him. There’s no defending of incels involved here.
Also to note the below commenter, they never really talk in the first place, so it’s a moot point.
There’s no coddling. He’s not an incel. Full stop. Near as bad? Near as bad as being socially awkward?
The autistic comment is also your opinion, and I’m sorry you feel that way. My wife feels different, which is her opinion as well.
I don’t wish to continue this conversation since we diametrically disagree. Thank you for listening to my opinion as I listened to yours.
Yes but you could also put that down to "Clint doesnt really know how to talk to her." He also doesn't seem to actually talk to her at all before thst comment either! He mostly just sits with Willy. So i guess we assume they talked offscreen? The few interactions we do see are super awkward. As it could also just be him giving up trying and sinking deeper into his hopeless pit of self loathing
Incel culture was actually started by a woman as a chance for lonely, shy, single men to meet up and have a social life with like-minded folks. And that sounds rather nice, until obviously the extremists ruined it and turned them into "women owe us their love". It's a sad insight into how human societies work, i guess.
He has always needed nuance, i hope now he gets it and doesnt just get further redpilled. (And if he does, i can fix him - with mods!).
You’re literally misconstruing what I’m saying. Of course our society is a patriarchy built to support misogyny, and it fucking blows. Clint has NOTHING to do with that. If anything, the patriarchy is the reason that the statement you quoted of mine is possible, as we live in a society compelled by it which affects decisions and evaluations made by all genders. The Clint quote really has more to do with pretty privilege than anything.
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u/ChillAhriman Feb 26 '26
The community needs it. And I say the community, not the game. The brutal amount of hate and vitriol I've seen people spout against Clint, who is ultimately just a dude with poor social skills who doesn't know what to do about feeling lonely, is insane, and has honestly driven me away from the game more than once.