Buck Up And Drive!'s LGBTQ+ Billboards Upsets Snowflakes

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Buck Up And Drive is an arcade racer and like any good racer, it has plenty of billboards along the roads. Some of these are LGBTQ+ but the developer went a step further with a toggle that makes them all LGBTQ+. Some fans thought the toggle disabled the flag, voicing outrage when they got a face full of rainbows.

"The game features a couple Pride flags (rainbow and trans) among the randomised billboards on the sides of the road," developer Fábio Fontes told GaymingMagazine. "Predicting how some folk would react to their mere existence, I figured... screw it, might as well have some fun with it."

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Fontes is essentially messing with bigots, luring them into thinking there's a toggle that lets them completely avoid all mention of queerness, and then surprise! Every single billboard is queer. Some got it and got mad, posting negative reviews on Steam. Others were dumbfounded and thought the toggle didn't work. It did, just not the way they expected.

"Identity politics in a racing game," one user wrote, livid at having seen LGBTQ+ flags a mere 0.3 hours into playing. "Toggle to turn it off doesn't work. Requested a refund." Scouring the reviews and discussion threads yields a whole host of confused players not understanding what the toggle does, with many upset at "identity politics" being included in the game.

But it has gotten people talking about Fontes' new racer, a bizarre endless driving game that even features battles. It came out exactly a week ago to positive reviews on the platform with the few negative ones citing the LGBTQ+ flags or, in some rare cases, actual criticism with the game's mechanics. The vast majority are happy with Buck