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Nath, (edited ) w Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod
@Nath@aussie.zone avatar

To confused people exploring from all Communities trying to understand what the hell is going on:

  • Bethesda is a game studio who does a decent job of giving people choice to do/be whatever they want in their games. Out of the box they included the option to choose your pronouns in a new game called “Starfield”.
  • They also make it possible to modify their games to make very drastic changes to the player experience.
  • Nexus is a site that hosts thousands of mods to all sorts of games. People make mods, upload them to Nexus and players download them.
  • Someone made a mod to remove the option to choose pronouns from Starfield.
  • Nexus decided they don’t want to host this mod. It’s hurtful to people and goes against their values of inclusivity.

That’s about it. Most of the people whinging about censorship don’t even play the game. They’re just here to whinge about how the world is moving on from old bigoted ways and they want to stay in the past and be jerks to people for merely existing. If they actually cared, they’d just download the mod from some other site. The mod itself is probably not much bigger than this reply.

Chailles,
@Chailles@lemmy.world avatar

Most of the people whinging about censorship

To further add on that, to complain about censorship for a mod that LITERALLY censors the game.

ninchuka,

I didnt even think about that lmao

mindbleach,

In undue fairness, a mod to downgrade nudity or vulgarity would kinda make sense, if someone personally didn’t want to see that. (Or if they were concerned about it for streaming. Or they had kids in the room.) For example, there’s some racial slur graffiti in Bioshock Infinite that is used for highly effective shock value and characterization, and I could see someone wanting to tone it down.

The root issue is what’s being removed: the abstract possibility of characters being called “him” or “her” independent of their appearance. To people who won’t use the feature, it is literally nothing. It simply does not exist beyond a checkbox they’ll scroll clean past. The game part of the game will work exactly as they expect, from start to finish.

They’re whining about censorship because the real purpose of this mod is to signal that they’re against anyone else having that option.

They are performatively upset by this trivial separation of character model and branch condition. Because they hate trans people. There is no other possible motivation, because this pointless change is simple and direct.

This removal is a website telling those bigoted trolls: poop in someone else’s yard.

drislands,

I’ll add that my understanding is that you aren’t even prompted to choose a pronoun in-game – it defaults to one or the other based on your character creation choices, and you can then change it if you want to. It’s literally a non-issue.

Schadrach,

But, but… “PRONOUNS! GENDER AMBIGUITY! ARGLE BARGLE CRAZYRANT!!1!one!”

IHaveTwoCows,

I can’t imagine being such a pussy that pronouns in another character’s profile would make you cry from extreme butthurterie like a little beta wuss

jjjalljs,

This is like that old “progressive redneck” meme. I agree with the spirit of what you said but shit that’s not how I would say it.

IHaveTwoCows,

Sometimes you have to speak to them in their own language

canuckkat,

Happens all the time IRL to me. I use both he and she pronouns and ignorant people always ask why bother just pick one. Well, I did, they’re my PERSONAL pronouns and I chose both these.

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I like to call them snowflakes. Makes them mad when you use their own words against them.

Sorry jimmyjohn, I’ll use whatever pronoun I like. We live in AMERICA I can do whatever I want, stop being a snowflake.

doctorcrimson, (edited )

Good for Nexus

Happy to continue using their services

mindbleach, w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027

Second-biggest chunk of the console market, effectively necessary for the PC market, gobbling up studios and publishers like fucking Galactus, and these empty suits still treat “making less money than the number we pulled from our asses” as losing money.

MomoTimeToDie,

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  • mindbleach,

    “Sold out” doesn’t mean anything. For the last four generations, Sony has deliberately underproduced consoles at launch, specifically to claim ‘It’s flying off shelves! We can’t keep it stocked!’ This free publicity stunt even worked for the PS3… which struggled for years.

    That said, yeah, apparently the Xbox whatever-it’s-called sells about half as many units per year, compared to either the PS5 or Switch. Rough.

    Still making money hand over first.

    GeneralEmergency, w Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder

    Not exactly a unique situation to Stadia. Look at any failed console and lack of games is a prominent reason given why.

    Not to mention the issues raised from a cloud service streaming platform that plagued previous attempts. I’m honestly surprised Stadia lasted as long as it did.

    mushroom,

    Which is why steam went whole hog into proton development for the steam deck. It’s brilliant strategy. Suddenly their game catalog is immediately available on the device. So users can play games they already own and will have access to hundreds of others day one.

    Gamey, w Former BioWare manager wishes Dragon Age had kept a 'PC-centric' and 'modding-driven' identity like Neverwinter Nights

    The truly sad part about the BioWare story is that they fucked up a lot too, you can’t even blaim all of the disapointments on EA! :(

    sugar_in_your_tea,

    That’s not going to stop me from blaming EA.

    Gamey,

    You shouldn’t, they certainly aren’t inocent in this case, they just aren’t the only scumbags in that story! :/

    CypherColt, w Starfield players are being haunted by asteroids

    Quantum Asteroid? Outer Wilds style!

    WheeGeetheCat, w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
    @WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Microsoft would kill Nintendo so quickly. I think they could do it in 10 years tops, shadow of its former self

    WheeGeetheCat, w Meta is shutting down three Oculus games without explanation
    @WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I freaking hate that Zuk got Oculus. Made my first VR helmet freaking worthless. Forced a facebook account to play my games I already bought.

    Just went ahead and shelled out for the Index after that, cause at least you know Gabe isn’t fucking around.

    Bye, w SBMM can predict how well you will do to a certain degree every game (HALO)

    Yeah never being in a game where you feel like you’re actually good is one of my issues with halo infinite, and it’s why I stopped playing it.

    No more multiplayer for me, just single player games from now on.

    kemsat, w Cyberpunk 2077 2.0's revamped police force is finally good enough

    This is a good change, but I hope the game doesn’t become just another GTA.

    Vupperware, w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027
    @Vupperware@lemmy.world avatar

    Hard to hear, especially after dumping so much into acquisitions. What will happen to everything under their umbrella?

    lowleveldata, w Persona 3 Reload | Third trailer

    Can we just skip the rest of 2023 already?

    chaorace, w Phil Spencer: We've seen the conversation around old emails and documents. It is hard to see our team's work shared in this way because so much has changed and there's so much to be excited about...
    @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    An unexpectedly candid response as far as these things go… though I guess that’s just how Phil Spencer usually is. I appreciate the deliberate choice to avoid double-speak even though he’s basically blanket declining to discuss the topic.

    maudefi, w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027

    Sounds good. Looking forward to Microsoft fucking right off. Plenty of fantastic indie devs, teams, studios, and publishers out there. 👍

    joyjoy, w Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster

    They better not fix any bugs in that Fallout 3 remaster.

    sugar_in_your_tea,

    They’ll just introduce new, less interesting bugs.

    stopthatgirl7, (edited ) w Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis turns Square Enix's best into an avalanche of money-grabbing tactics
    !deleted7120 avatar

    I tried playing it because a friend recommended it, and I barely lasted 3 days with it. It is a complete waste of time - you don’t even play it; it plays itself. The games are a Cliff’s Notes version of the original games. I got to it telling me I had to pay to upgrade my weapons past level 30, and I was done.

    Bilbo,

    If I so much as see a daily reward or a separate currency or an in game store, it gets uninstalled. Those things are guarantees that it sucks.

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