I DEMAND GAYER AND HORNIER (but in reality I'm still on divinity 2...)
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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I want the opposite. No sexuality at all. Only friendships.
I don't have any issues with diversity and inclusivity, and support it however I can.
But I don't really see the problem with this mod? It's a honest question, I've just read the article, and the Nexus mod answer doesn't make much sense to me. I mean there are literally mods that change every character in Skyrim to females, how is that different? (I didn't log in to see the if the mod is active, but I'm sure there's a lot of "we change this character to female" mods for any game).
And more importantly, why not let anyone do whatever they want with their game, and enjoy it however they want? Or was it similar to the Starfield pronouns mod, where the creator went on a hateful rant in the mod description, and acted like a total dick, spewing their bullshit intorelant propaganda? Then, the removal would be understandable. Otherwise, it's just counter-productive and only serves to even more divide people and turn them against eachother, and feels like an unnecessary witch-hunt and a PR stunt.
But please correct me if I'm wrong or missing something, there's probably some context that I don't have.
The last time something like this happened, it was with a mod that removed the pronouns option in (IIRC) Starfield and the reason it was removed wasn't for the content of the mod, but for the content the particular mod's maker put in the description page (bunch of transphobic hate speech). Many news sites reporting on it conveniently left that part of the story out; I imagine this is just another example of that kind of shit reporting and the reason it was removed was because the mod creators were being hateful pricks in the description or forums.
Iirc, that mod also screwed up in removing them and made it so you were always using they/them pronouns.
I 100% agree with everything you days. I wouldn't install this mod, but I also don't think it should be removed, at least given what I know about it.
Nexus Mods specifically has rules against these kinds of mods. It was removed for violating them. They have the right to make whatever rules they went about the content they host.
It sounds like it wasn't the content of the mod, but the description text that got it banned.
In that text the author exposed his bigoted intentions.
There are tons of gender swap / dialog change mods.
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I agree overall, but as hard as it may be to prove, I think it comes down to intent. A mod based on hate has no place on Nexus (even though I'm sure they still exist). Replacing a gay character with another is fine in my opinion generally speaking, but replacing them specifically because you hate gay people and you want to erase them from the game is not. The mod author is a hate filled person who intended to do a lot more based on bigotry, and he was loud and proud of that fact. He could have slipped under the radar easily by having another outlook and not being blatantly hateful.
You are right, I wasn't aware of the context - the authors goal to just eradicate diversity from the game, and that makes it perfectly ok of not wanting to have someone like that on your platform. But taking the mod at a face value, I didn't see what's the fuss about, now I get it.
I wouldn't use this, but it's fine as long as there another mod for me to increase the gayness of it all.
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It's good I have eternity client for Lemmy and it shows me my subscribed topics in the main tab
And I don't need to see people shouting at other people so often