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[–] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 141 points 11 months ago (108 children)

To those that are saying they don't see a problem with this mod. Let me put it to you this way. Instead of a mod that turned one gay woman into a straight man what if it turned one black character into a white character?

There literally was a mod like that in Stardew Valley that turned Demetrius into a white character, and it was rightfully deleted from Nexus mods. If someone has that much of a problem with a character being a different race, sex, gender, or sexual identity then they're clearly bigoted no matter what they say to the contrary.

It's gay erasure, and it's bigotry, plain and simple.

[–] muse@kbin.social 86 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The creator of the mod actually wanted to do just that. He wanted to turn Wyll white, erase all LGBT references, and make Mizhena a trans person who regretted their decision and detransitioned.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago

Imagine being that insecure

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Eesh. Bet we all can guess who that modder voted for :(

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 43 points 11 months ago (41 children)

I have no problem with a mod that changes someone's sexual orientation, someone's race, someone's species, or just plain removes or adds new characters. Why would I care how someone else is playing a game?

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Neither do they have a right to a platform, hence, deleted off of the platform.

[–] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Exactly this. Play the game you want, but that shit shouldn't be platformed.

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

You don't have to care. No one does. No one is blocking this from working.

It's just not being listed on Nexus.

Moreover this mod wasn't giving options to players to choose how they wanted to play, it was changing very specific things and advertising it. Nexus doesn't care to let them use their platform to advertise a mod made for a very specific audience of really shitty people.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

It really depends, but in general if you feel that lgbt characters or black characters hinder your enjoyment of the game enough to bother modding them away or different then it speaks about who you are in a way that tells me that I dislike you

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

rugged individualism is not the path to a functioning society. in any society worth living in there are certain views that cannot be tolerated. the kind of bigotry expressed by the mod creator is one of those views that cannot be tolerated.

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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

Well there's never anything wrong with customizing a single player game, I fully support Nexus banning whatever they see fit, especially on these grounds. They have no duty to platform content they rightfully see as reprehensible

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (7 children)

so many of the replies read like entries to a libertarian contest. and in traditional fashion it seems they forgot to actually read your comment. it’s nice to see a post that understands why the mod is a problem and explains it well, even if so many in the replies seem unable to grasp it.

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