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[-] tal@lemmy.today 42 points 11 months ago

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

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

[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

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

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

It's honestly surprising to me the bigots haven't set up their own mod hosting site. They've done it for everything else when they've been told that they're asshats.

[-] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's free to host a mod on github. Mods like this and the pride flag remover for Spooderman are just trolls seeking attention and outrage, so they have to make sure to be very visible and find-able. Nexus has no obligation to host those files and if the modders actually wanted to play the game with the changes (and enable others to do so) it's totally possible to do that without Nexus. They upload to Nexus (which has a clear policy against this) so that they get exposure when "journalism" reports their mod being deleted (since talking about this is free Engagement™)

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

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.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

No one does.

This is patently false because if no one cares, it wouldn't have been removed. It was only removed because enough people cared and spoke up about it. Even just reading this thread makes it clear that plenty of people care about it.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago

This comment would mean anything if they had said "no one cares," but what they said was "no one has to care"

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm an idiot who can't read. Potentially.... I see they edited their post.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I feel like there's a smidge of ambiguity in the phrase

You don’t have to care. No one does.

Which could parse to

You don’t have to care. No one has to care.

or

You don’t have to care. No one cares.

[-] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I actually don't think it is ambiguous. "You don't have to care" implies that some might, but it doesn't matter. "No one does" is clearly reinforcing that point, rather than making a new point which contradicts the first part of the first point.

[-] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Not if you read cardfully, but it is easy to gloss over. I'd give them a pass, especially since changing your opinion when presented with different information isn't nearly common enough.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I already admitted I'm an idiot that can't read, assuming they didn't edit this part of their post.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Literally the only care that mattered in this situation is the admin(s) at Nexus mods, and they didn't have to even care that much. The thing could be removed with about 5 minutes of work, if that. Nexus has shown that they will not platform bigotry, and this is them following through on that once again. Other people's opinions didn't even matter.

[-] 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

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.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Because their target is to reduce diversity

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