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Mod That Makes ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Less Gay Gets Nuked After Players Revolt (www.vice.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (34 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?

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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™)

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years 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

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And they can, and if Nexus has a problem with hosting homophobic mods, they should be able to not host them

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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