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[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year ago

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.

The best thing about mods is that they only effect the person playing with them. I really don't get the upset over it. Oh, no, someone else might play a version of this game with less gay (or whatever else offends you). I just can't bring myself to have the energy to be angry about how other people have modded their game when it only effects them.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

You can still play the mod! It's not outlawed or anything. It's just that Nexus didn't want it on their website. He can easily distribute that Mod elsewhere. It was Nexus's choise and they choose to get rid of it.

[-] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

As they have every right to do.

Sure, you have freedom of speech, but no, you don't have the right to use my megaphone to say stupid shit.

[-] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

No, they effect everyone. By publishing the mod, the creator told the world exactly how they feel about this subject. If it were the case as you put it, then they'd just create the mod and use it solely for themselves and not tell anyone. It's still despicable, but at least they aren't going to hurt anyone as no-one can stumble across it. Instead, they made a choice and the backlash they've received is a consequence of that choice.

[-] SkyeStarfall 22 points 1 year ago

Also it's very tiring for minorities to constantly exist in a hostile world. Imagine knowing that every place you go to has at least someone outright decrying your existence.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Cis straight people generally can't fathom how it actually feels to exist in a place where the idea that you shouldn't exist is a popular one. Some douchebag is gonna act like some psycho on the internet saying "kill all straights" is somehow equivalent to one of the major political parties literally platforming on your nonexistence.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm queer and I actually thought lemmy was better than reddit up until now. It's almost impossible to find a fucking site where I'm not going to have to see assholes who want me shot, silenced or hurt in some other way. It's exhausting seeing the same shit all the time. It happened when spider man had a mod removed for removing pride flags, it happens when every time a game has a single background gay character, it happened when two women kissed in the last jedi. The same fucking screeching over and over because a minority of the population isn't straight and exists.

[-] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

So if it made all the good guys white and all the bad guys black we shouldn't be concerned? And if it replaced the dialogue to include racial slurs, no big deal? Why should anyone have an issue with hateful content circulating online?

[-] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Because rejecting hateful content and making it fringe and inaccessible is for the good of everyone. Exposure to race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation based issues makes everyone more aware and empathetic of the issues that other people face, and that's a good thing.

And yes, both of those mod ideas you proposed would be just as bad or worse than this one and should also be deleted from Nexus mods.

[-] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of course we agree. I think you meant your reply for someone else.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

So if it made all the good guys white and all the bad guys black we shouldn’t be concerned?

...and what if it did the reverse? Or eliminated all members of a given race or sex from the game/changed them to a different sex or race?

I'm just going to stand by my original position - someone creating and using a mod only effects themselves and others choosing to use the mod. The fact that other people are using a mod you don't approve of has no impact on you, and if this mod existing hadn't got a Vice article most of the folks in this thread upset about it would simply have never known it existed at all, because they're unlikely to go looking for such a mod.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

No need for what ifs. Stardew Valley has a very popular and well done mod called Diverse Stardew Valley. Changes nearly all (or all maybe, I'm not sure) the population to minorities or otherwise generally marginalized types.

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