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Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod (kotaku.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fair.

It's just not something I have experience with. Even my wife, who likes public validation, also prefers to role play in games.

But that's the great thing about most RPGs, they have options to get whatever character model you want. So whether I understand people wanting to play as themselves or not is irrelevant. You can make your character look like yourself, I can make my character look random, and a trans person can make their character look like they see themselves. How I choose to make my character look has no impact on anyone else's experience.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How I choose to make my character look has no impact on anyone else’s experience.

Tell that to the idiots making mods like this. Not that it changes anything for anyone but themselves, but it does promote bullshit bigotry over a menu selection of all things and fully deserves to be shut down.

And none of this is about "public validation". It's about having even just one more avenue for people that don't happen to be cis white males to make a character for themselves that's more relatable. More options should always be welcome. It hurts nobody and lifts up many.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, I agree. The mods exist to push a narrative and make others angry, that's it.

I could understand if Bethesda made the MC trans with no way to change that, but expanding role play options is never a bad thing IMO.