2y ago

Mod That Makes ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Less Gay Gets Nuked After Players Revolt

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Article by Vice: Mod repository Nexus Mods has removed a mod that was supposed to gender-swap the character of Dame Aylin from the game "Baldur's Gate 3" in order to remove a lesbian relationship.

Contains spoilers for the second act of the game

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2y ago

Mod That Makes ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Less Gay Gets Nuked After Players Revolt

www.vice.com /en/article/z3m8d5/mod-that-makes-baldurs-gate-3-less-gay-gets-nuked-after-players-revolt

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Other mods on the same site can change Wyll, a Black warlock whose family plays a significant role in the main story, to have white skin. Another completely changes the characters in Far Cry Primal to make them appear more “central European”—in other words, more white.
Just gonna leave this here
- Same bullshit as in Starfield. Everyone who cries woke is just a racist and sexist scumbag.
This makes me feel old; I remember when these same kinds of people were making lesbian-centric mods.
- It's definitely not the same kinds
  
  I would bet dollars to doughnuts that it is, if only because I remember a time where these mods were removed from where they were hosted (pre-nexus mods) because they added lesbian content. They did it because they wanted to objectify women.
  It's the same kinds of people, if not for the same exact reason. (Objectifying women is the overall reason though.)
The damning part of the mod description is too far down in the article. They really should lead with the whole description.
I read most of the article giving the benefit of the doubt that some person just wanted to RP as a male asimar, because I don’t want to attribute malice to what could well be explained by stupidity or ignorance.
- For context, Lady Aylin is neither playable nor romanceable
  There are mods on Nexus for swapping most of the playable characters from cisfemme to transfemme and from cismasc to transmasc, which seems uncontroversial and not erasure like the referenced mod was
- I read most of the article giving the benefit of the doubt that some person just wanted to RP as a male asimar, because I don’t want to attribute malice to what could well be explained by stupidity or ignorance.
  That's extremely fair considering the mods for cyberpunk that let you have relationships with people regardless of gender that you couldn't before. I've never heard a single complaint about them though because they're very clearly not because of homophobia, just horny rp'ers.

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