• Nath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    To confused people exploring from all Communities trying to understand what the hell is going on:

    • Bethesda is a game studio who does a decent job of giving people choice to do/be whatever they want in their games. Out of the box they included the option to choose your pronouns in a new game called “Starfield”.
    • They also make it possible to modify their games to make very drastic changes to the player experience.
    • Nexus is a site that hosts thousands of mods to all sorts of games. People make mods, upload them to Nexus and players download them.
    • Someone made a mod to remove the option to choose pronouns from Starfield.
    • Nexus decided they don’t want to host this mod. It’s hurtful to people and goes against their values of inclusivity.

    That’s about it. Most of the people whinging about censorship don’t even play the game. They’re just here to whinge about how the world is moving on from old bigoted ways and they want to stay in the past and be jerks to people for merely existing. If they actually cared, they’d just download the mod from some other site. The mod itself is probably not much bigger than this reply.

    • Chailles@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Most of the people whinging about censorship

      To further add on that, to complain about censorship for a mod that LITERALLY censors the game.

  • They finally give you something that controls how people refer to you in their games, and dipshits wanna remove it? This is as close as you’re going to get to having characters refer to you as a choice you’ve taken other than Codsworth and Vasco having like 1000 generic names recorded to use.

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      1 year ago

      Does it even affect dialogue? The PC is hardly ever referred to with pronouns, actually I can’t remember a single line.

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          1 year ago

          Heh, I like how the enemies are considerate enough to figure out and use the correct pronouns mid-battle

          Hey, you! What are your pronouns? … Thanks, now eat lead!

          • Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I might be a paid killer, but I’ll be damned if I’ll misgender someone. Professionals have standards.