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Mod That Makes ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Less Gay Gets Nuked After Players Revolt (www.vice.com)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The big difference is that when mods remove a single gay character, it's always the only gay character in the game.

If the mod adding gay characters turns all the straight characters gay, that's erasure. If the new gay character has dialogue that is hateful toward straight people, it's still bigotry.

Adding representation to a game that has none is fine. Removing representation entirely isn't.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

So what if there are 3 gay characters, and there are 3 separate mods that each make one of the characters straight. Each single one does not remove representation, but having all 3 installed together would. Do you ban these 3 mods?

I don't know, I just feel like this is such an arbitrary choice. If you reduce the number to 2 gay characters in a game, with 2 different mods, is that still okay or should both be banned again?

Is it really a difference if you reduce the number of gay characters to 1? What if you split the mod up into two parts, one just removing all sexual remarks (effectively with the intention of making the char asexual), and another simply also adding hetero (so effectively making the char bi) remarks, and you then combine these two mods again to effectively make the 1 character hetero (official gay remarks removed, hetero remarks added)?

Sure, representation is great and I'm all for it, but I'm also for people being able to change whatever they want in their own game. In the end, it's only affecting them and no one else, which should be the prime directive of tolerance.