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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I mean it is kind of questionable to have the only melaninated characters all belong to the same fantasy "race" that all share the same characteristics like being physically gifted at sports...

[–] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 4 points 2 days ago

Only melaninated human characters. Bosmer, Dunmer, Khajit, and certainly Argonians definitely have pigmented skin tones.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok fine, we can have one more that's got dark skin as a curse.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In Warcraft orcs were deceived into thinking light skin was a blessing from the gods. In reality it's poisoning from fel demons

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not sure if your argument is that green or red skin is "light" or if i'm missing something

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

The shade of green used for orcs in WoW is lighter than the shade of brown

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"melaninated" makes it sound like these people had melanin added after they were born... like a reverse michael jackson

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

what's the opposite of "hee hee"? "eeh eeh"?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

“eeh eeh”?

Sounds like a Canadian

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Oh it gets worse.. I've heard picking Redguard gives you a nerf to intelligence.

Yikes if true

I wouldn't know because I picked a Lusty Argonian Maid

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

made a racist conservative

Half of TES lore is about racism, oblivion even got a racism table for all the playable races.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I love playing khajiit. The slurs NPCs throw at me make me feel a little more alive.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

After Tamriel Rebuilt and OpenMW have their next releases, I am absolutely playing as a khajiit through Morrowind's main quest.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Skyims civil war plotline's main theme is racism. Wtf is op playing?

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 90 points 3 days ago (9 children)

As long they don’t add pronouns. God forbid grammar in my games.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 50 points 3 days ago

in ~~my~~ the games

Please think of the children

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 42 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They made body type 1 & 2!!

OH THE HUMANITY!!

I NEED a mod to fix this thing that I literally only see for 5 seconds and then never again! I'm literally crying and shaking from the pain!

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The problem with "body type" is that it is actually a gender selector too, but they don't tell you that. If you're body type 1 NPCs refer to you as she/her, and if you're body type 2 NPCs refer to you as he/him. They needed to add a separate pronoun option, but didn't, so right now the body type option is just the gender option but pretending not to be.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

If body type and pronoun were seperate or if there was more than two body types.. I'd understand it replacing gender a lot more.

The way it's implemented it just feels like they're checking a box that says "Corporate doesn't want us to say the G word."

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Exactly. It feels performative, because they didn’t take it far enough. Cyberpunk 2077 handled it very well, where you can separately choose whether or not your character has breasts, which genitalia they have, voice type, pronouns, etc… Since every single individual part is independently editable, there’s very little room for misgendering.

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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wish they would stop acting like snowflakes and then call liberals snowflakes. Liberals just want to treat humans like humans, while conservatives act butthurt about everything.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't believe the snowflakes complaining in the INZOI discussion section about pronouns and stuff...

Like mother fucker this is a life sim these people exist in life. Have all the bullshit arguments you want about immersion in your medieval fantasy world, you can hide your bigotry behind some fabricated rational there, but you can't even begin to have any sort of "legitimate" argument as to why they don't belong in a life sim.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My main complaint about Inzoi is the huge mininum requirements. The second biggest was them patching out the possibility of running over kids with a car

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[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There was a mod posted on Nexus, which has been so controversial apparently, that the mods had to remove the comments section on it, and post a screenshot of why it was taken down at first.

Like, I just DON'T get it man. Who. The. Fuck. Cares. if there are type 1 and type 2 instead of male and female? I created my character, the exact way I wanted (minus scars, but oh well) and am already moving onto Dark Brotherhood quests. Having a blast, actually!

I just don't get the OBSESSION with people's genitalia. At all. Pisses me off. Sorry.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You should see the Steam discussion pages - I went there today due to a quest bug to see if there was anyone else with the problem or answer to it and the whole thread has been nerfed by idiots posting crap like " This is why Trump won". I never would have even noticed or cared about the stupid option otherwise.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No need to be sorry. It pisses me off as well.

It’s just extra customization options in the character creation screen. If you don’t want to use it, don’t use it. For some, these extra options are great additions. Why go great lengths to deny their enjoyment?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it was literally a list of body types I'd get it.. but the way it's implemented makes "male" and "female" feel like "nono words" they're not allowed to say. Which is a bit silly

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Morrowind is a nuanced exploration of colonialism, thematically similar to Things Fall Apart. You want to read Morrowind with a copy of The Wretched of the Earth and Orientalism next to you for the full experience.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm currently playing OpenMW as Argonian and I'm glad a volcanic eruption took that shithole island out. Bunch of jerks!

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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look, Dagoth Ur was clearly into some drag.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."

Go off Queen!

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Is this how you honor the Sixth House, and the tribe unmourned? Come to me openly, and not by stealth. Bitches!

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

And some pathetic people are upset that about the type 1/2 body selection 😂 fucking weird world some people live in.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's a god of gender fluid?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All the Daedric Princes appear as male and female at different times, apparently.

[–] dadabean 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Except for Hermaeus Mora, who could do that but doesn't give a fuck and appears as random seafood garbage.

[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago

I'm an old man, but I'm 90% sure I'm saying this right: Fucking Based.

"What gender are you?"

"Lovecraftian nightmare tentacles"

"But what pronouns do you use?"

"It/Insanity Screeching"

"Hmm, I'm starting to think we mortals might be using restrictive definitions of shit"

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[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They usually have a favored appearance, though. Azura, for example, almost never manifests a masculine avatar. Boethiah shifts back and forth so much that their followers in Skyrim are depicted as switching pronouns mid sentence when referring to them.

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