I needed to write this just so you all know that me and my trans-vagina are in fact safe and sound, despite a genocidal monkeypox-phobe deciding to remove flags of AIDS in the latest Spiderman game.
Honestly, if we did not have evidence of Michael surviving seeing the American Flag, we would not believe it was possible to do such a thing.
NexusMods and ModDB, two of the biggest online sites for PC game mods, have removed a project that cut the in-game pride flags from the recently-released PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. As NexusMods explained in a blog post, the mod was uploaded to its site by a brand new account with no modding history, which the site’s administrators suspect is a secondary account for one of the site’s users — a “sock puppet” account.
“It was very clearly done deliberately to be a troll mod,” NexusMods writes. “The fact the user needed to make a sock puppet like a coward to upload the mod showed their intent to troll and that they knew it would not be allowed. Had they not been a coward and had they used their main account instead, we would have simply removed the mod and told them that we did not want to host it, only banning them if they reuploaded it again after being fairly warned. The creation of the sock puppet removed any doubt and made it a very easy decision for us.”
I don’t know what NexusMods jannies actually look like, but this is a safe bet. Also, I do love the “like a coward,” comment. It’s crybullying at it’s best. “Use your real name so we can oppress you better,” has never been a particularly good faith argument.
As well as removing the mod, NexusMods says it’s banned both “the sock puppet account and the user’s main account.” The mod replaced the pride flags found around New York City with the United States flag, which is frequently seen in the original game.
ModDB, another popular source of mods for PC games, also confirmed in a tweet that it’s removed the mod. “ModDB is an inclusive environment for all and we do not permit targeting marginalized groups,” the tweet reads. “Our content moderation is largely automated but when identified, we have a zero tolerance policy for this kind of content.”
“Our policy is thus: we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity,” NexusMods says in its post. “If we think someone is uploading a mod on our site with the intent to deliberately be against inclusivity and/or diversity then we will take action against it.” A NexusMods help page notes that “content that may be generally construed as provocative, divisive, objectionable, discriminatory, or abusive toward any real-world individual or group, may be subject to moderation.”
“If this policy upsets you, if we’ve broken some moral code of conduct as a business that you can’t accept, then please, delete your account,” NexusMods writes.
NexusMods moderators, artists interpretation.
Let’s take a look at the actual mod for a second.
“Non-Newtonian New York.”
“Replaces Newton’s Prism’s artifacts with the stars and stripes.”
Kudos to our intrepid goy. Whoever did this deserves praise, as they’ve managed to get the trannissaries all up in arms, whining that someone would dare commit such a bold act of hate as to… remove the MonkeyPox flag and replace it with the American one. I’m sort of long past caring about vidya, let alone the PC modding scene, but I wish that I played Spiderman for PC just so I could download this mod purely out of spite.
Although to be fair, I think I’d like a mod that removes all semblance of pervertism from any video game I play in the future. That would really improve the quality of my gaming experience.
Shouldv made the mod to replace the gay flag with the windmill of friendship, now that would be an epic gamer move.
Don’t forget the technical detail of how the mod works: it doesn’t replace textures but only changes the localization string from US to ME Region (Middle East).
The mod is literally a 2-letter change.