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...
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Only melaninated human characters. Bosmer, Dunmer, Khajit, and certainly Argonians definitely have pigmented skin tones.
Ok fine, we can have one more that's got dark skin as a curse.
In Warcraft orcs were deceived into thinking light skin was a blessing from the gods. In reality it's poisoning from fel demons
not sure if your argument is that green or red skin is "light" or if i'm missing something
The shade of green used for orcs in WoW is lighter than the shade of brown
"melaninated" makes it sound like these people had melanin added after they were born... like a reverse michael jackson
what's the opposite of "hee hee"? "eeh eeh"?
“eeh eeh”?
Sounds like a Canadian
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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
Not a nerf, but int is their lowest stat. In Morrowind they start at 30 in Int and Wil, but that's actually roughly the average intelligence of the people of Vvardenfell (given most of them are country bumpkins after all, most people in TES would be fucking stupid). This is actually kinda weird given the lore of Yokudan sword-singers (magic, which would need those stats, but I get the feel it's a balancing thing)
What might be worse is the dark skinned race technically isn't even from Tamriel or Nirn, they're the descendents of the Yokudans, who walked sideways from the last timeline into this one. They're literally not of this world or timeline
I'm immediately reminded of the perpendicular zone from Archie Sonic The Hedgehog, where all of reality is layers, but because one is at a perpendicular angle from the rest of them multiversal travel is easier for that. So they took it upon themselves to police the multiverse, with the number cop on the force being Zonic The Zone Cop.
Kinda, and might even be where the TES community got inspired from
In TES the world is on a cycle of birth by Akatosh and destruction by Alduin, followed by birth by Akatosh and destruction by Alduin (but under new names now), repeat. But also, they're all happening simultaneously as well, because at that layer time doesn't exist, that's only for mortal realms
The Yokudans saw the end coming and basically said "nah, id rather live" and stepped sideways into the main timeline as it was the next in line to go in the cycle, but was also physically next to them in the godly scheme of things
Confused? Good, cuz that's entry level TES lore bullshit it only gets harder from there and I can't do it
made a racist conservative
Half of TES lore is about racism, oblivion even got a racism table for all the playable races.
I love playing khajiit. The slurs NPCs throw at me make me feel a little more alive.
After Tamriel Rebuilt and OpenMW have their next releases, I am absolutely playing as a khajiit through Morrowind's main quest.
As long they don’t add pronouns. God forbid grammar in my games.
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.
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.
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?
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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in ~~my~~ the games
Please think of the 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!
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.
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."
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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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Look, Dagoth Ur was clearly into some drag.
"How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
Go off Queen!
Is this how you honor the Sixth House, and the tribe unmourned? Come to me openly, and not by stealth. Bitches!
And some pathetic people are upset that about the type 1/2 body selection 😂 fucking weird world some people live in.
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