I completely disagree with your „it was justified to remove the mod that takes the rainbow flags out of a game“. These flags should never have made it into the game and therefore it is completely valid to remove them. Most people (including me) are so damn tired of that woke BS and feminism all together. I don’t care what insults are thrown at me. I will always stand up for my beliefs and my opinion and I won’t let anyone walk all over me. Our culture has become completely hostile towards straight white men. The whole „inclusivity“ and „diversity“ politics are ironically doing the exact opposite. We created a culture where everyone wants to play a victim. I’m so sick of all this narcissistic psychopaths lecturing the normal population. My motto is and has always been: Live and and let live. Don’t bug others with your madness. The only thing I won’t tolerate is degenate or harmful behavior.
They didn't remove the black geralt mod so why remove the angrboda mod. Also removing the letter people from games is perfectly fine it doesn't make you a phobe.
"They didn't remove the black geralt mod so why remove the angrboda mod." Because they've already removed similar mods before this. It's ok as long as you don't touch non-white characters.
@borkozdravkovic4746 Nexus operators are just coward hypocrites. The ones who put pressure on them to make these decisions, on the other hand, are anti-white racists.
The fact that there's even a white mod for her and you say it's "correctly depicted" just shows what hypocrites you guys are. You despise black-washing so much, but then think white-washing is fine. Sometimes, I think DEI is right to be racist towards you hypocrites.
@danielkurtz3045 She isn't even described as what you want her to be. Mother of monsters. Her name basically translates to bringer of anger and sorrow(which is ironic seeing as how you fags are crying). Only once is she mentioned and she morphs into anything. She also is one of many, many things changed to the mythos to fit Kratos. Loki is a half black/Greek and half giant. Are you mad about that? Are you mad about the countless other things that are changed? Are you consistently angry about ever minor and major change made to the mythos to fit this very much fictional game?
These "small things" are the canary in the mine. We were tolerating these for over a decade and look at where we are at now. We're past DEI now, we're in BRIDGE territory.
@LordPoshnameVonPlumbingparts lore accurate angrboda would be a mass of shit looking like a monster. Which seems weird how y'all seem to be mad at her being black because it seems her being black i monstrous.
@@aaronsmith7143 I'd take that. The queen of monsters would be a monster. it's the hypocrisy I'm calling out, if one change is acceptable then all changes should be.
To be hones, buying the game and moding it is part of the problem. We have to not buy games, or we teach the industry nothing. We need more concords, more dustborns. We need them to see failure, over and over. It's the only thing that may change them
@@nicodemous52 I exclusively pirate all of the good games but from shady ahh companies. I still get entertainment and they ain't getting neither my review or my money
@@JustASuscriber honestly, at this point, these games are so bad that i think that people that still pirate these games are wasting their precious and limited time on this life.
For CyberPunk 2077, they removed the mod that allowed Judy to be romanced while playing male V. Reason? Don't change a diverse character, that will not be allowed. Although you can download the mod to romance Panam while playing female V. Making a straight woman "diverse"? Sure. Go ahead.
It's even more ironic considering that Judy was originally bi. The mod includes dialogue that's actually in the game unique to her romancing male V. Whereas Panam was never bi, and thus romancing her as female V with a mod means she'll still refer to you as male. So the Judy mod literally just restores a piece of cut game content, while the Panam mod forcefully alters someone's sexuality, but the former is banned while the latter is allowed all because it fits the agenda. These people are actually quite terrifying and creepy when you give it a second of thought.
Because its okay when mad African-American Hoteps claim every other cultural but when someone else has dreads they scream Cultural appropriation. Hypocracy at it's finest! I roll my eye as a Nordic person when they do shit like this.
Nordic tribes had contact with Morrocan people and they traded with them… Also, god of wars mythology is literally just inspired by the actual real world locations and their myths, there are realms in midgard that are literal deserts and are sunny as hell, so no shit more varied people exist than they do in actual scandinavia. Its cuz its not supposed to represent actual scandinavia.
@@aaronsmith7143 Why didn't it morph into an attack helicopter then? The facetiousness of some people lmao just make it a Predator then, why not? Why not have Michael Jackson have a posthumous appearance in nordic mythology, i'm sure everybody loves MJ. The point that disingenuous people desperately try to ignore is that a culture has no reason to glorify foreigners as mythical beings, you can go to any country on earth and they won't have foreign looking people as religious/mythical/cultural figures, unless. . . it's not their culture and it has been imposed against their will. Sort of like a historical or cultural revisionism of sorts, so the children are easier to manipulate. Pay no attention, citizen, continue to consume product.
It's not Nexus's place to decide what mods are and aren't allowed if they're legal and not everyone who installs a mod uses it for the same or even intended reasons. To be honest, I find the whole idea that mods need to be policed by the host absurd, but especially when it's selectively policed. If race swap mods are wrong, then get rid of all of them... But this means a lot of mods in Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma and Baldur's Gate 3 will also need to be removed. It's a self-inflicted problem.
It’s the classic house rule logic. Anybody can say on my website we do not allow certain content, completely rational and legal. The users of the website do not have any say in this because using something does not allow for control rights.
@@arbeitslos4247 This would be fine if the rules are consistently and fairly applied with clear lines. They aren't. Thus the issue is that people using Nexus know don't the line and risk mods being deleted or banned on a whim. And this has happened several times already. If you have rules, you need to fairly and transparently apply them. House rules only work if everyone is on the same page... That's not the case with Nexus mods and thus...
its their plattform they can do that, they dont have to follow some free speach rules or anything like that. You can not like their rules and therfore refuse to use their platform, but that doesnt change that they can do what they want
@@F-aber You have to recognize the problem to understand it and what you said is why Nexus similar to Ubisoft won't change until they have no other choice.
In the new vikings: Valhalla show, they turned the historical Haakon Sigurdsson Into a black woman...now they say the character is only inspired by him, but still... What are the odds of a black female earl in the Viking ages .
@@emykus7717And then awkwardly double down on stereotypes and make him fight using kung fu. 😂 What's that meme song about respecting differences with the "ching chong" and "uga buga" lyrics, which fits exactly their try-too-hard virtue signaling
@@proxywolfx are you stupid or something? Norse mythology. Norse. Not black. You are the kind of guy who thinks Nordic vikings were black like Africans.
It’s more that it doesn’t make sense. There wouldn’t be black people in Norse mythology. Is it racist? Not really. It’s just because of the current times where diversity is often pushed just for the sake of pushing. I personally don’t have a problem with it but if we wanted to be realistic, yeah she technically shouldn’t be black. It’s not a big deal, but it shouldn’t be a big deal if someone makes a mod that makes her white and therefore more accurate. Here’s the thing. It falls into the issue where white cultures are treated like they NEED to be inclusive instead of being portrayed accurately which is something other cultures are not held to. So it’s frustrating.
With regards the rainbow flag thing. I had no issue when I played half of Spider-Man on PS4. A few years later, I was playing on PC and they really irritated me so I removed them. Why? Was it because I had suddenly turned into a bigot in my late 40's? No. It was because in just those few years the rainbow flag had come to represent anger, intolerance and the sort of people who are capable of sending death threats to children's book authors. I don't need to be reminded of this real world crap we get shoved in our faces 24/7 when playing a video game for escapism. I loathe Nexus now.
You make a very good point there. The "climate" surrounding this stuff has grown very toxic... It's difficult not to associate the Pride flag with the things that people associate it with now. A few years ago it could've just been about acceptance and showing support for things like gay marriage and an end to certain stigmas... But now it's difficult not to associate it with sensitive shit like child transitions, the complications of self-id, leading to men "identifying" as women during court proceedings just to be sent to female prisons, where they've gone on to make women pregnant... So yeah, lol, that is a VERY good point, man. I was having a whole back and forth for hours yesterday with someone else, asking for one good reason why the removal of flags wouldn't be perceived as homophobia, if he had said this I would've 100% agreed with him.
@@TheDezembro Thanks. Yeah, I mean I'd like people to stay open minded. People can want the same thing, in this case a specific mod, but for different reasons. Enjoyed your content, keep up the good work and good luck :)
Leftism is a cancer that should not be tolerated. It stands for ACTUAL hate, intolerance, violence, bigotry and racism, all the things they accuse others of they themselves are guilty of. And the worst part is that civil discussion is not possible. The moment you disagree, they literally want you dead. The only solution is to cancel them as hard as they want us gone.
@richr1917 I'd hate for you to read all the hate and bigotry people spew who fly the great red, white, and blue. But you wouldn't dare erase that because a minority who fly that flag are peices of shit. There is no consistency in this comment section at all and it shows a level of stupidity I've not seen before. And no, I don't think you are a bigot or anything like that. I just think you foolishly latch on to whatever swings towards or away from your up bringing or political beliefs.
No. It IS out of hate. I'm really sick of seeing people try to justify and excuse their racism, but then whine and complain every single time a character isn't straight, white or sexually attractive.
Still questionable if a mere distributor wants to decide if legal mods should or shouldn't be allowed on their platform. It shouldn't be their decision if they want to be taken seriously.
So mods that change the visual appearance of a character aren't allowed? Ok then they should remove the several thousands of mods that do that for hundreds of games they are used for.
I stand by that as long as a mod doesn't break any sort of law, lets say making underage girls perverted in some way, giving a game rpe mechanics, or something legit deplorable. Changing someone's skin colour is not a crime or break a law in the slightest. I want my heritage to be respected, I don't care if it hurts some little snowflake on the internet, that won't even play the game, or buy the product at all. They can make their own product if my heritage hurts their feelings that badly, and try to make something for themselves.
Exactly. If Norse mythology and settings are good enough to be used in media - and this also includes other European settings like for example Central/Eastern Europe for Witcher, and England, Scotland and Whales for Lord of the Rings - then it should be good enough to be respected as well through accurate depictions. *ESPECIALLY* when it's a cultural thing like mythology, history or religion.
Rpe mods exist. Join the Skyrim community to find out. Its just a game tho, so who cares? You are literally killing people and there is even a mod that makes children in Skyrim killable. On Nexus Mods. Its just a game. People should be allowed to mod it as much as they want and however they want.
@@Oozaru85 I brought it up, as an example of the idiocy of Nexus mods. They allow that type of mods, but refuse to have a mod that aligns a character to the mythos/area they originated from. If that isn't pure idiocy of allowing rpe mods, but not changing a black character skin, I don't know what is
@@NightBane345 Nah, Nexus doesnt allow rpe mods. They are available on LL tho, among other sites. Nexus does allow the "killable children" mod however. But yeah, thats another proof of their hypocrisy.
@@Oozaru85 The sex mods for Skyrim works on kids as well, and it was a hot topic when it came out. If they fixed that, good. But it was still allowed to be there, and mods that makes kids "spicy" in certain ways
Africans in Nordic mythology? Anyway, the Nexus is biased. I don't see why any mods, no matter what they remove or change, should be removed, because if someone doesn't like the mods, there's no one to force them to use them. Also, Netflix Ciri and Black Geralt for The Witcher 3 are still on the Nexus and no one seems to have a problem with that.
if im one of the creative director of the game i would say something like "why should what she looks like matter? she's one species with an enormous world sized snake, why does everything you see have to make sense?"
@@dondeka2086 well because in the context of that said world, it would make more sense. you didn't see a lot of filipinos and mexicans in the greek saga. but here in ragnarok, sweet baby inc made sure to have some diversity added so they had to turn some characters black. it makes more sense if they were simply just white. looks matter because at least we know if something is forced in for diversity and inclusivity or if it just authentic. it kind of ruins the immersion of being in a scandinavian world seeing an african looking person.
@@JV-km9xk honestly i just don't understand why they made angrboda black, you want diversity? gingers is less represented than blacks And its both geographically and mythologically correct, Oh you want to be bold? How about making angrboda middle eastern, also another race that is rarely represented by the western media? (funny thing is the vikings did trade with the arabics, making it plausible)
I mean to be fair from what I’ve learned is that giants in Norse mythology aren’t black or white they either have magma fiery body or have an icy look I could be wrong but that’s what I remember.
I disagree with your take on the pride flag mod for Spider-Man, but I base that on hearing that the person who supposedly made the mod basically just used the Saudi Arabian version of the game which automatically does that for them. So if Sony was already willing to make and ship versions of the game with pride flags edited out based on region of the world it was being sold in, why shouldn't other people be able to remove them as well if they wanted? It simply made the middle eastern version of the game available to anyone else who wanted it.
I heard another argument in the comments here that was very good justifying that mod as well. I think I pinned it to the top. Your point isn't bad either especially considering the business side. If Sony can release a version of the game without pride flags in certain parts of the world to appeal to them, then why can't Nexusmods do the same without being @ed by woke crowds, and potentially lose their advertisers? Isn't that technically Islamophobic by their same logic? 🤔 It's an interesting topic.
If they allow light to dark then it's fair game dark to light. There are racist intentions possible with both. Heck Alan Wake 2 did light to dark officially. If they can do it so to can the pleb.
whole thing of modding culture is about unlimited freedom... freedom to change everything you want and not be limited by any morals, copyrights or patents
@@luisf.9438 There are other sites BUT sadly it's "way harder" to use those sites mod's without clear instructions. (Unless they have very good mod manager app's or install exe program's implemented?)
kind of ridiculous to ban mods when the whole point of them is to change games to suit players. I value freedom over everything, and I stopped supporting Nexus after that. I kind of regret donating so much to mod creators there because I know money probably ends up with them as well. its the same regret I had for donating to Wikipedia once I realized just how malicious they were in choosing what they considered reliable sources. Whether you want to change every flag in a game to rainbow flags, or remove them entirely, I don't care. Diversity and inclusivity has just become a byword for authoritarian behavior to control which opinions are allowed and which are considered taboo. I never downloaded these mods, but I think people should be free to use them if they want to. Besides, the addition of a black character in Ragnarök is just so out of place that it is undeniably something they forced in there to create some diversity. its the very best example of a token black character, since it makes no sense whatsoever. If they had added in some storyline about an African god who travelled all the way there and then showed up in the story, perhaps added some background and quests for them, it would have been interesting and would have made sense rather than just race swapping someone from NORSE mythology. adding a mod to swap their skin color to keep the sense of immersion seems fair enough to me. I think its not worth the effort, but if some people are willing to do so, so what? it isn't hurting anyone.
Some sources describe the Jotun as dark. You only find it immersion breaking because You think They are wrong and it annoys you to see a black person. Why do you care so much about a thing this insignificant? lol
@@Atrivion The same logic can be applied to why they turned angrboda black in the first place. And also you're just defending it like your life depends on it cus it annoys you to see a white person. Why do you care so much about a thing this insignificant? lol
Thorough & well thought out as always. I would add only 1 more point to the "It's the dev's game, they can make it how they want" rant. That's only true until I give them my $70.00. After that it's MY game, & I will re-make it to my liking. Without shame, guilt, remorse, or anything else those clownfaced Karens want me to feel.
Just realised they removed a ginger (5% of the population) replacing a black (17% just in africa) I wonder how many ginger gods would be present in an african mythologycal setting game🤔
I'm boycotting God of War: Ragnarök, because it is racist and disrespectful to my Scandinavian ancestry; our Gods and Goddesses were White Scandinavians in the image of those who embodied the culture that wrote the Norse Myths! Imagine a game centered around West African mythology that makes Mami Wata White. It would never happen, and the Woke mob would scream racism from the mountain tops.
She looks much more nordic with the mod which aid in creating a more immersive world. I have no idea how any of this is controversial.. People are just really uneducated.
I honestly just think that the reason people make mods like this is out of spite for the woke Ideologues plaguing the western gaming industry. While a bit petty, it is definitely understandable as most gamers are quite frankly sick of the virtue signaling.
And the irony of the situation is that it wouldn't even be as big a deal if the cult didn't work overtime trying to suppress heretics not buying into their dogma. Mods like this, and quite frankly, *any* mod that isn't outright illegal content, is entirely harmless. The only people feigning harm as they strike out at others are disingenuous snowflakes desperate to control and change others.
I disagree. I've 100% made personal mods in games to make a character black because I wanted to. Some might be out of spite but most aren't. Raceswap mods going both directions have existed since mods existed.
They don't care about fair. It's actually depressing we are still having this conversation, they hate us it's not ignorance it's malice, they want us dead. This is only the most miniscule example. Our entire civilization is being gutted and you have people walking on eggshells to not offend people who hate us
The most effective way to address this issue is to establish a competitive platform that challenges the dominance of the left-leaning and ideologically driven websites. By attracting users and causing financial losses for these existing platforms, we can incentivize a shift in their approach imo 🤷♂️
If Concord/Dustborn has taught me anything, is that "modern audiences" don't exist. So if they don't even play a game that's made specifically for them, I doubt they'd stick around in game long enough where "I wonder if there's a mod for...." would popup in their mind. Hence, these people wouldn't even be browsing mods/be in a mod website to begin with. Nexusmods are _catering towards an audience that don't exist._
Getting a negative look from the "industry" might not be a negative thing in itself. This industry, at least in it's current form, is dying because it goes against actual gamers for weird political and ideological reasons. We just want to play games without being preached at or censored. Btw, didn't they remove pride flags for Saudi Arabia release? lmao
Nexus mods thinks they are the arbitrators of mods. To changing out a character that does not fitt a seting. From a black viking to a white one that made sense, there where no black vikings nor any black gods in nordic mythology, I know this because im swedish and all the arcological rests from people of that time, where all white, due to bone structure you can tell, also all the old gods where white, or mosters, no black gods at all. It is odd that they what to filter mods by polical lines. That cannot be good for the platform and it will direct traffic away from Nexus mods to other mod places. I know, because when Starfield was out, I needed to go somewhere else to mod out this pronouns mambo jambo in the character creator, geting a cracked version of the DLSS fix. Than you got what happend to BG3, a women whated to make a character normal from being lgtv. Got removed from the platfrom. What happend? She went somewhere else. That is what happens, if they fail to give what people what, they will find it somewhere else. I think it is good to have alternatives. Because that will happen naturally if the main big one failes to deliver what people whats. The moders know what people whats, people that mods the games know what they are looking for, for the most part it is attracive characters, to make characters they like to be normal from lgtv, but they are shamed and removed for whating that, odd that if it was done the other way around, like going from normal to lgtv, the platform will love that mod. That some have tried to change history and mythology is a hazard in my eyes, like assasscreed whats a black samurai so bad, they even got a "historian" that fitted their narative, Ubi pissed off Japan twice, black samurai and that half gate that was left behind after they got the sun droped on them, tuchy subject. But reality and history tells something else it is lost on this demagogs. It is just like Netflix said that Cleopatra was black, not at all, she was macedonian / greek decent. Egypt got pissed over that. I love the wacky mods, some mods are DLC sized. There is everything and anything when it comes to mods, I say let them be and let the user make up his or her mind on what mods to get. I normally mods my games to be better, sometimes I just say: Lets go with wacky tobaco mods and I what to have the freedom to do so.
@@aaronsmith7143 I was pointing out that it does not fitt the seting one bit, because of there was no black vikings nor any black nordic gods. I have seen many times, that media makers shoehorn in things that does not fitt the seting at all. This is not diffrent. Besides my point was to let that be an option for people that does not what it. Anger me? Why shall I be angry over something that looks like bad fanfiction.
@@aaronsmith7143 Kratos isn't black, have you actually played the older games? you see him without the ashes and he's white. Why are you trying to push your agenda so hard, do you have a problem with white people? Because of something that happened to you.
Why? there's a black geralt of rivia mod for the witcher 3, why are black people protected from race swaps while white characters are not. This is actual racism.
All that because Sony thinks SBI is good for games, the bigger problem is that Sony fanboys accept everything that comes from Sony. They gonna pay 799 for the same console they already so they could play 8k but there's not even one playstation 5 game that's is made for 8k XD
@@Thetrue777luck777 Oh, they'll learn. If that's the route they're going down, they will learn. Concord was a 400 million loss, their games are getting more and more expensive because of incompetence. Spiderman2 for example, cost 315 million to make. Despite selling well, it BARELY made a profit. If the quality keeps getting worse - and it will, because that's what all these ideologies always end up on - they will not be immune to flops. More and more people are being outspoken about this and I love to see it. We just want good games, dump the political bullshit, dump the ideological nonsense, games are to ENTERTAIN, not to manipulate and shape society.
Nexus is a hosting platform, it's not their business to curate what mods are allowed on it! The only reason they're doing it is because they don't want to attract the wrath of the purple-haired karens who live on social media! Or perhaps they have a bunch of purple-haired karens working for them too.
I remember when seeing Ragnarok, I first hoped that Angrboda simply looked that way because she is a jötnar and so maybe they have a different range of phenotypes than the aesir and vanir, but then we saw the human form of hildesvine and look at that, he also looks subsaharan african, and yet none of the aesir do. So then the whole thing was clear.
@inotaishu1 Loki is a half black Greek and giant. The difference is y'all ignore it because his skin is a few shades lighter. And Angrboda is described as the mother of monsters. Her name means bringer of sorrow and anger which really fucking fits for you lot.
@@aaronsmith7143 If you are talking about Loki in the game, you clearly have not seen the flashbacks with his mother. And he is piglet pink not "a few shades lighter", he is not even remotely half-black. So if you are serious about your statements, maybe you should watch the games again.
Does anyone know where the heck does this notion of Kratos and Atreus being half black or whatever shade of black even come from? Are Greeks somehow half black? Maybe they are latino as well? In no way has Kratos looked remotely black in any God of War game. Nor should Atreus be considered half black, lmao. And no, laying in the sun all day does not make you black.
@@sula2315 I have no clue where that person got the half-black notion from. Maybe it is the old "Black coded" thing again like people did with Picollo and Knuckles.
It’s just the people who are making the characters white are the problem. This same problem is why “white power” is seen as hateful while “black power” is seen as empowering. 98% of the people who say “white power” are hateful and use it in an hateful manner, which causes the reputation of “white power” to deteriorate until it can only be associated with; nazis, racists and assholes.
Interestingly enough, redheads and overall extremely pale people are more of a minority than black or tanned people. The argument of "diversity" is inherently wrong in that regard.
I honestly didn't care much until I found out Sweet Baby was involved with Sony, pretty much all first party Sony games are now injected with SBI, the upcoming Wolverine game developed by Insomniac also has SBI's consultant in it. I'm boycotting anything made by Sony these days, I haven't bought anything since Ragnarok's release, and I already sold the disc, there's no way I'm giving Sony more money so they can waste it on stupid agenda, the entire SBI business was built on threats and "blackmail", and Sony encouraged them by hiring them, while Game Science rejected SBI and now they are swimming in a pool of money, their first debut title into the triple a market made them nearly one billion dollars, reject DEI, and you shall drown in money too.
Wow ~ She's accurately Fix Unfortunately THOR arc and the hype i had for him in GoW 1. came down to a alcoholic beggar with good weapon. He is supposed to be a GOD right not drunk mid life crisis guy. I'm so ashamed on how the fukk they screwed thor up just took me out of Ragnarok.
Angrboda, being a character of myth, isn't really a historical person, no more than the little mermaid is. I don't think race swapping Ariel is appropriate either (when she was explicitly described as being pale skinned in the book) but it's not quite as egregious as, for instance, making Ann Bolin black in a historical documentary. It's still culturally insensitive, however. If I had some sort of nordic heritage, I would be pretty offended at how my culture was being misrepresented. I would see it as something akin to creating a character based on Baron Samedi, and portraying them with a white actor. If there was some legitimate artistic reason for it, that might be different, but it's clear the choice to make Angrboda black is obviously insincere, and politically motivated. There is no legitimate reason, either narrative or historical, for that character, in that setting, to be black. Even if she is supposedly a shape shifter who can make herself any color she wants, if her goal is to disguise her nature to blend in with humanity, why the heck would she choose to disguise herself as black person in ancient Sweden? How many norse in that era would have ever seen a black person before? Not a solid strategic move there. Frankly, she'd probably appear less conspicuous if she just left herself in her natural Jotun form. It's clear she's only black so her creators can tick diversity check boxes. I can't say this really offends me. I'm not nordic so it's not my culture under attack here and it's not my place to get outraged on their behalf. My opposition to it is simply that the anarchronistic inclusion of a black person in a story set in this location and time period, defies credulity and breaks immersion for me. I see something that very obviously doesn't fit in with the setting, included for insincere reasons that don't support the game's aesthetic or themes, and I stop seeing the art for what it is. I am instead forced to see the liberal white girl with pronouns and a septum piercing wagging her finger and lecturing me on how "white and male is stale" or whatever. It pulls me right out of the story, and kills suspension of disbelief right then and there. They might as well dress the character up in a banana costume and have her do a song and dance about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, that's how immersion-breaking it is for me. I can get reimmersed eventually, if the rest of the game is good enough, and the annoying character isn't on screen for too long, but the game is better when there are fewer of those jarring moments. I suppose if the devs still want to do it, then whatever, but the desire to mod this crap out of our games isn't racism, and people shouldn't be villainized for it. It's about integrity.
Go to that hair saloon "Can i touch your hair?" "No you cant, my mother used to pull my hair as punishment" "Can i cut your hair?" "I am very sensitive to sharp objects they give me anxiety" "Can i shave your hair?" "No you can't the noise will trigger my pstd and hipersensivility"
Well, the route Nexus has taken means I would never grab anything from them. I'll never even go to their site. I'm sorry, but It's pretty much impossible to take you seriously. You say none of this is a problem. I get that's just a few min in to a long video. But if you don't see the incrementalism creeping up, then I have doubts about your perception.
I did watch a lot further in, and yeah. You are deeply confused. You can't argue for complete freedom while at the same time saying some of this stuff is bad and shouldn't be allowed. Freedom is freedom. Removing mods, is not freedom, period. Even if we supposed these mods really are istaphobic and really are only use by istaphobes. Okay, and? No really, so what? Do you think not letting them get the mod on your hub is going to stop the mod? Do you think you're denying them is going to make them not racist? I'd argue it'll make them more racist to deny them.
@@nicodemous52by your definition there is no freedom anywhere, there is als most no place were truly everything is allowed. And of course someone can say I don’t want to allow X thing on my platform because I don’t like it (wether it’s illegal or not) it doesn’t matter wether or not those people will still do the same thing somewhere else, you can just not want to be associated with that and not support it by allowing to host this content
@@F-aber And that is my point. If that is there desire, there is no excusing it. if they want to play police, tell me what is good for me, then so be it. I'm free to call them garbage, and I'm free to point out that to expect anything but garbage from them is stupid.
I am of the opinion that removing the pride flag from Spiderman, when the flag isn't too obnoxious in the game, is offensive and worthy of some amount of criticism. I am also of the opinion that people should be allowed to be offensive if they want. Singling out and bullying individuals is where I draw the line, but by installing the flag mod and enjoying it in private, no gay people are being harmed.
The continuous advertisement of bad shows and games as being super gay and full of representation is doing more harm to these groups than any actual racism, bigotry, or sexism in the modern day ever could
Nice, haven't heard the music from Final Fantasy 7 in ages. Also Nexus Mods has on their site "We reserve the right to host, or not host, whatever content we want on our own site. We do not want to host mods that remove diversity from a video game." Last I checked removing a mod designed to lighten skin color is doing the same thing by removing options that increase diversity as you are not forced to use it and it only adds an option, not a replacement.
Nexus has been like this for ages now. There are just too many who are indifferent and even for some of those that do care they prioritize the convenience of Nexus mods even more. I haven't been on there in awhile but from what I can remember many of their top creators were probably in lockstep with this kind of censorship. I doubt anything is going to change in the immediate future but it's apparent there is somewhat of an appetite for an alternative. Will it be enough to take Nexus off its pedestal? No.
Because it actually fits in the game, who would of thought a game based on Nordic European mythology would work better if the characters matched the ethnicity of the people they represent
@@coronavirus553 Nah, "alt-right" these days basically means anything and everything that's not far-left leaning, so it means nothing, hence the quotation marks.
It is very strange that the mod never really existed. Only the models exist and that's all that has ever existed, models. We don't have any in-game video of the mod working, nothing! And just days after the publication of the supposed mod, which in reality are only models, the controversy explodes. Strange, very strange.
I need that mod for God of War Ragnarok. Based, but unfortunately it can't make Angrboda more interesting too. Her problem as a character is in the core
@latinaparfait the father/son story is what made the first game so great. The shoehorned diversity feminist bullsh*t is what ruined ragnarok. I have a feeling dustborn might be your kind of game.
@@eugenevictortooms4174 god of slop 2018 wasn't much better, the game is designed and made for non GOW fans. Anybody who likes the original trilogy isn't touching that slop.
Great video with awesome music. Good choice to go with music from the original FFVII. Using "Oppressed People" when talking about the racial discrimination in entertainment was perfect.
She wasn't black in the original Norse Myth Source material so Nexus mods is wrong for removing it because actually makes sense for her to look like that. It doesn't matter if the character should look like the actor black people have been voicing white characters for a very long time. They would never remove a black geralte of rivia mod. It
Let's see... allow the mods removing the pride flag and get a negative look from the fringe minority, or allow the mods to remove those flags and get a negative response from the overwhelming majority. Hmm...
Nothing because it's not their place to decide what people can do with their games. People want to enjoy their games however they want. As long as they don't do something diabolical I feel they should allow anyone to do anything with their games.
A lot of mod creators left nexus and pulled their mods out over the years and this trend seems to continue soon only hte most hardcore SJWs will be all thats left on that site and those people rarely create anything good best they can do in 99% of cases are ironicaly shit like race swaps or putting gay flags in game that didnt have them etc most of them are activists first gamers and modders second only ''aggresively'' leftist mod author that makes something good I can think of is Elanora she makes 10/10 house mods for fallout and skyrim in addition to stuff like pride flags but thats a rare case if nexus continues like this there will be no worthwile content left to download in time
I wasn't even going to use this mod but for fcks sake, this is unnacceptable there are thousands of other mods that do much worse or the very same thing and are okay. You don't need to download a mod, it's optional player made content, let people play their own games however they want.
Even though woke culture is bad in gaming, but I think it is necessary for our society, because it solves a previously unsolvable problem: feminism. Imagine a male game dev or any office worker being falsely accused for harassing a female colleague, this guy is done for good, he is out of there. Now imagine this guys is identified as trans, non-binary, or female, he will be very happy to keep his job.
The pronouns and flags do matter and it dose mess with people it litteraly ruins the experience when you stumble across it even if there hard to find cuz when you do it automatically makes you think about it and takes you out of the game this crap dose not belong in game's at all imo
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I completely disagree with your „it was justified to remove the mod that takes the rainbow flags out of a game“.
These flags should never have made it into the game and therefore it is completely valid to remove them.
Most people (including me) are so damn tired of that woke BS and feminism all together. I don’t care what insults are thrown at me. I will always stand up for my beliefs and my opinion and I won’t let anyone walk all over me.
Our culture has become completely hostile towards straight white men. The whole „inclusivity“ and „diversity“ politics are ironically doing the exact opposite. We created a culture where everyone wants to play a victim. I’m so sick of all this narcissistic psychopaths lecturing the normal population.
My motto is and has always been: Live and and let live. Don’t bug others with your madness. The only thing I won’t tolerate is degenate or harmful behavior.
They didn't remove the black geralt mod so why remove the angrboda mod.
Also removing the letter people from games is perfectly fine it doesn't make you a phobe.
Why? Because Ideology. Plain and simple.
why? white man bad
@@KnightofAges A retarded ideology*
"They didn't remove the black geralt mod so why remove the angrboda mod."
Because they've already removed similar mods before this. It's ok as long as you don't touch non-white characters.
Yep, Im scared of nothing. If anything they are all normal phobes.
100%, if she were depicted correctly as white in the original game and someone made a mod to change her to be black, Nexus wouldn't bat an eye.
There is a black Geralt mod for Witcher 3 and its alowed
@borkozdravkovic4746 Nexus operators are just coward hypocrites. The ones who put pressure on them to make these decisions, on the other hand, are anti-white racists.
The fact that there's even a white mod for her and you say it's "correctly depicted" just shows what hypocrites you guys are. You despise black-washing so much, but then think white-washing is fine. Sometimes, I think DEI is right to be racist towards you hypocrites.
@danielkurtz3045
She isn't even described as what you want her to be. Mother of monsters. Her name basically translates to bringer of anger and sorrow(which is ironic seeing as how you fags are crying). Only once is she mentioned and she morphs into anything. She also is one of many, many things changed to the mythos to fit Kratos. Loki is a half black/Greek and half giant. Are you mad about that? Are you mad about the countless other things that are changed? Are you consistently angry about ever minor and major change made to the mythos to fit this very much fictional game?
@@borkozdravkovic4746 Black face is fine if it's done by the Right Side of History people. 🤦♂
These "small things" are the canary in the mine. We were tolerating these for over a decade and look at where we are at now. We're past DEI now, we're in BRIDGE territory.
I was just gonna say the same.
The Statue of Happiness in GTA4 was a monument to the ideologues attempts at bastardizing our entertainment and not enough of us payed attention.
Black Geralt mod = crickets from the Nexus staff.
Lore accurate Angrboda = Fire and brimstone.
@LordPoshnameVonPlumbingparts lore accurate angrboda would be a mass of shit looking like a monster. Which seems weird how y'all seem to be mad at her being black because it seems her being black i monstrous.
@@aaronsmith7143 I'd take that. The queen of monsters would be a monster. it's the hypocrisy I'm calling out, if one change is acceptable then all changes should be.
Black face is fine if it's done by the Right Side of History people. 🤦♂
@@aaronsmith7143shes not described as being a monster at all. She just gave birth too them.
@@aaronsmith7143 She'd be a tall pale figure with red hair and broad shoulders. She's not a monster. Stop pretending to know the Eddas.
Nexus being twofaced as always.
To be hones, buying the game and moding it is part of the problem. We have to not buy games, or we teach the industry nothing. We need more concords, more dustborns. We need them to see failure, over and over. It's the only thing that may change them
@@nicodemous52 You know people pirate as well, right?
@@nicodemous52 I exclusively pirate all of the good games but from shady ahh companies. I still get entertainment and they ain't getting neither my review or my money
@@nicodemous52 I havent bought a single game since 2014. I wanna own my games lmao
@@JustASuscriber honestly, at this point, these games are so bad that i think that people that still pirate these games are wasting their precious and limited time on this life.
For CyberPunk 2077, they removed the mod that allowed Judy to be romanced while playing male V. Reason? Don't change a diverse character, that will not be allowed.
Although you can download the mod to romance Panam while playing female V. Making a straight woman "diverse"? Sure. Go ahead.
It's a cult. And everything they do proves it.
Theres already porn of that lmao yet that didn't get banned
It's even more ironic considering that Judy was originally bi. The mod includes dialogue that's actually in the game unique to her romancing male V. Whereas Panam was never bi, and thus romancing her as female V with a mod means she'll still refer to you as male.
So the Judy mod literally just restores a piece of cut game content, while the Panam mod forcefully alters someone's sexuality, but the former is banned while the latter is allowed all because it fits the agenda.
These people are actually quite terrifying and creepy when you give it a second of thought.
Mean while someone made a mod to romance River Ward as Male V because ghey you can do that, while Judy nope its homophobic.
Why would nordic mythology have african figures?
Because its okay when mad African-American Hoteps claim every other cultural but when someone else has dreads they scream Cultural appropriation. Hypocracy at it's finest! I roll my eye as a Nordic person when they do shit like this.
Sweet baby inc that's why
The being is literally described as a monster that can morph into anything. Who cares in this situation?
Nordic tribes had contact with Morrocan people and they traded with them…
Also, god of wars mythology is literally just inspired by the actual real world locations and their myths, there are realms in midgard that are literal deserts and are sunny as hell, so no shit more varied people exist than they do in actual scandinavia. Its cuz its not supposed to represent actual scandinavia.
@@aaronsmith7143 Why didn't it morph into an attack helicopter then? The facetiousness of some people lmao just make it a Predator then, why not? Why not have Michael Jackson have a posthumous appearance in nordic mythology, i'm sure everybody loves MJ. The point that disingenuous people desperately try to ignore is that a culture has no reason to glorify foreigners as mythical beings, you can go to any country on earth and they won't have foreign looking people as religious/mythical/cultural figures, unless. . . it's not their culture and it has been imposed against their will. Sort of like a historical or cultural revisionism of sorts, so the children are easier to manipulate.
Pay no attention, citizen, continue to consume product.
It's not Nexus's place to decide what mods are and aren't allowed if they're legal and not everyone who installs a mod uses it for the same or even intended reasons. To be honest, I find the whole idea that mods need to be policed by the host absurd, but especially when it's selectively policed. If race swap mods are wrong, then get rid of all of them... But this means a lot of mods in Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma and Baldur's Gate 3 will also need to be removed. It's a self-inflicted problem.
It’s the classic house rule logic. Anybody can say on my website we do not allow certain content, completely rational and legal. The users of the website do not have any say in this because using something does not allow for control rights.
@@arbeitslos4247 This would be fine if the rules are consistently and fairly applied with clear lines. They aren't. Thus the issue is that people using Nexus know don't the line and risk mods being deleted or banned on a whim. And this has happened several times already. If you have rules, you need to fairly and transparently apply them. House rules only work if everyone is on the same page... That's not the case with Nexus mods and thus...
@@arbeitslos4247 Are they a publisher or a platform?
its their plattform they can do that, they dont have to follow some free speach rules or anything like that. You can not like their rules and therfore refuse to use their platform, but that doesnt change that they can do what they want
@@F-aber You have to recognize the problem to understand it and what you said is why Nexus similar to Ubisoft won't change until they have no other choice.
In the new vikings: Valhalla show, they turned the historical Haakon Sigurdsson Into a black woman...now they say the character is only inspired by him, but still... What are the odds of a black female earl in the Viking ages .
The same odds as a leftie being honest.
Just deliberately misrepresenting history with liberties that do not enhance the story or world.
Can't wait to see an Asian Black Panther 🤦
@@emykus7717And then awkwardly double down on stereotypes and make him fight using kung fu. 😂
What's that meme song about respecting differences with the "ching chong" and "uga buga" lyrics, which fits exactly their try-too-hard virtue signaling
They don't even know wtf they are doing.
Dude is named Sigurd's son and him being a woman
is insane!
What's really racist is the intentional input of a black woman into Norse mythology.
Thats.....not racist...how would that be discriminatory or prejudice?
@@proxywolfx are you stupid or something? Norse mythology. Norse. Not black. You are the kind of guy who thinks Nordic vikings were black like Africans.
It’s more that it doesn’t make sense. There wouldn’t be black people in Norse mythology. Is it racist? Not really. It’s just because of the current times where diversity is often pushed just for the sake of pushing.
I personally don’t have a problem with it but if we wanted to be realistic, yeah she technically shouldn’t be black. It’s not a big deal, but it shouldn’t be a big deal if someone makes a mod that makes her white and therefore more accurate.
Here’s the thing. It falls into the issue where white cultures are treated like they NEED to be inclusive instead of being portrayed accurately which is something other cultures are not held to. So it’s frustrating.
@@proxywolfx history erasing right here
@@FlamespeedyAMV it's mythology....not history
With regards the rainbow flag thing. I had no issue when I played half of Spider-Man on PS4. A few years later, I was playing on PC and they really irritated me so I removed them. Why?
Was it because I had suddenly turned into a bigot in my late 40's? No. It was because in just those few years the rainbow flag had come to represent anger, intolerance and the sort of people who are capable of sending death threats to children's book authors.
I don't need to be reminded of this real world crap we get shoved in our faces 24/7 when playing a video game for escapism. I loathe Nexus now.
You make a very good point there. The "climate" surrounding this stuff has grown very toxic... It's difficult not to associate the Pride flag with the things that people associate it with now.
A few years ago it could've just been about acceptance and showing support for things like gay marriage and an end to certain stigmas... But now it's difficult not to associate it with sensitive shit like child transitions, the complications of self-id, leading to men "identifying" as women during court proceedings just to be sent to female prisons, where they've gone on to make women pregnant...
So yeah, lol, that is a VERY good point, man. I was having a whole back and forth for hours yesterday with someone else, asking for one good reason why the removal of flags wouldn't be perceived as homophobia, if he had said this I would've 100% agreed with him.
@@TheDezembro Thanks.
Yeah, I mean I'd like people to stay open minded. People can want the same thing, in this case a specific mod, but for different reasons.
Enjoyed your content, keep up the good work and good luck :)
Leftism is a cancer that should not be tolerated. It stands for ACTUAL hate, intolerance, violence, bigotry and racism, all the things they accuse others of they themselves are guilty of. And the worst part is that civil discussion is not possible. The moment you disagree, they literally want you dead. The only solution is to cancel them as hard as they want us gone.
@richr1917
I'd hate for you to read all the hate and bigotry people spew who fly the great red, white, and blue. But you wouldn't dare erase that because a minority who fly that flag are peices of shit. There is no consistency in this comment section at all and it shows a level of stupidity I've not seen before. And no, I don't think you are a bigot or anything like that. I just think you foolishly latch on to whatever swings towards or away from your up bringing or political beliefs.
No. It IS out of hate. I'm really sick of seeing people try to justify and excuse their racism, but then whine and complain every single time a character isn't straight, white or sexually attractive.
The mod is in Based Mods. Go download it guys before it gets taken down as well. 🖕🖕 Nexus
Yeah but that's just 3d model we don't have the tool to install the mod
@@akossz30 Dude, just read the "READ ME" file. Literally every mod has one.
@@martyr_lightsilver1833 Dude i downloaded from Based mod there is no READ ME file ,tehere are 3 png files and 3 3D object file
You can't have double-standards with stuff like this. It's either all okay, or none of it's okay.
Still questionable if a mere distributor wants to decide if legal mods should or shouldn't be allowed on their platform. It shouldn't be their decision if they want to be taken seriously.
idk if you've noticed but if it's anti-white or anti-male, they're 100% allowed to have double-standards.
It's not double standards, it's just their standards: white people bad.
@@tyrnordmann5580 I agree. If someone wants a mod/makes a mod that turns everyone male/female or swap races--players should have the option to do so.
If you're a cry-woker, then you have absolutey no right to say this.
So mods that change the visual appearance of a character aren't allowed? Ok then they should remove the several thousands of mods that do that for hundreds of games they are used for.
it's just anti-white DEI, raceswap white to black is good, black to white is horrible sin, and this is far-left anti-racists for you😂🎉🎉🎉
I stand by that as long as a mod doesn't break any sort of law, lets say making underage girls perverted in some way, giving a game rpe mechanics, or something legit deplorable.
Changing someone's skin colour is not a crime or break a law in the slightest. I want my heritage to be respected, I don't care if it hurts some little snowflake on the internet, that won't even play the game, or buy the product at all. They can make their own product if my heritage hurts their feelings that badly, and try to make something for themselves.
Exactly. If Norse mythology and settings are good enough to be used in media - and this also includes other European settings like for example Central/Eastern Europe for Witcher, and England, Scotland and Whales for Lord of the Rings - then it should be good enough to be respected as well through accurate depictions.
*ESPECIALLY* when it's a cultural thing like mythology, history or religion.
Rpe mods exist. Join the Skyrim community to find out. Its just a game tho, so who cares? You are literally killing people and there is even a mod that makes children in Skyrim killable. On Nexus Mods. Its just a game. People should be allowed to mod it as much as they want and however they want.
@@Oozaru85
I brought it up, as an example of the idiocy of Nexus mods. They allow that type of mods, but refuse to have a mod that aligns a character to the mythos/area they originated from.
If that isn't pure idiocy of allowing rpe mods, but not changing a black character skin, I don't know what is
@@NightBane345 Nah, Nexus doesnt allow rpe mods. They are available on LL tho, among other sites. Nexus does allow the "killable children" mod however. But yeah, thats another proof of their hypocrisy.
@@Oozaru85
The sex mods for Skyrim works on kids as well, and it was a hot topic when it came out. If they fixed that, good. But it was still allowed to be there, and mods that makes kids "spicy" in certain ways
Nexus is a fucking joke lmao. I knew where their priorities were since Spiderman.
Africans in Nordic mythology? Anyway, the Nexus is biased. I don't see why any mods, no matter what they remove or change, should be removed, because if someone doesn't like the mods, there's no one to force them to use them. Also, Netflix Ciri and Black Geralt for The Witcher 3 are still on the Nexus and no one seems to have a problem with that.
I'm still not entirely sure how you get skin colour that dark when living in Scandinavia. Has anyone explained this?
if im one of the creative director of the game i would say something like "why should what she looks like matter? she's one species with an enormous world sized snake, why does everything you see have to make sense?"
@@dondeka2086 well because in the context of that said world, it would make more sense. you didn't see a lot of filipinos and mexicans in the greek saga. but here in ragnarok, sweet baby inc made sure to have some diversity added so they had to turn some characters black. it makes more sense if they were simply just white. looks matter because at least we know if something is forced in for diversity and inclusivity or if it just authentic. it kind of ruins the immersion of being in a scandinavian world seeing an african looking person.
@@JV-km9xk honestly i just don't understand why they made angrboda black, you want diversity? gingers is less represented than blacks And its both geographically and mythologically correct, Oh you want to be bold? How about making angrboda middle eastern, also another race that is rarely represented by the western media? (funny thing is the vikings did trade with the arabics, making it plausible)
I mean to be fair from what I’ve learned is that giants in Norse mythology aren’t black or white they either have magma fiery body or have an icy look I could be wrong but that’s what I remember.
@@GoldenArchangel_1 well in the game they did that with sinmara and surtr but i guess they want to make it diverse
I disagree with your take on the pride flag mod for Spider-Man, but I base that on hearing that the person who supposedly made the mod basically just used the Saudi Arabian version of the game which automatically does that for them. So if Sony was already willing to make and ship versions of the game with pride flags edited out based on region of the world it was being sold in, why shouldn't other people be able to remove them as well if they wanted? It simply made the middle eastern version of the game available to anyone else who wanted it.
I heard another argument in the comments here that was very good justifying that mod as well. I think I pinned it to the top.
Your point isn't bad either especially considering the business side. If Sony can release a version of the game without pride flags in certain parts of the world to appeal to them, then why can't Nexusmods do the same without being @ed by woke crowds, and potentially lose their advertisers?
Isn't that technically Islamophobic by their same logic? 🤔 It's an interesting topic.
If they allow light to dark then it's fair game dark to light. There are racist intentions possible with both. Heck Alan Wake 2 did light to dark officially. If they can do it so to can the pleb.
Nah the pleb must NOT do what it wants…
@@arbeitslos4247 the plebs need to stfu and do what they're told, and get told what to think 😂😂
whole thing of modding culture is about unlimited freedom... freedom to change everything you want and not be limited by any morals, copyrights or patents
WE NEED A NEW PLATFORM
@@luisf.9438 There are other sites BUT sadly it's "way harder" to use those sites mod's without clear instructions. (Unless they have very good mod manager app's or install exe program's implemented?)
all those corn mods are ok but culturally accurate characters are evil. sure
kind of ridiculous to ban mods when the whole point of them is to change games to suit players. I value freedom over everything, and I stopped supporting Nexus after that. I kind of regret donating so much to mod creators there because I know money probably ends up with them as well. its the same regret I had for donating to Wikipedia once I realized just how malicious they were in choosing what they considered reliable sources. Whether you want to change every flag in a game to rainbow flags, or remove them entirely, I don't care. Diversity and inclusivity has just become a byword for authoritarian behavior to control which opinions are allowed and which are considered taboo. I never downloaded these mods, but I think people should be free to use them if they want to. Besides, the addition of a black character in Ragnarök is just so out of place that it is undeniably something they forced in there to create some diversity. its the very best example of a token black character, since it makes no sense whatsoever. If they had added in some storyline about an African god who travelled all the way there and then showed up in the story, perhaps added some background and quests for them, it would have been interesting and would have made sense rather than just race swapping someone from NORSE mythology. adding a mod to swap their skin color to keep the sense of immersion seems fair enough to me. I think its not worth the effort, but if some people are willing to do so, so what? it isn't hurting anyone.
Some sources describe the Jotun as dark. You only find it immersion breaking because You think They are wrong and it annoys you to see a black person. Why do you care so much about a thing this insignificant? lol
@@Atrivion The same logic can be applied to why they turned angrboda black in the first place. And also you're just defending it like your life depends on it cus it annoys you to see a white person. Why do you care so much about a thing this insignificant? lol
@@Atrivion Because we don't like blacks and we don't like that they are a part of our history.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!
Thorough & well thought out as always. I would add only 1 more point to the "It's the dev's game, they can make it how they want" rant. That's only true until I give them my $70.00. After that it's MY game, & I will re-make it to my liking. Without shame, guilt, remorse, or anything else those clownfaced Karens want me to feel.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Spoken like a champion!
It will be crazy if there's still someone defending angrboda after all the SBI incident.
Just realised they removed a ginger (5% of the population) replacing a black (17% just in africa)
I wonder how many ginger gods would be present in an african mythologycal setting game🤔
Nexus is woke hell hole. We really need some other site like that but without DEI agenda.
They don't need to do shit about Mods. it dose not hurt anyone when they are on singal player games.
Mods are just for Player Fun.
I'm boycotting God of War: Ragnarök, because it is racist and disrespectful to my Scandinavian ancestry; our Gods and Goddesses were White Scandinavians in the image of those who embodied the culture that wrote the Norse Myths! Imagine a game centered around West African mythology that makes Mami Wata White. It would never happen, and the Woke mob would scream racism from the mountain tops.
Ppl should be focused on making Sif thicker
She looks much more nordic with the mod which aid in creating a more immersive world. I have no idea how any of this is controversial.. People are just really uneducated.
I honestly just think that the reason people make mods like this is out of spite for the woke Ideologues plaguing the western gaming industry. While a bit petty, it is definitely understandable as most gamers are quite frankly sick of the virtue signaling.
And the irony of the situation is that it wouldn't even be as big a deal if the cult didn't work overtime trying to suppress heretics not buying into their dogma. Mods like this, and quite frankly, *any* mod that isn't outright illegal content, is entirely harmless. The only people feigning harm as they strike out at others are disingenuous snowflakes desperate to control and change others.
I disagree. I've 100% made personal mods in games to make a character black because I wanted to. Some might be out of spite but most aren't. Raceswap mods going both directions have existed since mods existed.
And often its the only way to voice concerns without getting drowned out.
I bet my left eye and left nut not a single motherfucker even remotely cared about “Angrboda” before this game came out lmao
Praying Santa Monica studio doesn’t use sweet baby for the next game. They didn’t need them for 2018 and for sure didn’t need them for Ragnarok.
It's very simple, they either ban all race swap mods of any kind. Or they ban none of them. That's the only 'fair' way of doing it.
They don't care about fair. It's actually depressing we are still having this conversation, they hate us it's not ignorance it's malice, they want us dead. This is only the most miniscule example. Our entire civilization is being gutted and you have people walking on eggshells to not offend people who hate us
The most effective way to address this issue is to establish a competitive platform that challenges the dominance of the left-leaning and ideologically driven websites. By attracting users and causing financial losses for these existing platforms, we can incentivize a shift in their approach imo 🤷♂️
Where can I download this mod
This is the only thing I wanted from the video
@@Broanonimo-m1l Based mods, You cant install it, its just a file that needs to be implemented and Im waiting for the tools to finish it.
Thanks i was looking for the same@Raccoon.City.Police.Department
You are gonna have to wait for it, it's not done yet.
If Concord/Dustborn has taught me anything, is that "modern audiences" don't exist. So if they don't even play a game that's made specifically for them, I doubt they'd stick around in game long enough where "I wonder if there's a mod for...." would popup in their mind.
Hence, these people wouldn't even be browsing mods/be in a mod website to begin with. Nexusmods are _catering towards an audience that don't exist._
Getting a negative look from the "industry" might not be a negative thing in itself. This industry, at least in it's current form, is dying because it goes against actual gamers for weird political and ideological reasons. We just want to play games without being preached at or censored. Btw, didn't they remove pride flags for Saudi Arabia release? lmao
Nexus mods thinks they are the arbitrators of mods. To changing out a character that does not fitt a seting. From a black viking to a white one that made sense, there where no black vikings nor any black gods in nordic mythology, I know this because im swedish and all the arcological rests from people of that time, where all white, due to bone structure you can tell, also all the old gods where white, or mosters, no black gods at all. It is odd that they what to filter mods by polical lines. That cannot be good for the platform and it will direct traffic away from Nexus mods to other mod places. I know, because when Starfield was out, I needed to go somewhere else to mod out this pronouns mambo jambo in the character creator, geting a cracked version of the DLSS fix. Than you got what happend to BG3, a women whated to make a character normal from being lgtv. Got removed from the platfrom. What happend? She went somewhere else. That is what happens, if they fail to give what people what, they will find it somewhere else. I think it is good to have alternatives. Because that will happen naturally if the main big one failes to deliver what people whats. The moders know what people whats, people that mods the games know what they are looking for, for the most part it is attracive characters, to make characters they like to be normal from lgtv, but they are shamed and removed for whating that, odd that if it was done the other way around, like going from normal to lgtv, the platform will love that mod. That some have tried to change history and mythology is a hazard in my eyes, like assasscreed whats a black samurai so bad, they even got a "historian" that fitted their narative, Ubi pissed off Japan twice, black samurai and that half gate that was left behind after they got the sun droped on them, tuchy subject. But reality and history tells something else it is lost on this demagogs. It is just like Netflix said that Cleopatra was black, not at all, she was macedonian / greek decent. Egypt got pissed over that. I love the wacky mods, some mods are DLC sized. There is everything and anything when it comes to mods, I say let them be and let the user make up his or her mind on what mods to get. I normally mods my games to be better, sometimes I just say: Lets go with wacky tobaco mods and I what to have the freedom to do so.
@EcardEcardian
She isn't a viking and Kratos is black, who married a giant, and had a half black son they made into Loki. Does that anger you?
@@aaronsmith7143 I was pointing out that it does not fitt the seting one bit, because of there was no black vikings nor any black nordic gods. I have seen many times, that media makers shoehorn in things that does not fitt the seting at all. This is not diffrent. Besides my point was to let that be an option for people that does not what it. Anger me? Why shall I be angry over something that looks like bad fanfiction.
@@aaronsmith7143 Kratos isn't black, have you actually played the older games? you see him without the ashes and he's white. Why are you trying to push your agenda so hard, do you have a problem with white people? Because of something that happened to you.
imagine making a game about Vodou gods and mythology and Papa Gede is a white boi for no reason 💀
the modder should upload it else where
Why? there's a black geralt of rivia mod for the witcher 3, why are black people protected from race swaps while white characters are not. This is actual racism.
All that because Sony thinks SBI is good for games, the bigger problem is that Sony fanboys accept everything that comes from Sony.
They gonna pay 799 for the same console they already so they could play 8k but there's not even one playstation 5 game that's is made for 8k XD
@@Thetrue777luck777 Oh, they'll learn. If that's the route they're going down, they will learn. Concord was a 400 million loss, their games are getting more and more expensive because of incompetence. Spiderman2 for example, cost 315 million to make. Despite selling well, it BARELY made a profit.
If the quality keeps getting worse - and it will, because that's what all these ideologies always end up on - they will not be immune to flops. More and more people are being outspoken about this and I love to see it. We just want good games, dump the political bullshit, dump the ideological nonsense, games are to ENTERTAIN, not to manipulate and shape society.
And the bad thing? That mod made it more historically accurate 🔥👻
@kanen2ei
What about the game is historical accurate? And I'm sorry to burst your bubble but mythology is myth.
It may be myth, but it belongs to whatever culture said myth orgnates from. @@aaronsmith7143
I cannot have Lovers Lab be a better, more respectable and more respected modding site then you.
i dont care if its lore acurate or not. but for my biased opinion it feels more faithful if i see a white Angrboda.... give me this mod alrdy!
Nexus is a hosting platform, it's not their business to curate what mods are allowed on it! The only reason they're doing it is because they don't want to attract the wrath of the purple-haired karens who live on social media! Or perhaps they have a bunch of purple-haired karens working for them too.
It's the latter
Definitely the second issue.
I remember when seeing Ragnarok, I first hoped that Angrboda simply looked that way because she is a jötnar and so maybe they have a different range of phenotypes than the aesir and vanir, but then we saw the human form of hildesvine and look at that, he also looks subsaharan african, and yet none of the aesir do. So then the whole thing was clear.
@inotaishu1
Loki is a half black Greek and giant. The difference is y'all ignore it because his skin is a few shades lighter. And Angrboda is described as the mother of monsters. Her name means bringer of sorrow and anger which really fucking fits for you lot.
@@aaronsmith7143 If you are talking about Loki in the game, you clearly have not seen the flashbacks with his mother. And he is piglet pink not "a few shades lighter", he is not even remotely half-black. So if you are serious about your statements, maybe you should watch the games again.
Does anyone know where the heck does this notion of Kratos and Atreus being half black or whatever shade of black even come from? Are Greeks somehow half black? Maybe they are latino as well?
In no way has Kratos looked remotely black in any God of War game. Nor should Atreus be considered half black, lmao. And no, laying in the sun all day does not make you black.
@@sula2315 I have no clue where that person got the half-black notion from. Maybe it is the old "Black coded" thing again like people did with Picollo and Knuckles.
so its fine to make characters black or asian but they draw line at white?
It’s just the people who are making the characters white are the problem.
This same problem is why “white power” is seen as hateful while “black power” is seen as empowering.
98% of the people who say “white power” are hateful and use it in an hateful manner, which causes the reputation of “white power” to deteriorate until it can only be associated with; nazis, racists and assholes.
They weren't kidding about PC being a master race
Interestingly enough, redheads and overall extremely pale people are more of a minority than black or tanned people. The argument of "diversity" is inherently wrong in that regard.
Does any1 have a link to the download for the mod
Maybe on basedmods
Thank God someone made a good mod.
why is a bad thing to want your norse lore ethnically correct? not to mention it's a mod, it's not hurting anyone
I honestly didn't care much until I found out Sweet Baby was involved with Sony, pretty much all first party Sony games are now injected with SBI, the upcoming Wolverine game developed by Insomniac also has SBI's consultant in it. I'm boycotting anything made by Sony these days, I haven't bought anything since Ragnarok's release, and I already sold the disc, there's no way I'm giving Sony more money so they can waste it on stupid agenda, the entire SBI business was built on threats and "blackmail", and Sony encouraged them by hiring them, while Game Science rejected SBI and now they are swimming in a pool of money, their first debut title into the triple a market made them nearly one billion dollars, reject DEI, and you shall drown in money too.
Tell me: if it was the other way around (Angrboda was white and the mod makes her black), would there be any dilema surrounding this at all?
as end users no one else should care about what we mod in our games
Wow ~ She's accurately Fix Unfortunately THOR arc and the hype i had for him in GoW 1. came down to a alcoholic beggar with good weapon. He is supposed to be a GOD right not drunk mid life crisis guy. I'm so ashamed on how the fukk they screwed thor up just took me out of Ragnarok.
Angrboda, being a character of myth, isn't really a historical person, no more than the little mermaid is. I don't think race swapping Ariel is appropriate either (when she was explicitly described as being pale skinned in the book) but it's not quite as egregious as, for instance, making Ann Bolin black in a historical documentary. It's still culturally insensitive, however. If I had some sort of nordic heritage, I would be pretty offended at how my culture was being misrepresented. I would see it as something akin to creating a character based on Baron Samedi, and portraying them with a white actor.
If there was some legitimate artistic reason for it, that might be different, but it's clear the choice to make Angrboda black is obviously insincere, and politically motivated. There is no legitimate reason, either narrative or historical, for that character, in that setting, to be black. Even if she is supposedly a shape shifter who can make herself any color she wants, if her goal is to disguise her nature to blend in with humanity, why the heck would she choose to disguise herself as black person in ancient Sweden? How many norse in that era would have ever seen a black person before? Not a solid strategic move there. Frankly, she'd probably appear less conspicuous if she just left herself in her natural Jotun form. It's clear she's only black so her creators can tick diversity check boxes.
I can't say this really offends me. I'm not nordic so it's not my culture under attack here and it's not my place to get outraged on their behalf. My opposition to it is simply that the anarchronistic inclusion of a black person in a story set in this location and time period, defies credulity and breaks immersion for me. I see something that very obviously doesn't fit in with the setting, included for insincere reasons that don't support the game's aesthetic or themes, and I stop seeing the art for what it is. I am instead forced to see the liberal white girl with pronouns and a septum piercing wagging her finger and lecturing me on how "white and male is stale" or whatever. It pulls me right out of the story, and kills suspension of disbelief right then and there. They might as well dress the character up in a banana costume and have her do a song and dance about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, that's how immersion-breaking it is for me. I can get reimmersed eventually, if the rest of the game is good enough, and the annoying character isn't on screen for too long, but the game is better when there are fewer of those jarring moments.
I suppose if the devs still want to do it, then whatever, but the desire to mod this crap out of our games isn't racism, and people shouldn't be villainized for it. It's about integrity.
Go to that hair saloon
"Can i touch your hair?"
"No you cant, my mother used to pull my hair as punishment"
"Can i cut your hair?"
"I am very sensitive to sharp objects they give me anxiety"
"Can i shave your hair?"
"No you can't the noise will trigger my pstd and hipersensivility"
Woman King was a stupid idea. They could have chosen Kandake Amanirenas instead of the Agojie.
“Rainbow hype squads” 😂😂
Well, the route Nexus has taken means I would never grab anything from them. I'll never even go to their site. I'm sorry, but It's pretty much impossible to take you seriously. You say none of this is a problem. I get that's just a few min in to a long video. But if you don't see the incrementalism creeping up, then I have doubts about your perception.
I did watch a lot further in, and yeah. You are deeply confused. You can't argue for complete freedom while at the same time saying some of this stuff is bad and shouldn't be allowed. Freedom is freedom. Removing mods, is not freedom, period. Even if we supposed these mods really are istaphobic and really are only use by istaphobes. Okay, and? No really, so what? Do you think not letting them get the mod on your hub is going to stop the mod? Do you think you're denying them is going to make them not racist? I'd argue it'll make them more racist to deny them.
@@nicodemous52by your definition there is no freedom anywhere, there is als most no place were truly everything is allowed. And of course someone can say I don’t want to allow X thing on my platform because I don’t like it (wether it’s illegal or not) it doesn’t matter wether or not those people will still do the same thing somewhere else, you can just not want to be associated with that and not support it by allowing to host this content
@@F-aber And that is my point. If that is there desire, there is no excusing it. if they want to play police, tell me what is good for me, then so be it. I'm free to call them garbage, and I'm free to point out that to expect anything but garbage from them is stupid.
@@nicodemous52 i mean yeah, if you dont like their policies for their platform you are free to not use it and to think its shit
I am of the opinion that removing the pride flag from Spiderman, when the flag isn't too obnoxious in the game, is offensive and worthy of some amount of criticism. I am also of the opinion that people should be allowed to be offensive if they want. Singling out and bullying individuals is where I draw the line, but by installing the flag mod and enjoying it in private, no gay people are being harmed.
The continuous advertisement of bad shows and games as being super gay and full of representation is doing more harm to these groups than any actual racism, bigotry, or sexism in the modern day ever could
Nice, haven't heard the music from Final Fantasy 7 in ages. Also Nexus Mods has on their site "We reserve the right to host, or not host, whatever content we want on our own site. We do not want to host mods that remove diversity from a video game." Last I checked removing a mod designed to lighten skin color is doing the same thing by removing options that increase diversity as you are not forced to use it and it only adds an option, not a replacement.
Nexus has been like this for ages now. There are just too many who are indifferent and even for some of those that do care they prioritize the convenience of Nexus mods even more.
I haven't been on there in awhile but from what I can remember many of their top creators were probably in lockstep with this kind of censorship.
I doubt anything is going to change in the immediate future but it's apparent there is somewhat of an appetite for an alternative. Will it be enough to take Nexus off its pedestal? No.
Yup. We created a censorship-resistant alternative to permanently fix this issue. Aiming to take the top spot eventually as we continue to improve.
White girl looks better.
Because it actually fits in the game, who would of thought a game based on Nordic European mythology would work better if the characters matched the ethnicity of the people they represent
Sacrificing service for ideology is shouting through a megaphone that you want someone to take your place.
You can find all the "alt-right" mods on Based Mods.
I don’t think you need quotation marks for alt right lmao
@@coronavirus553 Nah, "alt-right" these days basically means anything and everything that's not far-left leaning, so it means nothing, hence the quotation marks.
they should realize it's not racist, and its just accurate to Norse Myth... but what do i know
Are there competitors to Nexusmods?
It is very strange that the mod never really existed. Only the models exist and that's all that has ever existed, models. We don't have any in-game video of the mod working, nothing! And just days after the publication of the supposed mod, which in reality are only models, the controversy explodes. Strange, very strange.
We could be innovating, helping others, changing humanity, but instead humans use our extremely limited time with this.
I need that mod for God of War Ragnarok. Based, but unfortunately it can't make Angrboda more interesting too. Her problem as a character is in the core
She is a good character, the skin was the problem
@@emanuelebrocchi9440 she had a redhead aura.
@@AngeloCPozo another reason why making her black was absolute nonsense
Maybe somebody should race swap the giant black grandmother in god of war ragnarok.
She was one of the worst creative decisions ever made in gaming.
the entire game is trash, no amount of modding can fix that dumpster fire. nobody want's to play as daddy of war and his son.
@latinaparfait the father/son story is what made the first game so great.
The shoehorned diversity feminist bullsh*t is what ruined ragnarok.
I have a feeling dustborn might be your kind of game.
@@eugenevictortooms4174 god of slop 2018 wasn't much better, the game is designed and made for non GOW fans. Anybody who likes the original trilogy isn't touching that slop.
It was so ugly.
Thank god for modders fixing bullshit woke trash devs bastard designs.
true and great video!
anybody know where i can download this mod?
Great video with awesome music.
Good choice to go with music from the original FFVII.
Using "Oppressed People" when talking about the racial discrimination in entertainment was perfect.
The lack of knowledge that SBI has on nordic mythology is truly laughable.
She wasn't black in the original Norse Myth Source material so Nexus mods is wrong for removing it because actually makes sense for her to look like that. It doesn't matter if the character should look like the actor black people have been voicing white characters for a very long time. They would never remove a black geralte of rivia mod. It
nexus mods has a polticial agenda and u have to follow their rules u bigot.
Still don't understand why people support those platforms and post mods on them ...
Let's see... allow the mods removing the pride flag and get a negative look from the fringe minority, or allow the mods to remove those flags and get a negative response from the overwhelming majority. Hmm...
So...... any links to the Angrboda mod?
I think we might see Nexus lose it's position as the 'go to' site for mods over the coming years.
Removing the pride flags from Spiderman was done by Sony! The "mod" just changed the textures to those shipped in other countries.
>mother of monsters
>has dark complexion
I mean, do I even need to point it out?
Yikes 😅
Nothing because it's not their place to decide what people can do with their games.
People want to enjoy their games however they want. As long as they don't do something diabolical I feel they should allow anyone to do anything with their games.
A lot of mod creators left nexus and pulled their mods out over the years and this trend seems to continue soon only hte most hardcore SJWs will be all thats left on that site and those people rarely create anything good best they can do in 99% of cases are ironicaly shit like race swaps or putting gay flags in game that didnt have them etc most of them are activists first gamers and modders second only ''aggresively'' leftist mod author that makes something good I can think of is Elanora she makes 10/10 house mods for fallout and skyrim in addition to stuff like pride flags but thats a rare case if nexus continues like this there will be no worthwile content left to download in time
It's just a video game
also it's just a video game:
Why nexus why? there are tons of race swap mod, why kept them then?
Why cant the mod and others like it be uploaded to moddb or a different mod site?
To be honest i wish they din't make any Playstation ports to Pc untill they get rid of SBI, Days gone was good GOW4 was good but the rest is meh.
THOR MCU HEIMDALL was made Inaccurate also
What is the alternative to nexus?
Based Mods.
We developed an alternative that's censorship-resistant to permanently fix this issue.
Laxmods, basedmods, modding haven, DEG mods, ModHQ.
Kratos isn't replacing anyone, Týr is still the God of War
lmao play the game, you couldn't be more wrong 🤣
I wasn't even going to use this mod but for fcks sake, this is unnacceptable there are thousands of other mods that do much worse or the very same thing and are okay. You don't need to download a mod, it's optional player made content, let people play their own games however they want.
Even though woke culture is bad in gaming, but I think it is necessary for our society, because it solves a previously unsolvable problem: feminism.
Imagine a male game dev or any office worker being falsely accused for harassing a female colleague, this guy is done for good, he is out of there. Now imagine this guys is identified as trans, non-binary, or female, he will be very happy to keep his job.
The pronouns and flags do matter and it dose mess with people it litteraly ruins the experience when you stumble across it even if there hard to find cuz when you do it automatically makes you think about it and takes you out of the game this crap dose not belong in game's at all imo
Will said about the Nexus problem removing mods it should always be the gamers choice what to do with it.
Then go to one of those neo-nazi modding websites.
They have plenty of mods with swastikas "gamers" will enjoy.