I understand why people love their mods. They are really cool and the vast majority of folks are using them for awesome shit. I have reblogged screenshots of ones I liked a lot. Honestly, I don’t mind people using 90% of them at all.
But the variations on “It’s just pixels.” / “It’s client-side only.” / “You are not your character, so talking about consent is silly and extreme.” are real fucking tiresome.
@berrodtherapscallion talked about how he was sent an unsolicited picture of his character in the modded shisui set with his dick out.
Another player talked about how someone snuck into their house while they were afk, and took a screenshot of a dick shoved in their character’s face for fun and then sent it.
Another player was sent a screenshot of a dick in their face AND their character in a modded outfit so their character had their tits out.
Another player is literally hiding from people right now, because they had a screenshot of their character in modded glamour sent to them and are jarred by the thought of some stranger taking another.
Its okay to love your mods and its even okay to feel worried they might get taken away. But trying to tell people they don’t deserve to feel annoyed or unnerved by all of this, because you are afraid their feelings will cause your mods to go away is kind of shit.
Our characters might be made of polygons and code, but there are real people behind them. And as much as it sucks that all mods might go poof over the actions of a small number of nasty perverts, maybe “stop being so uncomfortable and upset about the perverts doing creepy shit to your character via mods, because I really want to keep mine” is not the greatest response.
((i do not get any of these arguments, because sending someone an unsolicited sexually explicit picture is sexual harassment regardless of what’s like, actually in the picture. bombarding someone with dick pics is shitty regardless of whether or not its literally a picture of your personal dick
i’ll go one step further and say that i genuinely don’t care if there’s some collateral damage in the event that people catch bans. i don’t actually think that it’s likely anyone will, honestly, and i know that there are many talented modders out there, but on the scale of feelings i care about, people wanting to see a longer tail when they look at their lizard-girl in game just does not rank. i would feel bad for the actual modders whose hard work would be negated, but modding a continually updated game is always a crapshoot even when its not against TOS.
if there’s any backlash against cosmetic mods, the blame goes to the creepy douchebags, not the people who were upset by their harrassment
i dont care about mod use, personally, and i’m obvs 100% in favor of people ERPing whatever they want, drawing/editing nsfw fanart/screenshots, making mods that give their character colossal horse cocks, RPing or writing whatever fucked up crap they want, but i have no patience with people being pieces of shit and it’s ridiculous that actual people i know and care about are having to worry about what they wear in a video game because it might prompt someone to flood their inbox with afk boner pics. like, come on.











