Lore friendly skin colors in character generation room.

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Re: Lore friendly skin colors in character generation room.

Postby Hasta » Thu Mar 05, 2026 2:28 am

The game actively encourages players to produce and use opium, it's literally every 3rd quest of some obscure credos. That shit should've gotten it banned on Steam as is, who cares about some nazi scumbaggery that is evidently ever-present in people of a very particular cross-breed of "very young rebel" and "quite a stupid fuck".

As for "skin color" dispute - hard no on other colors. If they get implemented, an option to "turn off variable materials" should also include variable skin colors.
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Re: Lore friendly skin colors in character generation room.

Postby Hasta » Thu Mar 05, 2026 2:52 am

FaithfulToadd wrote:Dare I ask why? Or would I be happier not reading your response?


Ofcourse because I'm a big bad racist xenophobe, why else would I object? *sarcasm*

I don't like this idea because it's unnecessary and it does not add anything useful to the game, yet scratches at already worn thin "fleur" of its simple yet charming setting. A part of me cringes every time the devs add variable materials to some stupid everyday object (today we got fucking tanning tubs, "yay"). Houses, claim poles, road signs - that I do get. Cupboards and cheese racks all colors of the rainbow? Fuck no. Hate it.

Customizing a character in this game shall go no further than it is now, adding other "skin colors" will either only serve fleur-devouring vanity of green or blue characters (like all the stupid hats with propellers and cakes and whatever else do, although those at least put food on devs' tables); or - worse yet - adding different-colored hearthlings would be a token submission to social pressure at the expense of the game's setting integrity, which I do not condone.
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Re: Lore friendly skin colors in character generation room.

Postby Hasta » Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:27 am

This is a crosshair in Warthunder. Adding unrealistic skin colors regardless of the game setting is a step in this direction - sheer nonsense of untethered preposterous customization with no control of whatever vices players indulge.
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This is a medieval russian serf reimagined by Netflix. Adding "socially required" skin colors regardless of the game setting is a step in this direction - sheer nonsense of political correctness above everything, first of all common sense. And yes, some one will definitely make a slave plantation with black alts - have you seen this community?
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I understand that some would argue for both, and a lot would argue for at least one of these steps being beneficial and necessary (because horny trolls). I do not like either and made my opinion known.
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Re: Lore friendly skin colors in character generation room.

Postby Hasta » Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:50 am

FaithfulToadd wrote:stands out way more


A black person in medieval russian village would indeed stand out more than an anus crosshair in a modern shooter game. But I merely took two marginal examples to illustrate the two ways I see the character customization could be added: either as an unnecessary obnoxious vanity, or an unnecessary political action. PIck any one and I'd read that 1000 word essay on why Hafen positively needs green and/or black hearthlings besides that :D
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Postby FaithfulToadd » Thu Mar 05, 2026 4:15 am

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Re: Lore friendly skin colors in character generation room.

Postby WowGain » Thu Mar 05, 2026 4:48 am

Hasta wrote:This is a crosshair in Warthunder. Adding unrealistic skin colors regardless of the game setting is a step in this direction - sheer nonsense of untethered preposterous customization with no control of whatever vices players indulge.
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This is a medieval russian serf reimagined by Netflix. Adding "socially required" skin colors regardless of the game setting is a step in this direction - sheer nonsense of political correctness above everything, first of all common sense. And yes, some one will definitely make a slave plantation with black alts - have you seen this community?
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I understand that some would argue for both, and a lot would argue for at least one of these steps being beneficial and necessary (because horny trolls). I do not like either and made my opinion known.


dude, the bronze age consisted of a trade network that stretched from anatolia to cornwall. people have been migrating all over the european continent for literally millennia!
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