I'd agree the memorial is minor, but what next? Durance has some hilarious but "inappropriate" (quote on quote) lines, will they remove those if someone takes offence?
It's all about the principle, you should never give in if someone demands that you change your art.
Quote wikipedia: "Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.[1]
Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is called self-censorship. Censorship may be direct or it may be indirect, in which case it is called soft censorship. It occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons"
"A mod was created that restores the original inscription, claiming that the change was censorship.[5] Obsidian's response was to place a character called Firedorn whom the player can kill as part of a bounty task in The White March - Part I. Firedorn is consistently referred to in the game using male pronouns, but has a female character model." Thoughts?
Funny little poem, even funnier that there is a moral to this story... don't be like Firedorn and loose yourself in debauchery, and people found this offensive?
My god.. how could people see themselfs in any kind of poem or joke.. Work on your self confidence and come over it. Im a gay woman and as long as i´m not getting directly offendet, such things are absolutely ok! Its nothing but a satiric poem and its telling us the exact opposite of "hate transgender" or anything like that..
I'd just like to say, great mod, much appreciated. It's just a shame we can't mod Obsidian into a respectable company with a spine. Also, Firedorn's last name was corrected, but he still runs "of" a cliff when it should clearly be "off." Fixed it in my own version, but maybe you'd like to upload one with corrected syntax too. Thanks!
Thank you very much for posting this. It's not about fighting back against groups of people, but against the idea that we should whitewash artistic content when someone's sensibilities have been offended. I'm Mormon, but you'd never see me get offended when Trey Parker published the Book of Mormon musical on Broadway
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It's all about the principle, you should never give in if someone demands that you change your art.
"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.[1]
Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is called self-censorship. Censorship may be direct or it may be indirect, in which case it is called soft censorship. It occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons"
If the shoe fits...
Sounds a bit like this mod then, no? It has removed something the author deems to be objectionable. Why is one "censorship", but the other not?
Seems like people are just claiming "censorship" when they don't like a change, rather than because its actually "censorship".
Obsidian's response was to place a character called Firedorn whom the player can kill as part of a bounty task in The White March - Part I. Firedorn is consistently referred to in the game using male pronouns, but has a female character model." Thoughts?
So, good job!
Also, Firedorn's last name was corrected, but he still runs "of" a cliff when it should clearly be "off." Fixed it in my own version, but maybe you'd like to upload one with corrected syntax too. Thanks!