mattmck

Sorry for your loss; I wouldn't suspect you had many left to lose. Better luck in your future endeavors. Edit: On a positive note, I found a a program to extract the character models for editing (thanks to madonnagwen). It's called CascView.

Edit: Deleted because of accidental double post.

It's hardly a bold claim, and it's common knowledge. First of all feminist civil rights groups make no false pretense that their number one course of action to push their agenda is litigation. This isn't a new concept either, civil rights groups have been doing this in the United States heavily since the early 1960's, and even before then. Additionally here in the states we have a collage major called "Women's Studies", and I'm not kidding when I say that literally a large part of the required credits for this major involve civil rights courses that educate you on how to essentially abuse the American legal system to push an agenda. I expect that you're not from the United States because of your use of the word "mate" nor are you collage educated based on your lack of knowledge on these subjects, but regardless, it's not my job to educate you. As I've said this is a well known fact, not an opinion. Do some searching online. These cases are almost always settled out of court with nondisclosure agreements, but you'll still be able to learn all about it. You would like for me to prove to you that Activision Blizzard has a Human resource department? All major media companies have staff in their HR departments dedicated to social justice. "Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Instructional Designer", "Sr Specialist Inclusion", "Senior Principal, Diversity and Inclusion", "Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Education Facilitator", "Diversity & Inclusion Consultant", etc to name a few. Blizzard certainly has people on their pay roll under their HR department with titles like these or something very similar. It's common sense that they're hired because they protect them from litigation, in fact, that is and always has been the entire purpose for HR departments in general. Ask anyone in HR what their job is, they'll tell you. Hell, if you wanted to search through blizzards job opportunities website you would maybe even find one if there's a position open, I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not wasting my time with something so frivolous. No one with even half a brain going to take you seriously explaining how game design works when you're clearly ignorant of how the world works. These changes were clearly not made to appease the target demographic. While you may be so pious that you truly can't stand the objectification of women to the point that you actually believe that these were all positive changes (of which there were many outside besides the Amazon) do you truly believe that they went above and beyond making a 1 for 1 recreation of the game to appease the community with very few exceptions besides shared stash and auto gold pickup, keeping the many problems that the game has in tact, and then suddenly decided "Oh but we'll cover every female characters body in the game fully, make the Amazon look like a lesbian, turn the Assassin into an Asian, and make the Paladin so black that he borderlines on a racist caricature"? You think they didn't have a reason for doing that? You can't be that oblivious; this isn't rocket science. There is a lot of backlash over this, that can be googled also, and while apparently you're part of the very vocal minority that likes this, you are in fact the minority. Why do you think they would risk doing something they knew fans wouldn't want? Wait a minute... Activision / Blizzard is a billion dollar company, it's worth about $50Billion to be precise, but you actually think that they had people on the payroll with billions in the bank? That's some pretty deep insight into how oblivious you are to how the world works. Could you imagine Forbes: Billionaire game designer... lolol Don't make sweeping generalizations based on your own biases. You have no idea the extent of my cultural experience and have nothing to base the opinion on that I'm not aware of the diversities in it. Additionally I don't form my opinions based on the opinions of my peers, I make an effort to educate myself and formulate my own opinions; you should try it. Unless by "mate" you meant who I have sex with, and in that case my wife agrees with me. I consider groups of people with agendas encroaching on the freedom of speech and self determination that we enjoy in western civilization to be one of the most prominent problems in the world today actually, and again, take your own advice and don't make generalizations buy assuming my political alignment, I am not a conservative, and I don't even consider myself right leaning, I mean, are you seriously so oblivious that you think someone with a hammer and sickle as an avatar would be a conservative? I just fully support freedom of expression, and I hate this kind of s#*!, and it saddens me the direction our culture is going. Then I wasn't talking to you was I? Also I never broke the ToS. Sounds like you have some fact checking of your own to do. I didn't make any statements that you couldn't have easily verified for yourself with a little searching online to educate yourself.

I can't speak for OP, but I don't think it has anything to do with Twitter; I don't recall him mentioning twitter either though. I believe the reason is because modern day feminist civil rights groups throw frivolous lawsuits at billion dollar corporations nonstop with no chance of winning to the point where they're so tired of settling out of court and sinking money into it that they actually hire staff to tell them what must be done in order to appease them. Blizzard literally has "cultrual inclusion and social justice" coordinators to tell them what they must do in order to appease these groups and avoid any negative backlash. Blizzard certainly doesn't want any negative articles written about them right now considering they're currently being assaulted by one such frivolous lawsuit. At some point (probably post lawsuit) it seems like they went back through the game to wash out even more things that these groups would find offensive by removing anything that even remotely sexualizes women in any way, or that could be construed this way. I suspect there was a second wash because there is one spot they missed where a nude female breast can be viewed on a corpse in act 2. The other argument that would be made is that they're doing this to appease China's stricter censorship laws, but this argument is invalid because it would have taken hardly any extra effort for them to release a slightly different version for China than the rest of the world like they always do. These changes were made solely for the purpose of avoiding any negative attention from media by not appeasing militant social justice feminists, because such is the sad world we live in that causing them offense costs money. These changes weren't made to the benefit of the target demographic in this game in anyway, because we in the majority of this demographic as heterosexual males have no problem with the sexualizing of women, and besides that, the overwhelming majority of us also wanted a faithful recreation of this game, and these changes are not a faithful reconstruction. Although, it's not uncommon to find people virtue signaling online in defense of them because they think it makes them sound superior to others. That being said, I don't think it's ideal as a moderator that you've only decided to censor my comments here choosing not to censor the gay pride guy's because you agree with his argument and don't support our choice to pursue the development of this kind of mod because you feel pious about the topic. Nothing I said was any more provocative or offensive than his initial comment. Please use better discretion in the future.

I made a script to make a hotkey for giving potions to my merc so far, but was also planning this.

I also want to contribute to removing the unnecessary social justice changes to the game with some models that are true to the original. I can use blender well enough, but I don't understand how to extract the models from the game files. A few basic graphic mods are rolling through now, if someone would take the time to do a short write up on how to extract the models for editing that would be really awesome.