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Remember that capeshit vidya mod that took out the Pride flags? Turns out it wasn’t a mod! It just enabled the Middle Eastern localization provided by the devs in the game itself!

https://twitter.com/necksplitter/status/1559444372667568128

Context and original writeup: https://rdrama.net/post/94337/absolutely-disgusting-we-get-the-capacity

Pink News article throwing a fit about it (does not mention the localization):

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/16/spider-man-remastered-mod-lgbtq/

MSN:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spider-man-remastered-modder-banned-for-removing-pride-flag/ar-AA10FLov

More:

https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/spider-man-remastered-mods-pc

β€œthinly veiled homophobia and fear of queerness.”

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What's impressive is some suit that ordered that though "hmm, what can we replace the gay flag with that's gonna be more palatable to sand people.... oh I know, american flag! They love that one!" :marseywholesome::marseymutt:

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Unironically yeah. You know we have allies in the middle east as much as we have enemies right? Pretty much the reason for the 9/11 attack.

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Cause our allies wanted us to come over and frick up our enemies. Remember that all 9/11 highjackers were Saudi nationals.

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