So Stellaris, the "4X" game by Paradox, is releasing various updates to some of its older, previously "cosmetic" DLCs which includes the Humanoid pack. In these updates are two new portrait options that are being described as "Elves".
Behold, "elves": https://i.ibb.co/1f3ZyxJ/elves2.jpg
Don't worry, they come in many colours, the fact the default option is brown is totally a coincidence.
https://i.ibb.co/wLrcCqQ/dfa5a33825065088193e525adb199e510ad02a7e.png
https://i.ibb.co/HGD7DJZ/eec8cf19bf79a5de08f7069acceb264e38cef117.png
Do note that so far that second image is still labelled as "Females", so wait and see how soon that changes to "Body Type 2" or something else.
The second set aren't much better: https://i.ibb.co/ZSDWdJ5/085749c6cadb73a8aeb68cf0be5b83dd18d47db2.png
The response has been somewhat cathartic with many players calling out the new designs as of a quality not befitting a game such as Stellaris which has been running for 7 years now.
There are also some very expected comments about how the portraits have certain slants towards actual human appearances. As well as bats.
Some of the nicknames for the portraits even include "Nubians" more so because they look less like Elves rather than more like certain Human groups.
Keep in mind Stellaris is the game which previously banned certain mods that would skew leader/population appearances in certain ways, in this case towards Caucasian, however as is known by many here it's acceptable when The Message is "correct.
Oh and a final point, these changes to the past DLCs are coming with a price hike. Those who have them won't be charged extra but a previously cheaper tier of DLCs that added in species content instead of "Story content" as the larger DLCs are referred to is now on par with the newer DLCs which brings the total DLC cost for Stellaris to something like $270.
Because paradox are racist cucks who hate Whites. This happened back in 2016 or 2017 a European portraits and names mod was banend while paradox promoted a black only human portrait mod. Moddb was the only one who didnt remove that European humans mod
Which is dumb when space travel will mean a trend towards being white! Darker skin tones happen because of greater solar radiation exposure. In spaceship, behind hulls and whatever other protective options like shields in many Sci-Fi settings, said solar radiation is no longer a thing, so a species has no reason to continue promoting melanin production.
Spacetravel may mean the use of artificial UV lighting to encourage Vitamin D synthesis since a single UV lamp is lighter and easier to use than shipping who knows how many VitD capsules. Lighter skin tones will facilitate greater uptake of UV from artificial sources and lower rates of depression and mood disorders from VitD deficiency.