Still, as I investigated further, the unlikely nude mod scene continued to subvert my expectations. I suppose there is some tradition here, when you consider the long history of murky backroom poker games and pool halls, with the walls paneled with torn-out centerfolds, and the cardbacks replaced with a calendar's worth of Playmates of the Month. 'I try to keep the art I use in my mods as decent as possible,' he says. Meaning: they aren't actively whacking it in the middle of a tense match. The person responsible for the Uncensored Shadowverse mod tells me he thinks most people use his work for 'pinup' purposes. Shadowverse, one of the many other digital CCGs bobbing around the Steam marketplace, has attracted its own community of randy reskinners, who convert the already buxom anime girls in the card art into images that leave even less to the imagination. Inevitably, this creative drive for constant titillation is not limited to Hearthstone. 'I'd rather just look at some boobs' is the defining aesthetic treatise of the lewd mod revolution-fundamental proof that such a basic desire can apply to just about anything, even the proverbial children's card game. 'I see that other people enjoy an immersive experience… but I'm not about that life, I'd rather just look at some boobs.' He totally recognized why Skyrim, or Fallout, or The Witcher represented more traditional conduits for gamer lust-considering those are all games where you encounter other humanoid beings, instead of digitally rendered hunks of cardboard.Īs it turned out, there was a simplicity to Whiskey_And_Cigars' doctrine that I couldn't help but appreciate: 'While I do play Skyrim with mods, I just really like playing Hearthstone,' he explained. Whiskey_And_Cigars said he understood my confusion.

Keen to understand why a largely cartoonish card battler would provoke such feelings of desire in, well, anyone, I decided to speak with the modder in question. It’s as if you were playing Hearthstone directly onto a Playboy pinup. There's also Monster Hunt Additions, which does the same thing for the single-player content added with The Witchwood expansion, and Boards, which simply projects pervy images across the game's battlefield. It's essentially a directory, written by Reddit user Whiskey_And_Cigars, that points us in the direction of Whorestone, which replaces the card-art in base Hearthstone with a set of nude portraits for Jaina, Tyrande, Scarlet Crusader, Nemsy, and pretty much every other female presence in the game.

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