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Diabetes Forecast
Aug 13, 2008

Droopy Only

RangerKarl posted:

The lizard sex was the most FO2 thing in this mod. Fade to black, a status message, not even a weird lizard sex sound like all the other fade-to-black sex bits in FNV

I think people are so excited and giddy to find ulterior motive in things that they'll grasp at anything. Like yeah the lizards are off-putting but Fisto is arguably just as weird and nobody bats an eye at that.. Definitely should throw shade on America and the much more egregious issues though.

Goons in general are terrified of sex I've come to notice.

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Pwnstar
Dec 9, 2007

Who wants some waffles?

Sex is cool and good but I don't want to know what other people find sexy unless its me and we are super pals. I've never read a book and been like "I wish I had more insight into the writers hosed up sex thoughts." A mod of a videogame even less so.

Fisto owns tho.

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

Fisto feels way less like the writer was horny about him than the barely legal 18 year old sex slave with stinky feet she talks about in immense detail though

ErrEff
Feb 13, 2012

There's a Q&A twitter thread with one of the Fallout: The Frontier mod contributors (they worked mostly on the car stuff) that stated there was no real project management, just a whole lot of chaos. Nothing even as sophisticated as a Trello board - attempts were apparently made to implement such oversight when there were leadership changes but nothing came of it.

And if you 'owned' any part of the mod that was a heavily advertised feature then you were basically untouchable. They specifically mention the NCR stuff as being subject to this.

https://twitter.com/Xilandro/status/1354723418457985025

It's like a microcosm of the specific niches of the Fallout community as a whole. Everyone gets to put in their little contribution and turns out a lot of it is from Loverslab or the adult section of NexusMods, with a dash of RPGCodex, NMA and maybe some 4chan.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

ErrEff posted:

There's a Q&A twitter thread with one of the Fallout: The Frontier mod contributors (they worked mostly on the car stuff) that stated there was no real project management, just a whole lot of chaos. Nothing even as sophisticated as a Trello board - attempts were apparently made to implement such oversight when there were leadership changes but nothing came of it.

And if you 'owned' any part of the mod that was a heavily advertised feature then you were basically untouchable. They specifically mention the NCR stuff as being subject to this.

https://twitter.com/Xilandro/status/1354723418457985025

It's like a microcosm of the specific niches of the Fallout community as a whole. Everyone gets to put in their little contribution and turns out a lot of it is from Loverslab or the adult section of NexusMods, with a dash of RPGCodex, NMA and maybe some 4chan.

Ooooo, Loverslab is one thing, but you're just asking for trouble messing with those assholes.

Nckdictator
Sep 8, 2006
Just..someone

ErrEff posted:

There's a Q&A twitter thread with one of the Fallout: The Frontier mod contributors (they worked mostly on the car stuff) that stated there was no real project management, just a whole lot of chaos. Nothing even as sophisticated as a Trello board - attempts were apparently made to implement such oversight when there were leadership changes but nothing came of it.

And if you 'owned' any part of the mod that was a heavily advertised feature then you were basically untouchable. They specifically mention the NCR stuff as being subject to this.

https://twitter.com/Xilandro/status/1354723418457985025

It's like a microcosm of the specific niches of the Fallout community as a whole. Everyone gets to put in their little contribution and turns out a lot of it is from Loverslab or the adult section of NexusMods, with a dash of RPGCodex, NMA and maybe some 4chan.

Not surprised the NCR campaign was apparently designed by one guy and everyone else thought it was a bad idea.

That said I actually like the idea of the Crusaders but I don't think anyone asked that there be teenage sex slaves involved with them.

https://twitter.com/Xilandro/status/1354841483816407042?s=20

When your hope was that people will just play the Legion campaign there's the problem right there.

SteelMentor
Oct 15, 2012

TOXIC

ErrEff posted:

There's a Q&A twitter thread with one of the Fallout: The Frontier mod contributors (they worked mostly on the car stuff) that stated there was no real project management, just a whole lot of chaos. Nothing even as sophisticated as a Trello board - attempts were apparently made to implement such oversight when there were leadership changes but nothing came of it.

And if you 'owned' any part of the mod that was a heavily advertised feature then you were basically untouchable. They specifically mention the NCR stuff as being subject to this.

https://twitter.com/Xilandro/status/1354723418457985025

It's like a microcosm of the specific niches of the Fallout community as a whole. Everyone gets to put in their little contribution and turns out a lot of it is from Loverslab or the adult section of NexusMods, with a dash of RPGCodex, NMA and maybe some 4chan.

lmao the losers crying about the Enclave/Legion amongst the actually good questions. Why don't you like my favourite fashy daddies mr developer.

And lol that the NCR campaign was openly considered a hot mess of bad ideas but had to be included to avoid hurt feelings, or something.

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

A five-star manufacturer


The Legion campaign is supposedly based mostly around exploring the map and such (according to the mod page) but you also lock yourself out of it if you do what seems like a pretty innocuous quest to patrol with some NCR troopers. That poo poo really got out of hand FAST and they do not give you any advance warning.

Valcione
Sep 12, 2007
For All Brave Silpheed Pilots


Diabetes Forecast posted:

I think people are so excited and giddy to find ulterior motive in things that they'll grasp at anything. Like yeah the lizards are off-putting but Fisto is arguably just as weird and nobody bats an eye at that.. Definitely should throw shade on America and the much more egregious issues though.

Goons in general are terrified of sex I've come to notice.

Buddy, I'm as down-to-gently caress with Deathclaws as the next girl, but there's a time and a place. You wanna download that poo poo from Loverslab? Cool. No judgements. Not really my place to kink-shame anybody. But including it unadvertised in a massive content mod isn't great. At worst, it's exhibitionism. At best, it's a failure to read the room. You really gotta give people a heads up on what they're getting into before slapping your dick in their face, and Frontier didn't.

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Is it really failure to read the room when people loved all the weird creepy sex poo poo thats been in the series forever?

It's bad. But so is being able to be raped in fallout 2 if you play a low int character or whatever. or the sex robot or ghoul in new vegas. But its not "unfitting" because its poo poo that people all are willing to look past when its in the main game but suddenly too far when some weirdo adds it to a mod.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Lt. Danger posted:

I was thinking more "propriety" and at least some of the devs have a warped sense of it, like other fetishists who feel its not weird and actually very normal to inflict their kinks on unconsenting people

personally I don't think "shame" counts the same as "guilt" - if you had to wait to have everyone screaming at you about snake-people sex to remove it, instead of cutting it as soon as you saw, then you didn't know it was wrong in the first place. this doesn't mean you're an amoral nihilist, just that in this area your social calibration's all hosed up! possibly because you spend too much time on the internet with people that think loving a lizard is normal!

I don't know what particular forums slapfight I've stepped into now and I don't care either. but I think the idea that the mod was developed under black box conditions is ludicrous. someone had the final product before release. someone made trailers and media packages. someone tested it, however perfunctorily. someone knew what was in the mod, and didn't do their due diligence

I'm not saying you're wrong but I am saying this is a lot funnier than I think you intended it to be.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
failing on jokes/pushing limits is something you get to do when you build your gamer credit score. frontier forces you to sit through 2 minute pan shots/hour long march + tank escort so they were screwed to begin with. also, yes they're overwrought as gently caress compared to fisto so nobody fallin for pretending they aint horned up

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Crazy Joe Wilson
Jul 4, 2007

Justifiably Mad!
I feel bad for the modders on the Frontier who were honestly just doing good work, and seeing 3-7 years worth of work go down the tube in a week because of others on the team who couldn't be touched.

Valcione
Sep 12, 2007
For All Brave Silpheed Pilots


Ibram Gaunt posted:

Is it really failure to read the room when people loved all the weird creepy sex poo poo thats been in the series forever?

It's bad. But so is being able to be raped in fallout 2 if you play a low int character or whatever. or the sex robot or ghoul in new vegas. But its not "unfitting" because its poo poo that people all are willing to look past when its in the main game but suddenly too far when some weirdo adds it to a mod.

Kinda, yeah? I mean, I can't talk about Fallout 2 because it's been decades and I don't remember it, but in New Vegas they were completely optional in their own quests, and in all instances were uncoerced consensual acts between adults. Or one adult and one animated talking sextoy. Plus, it was hardly explicit. Just a line of dialogue alluding to the act. Fade to black. Fade back in. It's over.

It was just the Atomic Wrangler quests in NV, wasn't it? I'm not forgetting anything else?

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
there's reference to rape (cook cook) but it's not something put in front of the player to indulge in, it's not exactly tasteful or whatever but it's not in the same league as the "your personal rape slave teenage asian mutant girl waifu who did everything that was asked of her forever tee hee"

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Flesh Forge posted:

there's reference to rape (cook cook) but it's not something put in front of the player to indulge in, it's not exactly tasteful or whatever but it's not in the same league as the "your personal rape slave teenage asian mutant girl waifu who did everything that was asked of her forever tee hee"

For the record I was more talking about stuff that's creepy and weird like the deathclaw sex cave, and not the poo poo with America which is super over the line and is very good it's being excised completely.

The deathclaw sex cave came off to me more like a really poorly landed joke but I also totally believe its also a "just kidding..unless...?" thing too given it apparently was also by that skunk guy.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
that wasn't particularly aimed at you, and it's a giant rear end mod, there's gross stuff I came across that still hasn't been mentioned.
e: I wanted to like it too but it's just too much gross stuff :gonk:

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
Fallout: New Vegas - The Frontiers of bad taste (Modding Thread)

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Off the top of my head:
Gomorrah hooks their prostitutes on chems to make them compliant. At least one was murdered and the Omertas covered it up.
Cook Cook raped at least two characters (Betsy and Pretty Sarah) and ate a child.
Dermot and Saint James sold a family to Cook Cook and Saint James is implied to be a pedophile.
Siri warns female couriers that the Legionaries want to "try you out."
Jimmy was a Legion sex slave.

Honestly the prostitutes you hire in Wang Dang Atomic Tango are at least willing to work and goofy. The other stuff is treated pretty seriously and I dont think anyone would treat Saint James as a comic character.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
as much time as I've put into NV I somehow never stumbled on that quest, apparently it's in Aerotech Park and I guess I just didn't look hard enough :shrug:

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

I know with as much time as I've put into the game there are still things I haven't seen.

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
It's kind of interesting that New Vegas has a character connected to child abuse whose name is Saint James

Valcione
Sep 12, 2007
For All Brave Silpheed Pilots


Arcsquad12 posted:

Off the top of my head:
Gomorrah hooks their prostitutes on chems to make them compliant. At least one was murdered and the Omertas covered it up.
Cook Cook raped at least two characters (Betsy and Pretty Sarah) and ate a child.
Dermot and Saint James sold a family to Cook Cook and Saint James is implied to be a pedophile.
Siri warns female couriers that the Legionaries want to "try you out."
Jimmy was a Legion sex slave.

Honestly the prostitutes you hire in Wang Dang Atomic Tango are at least willing to work and goofy. The other stuff is treated pretty seriously and I dont think anyone would treat Saint James as a comic character.

Yeah. Personally, I think sex work is rad and should be legal, so putting together a gang of unconventional prostitutes who are enthusiastic about their work and able to help kinky people come out of their shells is exactly the kind of story that's in my wheelhouse.

The Gomorrah, Legion, and Cook-Cook stuff is all Cop Drama poo poo and can border on feeling exploitative, but I at least feel it's presented in the intended context of "This is sickening" and not "This is boners."

Magmarashi
May 20, 2009





Arcsquad12 posted:

Off the top of my head:
Gomorrah hooks their prostitutes on chems to make them compliant. At least one was murdered and the Omertas covered it up.
Cook Cook raped at least two characters (Betsy and Pretty Sarah) and ate a child.
Dermot and Saint James sold a family to Cook Cook and Saint James is implied to be a pedophile.
Siri warns female couriers that the Legionaries want to "try you out."
Jimmy was a Legion sex slave.

Honestly the prostitutes you hire in Wang Dang Atomic Tango are at least willing to work and goofy. The other stuff is treated pretty seriously and I dont think anyone would treat Saint James as a comic character.

Yeah, that none of the above is treated like wank material is a very important distinction

Ironslave
Aug 8, 2006

Corpse runner
Yeah, most of the weird stuff in New Vegas is a flavor of obviously-comedic (Fisto!) or inept (Betsy). I never got the idea that anyone was getting off on it, working out their own issues, or trying to be edgy--though I remember little of Dermot or Saint James so they might fit that bill. I don't think you're going to find any defenders of the inclusion of Cook-Cook in New Vegas, but there's a very clear difference both in intent and credibility that goes along with the tone both of those moments and the tone of the game and mod themselves.

Edit: Like, the rest of New Vegas is clearly not being someone's furaffinity account, as opposed to opening up the Crusaders tower and seeing everyone sporting giant breasts.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
The Garret brother's barely controlled and failed attempts at disguising enthusiasm for F.I.S.T.O. is always a good chuckle.

e;
As opposed to the rescue of the sex slaves from Gammorah. I always kill the Omerta goons that try to stop them, even if I have the Speech to talk them out of attacking.

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jan 29, 2021

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
It is!? It will!? My God, imagine the possibilities!

I liked the one time I managed to bug that quest and somehow got both Old Ben and Santiago to work ad the "boyfriend" escorts and the entire front bar of the Wrangler was a dominatrix cowboy ghoul, two middle aged men in daddy harnesses and Jacob Hoff looking extremely strung out.

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

nothing in fnv felt like fetish porn the way that the america dialogue does. the player just does a speech check jedi mind trick and she becomes your willing sex slave forever

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

The culture of modding on nexus meant basically everybody was inured to Weird Fucky Bullshit with no real sense of shame, and if there was anybody who wasn't, they'd get shouted down for harshing someone's deathclaw sex/bomb collar sex slave buzz and they wouldn't be able to do anything about it. The whole thing could've and should've used a project manager with, just, like, any sense of decency or standards. But what they got was, what, a psycho who screamed at people for wanting to fix his lovely (and embarrassingly badly scripted, both code and writing) NCR campaign? A bunch of horny perverts? One of which was a documented pedo, so when things were going south and they started getting feedback from people outside of nexus' fucky echo chamber, he became the perfect fall guy and patsy to blame for the mod being taken down.

But bear in mind it's not like this guy's body of work was a secret, they all continued to work with him until it became publicly embarrassing. Same with whoever wrote the rest of the hosed up fetish stuff. And lol at presenting the loving Legion or the Titsaders of Steel as "the interesting campaigns" as an alternative to the NCR. I won't be surprised if the creep who wrote the America slave companion questline managed to get away scot-free with the pedo taking all the heat.

Fallout Frontier basically encapsulates the bulk of the issues with modding culture, and the nexus' modding culture in particular. I might feel bad for a lot of the people who just wanted to contribute something cool to a big, ambitious mod but. This is just typical nexus bullshit.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

One of these perverts must be held accountable! I demand to see the manager of the sexus to sort this perversion out!!

not wrong but, lmao

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
Also, like a huge part of the modding community depends on people making weird sex pervert mods. New animations wouldn't exist if it weren't for people trying to make animated sex in the games, but they never stop at "making an in game romance between adults more explicit."

NLJP
Aug 26, 2004


God damnit I just wanted to play more fallout stuff

gently caress

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Skwirl posted:

Also, like a huge part of the modding community depends on people making weird sex pervert mods. New animations wouldn't exist if it weren't for people trying to make animated sex in the games, but they never stop at "making an in game romance between adults more explicit."

Porn is literally why VHS beat Betamax. And all those old paintings and statues of ladies with their tits out could've been made without nudity, but but you drat well know that the people commissioning those pieces specifically requested it. When you go back throughout history, turns out humanity is a species of horrible sex perverts.


Still shouldn't put their personal wank material in a game overhaul mod that wasn't advertising itself as porn, though, people gotta have some standards for gently caress's sake.

Jamie Faith
Jan 13, 2020

Discendo Vox posted:

Fallout: New Vegas - The Frontiers of bad taste (Modding Thread)

Mods please make this the new thread title

Jeff Fatwood
Jun 17, 2013
https://twitter.com/TTWDevteam/status/1354742963063021571

:unsmith:

UED Special Ops
Oct 21, 2008
Grimey Drawer

ErrEff posted:

There's a Q&A twitter thread with one of the Fallout: The Frontier mod contributors (they worked mostly on the car stuff) that stated there was no real project management, just a whole lot of chaos. Nothing even as sophisticated as a Trello board - attempts were apparently made to implement such oversight when there were leadership changes but nothing came of it.

And if you 'owned' any part of the mod that was a heavily advertised feature then you were basically untouchable. They specifically mention the NCR stuff as being subject to this.

https://twitter.com/Xilandro/status/1354723418457985025

It's like a microcosm of the specific niches of the Fallout community as a whole. Everyone gets to put in their little contribution and turns out a lot of it is from Loverslab or the adult section of NexusMods, with a dash of RPGCodex, NMA and maybe some 4chan.

Wow, that... that really explains a heck of a lot, and is completely insane at the same time. The NCR part especially.

Reveilled
Apr 19, 2007

Take up your rifles

Xarbala posted:

One of these perverts must be held accountable! I demand to see the manager of the sexus to sort this perversion out!!

not wrong but, lmao

My most memorable encounter with nexus users was being told that actually I was the real pedophile for objecting to a mod that added a playboy bunny outfit for kids into fallout 3.

BurritoJustice
Oct 9, 2012

Reveilled posted:

My most memorable encounter with nexus users was being told that actually I was the real pedophile for objecting to a mod that added a playboy bunny outfit for kids into fallout 3.

The modding equivalent of "you brought race into it!" when you call out someone's racist dogwhistle

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Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


2house2fly posted:

It's kind of interesting that New Vegas has a character connected to child abuse whose name is Saint James

Mods knew.

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