Coolguye posted:

i'm catching up on this thread but jfc don't get all insecure because some goonlords have Thoughts about a book they read 10 years ago

i'm actually rereading the first Redwall book again with a buddy right now (she'd never heard of them),

Jagged Jim posted:

Save us from Drama Nexus Fallout 4 Hot Files!

Just a hairy male body

http://imgur.com/lSvaFd6

I knew we could count on you!

FutonForensic posted:

Shoehead posted:

https://twitter.com/waypoint/status/832292388332773377

Mendrian posted:

Yeah last time I checked you could pirate entire expansions by uploading the .esp files as a mod, is that still true?

It sounds to me like this whole thing is Bethesda having more money than people and they're basically just paying high-profile modders and ex-employees to churn out content for them because they can't be bothered to dwell on a game for more than a year or two.

I would pay a ton of money for a 'mod' that turned Fallout 4 into a good game though. Or rather, a good story, I guess it's already a pretty fun game.

King Vidiot posted:

Who the gently caress are the players (besides Discendo Vox and the author) who actually have read the entire "Long Guide"?

I'd never even heard of it until right now. That's some Ulillillia levels of OCD and number wanking.

Coolguye posted:

there's a lot of archeological study that goes into this sort of thing that it's dreadfully obvious not a single 'post apocalyptic' game maker is familiar with

the short version of it is that even with minimal material and tools people can and do make some pretty elaborate and comfortable shelters if they've got a reason to stay put in one place, and that reason comes from trade approximately 100% of the time. so if you're hanging out in a village, farming and trading, then your poo poo will probably be at least reasonably clean and you're not going to be sleeping on the floor on a mattress that is very clearly infested with lice. if you're not trading with anyone outside your band and are in effect a hunter-gatherer then your poo poo will be ramshackle because you fully expect to have to abandon it at a moment's notice because game is moving.

but nah instead everything just sucks because you don't have table saws anymore or some poo poo

Coolguye posted:

i could go on but who honestly cares, it is an insanely nerdy point about an insanely nerdy subtopic in the insanely nerdy hobby of playing many, many video games.

Max Wilco posted:

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/...review%3D&pUp=1 (slightly )

On the bright side, the description shows that mod author did it as a joke and admits that it's stupid. That's a good sign, right?

Midig posted:

I am checking out ESO core mod list and it has open cities.... Gonna be gud to see people having all sorts of issues.

EDIT:

The pack has KS Hairdos. Staph.

Erwin the German posted:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/47941?tab=description

Goon Childhood Simulator 2021.

StillFullyTerrible posted:

as a reminder, The Iron Rose was a Kiwifarms poster, so their sense of "good" is rather skewed

Lt. Lizard posted:

Yes, it is evolving in the direction of generating/maximizing profits and eliminating any possible obstacle that would stand in the way(like the power of people that actually create the profit-generating content to protest or disagree in any way). That's certainly a....... good thing?

Lt. Lizard posted:

I mean, it's entirely fair that you are ok with someone profiting from your mods. But would you be still ok, if the one profiting would be a sex pest? Or someone deep in Alt-Right circles, using your mod or profits from it to further their causes? Or, for something less sensational, someone who simply bundled your mod as a part of the official, paid DLC, without giving you recognition or compensation for it? There are myriad scenarios where you could begin to feel uncomfortable about who is profiting from your mods and honestly, a lot of them are not that unlikely, much less impossible.

Except all of the above doesn't really matter, because Nexus is currently implementing a feature that will allow them to not give a gently caress if someone is ok about Nexus profiting from their mods or not. Which is the whole issue here. It's less about the profiting by itself (although it's obviously still connected to it) and more about removing the most effective ability to protest of those they are profiting from, to safeguard their current profits from unforeseen sticky situations and to allow the possibility to make more controversial and thus riskier and more profitable moves in the future. And again, that is obviously not good.

goblin week posted:

That or they’ll just made Nexus unavailable in europe, like most of websites did

Kurui Reiten posted:

Ok but: In this scenario, the mod was uploaded to the internet. You're not talking about a mod that was designed purely for personal use or use among a small group of friends. You're talking about mods that are released onto the wider internet.

A modder is not forced to upload their mod to the internet. Uploading to the wider internet is something that has to be done purposefully, and almost universally in a way that leads to "Look at my mod, isn't it neat, here you guys can play with it too".

At that point, several issues come into play over how much control the modder can have over distribution of something they willingly released. Licensing and for profit usage are complicated, but you don't just go to the Nexus and hit there "here's my mod, have fun" button. There's a multitude of steps to go through, since you're specifically sharing this piece of code.

These are not fully formed, self-contained games either. They require another frontend to function. Which complicates the issue even more.

Lt. Lizard posted:

Giving people, who often uploaded their mods on Nexus years before someone began to even think about permanently hosted mods, a window to withdraw them, if they disagree about the idea of their work being permanently online is cool and good, actually.

Vapor Moon posted:

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