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http://skyrimgtx.com/presets.html This guy is (at least, should be) the creator of the Talindra preset. What I could make out from his broken English in his videos is that he's pissed at the whole modding world and will not share his mods freely. I was interested with getting the preset as well, but I'm not going to pander to someone's furious outbursts over not being able to properly handle content theft. Angry youtube videos are not the way to fix things, but, I digress. Try to PM him, if you find a want to deal with him. You can find the follower version on Russian sites, if you want.

I really don't care if you have been here longer than LadyMilla. She's a moderator. You are just a member. Your registration date means nothing in comparison to the title of moderator. There are lots of people who have been here just as long as you but they most likely earned their respect. They didn't just expect it from people because of their registration date. If you expect that you need to realize your registration date is the not the be-all-end-all. It's just a date. Get over it. You treat others with respect if you want them to respect you. Which you didn't with LadyMilla. You don't have to care if someone's been here longer that someone else (though the person might have more experience then a certain portion of the staff combined), a one shot account may damage someone's credibility, but have you stopped to think that there is something seriously wrong here (trying hard to not use the profanity that would just perfectly fit in the place of "wrong")? Being a moderator doesn't automatically grant you the Mr.Perfect mix of wisdom, knowledge, character and compassion. Heck, I'd say that the title of moderator can even further damage your credibility if you're the "right" kind of person. Now, can we appreciate some revelations here? - A long-timer sets up a kamikaze account because he's afraid of the moderators. - Professionals built the Titanic, which subsequently sunk - Professionals made Medal of Honor: Warfighter, which ended up a commercial failure - Professionals got Call of Duty to go from Anumber1 to an aging running joke on the internet - Professionals made Crysis 3 - Nexus staff uses language - they present a straw man argument that I am presenting straw man arguments: it was super ineffective - Amateurs made DotA; it's still being played - Amateurs made Counter Strike; 1.6 the living legend! - I set this account up only because I wanted to download stuff! Ask half the account holders whether they had a different reason to set up a Nexus account in the first place But, why do this? Why? Venture into the internet and keep an eye out for links to forum discussions where mods vomited all over another site! When I set up an LL account to try out certain mods that seemed too good to really work as advertised (and they do) was seriously afraid of all the Kool Aid bull.. stuff that I aquired here on the Nexus. I was afraid of getting malware... And now I go about giving newcomers tips on how to set up some things they're not yet familiar with. Thumbs up to the guys here that are cool, though.

I admire your well-worded replying. However, I will stress, for one more time, the point I'm trying to make. On other sites (not only exclusive to LL), there are people (who just so happen to be producing good quality material and some even better) who openly criticize the Nexus and you, claim to have been banned for no proper reason, state that you hide behind fake political correctness, and, most importantly, stress that you can reuse their work aa long as it isn't posted on the Nexus. Seeing this comming from multiple sources, I'm kind of drawn towards thinking there might be some wrong on your side. While I'd like to see sites cooperate and stand strong against the threat of Steam and Bethesda.net slowly and subtly establishing dominance and bringing in an era of paid (non-donated) modding, pushing gaming another step closer to gaming as a service, it is entirely on the communities who they do and don't want referenced in their forums. What angers me is seeing a blatantly detest-inspired statement that content blatantly illegaly extracted and converted is the best and most prominent LL has to offer

To start off, I'd like to thank you all for taking the time to reply. It's a nice gesture. With that out of the way, I'd like to object to some of your points. From top to bottom, as I read the replies: Why do this? Why keep complaining that we can't freely link to "those 'other' sites"? Frankly, to me it's not a problem. I'm okay with sites and forums isolating themselves from one another; there is no shame in that. And I fully understand that it might be dangerous for you to click on an NSFW link under the wrong circumstances -> next to your wife, from your work PC etc. This is something the LL "Kool Aid" guys banned from the Nexus and bearing a grudge against it complain about. What angers me is that the Nexus, instead of simply stating in their rules something like "We don't like that site and you'll either do the same or join some other forum", kicked off the rumor that LL is a despicable pirate site (and seemingly continues on with this, judging by what LadyMilla said) Ripped content, you say? Since it was stated that S-E's rights are being violated here, I decided to equally quickly glance on the matter as Nexus staff did. After checking the 4 most significant LL branches (Skyrim modding, Oblivion, the Fallouts, and the Sims4) whilst keeping an eye on the S-E wiki page list of games. I couldn't find a thing that would blatantly resembl S-E content. I admit that in the depths of the forum there might be some old, forgotten thread containing the stuff you mention, but I lack a link to such a thread. But I could do the same with Nexus and look up the old discussions filled with people consumed by hate pointing out every copyright rule violation on the Nexus. In this respect, I am glad that Thandal admitted that the Nexus shares the same troubles. If the copyright violations are that bad, the site would be taken doen because of the copyright protection act - that didn't happen, and it's not like LL is under the radar. In the end, this brings me back to why I wrote my opinion here: I will not tolerate wrongful accusations that are obviously aimed at damaging someone's reputation. Be careful, this is punishable by law. And now to Dark0ne's points Yes, I agree, LL lacks an age gate. It took me time to start trusting that place because of its reputation on the outside, but I've grown to respect the people there. But the age gate is still missing, and that is the very minimum LL should do. But... - Bypassing the measures taken by the Nexus to prevent underage members from having access to full on nudity and even worse stuff is as easy as setting up an account with false info linking to an email address set up just for this occassion. - If you surf around LL without being logged on, you can't view photos attached to mods (but thre are still the adult ads all over the place) I am a non-drinker of LL Kool Aid and I do like the Nexus; my points are based on my own experience from surfing on multiple mod sites looking for cool mods for Bethesda and C&C games. Your statisics may look like the Nexus is doing well, but from what I've seen (please note that I have been visiting the Nexus for far longer than the age of this account) there has been a shift in the modding world: Not long ago, the best of the best posted their mods on the Nexus and whenever I wanted to see what's new, hot and pioneering, I looked at the Nexus. Today, all that Nexus has to offer from the things that stand out are ENB presets, character save games, and a few HD armor and clothing mods. On the other hand, other modding sites harbor mods that look like alien creations when compared to the stuff being added to the Nexus. The condensed point is: LL is being branded a pirate site by members of the Nexus staff and the replies of the more short-tempered here seem to add up to the stories of naysayers claiming that the Nexus treats modders badly -> as a citizen of a modern country, I detest wrongful accusations and baseless shaming, and as a human being, I believe people can get along and that people should have the opportunity to link to whoever they want (in the interest of strengthening positive relations). It is also my belief that free modding is in danger of being steamrolled by the well-funded Bethesda.net Steamroller, and to counter that, we must be more flexiblr and accepting than a corporate beast (let's face it, hired mods always do more insensitive stuff to a site than people who do it out of heart)

On the topic of Nexus-LL relations, we should keep away from name-calling and childish arguments that can be abstracted down to "because I said so". For this to be a productive debate, we need to focus on cold, hard facts instead of telling someone to look up a definition in a dictionary - at that moment, one basically tells the other that they are not worth speaking to, and creates more room for childish hate and wrongful accusations done behind one's back and out of spite. Regarding pirated content - the content on LL is, as the rules dictate, strictly original or with the approval given by the original creator. Many modders explicitly permit the use of their files for further mod creation with the requirement to be listed in credits, with a not too big number of exclusions. You won't find a damn thing on LL in this field. Not now. Not in the past year. Not in a time frame that matters anymore. On pr0n content - hating on LL or avoiding it because of content of sexual nature ranging from casual sex to rape and bestiality is a display of the most whopping amount of hypocrisy. The Nexus itself contains mods containing not only explicit sex and prostitution, but also rape and bestiality. The same hypocrisy can be pointed out when talking about original content. Moreover, LL is a forum, a community, and as such it stand on pillars made of normal people of flesh and blood. As a community of such people, LL keeps an open mind and doesn't discriminate LGBT content, bestiality and BDSM (to such an extent that adult mods rival the amount of "common mods"), but imposes limitations on itself -> the best known example is not touching children and steering clear of politics. To put it simply, LL behaves like an educated adult in the modern first world. Regarding XXX adverts - Being known to harbor large amounts adult modifications and openly discussing about sexual stuff drives away advertising organizations like a man suffering from leprosy scares off a crowd. This is an actual problem LL has. The only way out of this securing a deal with a non-adult advertisement company, or finding a different reliable source of income for the website. Alienating LL and sh!tting all over it whenever the opportunity presents itself certainly doesn't help and is a short-sighted practise. Here's why: THE FUTURE - Nexus had somewhat of a monopoly on large quantities of high-quality mods for many games, but mostly Elder Scrolls... a few years ago. Right now, Nexusmods only has the advantage of being the Nr.1 Google suggestion for mods. What makes a modding community thrive is the influx and presence talented modders and forums filled with creative ideas. Today, Nexus only boasts a few high-quality modders and the output of quality content slowly decreases over time. On the other hand, the competition to Nexus is churning out progress: alpha and beta versions of Skyrim mods injecting TES V with new technologies, mods built with unification projects, Bullet and C. And everywhere one might go, one will certainly find modders strongly criticizing the Nexus. Putting modders first and making forums the friendliest as possible is the sustainable way to do things, and the LL community is a big family where people gladly help each other out, even though on the internet we're basically strangers. Today, implementing the sustainable approach is nescessary for Nexus to survive as a significant player on the scene. Bethesda.net is comming and the people over there are sure as hell going to aim for It rivalling Steam and the Nexus. If the Nexus drives talent away from itself, the new guys will rampantly grow until someone establishes a monopoly on quality mods -> in the long run monopoly leads to faltering quality. Hope some of these arguments provided a different point of view and will help foster better intercommunity relations. Phosphour.