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Browser (Firefox) locked down as much as I can. Signing into Nexus mods was never a problem before, but it is now a problem because the captcha bit of the login is missing. When I adjust my preferences and extensions I get the "I am not a robot" bit but it does not respond to a mouse click. The new captcha system wants me to allow cookies, all cookies it seems. The does not appear to be happy with Ad Blockers or script blockers. When a website behaves like this I usually ignore the site and go elsewhere. Blinding policy, after all these years of being really sensible. There has to be another way to achieve the same ends. I'm writing this on an open browser on a VM. Is it possible to use Nexus Mods and secure your browser anymore? If so, has anyone got a writeup I could use? Could I sandbox it? What is the most secure setup to run Nexusmods?

Here you go :o)

I'm concerned that its a slow creep to remove the freedom to mod from the grasp of PC gamers and I think they want to control their IP, its probarbly been in planning for some time . The current iteration of creation club is likely to break mod builds as they update and I would bet that in future it will fork significantly, probarbly with 6. Like you suggest I think they will give the best tools to contractors and if we're lucky there will be a two tier system, the cutdown version being on general release. If unlucky we'll see none at all. In order to use the creation kit you have to sign up to Bethesda.net. How easy would it be to control the distribution of mods through that portal? Are they killing the goose that lays the golden egg? I don't know, they may have decided that they can keep it alive through battery farming techniques serving the home console users who just want new stuff and are prepared to pay for it.

I wondered whether Windows permissions would effectively block CC update from writing to the game folders?

Hi http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39119/? This is one of my favourite player homes from Skyrim. I've installed it in SSE just to see if it worked and it seemed to be ok, mostly. The glitches that exist look like they may be texture issues because depending on which way you look at some items they become a sort of solid blue in-filled shape. I thought I would have a go at straightening out the few issues I've seen, just for my play throughs for now, but I have no clue about where to start and what to use. I would appreciate your advice on how I can make the changes? All the best

I do worry that digital content will be lost to future historians. This is encouraging, well done!

I read his posts, he showed a Cynical disregard for the views of his customers and their efforts to explain their position. He's having a lot of fun at the moment.

I have just been to http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65070/? That's a worrying turn of events, any plans to prevent this sort of watering down of content and making me feel like a 2nd class citizen for not wanting to use Steamworkshop?

"A modder is a fellow enthusiast like myself; a fan, we share a passion. He/she has the time, skills and energy to create something and share it with me and the community and that's f***ing amazing, I love it, it motivates me to enjoy our shared interest even more and I want to express my appreciation for that to them." I think this is part of the point, suddenly that relationship is broken and it is no longer a relationship but a transaction. Neither side will feel the love because all the essential essence of the relationship has been discarded at the point of sale. I have spent hours comparing mods, trying them out, using some and discarding others because they did not work for me, but my feelings toward the modder is usually thanks for sharing, brilliant, I stand in awe. With a paywall I will want to be assured that the "product" (no longer a mod) will work because I no longer have the leisure to try combinations in my own time before committing them (or not) to my game, that way lies ruin. My concern is that the Pandora's box has been opened and the world subjected to its myriad pestilences, and while the current batch of games that are supported by mods for will probably continue to be served by those mods, at least for now, any new community mod content for the next generation of games will be strangled through lack of tools and legal takedowns. I think that in future mods will only be accessible through a paywall protecting the IP of whatever the game in question is. Its pants the way my gaming experiences have been messed about, I feel brutalised. I'm seriously starting to think that I should be concentrating on older and DRM free games and spread the risk of my games being interfered with by not relying on Steam so much. Given the backlog of unplayed games I own I am starting to think that I no longer need any more new games if the consequences are corporate abuse. A bit of a wake up call for me as an oldtime gamer approaching 60, I've noticed other hobbies are available. I can walk away.

Continue to keep your head while all about people are losing theirs . . .

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyXIXyAZq0 Its satire but close I think

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I have to say that this has been coming for years and I'm surprised that its not happened sooner. There is no doubt in my mind that the free and easy exchange of ideas and work will cease very quickly now that the big boys have woken up to the fact that people are benefiting each other without exchanging cash. They will monetise their IP and we will be the poorer for it. My guess is that Skyrim was the last game that enabled such a community feeling. Another little light has gone out or should that be #anotherlittlelighthasgoneout for shame.

Phew! What a relief I thought you were going to follow the trend these days where everything can be monitorised. Thankfully not, still able to breathe free air. Huzzah!

You really are awesome.