mlee3141 Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 You say I'm a force of stasis, that holds back change when it's good and necessary? No. The beauty of dawn has ever been an illusion, and change is fundamentally destructive, for it heralds chaos, war and unrest. I'm simply trying to defend my rights as a modder/ content creator anyway, and to ensure that people are actually educated about the same (mods) through tutorials, trial and error, and simple intuition, rather than being spoon-fed a slurry of lies/ incorrect information through an unnecessary third-party site that goes against the explicit wishes of the authors that they depend on to survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindboggles Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 To me mod picker seems like the obvious next step in the development of a true modding community. Nexus provides a good platform for authors to talk to users and to some extent to get feedback, but there isn't really a centralized place for users to talk to each other. Frankly I don't see why any opt-out option is necessary or appropriate. It's just people talking to people about mods. The admins shouldn't feel responsible to stop people from talking about certain mods because the author doesn't like being talked about. If you don't like being talked about, you really shouldn't participate in a community at all, because if you are going to be a presence then you are going to get talked about and there's nothing anybody can do about it.Why can't you talk about mods here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roro330 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) You say I'm a force of stasis, that holds back change when it's good and necessary? No. The beauty of dawn has ever been an illusion, and change is fundamentally destructive, for it heralds chaos, war and unrest. I'm simply trying to defend my rights as a modder/ content creator anyway, and to ensure that people are actually educated about the same (mods) through tutorials, trial and error, and simple intuition, rather than being spoon-fed a slurry of lies/ incorrect information through an unnecessary third-party site that goes against the explicit wishes of the authors that they depend on to survive.what Mod Picker is doing has proven to be incredibly useful with the Minecraft community, so yes, you are just being a prick and fighting against useful things. and you never answered my question. what is your favorite part of Atlas Shrugged? Or the Fountainhead, really. I just like to know who it is that I am debating with. Edited April 25, 2016 by roro330 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlee3141 Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) In the Fountainhead, the part where Roark makes a speech on remaining true to one's own ideals, vision and passion in front of a jury of his peers, showing that he is willing to risk all for his own beliefs. Edited April 25, 2016 by mlee3141 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlee3141 Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Now, for a question of my own. Which part of 1984 did you find most appealing? I'd just like to know who I'm debating with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUNKdeLUXE Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Great... the discussion has turned into a bookclub... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lofgren Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 To me mod picker seems like the obvious next step in the development of a true modding community. Nexus provides a good platform for authors to talk to users and to some extent to get feedback, but there isn't really a centralized place for users to talk to each other. Frankly I don't see why any opt-out option is necessary or appropriate. It's just people talking to people about mods. The admins shouldn't feel responsible to stop people from talking about certain mods because the author doesn't like being talked about. If you don't like being talked about, you really shouldn't participate in a community at all, because if you are going to be a presence then you are going to get talked about and there's nothing anybody can do about it.Why can't you talk about mods here? What an odd question. We can and we do. (And we are.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roro330 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) Now, for a question of my own. Which part of 1984 did you find most appealing? I'd just like to know who I'm debating with.probably the part where they go antique shopping. I think that it serves as a quaint contrast to the (artificial) bleakness of the rest of the story. Kind of like this conversation in the bleakness of the internet <3 But your reference to 1984 brings up a good point. A major trope in the book was it's establishment of government oversight bringing stability, safety, and a general increase in the quality of life to the citizens of the country. They spent their entire lives in fear of Eastasia. They spent their lives cowering from the Eastasian menace. But their government protected them. Their government provided that stability, that protection, in a way that individuals simply wouldn't have been able to. In a similar way, Mod Picker is looking to do the same thing. Without Mod Picker, we have no one acting to keep us informed of important changes in mods and the modding community in a collected and concise form (think of how different the society in 1984 would be if their government didn't keep them informed of the smallest changes. For example: the chocolate rations scene). Without that kind of information distribution being handled by a large group above the common people, there is no good way that people could be easily informed. That kind of organization allows for easy, concise, and efficient distribution of information from a central authority to those in need of it. Great... the discussion has turned into a bookclub...<3 Edited April 25, 2016 by roro330 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindboggles Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 To me mod picker seems like the obvious next step in the development of a true modding community. Nexus provides a good platform for authors to talk to users and to some extent to get feedback, but there isn't really a centralized place for users to talk to each other. Frankly I don't see why any opt-out option is necessary or appropriate. It's just people talking to people about mods. The admins shouldn't feel responsible to stop people from talking about certain mods because the author doesn't like being talked about. If you don't like being talked about, you really shouldn't participate in a community at all, because if you are going to be a presence then you are going to get talked about and there's nothing anybody can do about it.Why can't you talk about mods here? What an odd question. We can and we do. (And we are.) So why do you feel this isn't a "centralized place" where users can talk to each other about mods? The mods are here, the user's are here and the mod author's are here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnytecboy Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Without Mod Picker, we have no one acting to keep us informed of important changes in mods and the modding community in a collected and concise form (think of how different the society in 1984 would be if their government didn't keep them informed of the smallest changes. For example: the chocolate rations scene). Without that kind of information distribution being handled by a large group above the common people, there is no good way that people could be easily informed. That kind of organization allows for easy, concise, and efficient distribution of information from a central authority to those in need of it.What's this place then, chopped liver?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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