Submitted 3 days ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
context: lead dev was caught grooming children a few years ago and was kicked off the project. the new lead dev now got caught for the same thing and the whole community imploded and the remaining devs decided t axe the project
Damn, what a terrible situation for those people that worked hard and didn’t diddle kids.
Pedophiles should just kill themselves before killing cool projects like this.
Or raping kids I guess.
I recommend you losten to this This American Life episode: www.thisamericanlife.org/…/tarred-and-feathered
It may give you some perspective
my calamity is machine that turns game developers into child predators Like 3rd developer getting outed from grooming. Reading 262 pages was bad enough now we have this mess
I now regret learning about Terraria modding drama.
The idea of supporting a mod seems a bit wild to me. Back in my day, people just released mods when they were done and that was that.
Future updates to Terraria will break the mod. The mod was also not finished from what I understand. It has been adding content for those 10 years.
Terraria’s devs ended new content development with their last update. Idk if they will still do bugfixes, but there is very few chances for a breaking change that would affect mods.
I’m not too surprised really. modding old games and the mod pack takes literal decades to finish. for example red alert 2, tiberium sun, CNC generals (and zero hour) just for the ones that interest me.
bugs exists. modders fix bugs. especially so for games that are still getting updates, even one as scarcely updated as Terraria. I recall some long time ago the Terraria devs said the game is “finished” and then later on some big anniversary year they released a surprise update. my memory is faulty so don’t quote me
Tbf, there are mods that have just kept on getting more and more features and content added to them, and/or took a stupid amount of time to get to basically v1.0.
Black Mesa Source, the HL1 remake in HL2 engine… pretty sure that took a decade, was originally a mod.
Yes, by far most mods for most games are more… hah, ‘modular’, and tend to be basically just a single or few releases, but there are much more expansive mods of much larger scope, for many different games.
Basically, most ‘total conversion’ mods tend to be more like that… years of development toward a kind of end goal state, because they are basically making an entirely or massively different game, based on whatever particular original game.
That’s some teacher of defense against dark arts curse shit.
The allegations stem from alleged behavior towards underage teens in a NSFW Discord server.
Why is gamesradar protecting nonces with that headline‽
Probably an editor there with a “troubled past”.
Click through I’d assume…
Wait, so two subsequent lead developers got caught allegedly doing illegal stuff (with actual evidence and matching police reports I am assuming, because I won’t read the article on that site), so now everyone else who liked the mod or worked on it are being punished for it?
Just get a new lead developer from the other developers already working on the mod and carry on. Its not the mod’s fault the former lead devs did what they allegedly (I can only assume since I have not seen any evidence) did.
The remaining developers want to shutter it, as they say they feel they’ve been burned too many times.
That’s what they did the previous time. Dude was a pedo. Again.
I don’t really blame them.
assuming there are police reports is being way to generous to the fools that engage in witch hunts.
if there are any it isn’t mentioned anywhere on the article.
Seems like it was… calamity prone.
I’ll show myself out.
Calamity was such a cool mod and i was so excited to see the final boss and all the lore to be finished
:(
Terraria is one of my favorites and I haven’t had a chance to play Calamity. RetroAchevements had, remarkably, added support for the base game and I think there were hopes for set support of this and any other big mods (tracking completion, doing additional challenges, etc). I’m sure this puts some damper on those efforts.
I’ll have up make do with just trying to finish the Completionist set if the craving hits again (it’s insane, every item in the game must be collected!)
nkk@programming.dev 3 days ago
How hard is it to not groom kids guys
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Have you seen kids? Theyre begging for it!
Hard, heavy /s
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s ok to not be sarcastic about some things
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In this example, the allegations here stem from inappropriate contact with minors in the age range of 15 to 17 years in a NSFW Discord server.
The problem is that in cases such as this, they’re not children so much as not yet adults. “Teenagers” used to be the common parlance for this age group and they are particularly interested in sexuality, while not having the cognitive tools or maturity to recognize or protect themselves from actual adults that will sexually abuse them.
The major issue in conflating “children” with “teenagers” is that these are distinct developmental periods in which the latter will literally beg for sex from adults who should not be giving it to them. This is why we moderate and protect the sexuality of this age group - to mitigate the bad decisions that result from an intensely hormonal developmental period paired with increased cognitive and social liberty.
Teenagers are horny, and as such they need additional protections from people like groomy 20-something game devs. But infantilization that seeks to erase teenage sexuality and autonomy does nothing to protect them.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
That’s what she said
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
It’s kind of surprising that neither of them was a billionaire.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A certain unknowable % of the population is afflicted with pedophilia.
If you give someone enough power (money/authority/prestige/etc.) to take advantage of children, there is approximately that same % chance of them exploiting that power, minus whatever fear they have of consequences.
Parents, please monitor your children’s social media. If you’re too busy, don’t let them be on social media. They might face a bit of social stigma for not being on the latest brainrot app, but it’s better than them being in the DMs of their favorite video game creators.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I think that’s partially false equivalence. Acting on those feelings would require that you be OK with harming another person, and a child, no less. Most people aren’t. The overlap comes from the fact that the rich a powrful often are, because that’s how they got rich a powerful.
But the same way a normal person can be attracted to adults, but have no desire to rape, most pedofiles will have no desire to hurt anyone. (That, not the law, is why I think it’s so rare).
Not hurting anyone and respecting consent is the easiest thing ever. Have you ever be so horny you’d fail at those things? I haven’t. And I am a VERY horny person.
Nothing about pedofilia changes that part of how human self-determination works.
You only get the worst of the worst when the type of person that would rape, overlaps with pedofilia. The ones that act on it, DO choose. They are the literal worst among us.
Semicolon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
IIRC the majority of child molesters are non-pedophilic in the clinical sense and I’d imagine this is even more true for post-pubescent minors. Additionally there have been neurological findings that differentiate offending vs non-offending pedophiles, mostly to do with risk-taking behaviors (as in, pedophiles that are generally risk-avoidant are also less likely to offend). So just being a pedophile might not be as strong of a prognostic factor for predicting abuse as one would think.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean the Epstein class made sure the CIA and G7 only captured child rapists below a certain income.
PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 3 days ago
It goes up with money and power. Why else is literally every single billionaire a pedophile?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
If you’re a politician, or for a regular person?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hasnt the minecraft-type community (and i’d consider terraria a minecraft-type game. 2d, side scroller, and arcadey yes, but still a minecraft-type) always had a problem with people being creepy towards kids?
Soulinyx@piefed.world 2 days ago
They’re the same people who probably buy into the whole “but age is just a number” rhetoric, while also asking online, hundreds of age-gap related questions and seeking validity from it.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 days ago
People don’t talk about it because it’s a very sensitive subject, but apparently very difficult for a large percentage of the population. :(