MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. 4 days ago:
Ok, let’s say I grant you that, does this change anything in the rest of my argument you completely ignored or?
Also, even in that case, are you telling me the people who want that content removed, you know, the loud people who made a fuss about it and pressured the aforementioned business people, specifically don’t want it on nexusmods?
You can ignore a point by nitpicking it all you want, I will even grant your nitpick, it doesn’t make nexusmods less bad than they already were in my mind, if anything that’s worse because we can’t even expect consistent bias, just outright mercenary behaviour, either way not what I want from a hosting service.
Let’s see you address the rest of the post, if you would, I wrote a hell of a lot more which you have neglected.
- Comment on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. 5 days ago:
Open racism/transphobia are, I’m guessing, not allowed.
Ok, so you clearly are not familiar with what AO3 is.
The point is: Mods, like fanfiction, or any other form of expression that is to be perused by others at their leisure (unlike social media interaction which is by its very nature meant to address an audience of strangers in a “digital town square” of sorts) are both pointless and wrong to regulate.
The same exact argument of moral turpitude was the whole reason why american gay/lesbian erotica had to end with the characters dying to skirt censorship laws. Dismantling and demonising the institution of morality-based censorship is the only path to a place where no group is actively unable to express itself, and that includes groups we don’t like, because if it didn’t it would mean nothing.
It’s moronic, and infantilising, to prevent adults from consuming content in the privacy of their own home, just because you or I find it immoral or distasteful, simple as.
- they weren’t barred from publishing the mod
Are you telling me the people behind the decision to ban certain mods due to bigotry were holding a stance of “we are more than happy for you to publish your content, just not here for completely unrelated reasons” or are we being serious and we accept the fact that the stance is an explicit “these mods should not exist and we don’t want any part of them”?
They were barred from publishing the mods to the farthest extent he people barring them were capable of. Thankfully they don’t own the entire internet.
- they’re totally okay with using said tool in lots of cases where it was never used before
Are we talking about the same tools here? To be clear, I meant the tool of removing content from a site over political alignment, not tools as in “software tools.”
And if your argument is “well right wingers used admin authority to remove left-aligned game mods from sites” my reply is where and when, because I have 0 memory of LGBT-friendly mods ever facing pushback form hosting sites at any point in my 25+ years of gaming and playing modded games.
Institutions and pundits sure, but that was just as true of videogames as a whole so that’s not relevant here.
But there are realistically always some rules on what kinds of hosted content is allowed on a page. […] Why is this a step too far compared to other cases that go beyond legal limits?
What legal limits? Nexusmods to my knowledge is a US company; there is no law against depicting a non-inclusive world (such as in the case of the pride flag removal mod for spiderman), or even outright discrimination of any kind in media, nor are there laws against outright political speech that discriminates, so long as it’s only speech, and it is not a direct and actionable incitement to violence.
Are we to assume that any site needs to adhere only to the freedoms that ALL countries would allow it, the narrowest subset possible, or are they to abide by the laws of the country where they are hosted and incorporated as a company? Because I will remind you that every single LGBT mod hosted on nexus is breaking laws in countries totaling a 4th of the human race, give or take.
- Comment on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. 5 days ago:
Lemmy is not a hosting site, it’s a forum, it’s fundamentally different.
I disagree with plenty of ideas, but I also reject the notion that someone should be barred from publishing them, because that tool will inevitably be used against those same people when the pendulum swings.
To wit, those mods didn’t stop existing, they were just hosted elsewhere, because a hosting site is not social media, it’s not a place of dialogue or community, it’s a utility.
- Comment on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. 6 days ago:
To me, it’s a mixture of things:
- I want my hosting sites to not be opinionated, think AO3. Is there shit on it that I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole? Yes. Is it fine? Also yes.
Removing “bigoted mods” is just saying “we decide what you can download”, and I can make that determination for myself, as a grown ass adult.
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Their monetisation is shit, and they’re very heavyhanded about it
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Their user-facing behaviour is smug and condescending, they act like modding exists because of them and not the other way around.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The carry unit mechanic still needs a mod to work properly, otherwise the carried unit’s position is only updated on the visuals, not mechanically.
It’s ass given how important it is.
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
Depends how far you move on that axis, i guess.
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
And it is fatal, at that.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 week ago:
Berlusconi is both European Clinton and what Trump wishes he was.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Gonna have to ask you for a source on that.
Also, as stated, he’d have to own 5000 of them to even reach 1% of global emissions. I genuinely could not care less about this non-issue.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Yesn’t.
All your objections are valid, however all of these factors only add noise to the equation.
The Pareto distribution still observably happens in non-centralised, non-profit driven systems.
It is a byproduct of unequal output, not market type, provided there is some sort of reward proportional to performance.
I don’t think we should prescribe to the idea differences in skill are AS great as riches would imply.
They are only in the beginning. Money has the ability to compound and, in the case of competitive, elastic markets, this is even more starkly visible.
If I make more money one year due to higher fitness/better output, I have more revenue with similar expenses to my direct competitors, so I have more profit, I get to invest more, rinse, repeat, compounding my competitive advantage more-than-linearly.
This however is just more visible in economics. In fact, I would argue it goes for any type of competitive environment; the fewer limiting factors on individual faculties the more obvious it is.
Individual sports like tennis, swimming, running, or martial arts are usually dominated by a handful of individuals, who reach the peak and then get replaced as they get older, and new, stronger athletes join the competition (or sometimes if rulesets are modified to shake up the meta, but that would also change the parameters to determine fitness).
The only scenario where this does not happen is where there is no running incentive, or only weak ones, to excel in a particular pursuit.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
He owns multiple megayatchts
Still a single person, still can’t use them all at once.
and now a company that make these
You understand that the clientele of a megayacht shipyard is very limited, right? This is a non-issue.
Let’s focus on real issues, like the move to nuclear, or finding better ways to do metallurgy than exporting all of it to the third world where health and pollution regulations don’t apply, as if it’s not the same atmosphere we’re polluting, shall we?
Luxury purchases only a handful of people can even afford is really the bottommost thing on the list, short of regulating how much you’re allowed to eat beans to reduce your methane output.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Still a drop in the ocean compared to any of the actual needle-movers, I truly could not care less.
It’s one guy using one yacht and having others parked, and even if he rented them out it’s next to nothing compared to much more wide ranging systemic issues going unchecked.
I’ll keep worrying about the real issues, you can keep obsessing over celebrity gossip.
- Comment on Is it okay to be highly invested in politics and political news to the point of wanting it to control your life and express your socialist world views against Conservative corruption and fascism? 2 weeks ago:
wanting it to control your life
Fuck no lol
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Definitely partly from the gaseous byproducts of digestion, yes.
Also poop aerosols, but not exclusively.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Nah sorry, your fixation on the yachts is still weirder.
Like, shoot me if I ever give that much of a fuck about how people spend their money, y’all are just fucking envious internet town gossips complaining the neighbours got a bigger car again this year while you <insert boring struggle of the day here>.
Mind your own pocket, let Gabe worry about his.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s a byproduct of differences in skill and fitness to tasks, it’s gonna happen even in centralised economies (that were never tried and if they were it wasn’t real communism, I’m sure) it’s just not going to be recognised and rewarded if everyone is supposedly equal.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily, gasses smell too.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 3 weeks ago:
Pareto principle writ large.
That or Sturgeon’s law.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Saints row 3.
2 had just the right balance of funny and serious.
3 felt cobbled together as a series of lolsorandom ideas without an actual soul in them, cut out fleshed out characters you grew to love in 2 to make space for terribly acted cardboard cutouts voices by meme-famous people like Hulk Hogan and Sasha grey, neither of whom aged particularly well as a casting choice, and didn’t really have anything seriously above 2 except for the raw gameplay.
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s slightly sweet it’s more likely Teriyaki, which is a flavour cheatcode.
- Comment on Drunken Rogue, a dungeon-crawling RPG where heroines get stronger the drunker they become, launches on Steam on August 21 5 weeks ago:
Hey, some drugs are quirky and fun too.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, comedy.
- Comment on Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)? 5 weeks ago:
Reborn, any day. I’m quite happy with my life, but this and being a multimillionaire through some minor investments in bitcoin, and a stat screen to minmax? 11/10
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Mods, by virtue of being moderators?
Like, it’s a role that comes with responsibilities, that is the only reasonable expectation this guy had.
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 2 months ago:
if it really is so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle, you know before the end of the meal/film.
I disagree that you would necessarily know.
Mass Effect 3 is stellar, until the ending invalidates basically all of your choices and destroys the galaxy no matter what you do, because the lead writer and the director thought it right to bypass their internal review process.
Firewatch feels like it’s going to take at least some of the dialogue choices you made in the game into account but then it turns out it’s entirely linear and smoke and mirrors.
A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 2 months ago:
The media goes poof anyway, there’s plenty of NFTs that point to dead links on domains that expired once the grift was no longer worth it.
Personal backups are the only real way to protect media for yourself and those around you.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 2 months ago:
The “reason” not to is that trees need tending and cobblestone does not.
It’s a stupid reason, but you know…
- Comment on After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it? 2 months ago:
He’s saying that’s not useful information, not condescending you for buying a low spec machine.
What is your hardware configuration?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The answer is probably “no”, but let’s show the work, just in case.
He has been caught, multiple times, disingenuously embracing positions and politicians that contradict his own prior supposed “strongly held beliefs”, only ever really strongly condemns his own side if it benefits him, or at least if not doing so would harm him, his show is boring as shit and his streaming service a transparent propaganda vehicle devoid of artistry or craft.
He may be a good husband and father behind closed doors, we have no way to verify that at this time.
Yeah I’d say he’s morally absolutely mercenary and spineless which makes him a pretty worthless person, in a “banal evil” kind of way.
- Comment on Persona 6 Has Finally Been Revealed, More Than 9 Years After Persona 5 Launched 2 months ago:
1 was purple and 2 was orange, green was the last color left.