151
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
151 points (95.2% liked)
PC Gaming
10949 readers
589 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Still more civilised than the Minecraft modding scene! *cough Forge drama cough cough*
I'm not into Bethesda games so saying this based on the article: Arthmoor sounds like a piece of shit. It's fine if you have a "vision" for the game, and your mod is about that vision, but you shouldn't pretend that your vision is something else, like simple bug-fixing patches.
Arthmoor is far from the worst the elder scrolls (and specifically the skyrim) modding community has to offer, lol
he's one of the most famous weirdos, but there's waaaaaaay worse among some of the most widely used mods' authors.
the best example is probably Boris, the maintainer of ENB (a shader extension/injector), who is a famously fascist russian.
then there's all the anti-woke modders (which mostly get banned from most platforms within hours/days). these aren't that bad in the grand scheme, but they regularly cause huge shitstorms and hilarious modding sprees that can be best described as "extra, super gay" in protest.
ETA: one kinda famous incident was some guy modding out a SINGLE reference to a (probably, implied only) gay couple of dead skeletons. they're not even really characters, they're just set pieces lying around, but this dude thought "absolutely not!" and posted a patch that removed that like, single text line in a diary, from the game. suuuuper petty, borderline insane. anyway, nexus community, understandably threw a fit, nexus staff was super on board and went nuclear on the dude's account, and a bunch of mods in the theme of "EVERYONE in skyrim is now super gay" sprung up on the front page of the skyrim nexus. so that was pretty funny!
but yeah...there's regularly gross ass bigots around...'cause, you know...viking-themed fantasy land...
have i mentioned the frequent self-takedowns of mods in protest? yeah, that also used to be a big thing on the skyrim nexus...have fun trying to mod when some of the core frameworks just dissapear overnight just because someone was mildly offended by some bullshit...except like once or twice, when they actually kinda had a point...
at least with minecraft most of the mods, and as far as i know all of the big ones, are open source. skyrim's are often closed source, so for a bunch of the core frameworks the community is built around there just isn't an easy replacement. if the modders got mad, things used to just...break.
and then there's the pedos...yeah. some folks keep trying to lewd the kids in skyrim...also get banned pretty much immediately, but like...you know.
sooooo...yeah....minecraft drama is suuuper tame by comparison!
it's intense for the people involved, sure, but big picture wise it's childs' play...skyrim drama hits different.
Yeah I used to think Minecraft was the last sane modding scene, now with Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt and whatever the fuck else I think those days are gone...
The Minecraft modding scene was always insane.
Forge in special has always been a hotbed for drama, since inception - Eloraam (RedPower) and FlowerChild (Better than Wolves) were both founding members, they started fighting because Eloraam was copying BTW features, FC left, booom. Eventually Eloraam and Spacetoad left, and LexManos - not a founding member, but someone invited into Forge by Eloraam - became the head developer, and he makes Arthmoor look nice in comparison.