Neutral: how am I? I almost died on the 3rd. I was riding my motorcycle home from watching the fireworks with my family and some yahoo turned left right in front of me, appearing out of nowhere from between two stopped cars and not checking left as he pulled out. I panic stopped, the front wheel slipped on wet…

The problem is that people are bundling mods together, and if one of the mods gets deleted, the whole package could potentially fall apart.

We have tons of laws that specifically exempt the three northern territories: Exempting them from this would’ve been incredibly easy, but we chose not to anyways.

Is that different from normal desalination plants? While dumping it into the ocean would be a bad idea, many appear to continue drying it so the  salt can be harvested.

This will also have nasty waste products, which is not necessarily a deal breaker, but would have to be considered when scaling up. 

The Sims Drama? Been there, front and center. I personally had DMCA takedowns of my private website and forum because I didn’t hold with that payment for mods bullshit. I had a fairly well known name in the community, and was outspokenly against pay sites.

Yeah, this whole situation seems to really boil down to people not understanding the licensing terms of the platforms they’re releasing content on. In fairness, Nexus probably could do a better job making the license more obvious in the creation flow. When you open a public repo on Github, one of the first things it…

Left Pad was MIT licensed. It was open source. There was no IP to own there, so long as the terms of the MIT license are upheld. The dispute itself was over a package name for an unrelated project. Which the other company did in fact own a trademark to, and likely would have won in court if it had come to legal…

Modders don’t lose “all agency over their works”. All this change does is preserve archive copies of older versions so collections designed to work with specific versions can download those specific versions without the mod author pulling them. The only ‘agency’ lost is the ability to hard delete old versions and even…

There’s been a similar argument at another mod(ish) site I hand out at. Though more for awkward policy than something like this. Most modders aren’t even really aware of the fact that licenses of different types and...what I’ll call “levels” exist. They mostly push them onto a site they think will get them exposure…

That’s the thing though, I can’t see why any major mod creator would _want_ to opt out. Like, right now, it’s not like a content creator can stop another content creator from “depending” on them, other than by deleting their content. And even then, there aren’t clear licensing rules here for mod release. Which means…

I mean, the Left Pad Incident pretty conclusively proved Nexus’s point about why this is required (and it’s been pretty well understood in software dependency management for a long, long time).

It’s a pretty standard requirement of any hosted package management system.

Yes, this is how basically every package management system that wants to not break all the time must work. It’s also why you can’t delete stuff, only archive, in most systems that support cross referencing between objects.

The one truth I’ve realized from following the Skyrim modding scene, is that creators get very weird and touchy about their work. I would love for their mercurial bullshit get reigned in a little, so that they can’t just delete something because they got flamed on the forum.

“I just don’t want people to be able to be able to use my work however they want without me having a say in how it’s used”

This honestly sounds a lot like how NPM solved its “left-pad” problem. Modders retain the ownership of their mods, but they can’t break a carefully curated collection by removing (or updating) a mod randomly in the future.

Actually, their question is a legitimate one, because the FXS doesn’t have traction control built in. And they’ll definitely bite you quicker than a similar ICE bike will, because once they spin, they spin fast.

Are they dropping the FXS, which fulfills exactly the same niche? If so, what is the price on this?

Yep, I’ve heard plenty of folks had great luck with Ozone machines, we just definitely weren’t one of them. Doing it the other way (Steam, Alcohol Wipes and Fabreze) was infinitely more labour intensive, but it also meant you only had to do that once to get the scents out, permanently.