It’s optional...?

If it’s something that’s stated in advance, is a 100% optional course, and you don’t get a D for not having DD’s, I don’t really see the issue with it. There’s nothing inherently scandalous or sexual about being nude in front of a stranger (e.g. art models), and while college has pretty much become a diploma mill for…

Not so, says the anonymous mother who, despite indications otherwise by both the instructor and former students, says that no one was ever informed of this final project or the nudity involved until last Thursday.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure the “no one was ever informed of this final project or the nudity involved until last Thursday” refers only to the mother voicing the complaint.

The helicopter mom has landed. ;)

It also happened eun masse to white women in the same period who birthed in catholic hospitals; particularly badly in ireland and up until very recently, too. Any unmarried woman was a target.

It’s a legit complaint. People take the theories so far that bothers the authors . Tolkien got pissed off at these people. It’s like saying that children’s show Blue’s Clues could be about murder.

Until gamers stop acting like children the general public will still treat gaming like a child’s past time.

True facts. Modding is too deeply in the same vein as doujinshi work in japan- a legal grey area for fan communities that is kindly ignored by companies. It needs to stay that way before they wreck the very existence of this type of shit and someone winds up sued.

If you want to release a full game on your own framework or a licensed engine, okay. If you’re making content for a game, that’s “fan content.” That needs to be free.

Otherwise you’re just an indie developer, and that’s different than a modder. The people that want paid for their work need to make their own games, not…

Meh, a few salty losers are crying for their mommas. Big deal.

Actually, a lot of times when you add the possibility of a monetary reward to the work, it leads to a decrease in the quality of work or a completely different outcome. It’s called a Perverse Incentive.

Doesn’t have to be the case. It could just as easily result in people making utter crap and let money roll in. In fact, by adding monetary incentive, it might just push passion out the window, and we get the next Steam Greenlight: shovelware after shovelware of mysteriously up-voted bad games/mods that wind up being…

Huge difference. I have no problems with modders taking donations, but they should never outright charge for their “work”. Being a game developer is an actual job, a profession. Modding is just a hobby. Like all other hobbies it should be done for fun, not so you can cash in.

This is why we can’t have nice things...

They’re not even close to developers. At best they’re small-time hobbyists, and that’s only if the mod in question actually requires code work. Even on those that do, most use modified scripts already available, or simply change values in a particular table. The vast majority of mods are simple model or texture work,…

I wouldn’t pay for any mod I’ve ever installed. The guy who thinks he could make a million because his mods are heavily downloaded apparently has no idea how hard it is to convince people to pay for something when it goes from free to paid.

I appreciate that modders are devs too, and some of them do some really good stuff, but they aren’t making full-on games. I just can’t give money for mods alone.

Honestly, this just has me wondering if I should rush to download all the good Skyrim mods through the Nexus before they adopt something like this.

it's not about analyzing and fantasizing, it's about "they really wanted to say this and that" where they explicietly state "i don't want to say anything". if people say "if you look at it this way a new possibility opens up" or "if you look at it this way some parts begin to make more sense", thats another thing. But…