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Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
The 'Some in the name of immersion(???).' link is a hotlink to loverslab, and broken besides.

...which, thinking on it, certainly fits the thread's themes, but still.

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Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
That sounds pretty accurate to a tv my family had when I was a kid, but I wouldn't want a mod to recreate that sensation.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Well, having a show originally built on Shatner's personality and charm is sort of a joke in and of itself, I'd think.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Dragonwagon posted:

Just wait until this inspires someone to deliberately make a buttboob (boobbutt?) mod. I'm actually surprised that's something I've never had the misfortune of seeing on the internet.

Rest assured, it exists. Because of course it does.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

RareAcumen posted:

Anyone have that one gif of the Sims all stacked up on top of each other's heads? I think they had bathtubs for heads too or something.

I think recursive bathtub hats, actually, such that any animation tilting them to either side became exaggerated by each one in line leaning further.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Guy Mann posted:

the people who saw it as kids

Bless their poor, dead souls.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
It's like sci-fi, any good work should be allowed to handwave one conceit.

In this case it's poo.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

RareAcumen posted:

I can't believe there's a Terraria mod so extensive it has its own wiki.

http://thoriummod.gamepedia.com/Thorium_Mod_Wiki

That's not uncommon in sandbox games, it seems. I recall sifting through about three different wikis to try to make sense of the modpack I was using last time I played Minecraft.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
That is somehow less horrifying than a lot of the abominations here, but the shaders/textures/normalmap/something needs tweaked to make that look less like a rubber suit. Or maybe that's just the modder's fetish? Either way,

Section Z posted:

Put a drat shirt on, lady.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Internet Friend posted:

Frankly the fact it's not covered in oil is a refreshing change from the usual horrors from this thread.

That's also fair.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Boy you're going to be upset once you find out what an 'aeromorph' is.

...though now I'm quite frankly shocked I've never seen THAT in a mod.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Jack Nicholson?

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

marshmallow creep posted:

Are...are you gendering this skellington just on their hair!?

If you think the internet won't throw boobs on everything, including men and androids and skeletons, then perhaps we are browsing different threads.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Foreverially ice cream.

That might be the most benign probably-a-fetish mod I've ever seen.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I've had code compile twice with no changes beyond a cursory "the gently caress's broken?" glance and go through fine the second time.

In college I literally had to have friends push the button to compile because if I did it almost never worked. I did not end up being a programmer :(

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

marshmallow creep posted:

When something in your life doesn't go off when it's supposed to, just blame the invisible rabbit and God's lazy programming.

By this logic visual hallucinations are just the alpha values loving up on hidden actors.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Why is Doom modding so good.

...actually now that I think about it's probably just because most people who care about it got the worst stuff out of their systems years ago. Maybe.

loving porn mods. And 'comedy' weapon mods. And whatever the hell that proto-ARG extreme mechanics puzzle map series was called.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
That's some drama, to be sure. Also, lol,

Jagged Jim posted:

The Awful/Awesome Mods Thread: Practically bathes in a tub of respect for others




But uh

Largejaroalmonds posted:

The guy has a pretty disturbing worldview. Yeesh.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/LordZarmack

I'd never thought about what the comorbidity of aspergers and paranoid schizophrenia might sound like, and yet here we are. Apparently everyone who isn't this person's 'race' (which, uh, they make it sound like they mean anyone with autism?) has a %70 suicide rate and therefor invalid opinions about life.

It's kind of a shame if they're just stealing mods like several people were claiming, I'm just genuinely curious about what sort of content they'd be producing on their own if they focused on creative endeavors.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
One mod on the topic is kind of funny, in a morbid sort of way. Two is a bit concerning.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Being fair to the mod maker, that "sex slave" background turns up oddly often, and characters with it are usually girls under 30 and always totally useless. I think the restriction is coming from a "how do I make these shits useful" standpoint, not a weird fetishist standpoint.

That's optimistic, and it's still kind of loving weird.


Cup Runneth Over posted:

You are not nearly cynical enough to be on SA

But also this, admittedly. I yearn to have that sunny a disposition.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Captainsalami posted:

New thread title please. Im begging.

And another finger closes on the monkey's paw.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
I feel like Poe's Law is so woven into the fabric of reality it's almost useless as a descriptive now.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
To reduce the amount of instability in your final build, you'll want to spread out the crazy across a wider area if you can. There's lots of extra dungeons and content packs that load themselves in across the wild (especially in the massive unused space around the north sea).

It's nice to load in and have skeletons and sanics (warning, this is just as loud as you'd expect) in your starting race choices, but the more you front-load the crazy mods the more likely you are to crash a lot right at the start and be unable to fully experience them.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Somehow I'm still a little upset that a 'diversity' mod uses all of like 2 designs of bikini. Like, holy poo poo, you're doing just one terrible, stupid thing, at least do it right.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Some of the textures look...okay, but most really just don't seem to fit Doom all that well. The wall textures in particular are sort of hideous.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Well, at least that one's an...interesting sort of crime compared to the other one. Most of the effects don't look bad, just...out of place.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Honestly it seems like it's far from the worst thing around; it's a very effortful project, and if it can bring stable dance cycles to the masses, who am I to complain.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

I mean, I'm not sure what I should have expected. It's entirely logical. Just walk over there and hit the motherfucker.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Looking it up, hahaha, poo poo, THAT art.

Yeah, that style is really loving ugly, but I love it. It's so campy and weird and gross, and it's also over-expressive and wild. Art can be ugly but still have strong merits and be good art, and I loved just looking at that weird poo poo. I seem to recall that an awful lot of the novels I grew up with with that cover art were unfortunately also of the 'campy, weird, and gross' variety, in hindsight.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Unarmed is legitimately really fun in almost every TES mod I've played that bothers to make it an option.

There's something viscerally satisfying about just punching your way through all the ridiculous fantasy cliches and obnoxious voice acting and poorly-made modded quests and giant monsters and such.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Cythereal posted:

Thanks to this thread, I now feel less nerdy about printing out a guide to the goddamn water temple when I was a kid.

I hex edited my Exile 2 save file, making paragraphs of scientific observations in a text file, while exchanging notes with strangers over Gamefaqs trying to fully understand the arcane 4th dimensional coordinates system the map used.

Really, printing out a guide to the water temple is just common sense.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

GunnerJ posted:

So here's an interesting new development: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933055903


Mods on commission for anywhere from the price of a big DLC to nearly the price of whole game. :stare:

As someone who works on by-commission basis, the weirdest thing about that to me is the price point; exactly what kind of 'custom mod' work are you getting for what would be, generously, maybe a day's pay? Even just a swap-job on names, portraits, and traits in a 4x game seems like it would be pushing it on that payment structure. How many people are even going to be interested? Even as a hobbyist thing, that's an odd approach.

Granted, I don't work with people buying 4x games. For all I know there's a hardcore base of Train Simulator-style grognards willing to poo poo out $30 for twenty minutes worth of Ctrl+h work multiple times a day and this person is going to be printing money until the interest dries up.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

GunnerJ posted:

Looking at it from that perspective I don't see how this makes sense for anyone. Even if I would consider paying for a custom mod, I would not pay anywhere near at least half the price of a full game, and as you point out, the mod maker is not getting much for the work needed to make anything worth the price. What the hell?

Commission work is weird like that; most people drastically undercharge for creative commission work, which is a separate issue, but alternatively, you have to be offering something the customer really, really wants and can't find elsewhere for it to be anywhere near worth the amount that they need to pay you to make it worth YOUR time. It's hard to imagine that niche lies in a custom $30 4x mod of any kind.

I mean, that's part of why crowdfunding and other alternative payment structures are such a big thing; it's much easier to get a lot of people with similar interests to pitch in a couple of bucks than to try to find one person to front the whole cost. This seems to be especially true in venues like modding, where it also helps to sidestep legal concerns; you can still accept artistic patronage while releasing your work for free.

I really don't think this person has thought their offer out, unless they're just doing some quick pump and dump scams, in which case, loving lol; the return on the effort STILL sounds spectacularly low.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
If only the thread could have a randomized title every time someone looked at it based on any of the many many 'new thread title' posts, then it could truly be complete.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Guy Mann posted:

http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Category:Ultima_6_Project_Mod_Portraits

Pretend I quoted all of these.

Technically :nws: due to a single incident of faerie nipple.

Beaut.

Kinda straddles the line of 'so bad it's good', but I'm kind of undecided on which side.

E: Is 'Garridan' supposed to be Jim Croce?

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Orv posted:

That's just straight up Frank Zappa.

...so they are. Guess I should have recognized the nose.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Okay, so, like.

Dwarf Fortress already has children. A mod that adds that functionality to a different Dwarf Fortress-like game doesn't sound like the worst possible thing, on the surface of it.

But boy oh boy is the selected passage troubling.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(

Pyromancer posted:

It's Rimworld, so adding children ends in armchairs and kibble being made out of them, even without troubling passages.

I mean, that happens in Dwarf Fortress too sometimes, but it doesn't really make things any better, admittedly.

Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
Well...alright. It looks decent enough, I suppose, it's just a curiously specific passion project to choose.

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Shady Amish Terror
Oct 11, 2007
I'm not Amish by choice. 8(
With a small, well-managed fortress, DF settlements can last two or three decades, long enough for a generation of children to be born, grow up, join the workforce, and succumb to FUN.

Relevant to the thread, however, you tend to run out of interesting things for that fort to do LONG before that point without some serious modding to flesh out some sort of side goal. I would recommend the hilarious and ill-fated Pokemon mod, but good luck completing your dorf pokedex when half of the little shits breathe fire or are horrible combat monstrosities angry at man and god.

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