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@ninja8tyu looks great!

@VISCERA1887 don't stand so close to me

what are your thoughts on the golden compass?

i've never seen it but with my mormon upbringing, it was more or less made known to everyone that if you watched it you were evil.

@Mr_NutterButter the fact that overwatch doesn't have pve is ridiculous tbh. huge missed opportunity.

@Possummachine Don't be sorry about anything! I hope your kitty makes a full, quick recovery

@xianc78 @graf @alex I don't think it necessarily has to have a commercial element to it beyond just donating and stuff. Certainly not from the beginning.

Like I said, it might be better to just let the creators handle that sort of thing at least at first. RPGMaker.net is a good example of that, they don't have any way of commercializing a game directly but let you link to somewhere that does. Could also always go back to like, the shareware days where a demo is hosted and if you send mail with payment they'll send you the game or something xD that would legit be pretty funny. I mean, fuckin Mullvad lets you do that so why not an indie dev? xD

But yeah, I'd be down with a NG spiritual successor. NG itself is already pretty damn good and always has been tbh, there are rules and things they don't allow of course but it's still a really good place to show off your creativity in a place that's not so corporate. but it'd be dope to have a place like that which actually allows a lot more stuff. i like the community aspect of it and it's pretty much the only place that has star rankings anymore xD

@icedquinn i think you might be overestimating the amount of DDOSing and targeted campaigns that actually happen to places that host objectionable content. it's usually only sites that embroil themselves in crazy drama that this kind of shit happens to.

like i was saying in another post, there are boorus that have stuff like cub and loli on them but you need to be logged in and need to opt in to see them. i don't think they've had any major issues.

@berkberkman i can't actually get basedmods to work, idk what's up with the site but nothing really shows up.

haven't heard of this one though. seems legit. it's nice to have something like this although it's not quite what i have in mind.

@xianc78 @graf yeah, i'm thinking of something like itch.io but free from censorship, only with opt-in tags for more "objectionable content" instead of just a general "adult" rating system or whatever. and also mod hubs for games of course, both ones hosted on and off the site.

a lot of sites like these end up not garnering lots of traction because they get a lot of extremist (or "extremist") content on them, which leads people to not want to use them. if you had to opt-in to see any of that i think it would make it much more compelling to visit for most people. there are lots of boorus that already do this and they don't really have any issues. they just require an account, and require opt-in.

as far as payment goes, if we're just talking mods then the only real option is to just have donation links. games are a lot trickier and would probably have to be crypto. you could always just let the game authors handle it themselves though i suppose and just use the website as a means of pushing their game out to more people, you know what i mean?

i don't expect anyone to just randomly start working on this and hosting it though lol. it was really just a thought that i had floating around after seeing more mods being banned for stupid fucking reasons.

@graf but i will keep this in mind in case i stumble upon anyone

@graf that's the reason why i said if i ever got rich i'd fund it lmao, i'm definitely not a person that could code something like that.

if i have enough money one day i hope i can just like, fund a mod/game website that is censorship resistant and the only way something gets taken down is via DMCA or if it's illegal (although in that case it would more likely just be denied verification or something).

it doesn't even seem like it's that hard to pull off something like that. just put up some content filters for people that don't want to see certain things. or, better yet, make the more spicy stuff opt-in specifically. that way everyone can still enjoy the site.

why the fuck hasn't someone like notch done this yet? the dude totally could and it's not like he could come under any more fire than he already has, as if it would even matter goddammit.

back in the day, if someone was into video games, or anime, or even fucking WARHAMMER and D&D nowadays, you could safely say that they were a weirdo just like you were and you would find mostly common ground with them. because they weren't into it because it was popular, they were into it because they really enjoyed it. you might be treated like a loser by the popular kids but at a certain point most of stopped giving a shit because there were enough people that enjoyed what we did to have a nice little community, and the creators were still giving us what we wanted to play/watch.

now, you're still treated like a loser for liking them because you like the ones that the "popular kids" don't like. it's the exact same shit as it always was except now the companies are making stuff for the popular crowd because they're brainless and it earns them a shit ton of money. it's worse than it ever was.