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Last WayBack Machine scan: https://web.archive.org/web/20220509134954/https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/76484
Post announcing it: https://hexbear.net/post/193034
The author of the "Fallout New Vegas" radio collection 'The Follow Through - Follower's and Radical's Radio' informed me their mod was removed with very thin and slimy pretexts involving "not having permission" to share songs that were - get this - written by blacklisted communists. Many of the songs are about having their work repressed and the need to have a shared and free voice. Notwithstanding the fact the mod description and credits were filled out with disclaimants and credits to the artists.
Anyone else think this could wreak of bullshit?
Take a look at any of the other radio mods uploaded on Nexus - especially the popular ones like uuuuhhhh... https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35061
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37655
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35889
What's the difference, other than 1: many lacking any form of credit toward the artist and 2: SO MANY being packed with anti-communist songs, flair and rhetoric? ... Very little. One mod that was quite a bit less polished and also decides not to elaborate more on its ideas even shares many songs that the now-deleted playlist did: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/72987
The mod author plans to receive permission from the estates of the song writers and reupload the mod. Failing this, it will be shared anywhere possible. Please advise if there is anywhere it could be shared. They worked quite hard on it and it being removed for shitty reasons like this is heartbreaking to me...
But not at all unexpected. Gamers and moderators as a rule (when not ideologically minded) are absolutely doused in a hotbed of ideas that have them feeling incredibly empowered to do wank shit like this. Furthermore, Nexus actively profits from cultivating a toxic culture in no small part with many sexist and otherwise misogynist, dodgy, fetishistic "perfectly acceptable" modification files. Obviously this perpetuates the shitty unexamined ideologies and keeps the cycle rolling.
See the below Drive link to download the mod. Advise if there is a better way/place to share. Please share it wherever you like as well: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12w58oFVP99dWE1Ay7vxELPTwzYuhjndY?usp=sharing
If you don't care for the mod itself, the folder in question contains the songs as MP3s a couple levels in for your enjoyment - unnamed, but you can see the playlist in the WayBackMachine link.
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Speaking of, I will have access to the mod appended to the post!
I released an admittedly horny mod, but one that was aimed at being trans friendly on the Nexus. The response was surprisingly not awful, mostly a mix of people being thankful for the inclusiveness and general horny people with only a few THIS IS GROSS AND DISGUSTING type comments.
The worst part was finding a 4chan thread mentioning the mod on Google later
Was going to comment "post it on loverslab lol" before reading
Nexus actively profits from cultivating a toxic culture in no small part with many sexist and otherwise misogynist, dodgy, fetishistic “perfectly acceptable” modification files. Obviously this perpetuates the shitty unexamined ideologies and keeps the cycle rolling.
I guess it wouldn't be that funny : :sicko-wistful:
that said, LL has quite a collection of SFW banned-from-the-Nexus mods, and pretty much all of the most knowledgeable modders, despite the site's main focus being uhhh :volcel-judge:
all of the most knowledgeable modders
:geordi-no: People are only motivated by money
:geordi-yes: People are only motivated by being horny
Before it got deleted, how many downloads did it get? Any spicy comments?
It was over 160 unique downloads when I last checked and this took about a week, with quite a steady rise and around 15 endorsements. I hadn't looked at it for a few days when it went down about 16 hours ago unfortunately.
It was an absolute blast in the comments. That's one of the most upsetting things. Comrades all celebrating the songs and ideas, dialoguing on the Followers, and suggesting more songs. The author was planning to create another version with 40 songs incorporating these suggestions and scouring for some more obscure leftist/thematically appropriate songs.
The only spicy comments were:
- someone roleplaying/quoting as an anti-communist and said something like "I smell... Sedition!!!" - they got a bit dogpiled on by over-defensive comrades, the author just had some fun back at them
- someone saying "i luv goberment"
Both sort of exemplify the limpness of reaction to encountering a tradition like this. It was interesting and no harm or foul was made until the mod was removed by some overzealous fuck with nothing nicer to do.
So it wasn't massively popular and didn't even generate huge outrage from chuds. It does kinda seem like some passing asshole moderator decided to be a dick
Yup... that's the hypothesis. It's been appealed to Support and awaiting a reply but bets are it'll be just as dismissive, vague and patronising as the moderator's initial response. This moderator has done at most 23,000 actions (probably much less but going off of their posts a lot of these are moderator posts), from browsing their activity. Wouldn't want to upset such a work horse I suppose.
Other theory is it was reported by ENOUGH passing chuds and this moderator has acted on it because eh why not.
Yep, was sure it was something like this! Thanks for the right reference.
As in those being what were flagged for copyright or causing the mod to go off their chops?
Thank you for the link comrade. If I didn't need an excuse to play back thru NV with all the DLC... I have it now.
Roll around in it for a minute then watch the clouds for 60 seconds
find a tree and stroke it's bark, find a strong branch on the tree and hang off of it for a few seconds to pop your back, and if you're not gonna get charged out the ass for it spray water on the tree and any shrubs nearby.
Very easy to admit that this fiasco means very little other than in the way it exemplifies ... well the last paragraph of what I wrote on this post. That said, I do touch grass quite often, and am just quite frustrated part of one of my hobbies is suffering due to reactionary/lib pissboy-ness.
