Twitch streamers still blatantly cheating on stream.

[KatiaRelanah]

Plot twist - every other race could only use hats via preinstalled by SE mods all along.

I knew it! Visible viera and Hroth hats come with a 10% DPS buff!

EDIT: Hit my daily post limit with saying the same thing over and over in slightly different ways, anyways re: the below:

If you take the position that 3rd party addons are against the rules of the game then ANY use of 3rd party addons is cheating.

I personally feel that they are cheating because it is against the rules of the game and as such will not use them. That is MY choice and opinion.

That said I cannot know what someone is running on their computer unless they are stupid enough to broadcast it in video or talk about it in chat. It is a don't ask don't tell system. However if they harass someone with the addon you can bet I will report for harassment. Otherwise none of my business what they are running.

All right, fine, let's do this then:

Oxford: 1. act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.

What advantage is being gained by having texture mods? Nobody has yet answered this.

I don't know how much more clearly I can put it... it is possible to simultaneously believe/agree/concede/acknowledge that all third-party mods/programs/applications/whatever are against Terms of Service (which I did, often and repeatedly), while also stating some are not cheating by definition.

Are texture mods against ToS? Yes. They are. I have never argued otherwise. Being against ToS != a cheat, though. Against the rules, yes. In violation of SE's terms, yes. Something that necessarily requires modification of the game in explicit opposition to the ToS, yes. BUT NOT A CHEAT.

Why is it so hard for people to concede this? Words matter. And people are adhering to this "mods are inherently cheats with no exceptions" position, presumably because it removes any need to accept that your black-and-white morality isn't a universal, objective truth before which all the evil, sinning mod-users must prostrate themselves. Sorry, I don't accept your false dilemma. I reject your position that cosmetic modifications are cheats, because you are seeking to end the debate in your favor by virtue of declaring victory on definitional grounds.

I don't have to smoke marijuana to opine on the morality or validity of the laws against it (whether pro- or anti-). However, neither do I become a wacky sovereign citizen who states laws are meaningless, nor an authoritarian nutjob who worships "the law" as an infallible thing that can never be changed. I say:

"yep, these are the rules as they stand, I for one obey them, but I can see why some people think they're silly",

or I say

"right now, the rules say the devil's lettuce is illegal, in accordance with my personal convictions... should they be changed, I will acknowledge that what was illegal is now legal."

Acknowledging existence of and abiding by current rulesets doesn't preclude discussion on whether such rules should be in place; conversely, being "on the right side of the rules" doesn't make your position infallible or above debate or discussion.