Quote Originally Posted by IvoryHawk View Post
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Honestly if it wasn't for the modding scene, this game would be so screwed and they know it.
Ironic because when I transfered DC I joined a new FC. As wonderful as the people were the graphics modding scene was 'rampant'. And I do mean raMPANT!
With Mods there is no style guide.
The games social features are... not very helpful.
Without Discord this game I think might have failed. It certainly wouldn't have had the success needed to deliver ShB. So Discord for me is important.
But I found the game unrecognisable in that heavily modded discord. I love gpose channels but this one just left me feeling culture shocked and like I was in strange and unfamiliar lands.
I play lala, and I love this games naive innocence It was neutral and there is always room for me to imprint my outlook and relate. The moded gposes, I just couldn't relate. It was frankly almost intimidating.
The people were lovely, but I left the FC, and later that day I finally unsubbed.
Modding is a double edged sword.
I will never mod unless I have time to build a separate OS, or all the mod developers go open source.
(If you 'trust' mods your a moron frankly. If you don't trust the mods you use but rather just 'accept' the risk as you estimate it then that's different. To anyone who says that just doesn't happen though, I'll highlight how pretty borderline malware that gshade was, and the very least 'good judgement' was evidently absent. Without good judgement anything is now possible.)