Holy Simblr Batman!

Reddit thread

Dark0ne, creator and ex-owner of Nexus Mods, stepped down today in an update post:

NexusMods post

Users on Resetera were able to found out more about this sudden change of ownership:

Resetera thread

Victor Folmann, CEO of Chosen, published this "Gaming Startup Monetization Cheat Sheet" on his LinkedIn

Link to the post

Users are already sharing their fear of NexusMods allowing more bigoted mods in the future, and taking down inclusive ones to follow the current "anti-woke" trend in the gaming industry

Reseta threada bout their change in moderation concerning bigoted mods following Oblivion Remastered launch

Another User, this time on NexusMods forum, noticed queer and inclusive mods being removed following Dark0ne's post

Link to the forum post

It is also worth mentioning that Chosen and its CEO are seen using AI generated images on their website (including generated images depicting Tracer from Overwatch) hyping up ChatGPT on his Linkedin account, and are including "rewarding gamers with crypto money"

Users speculate that Chosen buying out NexusMods is to potentially train an AI model that generates mods

arkane studios (dishonored, prey, death loop, blade, redfall)

bethesda (fallout, elder scrolls, starfield)

blizzard (WoW, starcraft, diablo, overwatch)

compulsion (we happy few, south of midnight)

the coalition (gears of war, halo infinite)

double fine (psychonauts)

halo (....halo)

id software (doom)

inXile (wasteland)

machinegames (wolfenstein, quake)

mojang (minecraft)

ninja theory (devil may cry, hellblade, bleeding edge)

obsidian (the outer worlds, pentiment, avowed)

playground games (forza, fable)

rare (donkey kong country, bango-kazooie, conker, sea of thieves)

the initiative (perfect dark)

undead labs (state of decay)

worlds edge (ages of empire)

I didn't include the companies developing for franchises already mentioned. PLEASE support indie devs, there are even so many more game companies out there with great games to play.

this is NOT about "just pirate". don't promote them, don't post them, avoid them.

If you're unaware of the involvement of Microsoft in the Palestinian genocide I highly suggest doing your research, BDS has described the company as "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza". Microsoft uses AI to help Israel conduct their war crimes and murder of Palestinian civilians.

CLICK FOR PALESTINE

First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.

Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:

The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.

Dont use curseforge anymore.

For downloading game mods: If it's Minecraft, use Modrinth instead, for any other games use gamebanana or nexusmods.

The original tweet appears to have been deleted. and im unable to find it on Archive.org, but the tweets are still indexed by google.

in light of the sims 1 & 2 re-release, i wanna make sure others know that SAG AFTRA has requested that nothing be purchased from EA until they negotiate and come to a contract agreement with the union.

While people can certainly participate in ad hoc consumer boycotts, this is not part of the strike order at this stage and the organisers are focusing on support and solidarity - on a practical level, this makes sense because if they are keeping calls for a boycott up their sleeve as part of negotiations, they will want any drop in demand to be directly traceable to the moment they called for that boycott. I personally wouldn’t boycott something I’d otherwise buy until the Union calls for it in the hope of maximising the impact, but I’m not going to discourage others from taking a different view. There are certainly lots of reasons why you might not want to give EA money.

You can find their toolkit (which includes FAQs for streamers/fans, which will include many here) here: