The Maddest Modder of All Time?

[Butter]

Anyone who tries to remake one game in another probably belongs in a padded cell. "Look, Bethesda just released a new Elder Scrolls game. Let's spend the next ten years trying to make Morrowind in it."

 

[octavius]

Giskard is the most demented, paranoid fruitcake of a modderfucker I've run across (unfortunately not with a car).

I also have fond memories of MPrilla with his SuperScripts.

My only run-in with Giskard was when I politely asked him about one of his mods on Nexus and he replied something like, "You aren't asking the right way to get me to answer. You're doing it the wrong way!" It reminded me of that scene in Midnight Express (1978) where all the crazy, filthy, neglected prisoners are walking and shuffling around a pillar, going clockwise, all day and all night, and Billy Hayes starts walking counter-clockwise and a wild-eyed fellow prisoner grabs him and says, "You're doing it the wrong way!"

Ah yes, that's Giskard the mod-nazi, all right.
He used to be surrounded by groveling sycophants as well, but I guess they all got purged eventually.

 

[Azdul]

Then when I checked back on his topic after a few years he was radiating hostility to everyone that posted in his thread, and screaming, "You stupid! It says right in the ReadMe what you need to do here!!!" Are modders naturally bi-polar? Or just misunderstood mad geniuses? Who are the true tools of the toolsets?

Mod users are entitled twats, and someone asking the same question that was asked 100 times before may just trigger mod author going off the deep end.

Besides, the proportion of people complaining and offering their infinite wisdom about what should be done, to people actually doing something about it is about 1000:1. The truly insane individuals are in the first group, and rpgodex forums are the proof of that. You need minimal level of mental stability to actually create something that other people will find useful and interesting.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

My nephew creates mods of minecraft.

 

[AW8]

Thief modder HawkFlyAway seems to be a rather unstable person. Remember "blaming and offensive idiots , the best"? (It even was the forum title for a while.)

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...best-slander-defamation-public-offense.99173/

 

[Ismaul]

Giskard

What can you expect of a modder named after a robot who ended up permanently frozen because he couldn't reconcile the rules that governed his behavior? Especially since the rule that broke him states that he cannot harm humanity lol.

 

[Infinitron]

Ubik, the developer of the Magna Mundi mod for EU3. He was actually committed to a mental institution at one point.

 

[A horse of course]

Ubik, the developer of the Magna Mundi mod for EU3. He was actually committed to a mental institution at one point.

I'm not sure RPG Codex staff should be calling anyone out when it comes to mental illness.

 

[Citizen]

There was this dude who tried to mod rain effects into fallout 3 or something

Spoiler

 

[Tweed]

Several people have mentioned Gategate, this pastebin explains it better https://pastebin.com/LMzCCTcs

What the pastebin still doesn't tell you though is that Arthmoor's personal website got hammered for days with goatse, gore, and other horrible things.

 

[Fedora Master]

There's also Steppe Wolfe. Paging fantadomat

To quote some random Redditor

It's a mod that became a meme.

Basically some Bulgarians tried to profit off of making a mod for a game and they made Bulgaria ridiculous OP. There were like several bulgarias as well.

It would not be uncommon to have Bulgaria, Old Great Bulgaria, Communist Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Khanate all in the same game. Bulgaria also got ridiculous bonuses. Any start dates with bulgars always exaggerated territory as well.

It's another example of why ridiculously extended timeline mods are also always bad. All the typical problems from mods like that were in this game.

The guy behind it no joke claimed to have a dev team and a game company making this mod and would ask for donations all the time. I think he even put it behind a paywall at some point.

 

[A horse of course]

There were also some modders were flipped the fuck out after the 2016 election and took down their mods until DRUMPF is removed from office.

 

[Tacgnol]

Typical Modder Syndrome can be very entertaining. I guess modding by its very nature attracts a lot of autists and borderline personalities.

 

[Tweed]

I think that was Apollodown(syndrome) and all of his mods were unstable piles of shit anyway and very overrated.

 

[Tacgnol]

Thief modder HawkFlyAway seems to be a rather unstable person. Remember "blaming and offensive idiots , the best"? (It even was the forum title for a while.)

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...best-slander-defamation-public-offense.99173/

He threatened the Codex with Scottish lawyers IIRC. That was a good thread.

 

[A horse of course]

I remember there was some guy called Wasp or something who claimed to be working on an unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. In reality, he was "fixing" the game according to his own autistic "creative vision" and added a bunch of stupid shit like massively overpowered weapons in the first area, completely breaking the balance of the game so as to feed his massive ego. Thankfully, another modder fixed it with the True Patch (tm) series.

 

[jebsmoker]

wasp's fan translations for deep shadows' janky deus ex alikes are awful. i don't know why people use them

 

[Tacgnol]

I remember there was some guy called Wasp or something who claimed to be working on an unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. In reality, he was "fixing" the game according to his own autistic "creative vision" and added a bunch of stupid shit like massively overpowered weapons in the first area, completely breaking the balance of the game so as to feed his massive ego. Thankfully, another modder fixed it with the True Patch (tm) series.

Wesp5 is just German. Tessera is completely insane.

 

[A horse of course]

I remember there was some guy called Wasp or something who claimed to be working on an unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. In reality, he was "fixing" the game according to his own autistic "creative vision" and added a bunch of stupid shit like massively overpowered weapons in the first area, completely breaking the balance of the game so as to feed his massive ego. Thankfully, another modder fixed it with the True Patch (tm) series.

Wesp5 is just German. Tessera is completely insane.

This is a Wesp alt

 

[Tacgnol]

I remember there was some guy called Wasp or something who claimed to be working on an unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. In reality, he was "fixing" the game according to his own autistic "creative vision" and added a bunch of stupid shit like massively overpowered weapons in the first area, completely breaking the balance of the game so as to feed his massive ego. Thankfully, another modder fixed it with the True Patch (tm) series.

Wesp5 is just German. Tessera is completely insane.

This is a Wesp alt

I wish I had the mental fortitude to patch the same game for 15 years, sadly I don't.

 

[Dodo1610]

The guys at the community story project have been working since 2008 on fixing Gothic 3 story, and they are nowhere being close to the finish.
https://g3csp.de/de/

 

[Alienman]

There was a FO3 mod author of a quest adventure that I rated highly on his Nexus page and he was warm as can be in thanking me for liking his mod. Then when I checked back on his topic after a few years he was radiating hostility to everyone that posted in his thread, and screaming, "You stupid! It says right in the ReadMe what you need to do here!!!" Are modders naturally bi-polar? Or just misunderstood mad geniuses? Who are the true tools of the toolsets?

That's how it usually goes as a Gamebyro modder though. lol

It's all nice and sunflowers at the beginning, but then people are pouring in asking you to create a compatibility patch for that, asking you why your mod is not working in their mod setup, asking you if this will be working with that, making retarded demands, insulting you for not being 100% lore friendly, and so and so on. It's a huge downward spiral into madness.

Funny. I made a small Skyrim mod with my girl friend (now ex) a couple of years ago just for shits and giggles. I decided to upload it to Steam and the first comment was how it wasn't very lore friendly and the second comment was something about compatibility with some town/village expansion mod I had no idea existed. Stuff like that didn't even cross my mind when I made that mod

 

[Mexi]

Probably Tessera. Read his forum. Seems like a very, very creepy dude. Thought it was a girl until he was talking about that WoW incident. I think he takes the cake. I imagine Buffalo Bill dancing around with his dick between his legs when I think about Tessera. Created a great patch, better than WESP who keeps fucking breaking shit.

Anyways, worst one is, as someone mentioned, ApolloDown(syndrome). He creates a janky mess of a mod and blames everyone for fucking up their game by installing his garbage. One person that if I legit met in real life I would have trouble not slapping like a bitch.

 

[A horse of course]

There was a FO3 mod author of a quest adventure that I rated highly on his Nexus page and he was warm as can be in thanking me for liking his mod. Then when I checked back on his topic after a few years he was radiating hostility to everyone that posted in his thread, and screaming, "You stupid! It says right in the ReadMe what you need to do here!!!" Are modders naturally bi-polar? Or just misunderstood mad geniuses? Who are the true tools of the toolsets?

That's how it usually goes as a Gamebyro modder though. lol

It's all nice and sunflowers at the beginning, but then people are pouring in asking you to create a compatibility patch for that, asking you why your mod is not working in their mod setup, asking you if this will be working with that, making retarded demands, insulting you for not being 100% lore friendly, and so and so on. It's a huge downward spiral into madness.

Funny. I made a small Skyrim mod with my girl friend (now ex) a couple of years ago just for shits and giggles. I decided to upload it to Steam and the first comment was how it wasn't very lore friendly and the second comment was something about compatibility with some town/village expansion mod I had no idea existed. Stuff like that didn't even cross my mind when I made that mod

Same thing happens with Total War mods.

DUDE DOES THIS WORK WITH RADIOUS???

STEEL FAITH PATCH PLEASE THANKYOU FROM INDIA

HOW DO I INSTALL THIS ON LINUX

 

[Grauken]

Wesp5 has worked on the unofficial Bloodlines patch for 15 years.

So, is it finished?