Anime we need a "modder" tag

[agris]

this prestigious magazine needs a modder tag. we have some actual modders around here, and we have people with an affinity for drama as if they were modders.

i don't know how to make this happen, but the need is real.

 

[Bester]

I used to be a modder once, but then I took a patch to the game. Was no good for modding, so I decided to settle down here instead.

 

[Xelocix]

No we don't.

 

[agris]

Joined: Dec 24, 2020

 

[Xelocix]

Joined: Apr 16, 2004

Imagine using a forum for almost 2 entire decades.

 

[agris]

Imagine not being 16

 

[Malamert]

Imagine unironically posting the facebook frog.

 

[Xelocix]

Imagine unironically saying "unironically".

 

[agris]

Anyway, outside of this little poster expressing his nascent online persona, maybe “typical modder” makes more sense as a tag. With the malkavian font from vtmb.

This is to distinguish the likes of people actually pushing boulders up a hill like Wesp5 and maybe Ash (although he displays typical modder behavior as well), from the certifiable like Celerity. It should be a badge of public shame, not a slander to people doing good work (like Wesp).

 

[Strange Fellow]

I thought there already was one? Think I remember seeing it on one of those dudes who used to have every tag.

 

[agris]

Roguey your notes.txt is about as comprehensive as can be; does this already exist? Am I projecting a memory of a tag into a request for one?

 

[Ol' Willy]

agris the modder definition is too vague right now. I used to make mods (one entire retexture) and campaigns (two, one is perished, another one could be downloaded) for ArmA 2. Am I modder now?

This wasn't a rhetorical question, the answer is no. So, modder is the person whose body of work is well known by the players, and the author itself as well. But here's the question - do these people need tags? They're already well known by the people in right circles

 

[agris]

agris the modder definition is too vague right now. I used to make mods (one entire retexture) and campaigns (two, one is perished, another one could be downloaded) for ArmA 2. Am I modder now?

This wasn't a rhetorical question, the answer is no. So, modder is the person whose body of work is well known by the players, and the author itself as well. But here's the question - do these people need tags? They're already well known by the people in right circles

I have left the implicit unsaid, and it is causing confusion. This tag is for the very special type of modder that is emotionally unstable, usually when criticism and critiques of their work are involved. Their flair for the (melo)dramatic was, I thought, self evident. For example, the rando IE modder who created alts to spam beamdog forums promoting her mods, or compiled other people's mods and edited them to reference hers (Roxanne?).

As long as I've been involved in PC gaming ('96ish), there has been a special class of modders who are fragile, unstable individuals. This tag is meant for them. Not for you with your texture swaps, nor I with my text file edits.

Perhaps this type of person doesn't resonant widely enough with these forums, but I think it should.

 

[Roguey]

Roguey your notes.txt is about as comprehensive as can be; does this already exist? Am I projecting a memory of a tag into a request for one?

 

[Falksi]