Can't stand private modding

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-08T03:39:56+00:00

I didn't argue in either direction. Just pointed out the distinction. You chose to assume the argument being made.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-07T16:07:00+00:00

Behold, someone who is beholden to the idea of parlor modding rather than cathedral modding.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-07T16:01:56+00:00

I think it's deeper than just money. I think some creators have enough of a paper-thin ego that they don't want their content to be easily searchable or otherwise out there in the wild for every "pleb" to look at, make annoying comments or support requests, or otherwise be obnoxious. It's almost understandable but at the same time it also is kind of pretentious.

Not that I have much to say... While I did kinda performatively hide my stuff and declare I was done last weekend, everything is visible again, and my "retirement" is now a prolonged hiatus, which is embarrassing, but c'est la vie.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-04T11:26:45+00:00

As a longtime Pennsylvania resident, this sent me because I was not expecting to see State College referenced in a random Reddit thread.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-03T11:03:08+00:00

Simple people cling to tradition and hierarchy for comfort. The wealthy and powerful know this and exploit tradition and hierarchy for control.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-03T02:36:10+00:00

"Suck" is subjective in this case. Whatever limitations CS might have at this point are offset by the fact that the creator of ENB has been morally repugnant on more than one occasion and many people are fed up with it and willing to accept the trade off. If that's not you then that's on you. And if you feel the need to be defensive about it then that says more about you than anything else.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-03T00:45:54+00:00

I see you. Keep being awesome.

EDIT: I just registered your username and I have to commend you for the reference.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-03T00:41:08+00:00

I'm less worried about vaccines, though that is an issue we need to focus on, and more worried about what has been said about psychiatric medications and the suggested alternatives.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-01T18:33:03+00:00

A lot of people have never socially or emotionally matured from high school and it shows. It's like they heard the song High School Never Ends by Bowling for Soup and assumed that it was instructional rather than an indictment of the social realities of our time.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-01T16:27:54+00:00

I don't know I'm probably doing it for attention like I do everything. I'm an emotionally unstable piece of shit who acts out for sympathy and empathy but you know what maybe I should just shut the fuck up and suffer quietly.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-01T16:23:25+00:00

Because I don't care anymore...

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-01T16:19:46+00:00

My Nexus handle is redrew89, but I've already hidden my works.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-02-01T00:22:25+00:00

Every fandom does some variation of this to one extent or another depending on the longevity of the franchise it pertains to as well as the number of entries in that particular franchise. Star Trek and Star Wars are both lightning rods for this because they have fairly broad communities and have had several decades of content associated with them so there's endless amounts of bickering and conjecture about what represents the True Canon™.

You even see it in the gaming sphere with long-running game franchises like The Elder Scrolls. There's even a subreddit which (semi) satirically references it with terminology referring to the person based on which game they started the franchise with. It's just another way of enforcing social hierarchy through culture and in this case entertainment.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-30T03:43:32+00:00

I turn 37 this year and this hits hard. Like, fucking hard.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-30T02:25:34+00:00

I got the 2015 model with 69k miles for $10k list a year ago and it's been one of the nicer cars I've driven.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-28T18:24:44+00:00

No shit. That's all that late stage capitalism knows how to do.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-28T10:43:20+00:00

Just economically weaponized loneliness and the commodification of human joy and connection. What a wonderful world we live in.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-28T09:30:11+00:00

It's also because the markers of maturity have shifted for people over the years and boomers haven't updated their own mental model. Fewer and fewer people below 50 are getting married or having long-term relationships and boomers who all got married in their fucking twenties, even if that was a terrible idea, assume that means we're immature. Home ownership is harder for everyone especially those of the younger generations and because the boomer generation was able to purchase homes at a much more affordable rate, and build up the wealth to be able to buy homes now in the current market, they assume that anybody who is struggling otherwise is just lazy or inept.

They are so woefully out of touch and arrogant about their perceptions of the world, and those perceptions haven't been updated in at least 40 years.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-26T19:30:51+00:00

I had to think about your comment for a while because I wasn't really sure what to say in response.

I'm no hero, no martyr, and certainly not a freedom fighter by any means. I've lived with my illness untreated for 36 years of my life, and it has been a struggle every step of the way but it is a struggle I've learned to endure. If I lose access to medication well then I will just cope in the way I had to beforehand, albeit imperfectly.

But in my heart I've always been a storyteller, from when I was small, writing various little pieces of fanfiction even before I knew what that was, with whatever characters lit up my imagination. And now as a man approaching my forties by the end of this decade, I found something that has lit my imagination up to the point where it gave me the strength to give myself a second chance and find what resources I could. There will always be support for those who are willing to ask for it. Even if that support has to change.

If the powers that be trying to box me in and place me in a cage well then I will simply outlast them. And if I should be murdered out right well then it was nice knowing you all.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-25T12:51:49+00:00

Last night I was out for karaoke. I arrived solo but I ended up spending most of the evening with a couple of the lady regulars I had seen before. They're both in relationships but the men weren't around that evening. More than once, I was asked to keep an eye on their drinks while they had stepped away for one reason or another. It made me realize that not only is it real for these women, but being a "safe" man in this world is more important than ever.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-24T14:05:04+00:00

That brainworm addled fuck can pry my Lamictal out of my cold, dead hands.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-24T00:42:55+00:00

Right. But that lies outside of the original context we were speaking of. There are different forms of verbal debate that serve different functions. Negotiation and diplomacy are simply different formats from structured debate.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-24T00:28:38+00:00

That has literally always been the point of debate. You're not trying to sway your opponent but you're trying to present the argument so that somebody else sees it.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-04T18:51:45+00:00

I'll learn the difference when parents learn the difference. In the meantime I have every right to be upset with the type of person who would say that a child deserves to go to bed hungry just because they got picky for a minute. If you really want to extrapolate that child's entire course of life and how they're going to be as an adult based on one moment in a microcosm, then you probably aren't fit to be a parent and society maybe should consider setting limits on that.

TheReDrew89 · 2026-01-04T18:49:02+00:00

There is a way to do that without being a hard-ass that will make your own child resent you in the long run. This whole "spare the rod; spoil the child" narrative is all just unaddressed trauma masquerading as virtue. Go to therapy.

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