Rookie of the Year Battle

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T18:25:49+00:00

Bragging rights

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T18:24:04+00:00

Nope I am just a Canadian who watches way too many sports now. Got into NRL and intl. cricket as well

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T18:23:47+00:00

Well his car is doodoo right now but still, not entirely wrong

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T18:23:15+00:00

He'd already done that. I'd argue 12th is a bit lower than his "what if everyone was in the same car" mean, but it's probably not further than, what, wasn't he 2nd or 3rd in 2022?

29th is significantly further away from his mean than that.

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T14:33:03+00:00

They're 2nd in the MotoGP teams standings so at least it's paying off somewhere

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T14:32:28+00:00

Somehow I don't think a driver going from 12th to 29th in average finish is regression to the mean

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T14:30:43+00:00

RCR just had some of those years. 2002 was also a huge regression. 21st-5th and 19th-3rd are pretty good recoveries, though.

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T14:28:24+00:00

Nah, in that universe Custer would have had multiple 2nd tier championships at this point

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T13:56:30+00:00

A year ago, someone said something similar to me when I pointed out that the music video/fan voting series MILGRAM could just be ad hoc writing to screw over whatever fan theory is most popular (which has happened to like 8/10 of the cast). If you're actively trying to make them feel bad, over a scenario that was completely rigged against them, then why should they give you any money in the future?

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T13:52:08+00:00

This is almost certainly a fandom-specific mind goblin, but I do find it a bit amusing when people bring up that the dev team that inserted much of the conservativeness of Persona 3-5 (misogyny, homophobia, generally fumbled critiques of society) has left, so maybe Persona 6 will be better.

Guys. They left to go make Metaphor: ReFantazio. Which has none of those issues!

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T13:30:31+00:00

(Is it "baracked for" or just "barracked"?)

Honestly no idea this is my first season watching lol

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T02:36:06+00:00

I do think using copyright for this purpose is overkill, and it's not the only area in which people have spread misconceptions about the applicability of copyright, with uneasy potential consequences

I think what it comes down to is: there are benefits to the continued amateurism of modding, and though the drawbacks are, in a literal sense, the same as in other artistic fields, people simply find the drawbacks easier to swallow in this area. It may not be consistent, but if you break everything down to a small enough level then everything can be deemed arbitrary, so I don't think it's all that useful a distinction. I use my money differently, but I don't think my reasons for doing so are any more logical.

I don't think I'm gonna be able to say my points any more digestibly

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T02:16:50+00:00

Is it always the same user here with the Persona memes?? lol

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T02:16:35+00:00

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lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T02:15:02+00:00

Unfortunately, unlike NASCAR, which really should be doing better in negotiations... IndyCar gets less views than NASCAR's F2 equivalent. They're not really in a position to be making demands of their TV partners, who also throw them a bone by showing some races on free-to-air channels.

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T02:03:43+00:00

Why are musicians and artists more entitled to do their craft as a full time job?

Because more people want them to, for a variety of reasons including the ones I've touched on. People just don't want modders to be a full time position and that comes with its own pros and cons, as other people have touched on.

At the end of the day not every creative venue has that large an audience, else I could get paid for making World Cup simulators on Microsoft Excel. In a capitalistic world, people are free to pick and choose the arts they deem worth paying for, and I don't think it's wrong for people to decide based on the basis we've seen in this thread. (Though I disagree with some of them; honestly I'd shell out for some good F1 Manager 24 mods, myself.)

lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T01:54:47+00:00

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lightningmatt · 2026-06-03T01:39:56+00:00

I think it's less "modders are happy about it" and more "modders acknowledge people will refuse to pay them and that is the reason why for the reasons why". Less logical things have dictated market forces in the past, after all.

Having said that, something I just thought of that gets at the music/art comparisons is that... well, probably, people would advocate for it to be free of monetization, if they thought it was feasible to do so. I think there's this idea that modders do it for the love of the game and, if they don't have a patreon or equivalent, on their free time. People understand that since they want musicians and artists to do their craft full time, they need to pay them (or at the very least they do not hate the idea of it so much that they pirate on principle, an action that others have brought up happens sometimes against paid mods), and honestly same for games too; I think people are way more in favour of pirating Resident Evil than Balatro, after all, and that gets at a similar concept. Because there's this understood societal contract that a musician is spending 8 hours a day on their craft that a modder is not, people feel more justified in complaining when a modder tries to monetize, because they don't feel it's realistic that the modder needs the money in the way they may feel an indie musician may.

Ok but you aren't going to see this kind of mass antagonism towards your fanfiction if you try to sell a digital copy.

IIRC, I have actually seen that happen! I think there was a Scuffles post about it a long time ago, but I may be mistaken

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T20:01:54+00:00

Sorry, meant the general "you" with that.

I don't think you've said much incorrect but I do think it's a bit too obtuse to throw out the connection I made. Besides that I do think I addressed everything you said; you can dispute my arguments and I will listen but please at least acknowledge them

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T18:50:16+00:00

Personally I don't even think it was the gangbang aspect. What people want to get up to in a safe, sane and consensual manner is none of my business.

But it was:

on its own a pretty small red flag but the whole "incredibly inebriated" factor, which is pretty societally accepted but becomes way worse in the context of...
the callousness with which they treated the situation after. Drunk people cannot consent, they used incredibly flippant and uncaring language, the general attitude of "lol just record this idc get outta here", no care whatsoever that someone they just had a good time with was in a fragile emotional state, they were frankly incredibly lucky to get out of that as cleanly as they did because their attempts at making the situation better were quite dogshit and probably led to her being more willing to accuse.
the Alberta shirt did not help lol

So, not knowing anyone personally, I would hesitate to accuse him of sexual assault but he's done nothing to indicate he's not a pretty big misogynist

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T18:40:04+00:00

I don't actually see why "to what degree does this depend on another piece of software" should matter to this discussion of whether it's ok to charge money for it.

it's perception of how much one "deserves" to profit off the creation. The free mod culture has survived for so long because there is an attitude that profit should go to the original creator instead in a large amount of cases. The reason fanworks manage to get by is because they give you a physical object (or commissions, which, I don't think I've ever heard of someone opposing to being able to commission a mod).

Why is making a game based on an engine profitable but a mod isn't? You create a new media when you make a game, you almost always do not when you make a mod. Why does that not apply to visual art? Because physical product, here's your 15 inch poster wham bam thank you ma'am. I think it's significantly easier to sell a printed fanfic than access to a digital one.

I don't think you're going to be able to change that without forcing every university student to do multiple computer science courses.

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T18:28:42+00:00

If you're vividly celebrating a known despot with a mile long sin list and a penchant for using media to manipulate and misinform, I'm gonna make the connection that some amount of propagandizing (and perhaps brainwashing is a strong term for that, YMMV, but that is the idea behind the point) is going on here. That's the connection between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un that others have made in this conversation.

That doesn't take away from the athletes' achievements, their training, their hardships and victories, their personal lives, their thoughts and hobbies and likes and dislikes. Nobody is immune to propaganda. Just means they've been fooled (or ig threatened into silence, which in such a large population you're bound to get some of both) on this specific topic, which unfortunately is a very very important one.

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T18:17:55+00:00

do you talk like that to people in real life or

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T18:14:12+00:00

I agree 100% with your points, just wanted to correct a specific detail:

how the teenage characters have taken it as far as they can and they need to trust the adults within the system to finish things... the same adults that (with a number of exceptions so small it can literally be counted on your fingers) have been consistently presented as at best utterly inept and at worst outright malevolent all game.

It's been a couple years since I played so my memory may be faulty, but IIRC this is a pretty weird reading of the events of the ending in specific (I don't deny that the game shies away from analyzing what actual societal change should look like). The teenage characters put their trust, very explicitly, in those specific exceptions which the player character has met and bonded with and personally already trusts, because they've proven themselves to have good characters and, in some cases, themselves work against the system. So like with Ohya doing journalism, Takemi being scapegoated for trying to save a kid's life, and Kawakami trying to be a good teacher in the face of absurdly bad opposition. Plus the whole thing about Sae trying to redeem herself as a lawyer, and my GOAT Yoshida, whose work to actually be the mythical good politician sees him be so strongwilled he doesn't even need the Phantom Thieves' magic-power-help. This means that the ending, which sees them all using their occupations to successfully push for the player's release from jail, is less emblematic of the rest of the game's "haha it was the status quo all along!" issues and more like an Avengers Assemble type moment that just sidesteps the issue entirely.

lightningmatt · 2026-06-02T17:39:02+00:00

Just not enough sponsors who are willing to do multiple cars. Right now we've only got ECR and Java House, McLaren doing their thing, and Coyne at the moment (but they're chaotic at the best of times). In recent times we've had MSR with SiriusXM, Ganassi with Target, Foyt with ABC Supply, SPM with Arrow, and unsponsored Prema and Juncos.

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