yes I am accepting constructive criticism
My reasonings
Good
- ROMhacking dot net is a good cataloguing site but won't host any actual modded roms, just the patch files
- don't really have anything bad to say about moddb except that there's so many abandoned WIP mods hanging around
- Gamebanana has a lot of really cool shit for games that can't be found anywhere else but god is its UI horrendous
Neutral
- GitHub is GitHub
- Nexus Mods has done a lot of shady shit, is arguably moving to become a monopoly but at the same time they will remove chud hate mods and aren't a completely hostile user experience
- Steam Workshop is a lawless wasteland
Evil
- Curseforge has done a LOT of anti-consumer motions in the past and is also gunning for mod monopoly status
- LoversLab
- idk if adfly is even still relevant in this day and age but it's been the bane of my fucking existence long enough so I'm including it
is loverslab just bad because :pingu-horny: ?
I think there's a discussion to be had about the particular focus on sexual violence in communities like that, and I'd be more comfortable saying "nah that place is cool" if that wasn't such a core aspect of it. At the same time, I'm not trying to put forth any actual opinions about sexual violence in pornographic contexts because I haven't thought or read very much about that topic. I just think there could be (and probably already has been) a good discussion on it.
I think one of the issues you have with this topic is that once you step beyond vanilla sex it's almost ALL some element of submissive vs dominance and due to the fictional setting people take it as far as they possibly can because fiction.
The other part of this is a question of who the perpetrator of sexual violence actually is, to my knowledge most of these mods have the player being the one that the sexual violence is against, and the player is obviously a consenting participant to that fantasy.
Definitely a different vibe going on when it's the player performing compared to receiving though? But here we get into a subject matter that the kink community has debated without the videogame element for decades already.
I think a huge part of that is driven by the medium. Video games are disproportionately about violence, so of course video game porn is going to be too. Like if you're making sex mods for Skyrim all of those combat mechanics are right there and open to be used by your sexual violence mod, while a mod that's just about consensual smashing can feel flat by comparison since there isn't much to dialogue.
imagine consensual mod built around the oblivion speech minigame :kitty-cri-screm:
Yeah I am mostly just riffing on LoversLab here for being a den of horny and ripped video game model conversions.
Admittedly they are a bunch of :freeze-peach: types with their only two big content rules being 1. adult characters only, 2. don't harass people but tbf those are good standards to have.