ATTN: Voting Post For Hexbear Minecraft Server: Vanilla+ or Modded (please read full post)
in the announcement post for this, i lacked critical information regarding the mods. the modpack being used is Create Extra, which appears to be mostly performance, minor aesthetic, and QOL mods. it shouldn’t result in a performance decrease compared to vanilla
if you want to check out the mods contained in the modpack, here is a link
so again, the options are vanilla+ (server-side mods only) or modded (server- and client-side mods)
for vanilla+
for modded
voting will end Monday, Aug 5 at 5 PM UTC (1 PM EST)
wait until you find out that there are mods that exist that:
make characters gay
remove weird problematic content from trash slop stories
add new stories with their own ideas and plotlines
completely overhaul a game into a new game, basically using the original game as an engine
like two thirds of these are completely immune to the criticisms of "consumerism" or "disrespecting the artist's vision". that's because the point is to either make something entirely new with the same technical grounding, or to specifically remove or change a part of the artist's vision because they didn't like it after engaging with it deeply enough to understand what needed changing
if this is an "i ate the onion" thing than please understand that i can't tell tone over the internet, am autistic, and that people who believe this kind of shit do genuinely exist, so i have no reason to actually believe it's a joke
Mods on this website better not be paid, while I'm rantin'. I only wanna' be censored by someone with a true love of censorship and not a slave to the dollar.
how are mods inherently less valid than a game made from whole cloth? the difference is murky at best and nonexistent at worst. you are aware that a large amount of games STARTED as mods for other games, right?
if someone made a mod that was it's own entire story using the Half-Life 2 engine, why does that just randomly stop being valid even though using an existing game engine to make a game is literally what the majority of "original" games (which are what you apparently think are "less consumerist" somehow) do