And Once Again - Gmods

This discussion is still going strong and certain things have been discovered that are just incredible.  There are so many lies and utter bullshit coming from Kreisher at Gmods that it's unbelievable.  We are not stupid Kreisher, and we won't stand by and let you steal our work for your gain.

Interested people who care about their mods, images, textual works, and indeed the whole modding community should continue reading the the ongoing thread at Tesnexus which is, at this time numbers 21 pages. 

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/428348-gmod-content-policy-content-index-system/

I've posted about this at other forums, yet the only people who seem to take it seriously are the people at Tesnexus and a very few others.  If others don't take it seriously that's their problem and should not complain if their work is appropriated by a leech, especially when they were notified.   I do however give kudos to "loder", the Admin/Owner at Mods Reloaded when he found out about it and took it seriously. He very quickly set in motion a redirect so any traffic coming there from Gmods will get an error page and redirect back to Gmods.

Kudos also to all the modders, and DarkOne the owner of Tesnexus and it's family of sites, who also got together to try and get this Kreisher person shut down.  Bandwidth leeching has now stopped due to Gmods being put on the Blacklist at Tesnexus by DarkOne and further action will be taken if he doesn't stop.

However, we know he has been reading the threads.  I saw his name there today when I was reading the latest posts and yet in this interview conducted by Sepherose, he denies following the thread despite that DarkOne can check his account activity and what he looks at, among other blatant lies.  I don't know how Sepherose put up with Kreisher's crap for an hour, when he could actually get a word in between the rambling and garbage, but I listened to the whole thing.  The last third is the most telling.

Oh and by the way, we modders are trolls for not rallying to his cause according to "Mr" Kreisher.  How about you get back under your bridge and leave us alone.

This is audio only.




There's also this warning at Youtube from Sepherose posted before the interview.




Then there's this interview which mentions making money from mods among other things that will interest modders, for example how mods are so hard to install, they can ruin your game and give you malware and viruses.  Predictably, he denied saying these things, and even knowing about some of it, which is another lie. He's just been caught out and doesn't know how to get out of it. Like a politician.

http://www.digitalninjastl.com/blog/tag/skylar-kreisher/

While we all know there are other sites that have tried this kind of thing in the past, they haven't survived for long. Gmods is an example to others that modders won't stand for this while there's something that can be done to shut them down. I personally have no doubt they will continue with their dirty tactics, but they will be caught eventually now that people are watching. The most stupid thing Kreisher did was to announce his poison scheme in public and thinking we would be OK with it.

I have my mods hosted at several places...Mods Reloaded, TES Alliance, Tesnexus and Planet Elder Scrolls. Of those I'm thinking seriously about removing them from PES because I don't know if they will take this seriously and as Kreicher says, "there are other mods sites." The others have already taken precautions, or know about this scam.

Update Re Hard Drive Disaster

Well, I should be up and running again on the weekend.  I'm awaiting the courier to deliver a new Western Digital 1TB HDD which was on special at $89 Australian.   I'm also getting a new graphics card so I can play Skyrim when it arrives on our shores.  I've pre-ordered it and EBGames has a special offer so I'll get these extras all for $88 which is cheaper than a lot of new games alone with no extras, and cheaper than the Collectors Edition which has almost the same extras.

•  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Game
• Skyrim Steelbook
• 100 Page A5 Skyrim Debossed Notebook
• Premium Physical Map
• 4 Collectable Art Cards

The first thing I'll be downloading, after getting my computer back together, re-installing Windows and all essentials is Age of Conan Unchained.  As I updated in my previous post about the deceased hard drive, I found out that my hard won level 34 character is safe and waiting on the AOC servers.  What a relief.   How I miss you Sorrel,  lol,  and all the beauty of the game world, not to mention getting revenge on enemies I had no hope of killing a few levels back.

I'm getting a bit stir crazy without access to my game, music and video files.  I don't have room on the drive I currently have in as it's only an old 40GB drive, but at least I get to use the Internet.  The one saving grace is this time I have everything well and truly backed up, unlike last time the blasted thing died.  Lesson learned, but I was able to get most of it back.  The important stuff anyway.  I never did trust it after if failed once, but I did hope for a longer life than 2 years...give or take a month.

I know I've whinged and moaned about Oblivion on this blog, but I think it becomes a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder with that game.  However, it's going to take a day and a half (slight exaggeration, but not by much) to get it back to how I want it with all the texture replacers, mods, utilities and all.  Plus, I can't wait to see it with the new graphics card.  It looked pretty darn good before, but I'm anticipating a massive improvement.  I still have all my saves so my characters are safe.

Further Info Re Gmod.com

Found this today.  Since I had nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon than grieve for my hard drive and games.

It's a video from Kreisher apologizing for stealing content from other sites, including Tesnexus.  Of course he doesn't put it in those terms but that's exactly what it is.
http://gmod.com/video/Gmod%20Apology

It's repetitive and goes on and on for nearly 7 minutes so I zoned out halfway through.

I also found links to other sites like Bioware who also have complaints about the site and their practices as well as a heap of promotional pages for Gmod itself.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/167/index/6840398/1

This site is poison.  Stay away unless you want malware, content without the author's permission and an inability to access your files if they find their way there.  According to the Bioware page at least one mod has the wrong authors's name so how would the correct person be able to access the file to update or
anything else.  It seems emails and requests to have content removed or for info go unanswered.

Site owner's need to be aware of bandwidth leeching as well as mentioned in the Tesnexus threads linked in my earlier post here

I can't even access the site at all unless I allow it temporarily with NoScript (for Firefox)so it must be pretty script heavy.  All I get is a blank page with the NoScript logo.  That's a no no in my book.

Although we can't do much about most sites that do the same thing with user made mods, and they are everywhere,  I can't believe these people had the gall to come to the main mods sites and tell people what they are doing, and that they think they are in the right.

Dead Hard Drive - Again!

I just can't believe this happened today.  My hard drive, which "bricked" itself last year due to faulty firmware from Seagate (original not updated by me) has done it again.

No warnings, even though I have S.M.A.R.T turned on in the BIOS, yet when I exited a game I was playing and tried to view some screen shots I'd taken Windows politely informed me that all data on the drive had been lost.

Then after that I couldn't even access the drive because Windows no longer "sees" it.  I had a hell of a time just to get the computer to boot back into Windows so now I can't shut it down in case it does it again, because it's looking for the drive and can't find it, I imagine.

Luckily, all my important data is backed up, but I'm pretty annoyed that I just hit level 34 in Age of Conan and I imagine that is all gone.  I don't know if that info is stored on their servers, but I doubt it.

UPDATE:  I found out my AOC character is safe on the servers...whew!!!  I don't have to do it all again so soon.

Anyway, I have no idea how long it will take before I can get this REPLACED, not repaired like last time, thank you Seagate.   It's still only just under warranty.

Ironically, my boot drive is nearly 10 years old and still going strong, yet the big drive I use for games, music, video and general entertainment is DEAD.

I guess the old saying "they don't make them like they used to" still applies.

I am not a happy camper. 

Age of Conan- More Screen shots

I'm seriously thinking about subscribing to this game, but I want to play a bit more first.  It's still keeping me up at night and is getting better and better as I level up.  

I so want one of the tiger mounts as I see them pass by and hear them growling.  There are several variations, including the orange and black, besides the one in my screen shot.

Click to enlarge is desired 

Maigrets Battle Dogs - Rocky and Spike

My latest mod uploaded yesterday to Tesnexus and today at TES Alliance.  Planet Elder Scrolls seems to have some uploading issues at the moment and according to their forums has been going on for awhile.
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40209

The resources in this and my other mods are NOT to be used for the morally bereft so called "adult" mods featuring animals.  You people disgust me.

Screen shots.  Click to enlarge if so desired.

GMod.com - A Warning To Oblivion and Other Modders

This is a warning to Oblivion modders and more than likely other games from Bethesda and other developers. There's a site called gmod.com using suspect and underhanded methods to mine content from the major and other mod sites for use on their site. It's also possible that they expect to make money from these files which is strictly against the EULA.

For further information see this thread at Tesnexus and modders should check if their work and personal information has made it to gmod.com and have it removed.

http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/428348-gmod-content-policy-content-index-system/

The site also suspiciously wants to install software on your computer which is something browsers should be careful of.

Here are the other topics I couldn't find before and one from the Torchlight modding community.
http://www.thenexusforums.com/index.php?/topic/402881-important-a-site-is-stealing-mods/

http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18042