How did this happen? It all starts with a mod called Take No Prisoners.
Starsector is an indie 2d space game about customizing and blowing up spaceships that has been in development for over a decade. These ships can be piloted by officers that make them more effective. Take No Prisoners was (past tense) a mod that lets you occasionally capture enemy officers after you explode their ship, developed by a guy named presidentmattdamon and released under a license that allows for forking and modification.
It's important to note at this point that the main developer of Starsector, Alexander Mosolov, is a bit of a low-level shitlib. Half of the officers generated by the game are women, the characters in the main storyline are overwhelmingly women and minorities, and you can select the pronouns your character is addressed by separately from their actual s*x determined by their portrait. So there are a lot of women in the vanilla game. Modders for Starsector are also consistently on the shitlib spectrum and are very artistic. That is, they have very high levels of artism. So there are a lot of female characters in mods, including anime women and big booby train self-inserts.
Enter R*pesector, the Take No Prisoners fork that lets you handhold and romance your officers. That's not a euphemism, there is actual handholding and romance in the mod alongside the r*pe, breeding facility planetary industry, and robosex. It deliberately ignores the "important person" flag used to mark a character that shouldn't be allowed to die outside of scripted story circumstances, which the original TNP respected, and also includes the ability to capture and r*pe non-officer NPCs like planetary governors. This mod has been causing low level drama and freakouts since it first came into existence.
Presidentmattdamon hated that his perfectly wholesome mod about capturing prisoners of war was turned into a degenerate coomer r*pe fantasy, but he couldn't do anything about it except seethe because he released TNP under a license that explicitly allowed modification and nobody actually cares about code licenses anyway. He completely discontinued development of Take No Prisoners because of this and removed the whole thing from the internet. In a resounding victory for coomers , R*pesector is now the only available, functional, and updated version of the mod. Matt began work on Take No Prisoners 2, a story mod with handcrafted officers, conversations, quests, blackjack, and no r*pe at all! Keen eyes will notice that this mod doesn't actually exist in downloadable form and is likely a spite-induced pipe dream.
Presidentmattdamon also recently began updating some old mods that had their original developer stop working on them. Starsector has been in development for an incredibly long time and modders enter and leave the community constantly for whatever reason, be it simply no longer being interested or having more real life stuff they need to do that precludes spending lots of time updating a mod for an unfinished video game. One of these mods is Diable Avionics, an ancient and beloved mod that has been passed down to new authors multiple times. Out of severe butthurt, Matt added code to this heirloom mod that if you were also using R*pesector, would wait for a R*pesector-specific trigger - the capture of an important person - and then completely and irrecoverably shred your save file. This is, no bones about it, malware. Literal malware, the distribution of which may be an actual crime depending on your jurisdiction. Alex was forced to act. Matt was banned from the official Starsector forums and links to his mods were deleted. R*pesector takes a final victory as the only functional and available TNP version for now and forever more.
The moral of this story is that video game pornography mods are the most powerful force in the universe. Coomers always win.
Banning malware in mods has also had knock-on effects; a different author has been adding code that crashes the game to force incompatibility between their mods and a long defunct and banned Nazi mod called New Galactic Order Rather than remove this code, the mod author chose to have their mods removed from the forum.
The Starsector subreddit is, of course, aflame with discussion of these events.
Diable Avionics has malware in its code
Diable Avionics 2.8.1 and newer versions have the following code in them. The purpose of the code is to stay hidden until a condition is met and then make your save unplayable. Matt Damon has confirmed on Groomercord in his own words that it will "devour your save" https://i.imgur.com/a/rlvHZmx
Unofficial Starsector Groomercord damage control
Just so you are all aware the largest groomercord server for star sector is currently attempting to shut down discussion of the latest drama. Presumably because the moderators there have also previously put crash code in their mods. One other modder even put an ip logger in the mod. You will be banned for even asking if particular mods are safe. How can a community be controlled by a group of power trippers? The fact that they help normalise and cover up people putting malware in mods is disgusting. This should be discussed as it threatens the integrity of the whole modding scene, how can I trust installing a random file on my PC if it's casually accepted that modders can do this and be defended by their groomercord buddies? Thankfully Alex is stepping in so they will probably back peddle soon
Redditor calls the cyber police
Just got off the phone with the AFP's Cyber crime unit after making a detailed report. Submitted all current evidence, they seemed quite interested, also gave links to the groomercords that seemed to be downplaying this and covering it up. For the malicious frickers out there. If you have Evidence towards the maliciousness of these moders and groomercord owners attempting to cover this up, please report them to your Country's cyber crime authority.
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Don't forget the unofficial Groomercord channel (USC) mods backing the malware guy and banning anyone posting warnings about it
https://old.reddit.com/r/starsector/comments/1b9j5ft/le_haha_funne_malware_in_ur_mod_folder/ktyq863/?context=8#thing_t1_ktyq863
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I'm pretty sure matt is banned from USC
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Yes you could have learned all that and more by reading the comment I linked
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Read?
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Pink lobster takes a final victory as the only functional and open to discussion Starsector groomercord server for now and forever more.
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Nice writeup, one thing I'd like to add here is the crossover episode with ymfah, of FromSoft game-breaking e-fame:
https://old.reddit.com/r/starsector/comments/1b9kzkp/a_collection_of_fixes_i_made_on_crashcodes/
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People getting butthurt over how other people play their own game is always peak
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Yeah it's like trying to police preferences. Such a pointless hill to die on.
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See also: Souls-like strags
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High quality post. I play Sneedsector and am in progress on a play through right now, it's a kino game, and I've been following this drama daily for the weeks it has been going on.
If anyone is interested in playing it, if you watch Ssethzeentach's review on jewtube near the end of the video he literally puts his actual key on screen. You can go to their site, enter this key, and be playing a 10/10 indie sneed generator 3 minutes from now for free.
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So the gist here is that shitlib mod authors think they can dictate which other mods players are allowed to use?
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This would never happen in my Fallout 4 mod scene! (It absolutely does, but no one is stupid enough to literally malware people)
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I wanted to respond to this in a mean way at first then my other half wanted to respect the dedication to this post then I wanted to post a comment in support even tho I didn't actually read your post.
So all in all I support this post but I didn't read it and frankly I will NOT read it. But I hope these !nooticers support
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Starsector modding is so fricking annoying. Mods only work for particular versions of the game they are developed for, so if you want to play on the newest game version, half the mods won't be available until a month or two afterwards. The obvious solution is to download the previous patch of the game and the mods for that version. When the mod is on github, this is annoying but doable, although many mods don't even list what version of the game its for on their releases so you have to suss it out. The other half of the time, it's on the forum page, and it only has the link to the newest version, so you have to use internet archive to fish out the correct version
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Good. Modding should be inconvenient so it's gatekept from tech illiterate r-slurs.
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you're an r-slur if you wait for the mods to update lmao, just manually change the mods .ini to say whatever the current starsector version
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Just play the latest version smhmh. Also there are bootlegs for all the inactive mods that have been abandon or never updated if you look around a bit
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Banned
All is well.
Kekw, the devs have their priorities alright
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Its never been about morality, its always been about the audience
Wrongthink not allowed
They will play the longest and sing our praises the most
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You're r-slurred you are an r-slur, genuine moron. He's writing from the perspective of the developer, not of the coomer dumb b****
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Youre wrong.
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*you're
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No youre.
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I'm no codecel (and even my basic html class is pretty much exclusively forgotten by this point) , it was just stylistic choice.
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Nah, R*pesector and related discussion is completely verboten on the forum, groomercords, reddit, practically everywhere. People still manage to talk about it via extreme levels of euphemism.
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I always just thought of it as the sector is collapsing so everybody is trying to make it big by being officers, especially since half of them have shit skills (almost like half of them are women )
same with pronouns, I personally always use Captain since it sounds cool when the A.I say stuff like "Captain Morgan."
It is a bit annoying though but I find it a lot less problematic with the Girls Frontline portrait mod and the A.I gen portrait pack, since those add some variety so I'm not seeing only blacks and the same red helmet chick portrait everytime
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if there werent any big tit hentai mods, how would SSeetzh have reviewed it?
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Isn't Seth gay and pretends to be a henati degen?
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He's a
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Who will maintain diable now? Tart was the most reliable but he seems to have abandoned it and moved on to better mods. The modlist was beginning to get bloated anyways so I wont miss it being gone, but it will probably remain as a bootleg from update to update
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diable was good but I think there's a few which takes its place. I liked the mecha kind of designs but I found Arma Armatura works a lot better, is actually current and has some unique mechanics like having what are essentially pilotable fighters that are pretty balanced.
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Diable and dassault-mikoyan were two of the best besides like VIC which may as well just be added as an official faction at this point. It sucks those two languish so much
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he couldn't do anything about it except seethe:
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completely discontinued development of Take No Prisoners because of this:
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Matt was banned from the official Starsector forums:
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removed from the forum.:
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Diable Avionics has malware in its code:
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Unofficial Starsector Groomercord damage control:
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Redditor calls the cyber police:
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Something similar that happened in the Stellaris modding community a few years back but I can't find it for the life of me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
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I think it was about removing blacks from the human portraits. Mod author was way too r-slurred to obfuscate it
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That's not the one I was thinking of, there was one where the modder would make your game crash if his mod found a specific checksum or something like that. It was a whole controversy on reddit but can't find it for the life of me.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/starsector/comments/1bak1br/petition_for_the_removal_of_upowerchicken_as/
janny drama or something
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Oh frick, and I was debating whether to install it because the ships look so cool.
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