I wasn’t excluding this type of mod when I asked my question. Small fixes definitely count!

Spoilers on Lemmy work like this:

::: spoiler Some words you want to put
The spoiler text

Blah blah more spoiler text
:::

I’d have to say thanks to SMAPI and Content Patcher for enabling so many Stardew Valley mods in the first place.

Also, Qwinn’s Ultimate DAO Fixpack for allowing me to have a mostly bug-free experience playing Dragon Age: Origins. Mostly.

That is the most annoying thing, when people crash into spaces and say horrible things and then try to force you to accept it and make you look like the bad guy by saying “they will not listen to differing views, it’s an echo chamber!”

I am open to differing views but in views like “the Nazis were bad” or “2+2=4” it should be an echo chamber of consensus… you should not have to accept the “differing view” of “you all got your chronic illnesses through being horrible people, and if you are an angel now, well actually no I’ll just make up stuff to prove why you deserve it.” There are legitimate but uncomfortable differing views, and there is cruel insanity trying to force someone acting in good faith to accept the view under usual good-faith principles for non-insane views.

I am glad you at least have some kind of support group going on.

“In case you missed it”

I ABSOLUTELY did not know about that until your comment, where do you find out about these things? I am always down for charity bundles but I do not always know about them till it is too late. Bought this one.

Although, people like Illusory Wall very much rely heavily on The Internet Archive when they are researching what the deal with the Dark Souls 1 DLC was. Which gets into the other side of “what actually IS games preservation?”

Based off this I’d imagine it might involve backing up the game’s release announcement and some sale pages with its description online, proof the game existed, before the page gets changed because the game is no longer the hottest and newest thing or stores are no longer selling the game?

I get the feeling you know more about this topic than I do and probably have strong opinions about it.

Thanks for the namedrops of where to find articles, and what I assume are people who make long-form videos on video games!

Copyright/Trademark/IP Protection is very much a thing. It is the main reason so many museums have “no pictures” (barring the increasingly rare cases where it is genuine light concerns). And that applies a lot more when it comes to “modern” history, of which video games definitely count. But even for ancient manuscripts, the answer tends to be “if you fill out all this paperwork and can demonstrate a genuine need to our board, you can come by and read that manuscript in a clean room. Or… you can spend 20 bucks on a copy in our gift shop. Hell, if you stop bothering me I’ll spot you ten bucks toward that”

This is why I appreciate the Internet. Getting insight on how stuff I do not know about—I’m not a museum curator—works.

I do not know what Star Crusader is but I’m also in the audience for deep dives as opposed to overexaggerated YouTuber-who-wants-you-to-form-a-parasocial-relationship-with-them reactions. When I do drag my butt over to YouTube, I usually find myself watching some long-form informative gaming video. There are some people with a following who get mentioned in the comments of other informative gaming videos (Summoning Salt comes to mind) so you are definitely not alone in wanting deep dives. :)

Not sure where to find deep dive articles, but wish I knew. Someone over at [email protected] provided one and it’s stoking my appetite for them.