I've never been part of the Doom community, which is getting fucked over hard right now by the new release that "adds mods" (publishes a ton of people's work without attribution or permission), but I saw these comments from one of the people responsible and jesus this guy is the worst!
Never trust anyone who tells you "there's no other way to do it". It's never true and the fucker always knows it's not. He just committed to not caring who's hurt so long ago that the suggestion he maybe ought to feels like an attack. I hate this thing of putting yourself in a position of power/control/authority and then visciously denying that it's also a position of responsibility. Pretending something can't be done because of how much you don't feel like it.
It makes me think of Steam, and the knots some folks who've worked on it have tied themselves in to try to explain to me why x thing about it is good rather than bad, where what they're really saying is "if this isn't true, I have a lot of work to do that I'm not prepared to do", and you know there's really no amount of patient argument that can bring that person around
The truly maddening part: not only is there another way, it’s a method they used on the last iteration of their Doom console ports (along with the remasters of Quake and Quake II). Want an in-game community mod/level browser? You hand-pick and vet the ones to feature officially. If players want to play something that isn’t officially supported, you give them instructions on how to download and manually add them to their game. Instead of doing any of that, they went and made new problems for themselves and the rest of the community, then shrugged their shoulders and went “What do you expect us to do?” Not any of this, for starters!
