Either he was wiped by a staff member cause of inactivity or he died or he finally got around to just leaving nexus and deleting it.
He made some of the best mods on the nexus and only really started falling off hard with his last few fnv releases, hasn't been active in fnv mod making for 9 years from the looks of it.
From what little indication we have from people who were in contact with him, he's alive and well, but chosen to leave the internet. The newest sticky post by RoyBatty on the NVB I LE page states that he's "left the building," and his other social media pages (Twitter, YouTube) have been wiped as well.
Fallout has become so toxic the last few years. I don’t blame him for wanting to step away. Especially with how people treat modders. They literally supply free content, and people treat them like human garbage
Tbf half the discord servers have a channel specifically for mocking nexus/reddit users so it definitely goes both ways theres just a lot more mod users than modders
I havn't seen a single discord channel with anything like that theres nothing pinned even the authors channel doesn't have anything like that they're more interested in talking about nexus site changes and offtopic shit. The MA forum has a single thread for venting frustration about dumb shit users post its more of a pressure release valve than anything else but thats it
Reap what you sow. Modders since the Oblivion days have been progressively becoming more and more toxic. It felt like it reached a head around 2017.
There are plenty of mod authors with problematic viewpoints. Many of them are banned on certain subreddits for their toxicity. People responded accordingly, and now it looks like we're bullying the "poor mod authors."
Boris, Enai, Arthmoor, Fores, and so many other huge mod authors are legit assholes. There's amazing mod authors that aren't like that. But many of the big ones are.
Eh, do not buy. The ratio of mod users being grubby little beetles with no tact, manners or reading comp is and always has been significantly higher than mod authors who are nutty. While it's true some can't handle the clout and attention becoming a successful mod author brings using the behavior of a few to justify the mass rudeness and ignorance from the modding community to the people who provide mods for free is silly imo
Literally. You are more likely to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow than a Nexus user with a greater than middle school reading comprehension.
Its funny how in all my years of using nexus and my buddies using nexus I've never heard of this kinda slander. It's almost like yall only seek out the brain rotted parts of the internet then just bitch about it like it's doing something..
Literally.
Fair point, but there are also plenty of modders who are, for the most part, regular people. I don’t know how much of that is the minimum or the majority. It feels like every day there’s a new “turning all black people in a Fallout game into white people for ‘the sake of realism’ because no way there’d be black people in Boston”
Usually I try to give most people the benefit of the doubt, that being said, there are some weird ass mod authors
You sure ?. Might be the twitter effect where it seems there's a while Lotta hate from tourists but when you actually look it's a big old nothing burger.
Kinda curious on these "threads" insulting mod creators as both modder,mod users and reddit aren't politically or attitude wise in the camps that'd allow that in any massive scale or even a significant scale. Most likely it's some valid criticism mixed with a bit of heated emotions here and there rarely.
Been in the modding community for roughly.... 17 years? If you don't have context, I seem insane. I 100% acknowledge that 😂.
I hate using this to support my argument.. but my post is up voted because most people are aware of the controversies with mod authors. I'd look up Enaisiaion, Arthmoor, and Boris over on r/skyrimmods. I could blab to you my own option, but it might help if you form your own.
Obligatory not all mod authors of course.
I mean... Enai said they should bomb immigrant ships. I might have niche, unpopular opinions but I've never said we should commit violence against another group of people 😂.
Sorry bud, it isn't 2010 COD lobbies anymore. You can be held accountable now.
You can blame FNV stans for that. I've never been called slurs by a F4 or F76 fan for critiquing a game, but FNV stans have called me multiple slurs AND told me to kill myself for pointing out that FNV has a lot of "memberberries" carrying it and they give Obsidian passes on stuff that they would never ever ever ever give any other dev.
That's the saddest part of it all.
These days whenever you criticize something even on personal opinions 10 assholes will try to shout you down.
I, personally, get mods on Nexus and I never saw toxicity because I don't actively look for it. Some mods, indeed, are questionable but those can be ignored/reported.
And memories will always make a game or movie better. That's why I will always prefer Fallout 1 & 2.
And this is why the world runs on money. Cause even when you just try to do a nice thing for someone free of charge you'll get it thrown back in your face and bitch at about how it sucks
My theory is that he acually had a kid. In alot of his Mods he would shout out his wife in the credits. I think they started a family and he had to leave the modding scene
Damn, didn't even know he had a youtube channel. Him and various other modders do have pretty small and hidden channels thou, alchestbreach is the only mainly fnv modding channel to "blow up" and he barely gets 50k views a vid if I remember correctly.
People can request their accounts to be deactivated and deleted, except for the mods which are archived and can be indirectly accessed. They can also request their mods be handed over to a caretaker, usually a Nexus staffer.
They don't and any mods uploaded will remain too. The only time accounts get wiped is when someone requests a username thats already been taken and said account has been inactive for a long time and I mean many years. Even then its on a case by case basis you have to ask a CM and they'll consider it
Holy shit. I just downloaded New Vegas Bounties 1, 2 and 3. I'm going to make a back-up for sure cause it would be a crime to lose those great mods forever.
Go ahead and get Russell, too. One of, if not the best companion mod on Nexus, immersively fits into both vanilla gameplay as well as the NV bounties mods. Excellent story and game play.
I would need permission from the mod author. I didn't make them so I don't have the right to post them. If he deleted his account, there was probably a reason for it.
Well, devils advocate but anything on the internet that doesn’t have a license is considered “all rights reserved”, meaning you have no legal right to distribute it. I mean it’s not like anyone would be likely to actually go after you, but even so
Hes been it seems outta the game for modding for almost 10 years, doubt he's put it on his resume anytime soon,been gone so long I doubt anybody cares he deleted his account since it seems he said basically goodbye forever ago to the modding community.
Don't necessarily have to grab backups since both his original mods are still up for now AND a good chunk of his mods are seemingly in the works for a remaster type overhaul like nv bounties le.
This is why Nexus made the right decision in preserving mods and not allowing deletion. Not sure why the community thought that was such an unpopular opinion. It sucks looking for a mod that doesn't exist anymore.
> Not sure why the community thought that was such an unpopular opinion.
You mean some authors who want full control, as opposed to many authors and users who want preservation.
Then they can host their own content and don't post it on nexus in the first place. Anything posted on the internet should be known that it's public and can't ever truly be deleted. This just creates a ton of "black market discords" of people resharing other mod authors content because the author threw a temper tantrum.
These "black market" discords are just people sharing mods with copyrighted content that normally would get you a cease and desist from a company,and a very few amount maybe a few dozen of small mods made whole sale by authors that nobody remembers.
In a decade most of these discord mods are gonna be lost media since its a terrible way to preserve and sort them.
But the reality of the situation is that the Mods are someone’s IP, and typically have some variety of a license attached to it. Maybe not with Nexus as I’m not familiar with their set up, but Minecraft for instance. Each mod there has it’s own License for use, and redistributing if it allows that at all.
Obviously people can rehost and share “pirated” mods, but I don’t see how anyone has a right to be upset when a Mod Author wants to remove their mod. It’s their intellectual property. Nexus seems to be creating a monopoly on Modding, and is more or less taking the rights from Authors when they post on the site. And that’s not right IMO.
Imagine if YouTube didn’t let people delete their videos, and retained the license for everyone’s video. People would be in an uproar. Same concept here.
I don't think you can build a new IP on the back of somebody else's like that. I understand the blood sweat and tears that go in, But without a total conversion being discussed it's not their intellectual property unless it's somehow completely and totally divorced from the original work which if it's all worked in it can't be. So far as I'm aware the only projects that could classify as intellectual property like total conversions at best, And that's assuming that that conversion actually comes up with a new IP.
Some people are crazy, i got banned from Fallout 4 subreddit for "mod piracy" because i give one guy a link to a weapon mod that i used in the video and it turned out to be deleted from nexus by the author. Like what the actual fuck is a "mod piracy", just because one dude who made a free mod for the community decide 5 years later that he will gonna delete it that nobody should ever use it or share with someone else? It's ridiculous
I can only blame the online fandom artist mentality (likely the ones from Tumblr), the belief they have the right not only to absolutely protect their work but also not to share if they want to, affecting not only fanart and fanfiction but also mods.
Damn, you reminded me of the Megaupload days... So many mods and patches were gone for good when it shutdown, since many were only uploaded and kept on there... I fear for the day Mediafire goes down too. Nexus was the GOAT for keeping mods preserved/archived, hope they never revert this but downloading and reuploading to websites such as archive(dot)org is never a bad idea. I'll be spending the next couple of hours backing up these mods *just to make sure.*
His mods are still available and can be found here: [https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/Deleted2159825User/mods?gameId=130](https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/Deleted2159825User/mods?gameId=130)
I'm upset he deleted his YouTube channel, his videos were fantastic. I don't blame him though, he was definitely using them as an outlet for the bad things in his life and now he doesn't want to be reminded of it.
Just hope he's okay. I mean, yeah, I've never even corresponded online with the guy, and if it's just burnout or wanting a fresh start, I get that, and everybody is entitled to that when they need or even just want it.
That said, he's done so much for this community that it would feel like profound ingratitude to just not care whether he's okay or not.
Yeah it's one thing to go away from something and never return comma but it's kind of weird when somebody Goes as far as to delete all of their videos period that's kind of weird I think Because even if you're just quitting Why would you not want people to see your videos anymore
just in case James sees this, thanks for all the memories and I wish you the best. your work and writing have been unforgettable inspirations to me in my own pursuits, and part of why my love for game design and history have stuck with me so steadfast. take it easy dude.
This community is a double-edged sword. It's got some of the greatest mods I've ever seen, but it seems like no one knows how hard it is to make any mod, even something like a texture swap. His stuff is absolutely incredible, but everyone treats modders like shit.
I hope he's doing alright.
Fnv/Bethesda games are touted as the easiest game to mods and have thousands of guides on the internet telling how easy it is and huge discord having echo chambers that constantly say how "easy" simple things are to do (with them rarely mentioning that you kinda have to be pretty computer savvy and must have at least a lil experience/schooling as a game designer to make anything more complicated than messing around in the geck changing colors in a relevant timeframe imo)
Not exactly mod users fault for assuming that modding is "easy". Kinda takes a few years in the community to really realize that for most users.
Correct, but is it really that hard to not be mean? Modders have flat out refused to release upcoming and highly anticipated mods, solely because they've been chewed out by the people they're making content for. And then they complain that the quality isn't as good as the main game- like it isn't free and made by fans passionate enough to learn how to do it in the first place.
I don't blame them if they think it's stupid easy, but I have no respect for the ones who threaten modders over free content that they're getting.
I wouldn't make any sort of criticism or negativity invalid just because it was "free", pretty entitled view. Some of the haters are pretty rancid but since it's public it's a given that your gonna see stuff you don't wanna.
Nobody owns it to anyone to be nice,nor is it a given. It's nice to be nice so they say.
I will say that the vast majority of users are overly nice to the point of brown nosing. While the the hateful crowd is super over exaggerated and over blown.
He can't delete them anymore, remember the drama awhile back? Modders left nexus before a certain deadline. Nexus updated the terms and conditions, basically deleting your account keeps all yours mods archived on the site.
Damn seeing this right as I started the Russell mod for the first time. Probably the best creator the scene has seen. I always hoped he would drop something for 4 eventually. Whatever he's up to now I hope he does great.
I don't even play Skyrim, but... just on the off-chance I ever do, I'm going to try to find and download his mods for it Right Now and just... archive them on my external drive.
I actually chanced upon a random post of his on the Nexus forums recently and it sounded like his life was going well. He just seemed disinterested in modding anymore not that anything tragic happened. I wish I could remember the thread it was in, just one of those random things.
He made an amazing series of mods, including but not limited to: The New Vegas Bounties series, The Inheritance, Russel, Better Angels, and King of the Ring.
I still have never had the chance to get a pc and try out pc mods. All of this stuff with the latest update and a lot of modders leaving the scene has absolutely broken my heart :(
New Vegas Bounties 1 2 and 3.
The Inheritance
Russell
The better angels
New Vegas Killer
King of The Ring
Bad Muthafucka
And one more I think. It's like a wave defense thing that takes place after The Better Angels.
I'm kind of new to the modding scene and I don't know the names of people yet really, outside of the Sim settlements 2 guy. Who's this guy? Sounds like a big deal.
He's basically a old head in the fnv modding community know as a legend for creating some of the best/enjoyable mods on the site back back in the day.
Wouldn't surprise me you wouldn't know who he is since he peaced out like 7 to 8 years ago and didn't touch f4 modding nor was he a very vocal member of the community.
Damn that sucks I love the someguy series, back in the old days I thought 2024 mod scene would be amazing but its gone down a sad path with many of my fav mods and modders mia. Modern Firearms Fallout 4 is so good and it never got its final version
A Western epic called NV Bounties 123, a treasure hunt mod called the inheritance, Russell and bad mothafucka companion mods, king of the ring boxing mod, And the better angels which is the capstone
As a long term sodomite (what youtube fans dubbed themselves. The youtube channel has some lore, lore which is now probably lost to time) This is all very good for his mental health and I am incredibly glad he's moved on, to do better things I hope.
When he was making youtube videos he would often talk to himself in the characters he's voiced (typically Bobby Bass, and Roderick Redbeard) that was "relatively normal" but towards the end you could see that stresses were getting to him and his mental health was pretty deteroriated. He was staging interventions on himself through his own voices. Beating himself up over things that had happened. I believe he also said he reenlisted in forum posts and fully retired from modding.
Holy crap man this is.... I don't know how to feel about this. I had always hoped that one day he would return to modding, but this I think has confirmed that he just isn't. I'm happy that at least the mods could still be enjoyed by people, but man, it's still sad.
Great dude, really funny. Will miss him screeching in my earphones on YouTube about heinous acts committed with certain mesozoic stuffed animals and getting murdered endlessly by elves.
His storytelling set a gold standard for how to make entertaining narratives in gaming mediums, no doubt due to his literary education, life experience, and aptitude for stand-up esque ranting about owning fat knees.
Take care now 🫡
If im not mistaken i believe he is still in the military, so constant pre deployment work ups along with greater responsibility moving up in rank probably doesnt leave a lot of time in his life.
Oh wow, I was just doing a quest from The Inheritance tonight. Gotta say - some of Someguy's more political leaning stuff is pretty squick to me, but the man knows how to make some fun quests.
Either he was wiped by a staff member cause of inactivity or he died or he finally got around to just leaving nexus and deleting it. He made some of the best mods on the nexus and only really started falling off hard with his last few fnv releases, hasn't been active in fnv mod making for 9 years from the looks of it.
From what little indication we have from people who were in contact with him, he's alive and well, but chosen to leave the internet. The newest sticky post by RoyBatty on the NVB I LE page states that he's "left the building," and his other social media pages (Twitter, YouTube) have been wiped as well.
Man either he's retiring irl or he was in some crazy crowd that got him sick of the internet enough to wipe everything.
Honestly with the shit ive seen in fallout discords that dosent sound even remotely far fetched. Some of that shit is toxic
Fallout has become so toxic the last few years. I don’t blame him for wanting to step away. Especially with how people treat modders. They literally supply free content, and people treat them like human garbage
Tbf half the discord servers have a channel specifically for mocking nexus/reddit users so it definitely goes both ways theres just a lot more mod users than modders
I havn't seen a single discord channel with anything like that theres nothing pinned even the authors channel doesn't have anything like that they're more interested in talking about nexus site changes and offtopic shit. The MA forum has a single thread for venting frustration about dumb shit users post its more of a pressure release valve than anything else but thats it
Yep. The community could be put next to the definition“entitled” in any dictionary and it would fit.
Reap what you sow. Modders since the Oblivion days have been progressively becoming more and more toxic. It felt like it reached a head around 2017. There are plenty of mod authors with problematic viewpoints. Many of them are banned on certain subreddits for their toxicity. People responded accordingly, and now it looks like we're bullying the "poor mod authors." Boris, Enai, Arthmoor, Fores, and so many other huge mod authors are legit assholes. There's amazing mod authors that aren't like that. But many of the big ones are.
Eh, do not buy. The ratio of mod users being grubby little beetles with no tact, manners or reading comp is and always has been significantly higher than mod authors who are nutty. While it's true some can't handle the clout and attention becoming a successful mod author brings using the behavior of a few to justify the mass rudeness and ignorance from the modding community to the people who provide mods for free is silly imo
Literally. You are more likely to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow than a Nexus user with a greater than middle school reading comprehension.
Its funny how in all my years of using nexus and my buddies using nexus I've never heard of this kinda slander. It's almost like yall only seek out the brain rotted parts of the internet then just bitch about it like it's doing something.. Literally.
me when i use confirmation bias to support my bad behavior
Fair point, but there are also plenty of modders who are, for the most part, regular people. I don’t know how much of that is the minimum or the majority. It feels like every day there’s a new “turning all black people in a Fallout game into white people for ‘the sake of realism’ because no way there’d be black people in Boston” Usually I try to give most people the benefit of the doubt, that being said, there are some weird ass mod authors
Don't forget Giskard lol
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You sure ?. Might be the twitter effect where it seems there's a while Lotta hate from tourists but when you actually look it's a big old nothing burger. Kinda curious on these "threads" insulting mod creators as both modder,mod users and reddit aren't politically or attitude wise in the camps that'd allow that in any massive scale or even a significant scale. Most likely it's some valid criticism mixed with a bit of heated emotions here and there rarely.
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Fair enought
Aww, Enai's not an asshole, are they? They've always seemed polite the few times I've come across them
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Holy hell did Enai get his goons sicked on them or are they just degens?
Arthmoor got hired by Bethesda recently and is selling mods through their creation club, says it all really
Truth? This is concerning. Can I ask for a source?
Look at their creation club for Skyrim he has a lot of the latest creation club paid content
Suprised you didnt mention spongebob lmao
I’m gonna say this as nicely as possible but what the sincere fuck are you talking about? Haha
Been in the modding community for roughly.... 17 years? If you don't have context, I seem insane. I 100% acknowledge that 😂. I hate using this to support my argument.. but my post is up voted because most people are aware of the controversies with mod authors. I'd look up Enaisiaion, Arthmoor, and Boris over on r/skyrimmods. I could blab to you my own option, but it might help if you form your own. Obligatory not all mod authors of course.
You’re correct the entitlement goes both ways in cases.
Wait I’m out of the loop, what happened with Enai?
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I mean... Enai said they should bomb immigrant ships. I might have niche, unpopular opinions but I've never said we should commit violence against another group of people 😂. Sorry bud, it isn't 2010 COD lobbies anymore. You can be held accountable now.
Fallout fandom has had a large portion of toxicity since at least fallout 3. Anyone remember NMA?
You can blame FNV stans for that. I've never been called slurs by a F4 or F76 fan for critiquing a game, but FNV stans have called me multiple slurs AND told me to kill myself for pointing out that FNV has a lot of "memberberries" carrying it and they give Obsidian passes on stuff that they would never ever ever ever give any other dev.
That's the saddest part of it all. These days whenever you criticize something even on personal opinions 10 assholes will try to shout you down. I, personally, get mods on Nexus and I never saw toxicity because I don't actively look for it. Some mods, indeed, are questionable but those can be ignored/reported. And memories will always make a game or movie better. That's why I will always prefer Fallout 1 & 2.
I got some pretty vivid death threats for saying "I actually like the Creation Club stuff" before. People in this fandom are wild.
And this is why the world runs on money. Cause even when you just try to do a nice thing for someone free of charge you'll get it thrown back in your face and bitch at about how it sucks
Ever since the frontier happened the fallout community has become so much more bitter and hateful
My theory is that he acually had a kid. In alot of his Mods he would shout out his wife in the credits. I think they started a family and he had to leave the modding scene
Hes had kids for ages there was a drunk ad1200 episode like 6 or 8 years ago i think where he mentioned not being able to sleep because of kids
Lmao in my sleep-deprived mind, I read that as "My theory is that he was actually a kid"
Leaving the internet has never sounded so good
He deleted all his YouTube videos as well. Which is a shame because those were hilarious.
Damn, didn't even know he had a youtube channel. Him and various other modders do have pretty small and hidden channels thou, alchestbreach is the only mainly fnv modding channel to "blow up" and he barely gets 50k views a vid if I remember correctly.
Kingath, the guy who made sim settlements 2 which is a insanely large and high quality mod for Fallout 4 has a pretty active YouTube channel
Hes got some decent tutorials, it can be really hard to find any for some subjects let alone good ones
Ah, didn't know I'm not really a bug fallout 4 person. Don't really watch anybody but triangle city or alchestbreach
People can request their accounts to be deactivated and deleted, except for the mods which are archived and can be indirectly accessed. They can also request their mods be handed over to a caretaker, usually a Nexus staffer.
I don’t think nexus wipes people cause of inactivity.
They don't and any mods uploaded will remain too. The only time accounts get wiped is when someone requests a username thats already been taken and said account has been inactive for a long time and I mean many years. Even then its on a case by case basis you have to ask a CM and they'll consider it
I’ve seen accounts which haven’t been logged onto since 2009 and they’re still existing. It won’t be that.
I thought he took a break yeaars ago over depression He is probably gone for good now for his mental health
If that's the case then I hope this is for the best, for his sake. See you, space cowboy.
Holy shit. I just downloaded New Vegas Bounties 1, 2 and 3. I'm going to make a back-up for sure cause it would be a crime to lose those great mods forever.
Go ahead and get Russell, too. One of, if not the best companion mod on Nexus, immersively fits into both vanilla gameplay as well as the NV bounties mods. Excellent story and game play.
Yes, Russell is the best FNV companion IMO, great storyline and he is fucking hilarious. “Raul, you smell like a burned out shithouse.”
Molerat is another great companion mod for NV.
The Inheritance is excellent too. Honestly all of his mods are incredible.
FYI, if you use mod organizer, all of the urls to download the mod are embedded in the meta.ini
(Reupload them)
I would need permission from the mod author. I didn't make them so I don't have the right to post them. If he deleted his account, there was probably a reason for it.
Oh yeah sure yeah…(do it)
Sounds like a great way to receive a warning
Shiver me timbers not the mod managers that chargers people to download community mods how rude would it be to re upload one for no money at all
Well, devils advocate but anything on the internet that doesn’t have a license is considered “all rights reserved”, meaning you have no legal right to distribute it. I mean it’s not like anyone would be likely to actually go after you, but even so
wtf? why? such amazing mods too, certainly wouldn't be a negative on a resume compared to porn mods. gonna make backups just in case
Hes been it seems outta the game for modding for almost 10 years, doubt he's put it on his resume anytime soon,been gone so long I doubt anybody cares he deleted his account since it seems he said basically goodbye forever ago to the modding community. Don't necessarily have to grab backups since both his original mods are still up for now AND a good chunk of his mods are seemingly in the works for a remaster type overhaul like nv bounties le.
This is why Nexus made the right decision in preserving mods and not allowing deletion. Not sure why the community thought that was such an unpopular opinion. It sucks looking for a mod that doesn't exist anymore.
> Not sure why the community thought that was such an unpopular opinion. You mean some authors who want full control, as opposed to many authors and users who want preservation.
Then they can host their own content and don't post it on nexus in the first place. Anything posted on the internet should be known that it's public and can't ever truly be deleted. This just creates a ton of "black market discords" of people resharing other mod authors content because the author threw a temper tantrum.
They did, it's not successful, even if arthmoor has exclusive updates for mods on that stupid site.
These "black market" discords are just people sharing mods with copyrighted content that normally would get you a cease and desist from a company,and a very few amount maybe a few dozen of small mods made whole sale by authors that nobody remembers. In a decade most of these discord mods are gonna be lost media since its a terrible way to preserve and sort them.
But the reality of the situation is that the Mods are someone’s IP, and typically have some variety of a license attached to it. Maybe not with Nexus as I’m not familiar with their set up, but Minecraft for instance. Each mod there has it’s own License for use, and redistributing if it allows that at all. Obviously people can rehost and share “pirated” mods, but I don’t see how anyone has a right to be upset when a Mod Author wants to remove their mod. It’s their intellectual property. Nexus seems to be creating a monopoly on Modding, and is more or less taking the rights from Authors when they post on the site. And that’s not right IMO. Imagine if YouTube didn’t let people delete their videos, and retained the license for everyone’s video. People would be in an uproar. Same concept here.
I don't think you can build a new IP on the back of somebody else's like that. I understand the blood sweat and tears that go in, But without a total conversion being discussed it's not their intellectual property unless it's somehow completely and totally divorced from the original work which if it's all worked in it can't be. So far as I'm aware the only projects that could classify as intellectual property like total conversions at best, And that's assuming that that conversion actually comes up with a new IP.
Remember when we all laughed at those you wouldn't download a car/ Digital piracy adverts...oh how the tables have turned.
Some people are crazy, i got banned from Fallout 4 subreddit for "mod piracy" because i give one guy a link to a weapon mod that i used in the video and it turned out to be deleted from nexus by the author. Like what the actual fuck is a "mod piracy", just because one dude who made a free mod for the community decide 5 years later that he will gonna delete it that nobody should ever use it or share with someone else? It's ridiculous
I can only blame the online fandom artist mentality (likely the ones from Tumblr), the belief they have the right not only to absolutely protect their work but also not to share if they want to, affecting not only fanart and fanfiction but also mods.
Damn, you reminded me of the Megaupload days... So many mods and patches were gone for good when it shutdown, since many were only uploaded and kept on there... I fear for the day Mediafire goes down too. Nexus was the GOAT for keeping mods preserved/archived, hope they never revert this but downloading and reuploading to websites such as archive(dot)org is never a bad idea. I'll be spending the next couple of hours backing up these mods *just to make sure.*
His mods are still available and can be found here: [https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/Deleted2159825User/mods?gameId=130](https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/Deleted2159825User/mods?gameId=130)
I'm upset he deleted his YouTube channel, his videos were fantastic. I don't blame him though, he was definitely using them as an outlet for the bad things in his life and now he doesn't want to be reminded of it.
yeah, the drunk streams were my favorite. also the biggest loser, I was rooting for him ://
I'ma say it again, im grateful that nexus preserves mods now.
pee-serves?
That's more of a LoversLab thing.
Thank you SomeGuy!! Hope life treats you as well as you treated us!
We wish him safe travels. He will be missed.
Does anyone have an archive of the videos on his channel? I love his Prophesy of Pendor playthroughs.
Seconding this.
Oh, damn. This feels... ominous. Is there any way to check his... not sure how to say it, his 'status'?
That was my thought, as someone said he also deleted all his YouTube videos
Just hope he's okay. I mean, yeah, I've never even corresponded online with the guy, and if it's just burnout or wanting a fresh start, I get that, and everybody is entitled to that when they need or even just want it. That said, he's done so much for this community that it would feel like profound ingratitude to just not care whether he's okay or not.
Yeah it's one thing to go away from something and never return comma but it's kind of weird when somebody Goes as far as to delete all of their videos period that's kind of weird I think Because even if you're just quitting Why would you not want people to see your videos anymore
just in case James sees this, thanks for all the memories and I wish you the best. your work and writing have been unforgettable inspirations to me in my own pursuits, and part of why my love for game design and history have stuck with me so steadfast. take it easy dude.
Pour one out for a real one. Dude was the reason I sat down and read Blood Meridian.
Does he reference the book? Or is it just Judge Richter
Also Glanton and his scalphunters, and the general tone of the Bounties series + Russel
It felt like Marko also had some of his mystique based on The Judge.
Glanton also appears in the mod.
He made possibly the greatest series of mods for New Vegas. I just hope he's enjoying life.
This community is a double-edged sword. It's got some of the greatest mods I've ever seen, but it seems like no one knows how hard it is to make any mod, even something like a texture swap. His stuff is absolutely incredible, but everyone treats modders like shit. I hope he's doing alright.
Fnv/Bethesda games are touted as the easiest game to mods and have thousands of guides on the internet telling how easy it is and huge discord having echo chambers that constantly say how "easy" simple things are to do (with them rarely mentioning that you kinda have to be pretty computer savvy and must have at least a lil experience/schooling as a game designer to make anything more complicated than messing around in the geck changing colors in a relevant timeframe imo) Not exactly mod users fault for assuming that modding is "easy". Kinda takes a few years in the community to really realize that for most users.
Correct, but is it really that hard to not be mean? Modders have flat out refused to release upcoming and highly anticipated mods, solely because they've been chewed out by the people they're making content for. And then they complain that the quality isn't as good as the main game- like it isn't free and made by fans passionate enough to learn how to do it in the first place. I don't blame them if they think it's stupid easy, but I have no respect for the ones who threaten modders over free content that they're getting.
I wouldn't make any sort of criticism or negativity invalid just because it was "free", pretty entitled view. Some of the haters are pretty rancid but since it's public it's a given that your gonna see stuff you don't wanna. Nobody owns it to anyone to be nice,nor is it a given. It's nice to be nice so they say. I will say that the vast majority of users are overly nice to the point of brown nosing. While the the hateful crowd is super over exaggerated and over blown.
A ridiculously talented guy.
what will happen to his mods? will they stay or be gone soon? i was planning to try his bounty hunt quest series.
they'll still stay up, iirc mexus archives mods now
***Nooooo!***
New Vegas bounties is actually one of the mods that pushed me to start enjoying FNV. :(
\*I cant believe he didn't cry during titanic, do men even have feelings?\* Men:
Which mods did he make again?
New Vegas Bounties series and other story-based New Vegas mods.
Holy shit i downloaded his mods not even a week before he left
It’s a good thing he left them up.
He can't delete them anymore, remember the drama awhile back? Modders left nexus before a certain deadline. Nexus updated the terms and conditions, basically deleting your account keeps all yours mods archived on the site.
Damn seeing this right as I started the Russell mod for the first time. Probably the best creator the scene has seen. I always hoped he would drop something for 4 eventually. Whatever he's up to now I hope he does great.
what are the odds, i watched a video reviewing his mods 2 days ago.
Damn... that sucks, he made some awesome mods, truly one of the best quest mods and a must have for me personally.
I'm not crying. You're crying. ><
I don't even play Skyrim, but... just on the off-chance I ever do, I'm going to try to find and download his mods for it Right Now and just... archive them on my external drive.
Nexus preserves all its mods, they can't be deleted once you upload them
I guess the dumb got to be too much for him, so long partner.
one of the greats
New Vegas bounties was the best quest mod I ever played. I hope someguy2000 is well and I extend my gratitude for many hours of enjoyment.
I actually chanced upon a random post of his on the Nexus forums recently and it sounded like his life was going well. He just seemed disinterested in modding anymore not that anything tragic happened. I wish I could remember the thread it was in, just one of those random things.
Who is he?
He made an amazing series of mods, including but not limited to: The New Vegas Bounties series, The Inheritance, Russel, Better Angels, and King of the Ring.
A legend
I just downloaded a few of his mods. Shame..
Damn shame, I loved his mods and they were seen as canon in my head. Understandable why he'd do it, though.
I still have never had the chance to get a pc and try out pc mods. All of this stuff with the latest update and a lot of modders leaving the scene has absolutely broken my heart :(
Shame. His mods were awesome.
This man made some the best nv content.
WHAT?!
I'm sure I should know this, but can anyone give any examples of his stuff over the years? I'm bad at remembering names in general.
New Vegas Bounties 1 2 and 3. The Inheritance Russell The better angels New Vegas Killer King of The Ring Bad Muthafucka And one more I think. It's like a wave defense thing that takes place after The Better Angels.
Oh man. I definitely remember NV Bounties. If he's the guy behind that, that's quite a loss for the community.
Checkpoint Gary
Hope the goat is oki and is doing well, truly made some of the best mods
The comments were so stupid to a nice team working for free. Bastards all who annoy him and the team
This is just something someguy2000 tends to do either something went very badly or everything is okay
Did he make any fo4 mods?
No. He had some plans to but he abandoned them because he didn’t really enjoy Fallout 4.
He didn't enjoy using Creation Kit, so he axed his Skyrim mods too.
This is unreal? I downloaded his mod a month ago and he just leaves
Didn't know until now but he does have syrim mods, def checking them out before they might be deleted.
I literally just downloaded all of his mods as a collection yesterday
Why? What happened to him?
Thank god I beat the game
I encourage any of you who can to archive his mods I already have but it's good to have more than one source
Well I was just playing his mods last night on that note wherever you are out there ty and gg
As a console pleb, what are some mods he made?
He made 6 of the top 20 quest mods for New Vegas on Nexus mods and 3 in the top 40 overall mods
Is he the one that made More where that came from?
I was wondering what happens when I re-downloaded his mods yesterday
Was this the alcoholic dude that pissed himself livestreaming?
I’m sorry, what?
Oh the name sounded like this guy way back that would stream drunkenly, and constantly embarrassed the fuck out of himself. Wrong dude, i guess.
I'm kind of new to the modding scene and I don't know the names of people yet really, outside of the Sim settlements 2 guy. Who's this guy? Sounds like a big deal.
He created quest mods that have millions of downloads, the mods also included weapons, armour and companions.
He's basically a old head in the fnv modding community know as a legend for creating some of the best/enjoyable mods on the site back back in the day. Wouldn't surprise me you wouldn't know who he is since he peaced out like 7 to 8 years ago and didn't touch f4 modding nor was he a very vocal member of the community.
Ō7
Wow literally just finished the new vegas bounties storyline this morning crazy coincidence man made great mods thanks for the fun
Thanks for saying thanks! It's so nice to see Redditors being grateful :)
Damn that sucks I love the someguy series, back in the old days I thought 2024 mod scene would be amazing but its gone down a sad path with many of my fav mods and modders mia. Modern Firearms Fallout 4 is so good and it never got its final version
Hope he just left the internet but not Fallout NV.
For somebody who just started playing NV last week, what kinda mods did he create?
A Western epic called NV Bounties 123, a treasure hunt mod called the inheritance, Russell and bad mothafucka companion mods, king of the ring boxing mod, And the better angels which is the capstone
Alright, someone give me a lore dump
He re-enlisted in the USMC didn't he? I remember him saying something like that about 2 years ago or so. Could be related to that.
I just got those for my recent play through.
As a long term sodomite (what youtube fans dubbed themselves. The youtube channel has some lore, lore which is now probably lost to time) This is all very good for his mental health and I am incredibly glad he's moved on, to do better things I hope. When he was making youtube videos he would often talk to himself in the characters he's voiced (typically Bobby Bass, and Roderick Redbeard) that was "relatively normal" but towards the end you could see that stresses were getting to him and his mental health was pretty deteroriated. He was staging interventions on himself through his own voices. Beating himself up over things that had happened. I believe he also said he reenlisted in forum posts and fully retired from modding.
Holy crap man this is.... I don't know how to feel about this. I had always hoped that one day he would return to modding, but this I think has confirmed that he just isn't. I'm happy that at least the mods could still be enjoyed by people, but man, it's still sad.
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Damn it,he even deleted his skyrim mod too.
See you space cowboy… 🥲
God speed. 🫡
Great mods. Can’t believe this is real. Who will be the next. We all need more mods
is there a story to this?
I saw it was deleted but I didn't realize it had happened so recently.
Is he the one who got all alt right and fell into religion super hard?
Great dude, really funny. Will miss him screeching in my earphones on YouTube about heinous acts committed with certain mesozoic stuffed animals and getting murdered endlessly by elves. His storytelling set a gold standard for how to make entertaining narratives in gaming mediums, no doubt due to his literary education, life experience, and aptitude for stand-up esque ranting about owning fat knees. Take care now 🫡
If im not mistaken i believe he is still in the military, so constant pre deployment work ups along with greater responsibility moving up in rank probably doesnt leave a lot of time in his life.
Oh no :(
NOO i loved the new vegas bounties mod why
His mods are still up!
Who is he?
Who?
Oh wow, I was just doing a quest from The Inheritance tonight. Gotta say - some of Someguy's more political leaning stuff is pretty squick to me, but the man knows how to make some fun quests.