In this episode – G_cat, Frog, and Siuol discuss the intricacies of running a modded minecraft Bluesky account, the new changes implemented by Modrinth, the morality of reviewing mods, the differing perspectives of a moddev and a packdev and so much more. We hope you enjoy! Also Frog is a bit sick today, send your support to him ;)

The AI video G_cat was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

G_cat's blogpost: https://modernmodpacks.site/blog?id=00002-unsafe-kubejs

Moddex interview: https://second-cup.ender-development.org/3msm2lhzyss2j

Moddex counter-protest: https://strubium.github.io/crap/counter-protesting.html

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:23 FOLLOW US ON BLUESKY

02:45 Why Frog added a swollen lymph node to Minecraft

07:16 How G_cat because the biggest clipfarmer

10:43 Modrinth is DEFEATING AI slop

17:45 Why Quark will have to add a disclosure on their Modrinth page

20:45 Let's hear G_cat's take

25:53 Flashing a logo is advertising, apparently

28:51 Fork found in the Modrinth, we can now confirm

29:50 also a rule was implemented specifically for gcat, apparently

32:01 I don't think deleting system32 is ”meta horror”, I think that's what they call a virus

35:09 Why only employed people are watching JEO

36:43 Modrinth is FORCING Essential to be truthful

39:17 Moddex brings together CurseForge and Modrinth into one catalog so you can discover mods and modpacks with shared filters, tags, and ratings.

40:52 The Moddex drama is literally a nothingburgerland psyop

43:38 Yeah, it's THEM again…

44:52 They got bullied so bad they had to apologise for their first point

45:46 Oh no! My le bad handling of my mod leads to le bad reviews?!

48:31 I'm REALLY concerned on the behalf of this corporation (they don't care btw)

49:51 The Moddex drama: Recap and response

52:26 Getting harrased

53:08 G_cat's future of modded MC: ”I hope people make gimmick packs”

55:12 Frog's future of modded MC: ”I hope gcat doesn't become AI”

55:44 Siuol's future of modded MC: ”I hope 1.21 becomes the new 1.12”

1:01:50 A gimmick packdev's perspective on version picking

1:04:51 A moddev's perspective on version picking

1:08:45 A collision of perspectives

1:12:48 Siuol: ”Datapacks are TOO UNCONFIGURABLE”

1:18:23 The Unfunny Machine: ”How it feels to be obsessed about a mod everyone forgot about”

1:29:03 The Funny Machine: ”How do you make the endgame more interesting?”

1:34:14 Calamity mod and Figura: what can we learn from the Terraria modding community

1:36:11 Outro (feat. Jim)

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Camerawork by: Akoto090

Title by: G_cat

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