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For a second that title made me remember early SEO tactics of stuffing your H1 tags with as many relevant keywords as possible, except here it's optimizing for

For a second that title made me remember early SEO tactics of stuffing your H1 tags with as many relevant keywords as possible, except here it's optimizing for my queer nerd interests. I'm a bit surprised by the reaction from Paradox - I assume the standard forum mod has neither the time nor skillset to assess whether any game binary patch is going to be safe, so banning them by default seems like a safe way to go, but removing even the discussion of it feels a bit overkill.

belinder 5y ago
Would like to see some statement soon on the ban
paxys 5y ago
Probably an automated ban. You can't have people distributing patches to game binaries on the official forums. Too much potential for malware, and the company ends up being liable (if not legally then at least PR wise).
COGlory 5y ago
That's considered SEO stuffing? I thought it was just so I know what the article is about.
- sjburt 5y ago
  I think the joke was that the words in the headline couldn't possibly be related. Except that they were.
comagoosie 5y ago
I reverse engineered Paradox's binary format for their save files. Part of this process is extracting a table of 16 bit ids to text representations. I asked Paradox if I could open source this table, but they replied that I was already breaking the ToS. The solution I've come up with is to open source the logic but commit the table as a gpg encrypted payload (for which only I have the key). So you could say that Paradox is sensitive when it comes to people poking around or pushing boundaries.
- jcranmer 5y ago
  I've definitely seen discussions of the binary format on the forums in the past. I wrote my own script for figuring out what the table for the 16-bit IDs was, but I've never committed the result anywhere.
- meibo 5y ago
  ToS are irrelevant and you should have published it anyways, under a name different from the one you use on the forums and in-game. Open knowledge is important, especially in video game scenes where elitism is a real issue, stopping people from getting into great hobbies that I'm sure many only got into due to that one person that didn't give in to elitism and bothered to listen and to answer questions.
  - Ygg2 5y ago
    > ToS are irrelevant That's some bad advice. ToS are irrelevant only if you don't expect retaliation from ToS owner, or the costs are trivial. > Open knowledge is important, especially in video game scenes where elitism is a real issue Open knowledge? This is reverse engineering someone's cash cow. Kinda like claiming Win 10 code is open knowledge. Video game scenes? Elitist? It's just a silly option in some medieval sim. There are other games that allow these kinds of things. Massive chalice for example. By that stretch, why not complain Hearts of Iron don't allow you to create a third Furry side in WW2? Or if you really want to be part of video game scene make your own. But I doubt you'd open source it. It takes monumental effort. Did you see indie games? It's veritable farmers market of small games.
    - SCHiM 5y ago
      The code runs on your machine. You do not own the game, the idea behind the game or the logic, but you do own the copy of the game on your machine. You can read and change your copy, regardless of what the ToS says. The owner of the game can retaliate, this is not law after all.
      - Ygg2 5y ago

belinder 5y ago

Would like to see some statement soon on the ban

paxys 5y ago

Probably an automated ban. You can't have people distributing patches to game binaries on the official forums. Too much potential for malware, and the company ends up being liable (if not legally then at least PR wise).

COGlory 5y ago

That's considered SEO stuffing? I thought it was just so I know what the article is about.

sjburt 5y ago
I think the joke was that the words in the headline couldn't possibly be related. Except that they were.

comagoosie 5y ago

I reverse engineered Paradox's binary format for their save files. Part of this process is extracting a table of 16 bit ids to text representations. I asked Paradox if I could open source this table, but they replied that I was already breaking the ToS. The solution I've come up with is to open source the logic but commit the table as a gpg encrypted payload (for which only I have the key). So you could say that Paradox is sensitive when it comes to people poking around or pushing boundaries.

jcranmer 5y ago
I've definitely seen discussions of the binary format on the forums in the past. I wrote my own script for figuring out what the table for the 16-bit IDs was, but I've never committed the result anywhere.
meibo 5y ago
ToS are irrelevant and you should have published it anyways, under a name different from the one you use on the forums and in-game. Open knowledge is important, especially in video game scenes where elitism is a real issue, stopping people from getting into great hobbies that I'm sure many only got into due to that one person that didn't give in to elitism and bothered to listen and to answer questions.
- Ygg2 5y ago
  > ToS are irrelevant That's some bad advice. ToS are irrelevant only if you don't expect retaliation from ToS owner, or the costs are trivial. > Open knowledge is important, especially in video game scenes where elitism is a real issue Open knowledge? This is reverse engineering someone's cash cow. Kinda like claiming Win 10 code is open knowledge. Video game scenes? Elitist? It's just a silly option in some medieval sim. There are other games that allow these kinds of things. Massive chalice for example. By that stretch, why not complain Hearts of Iron don't allow you to create a third Furry side in WW2? Or if you really want to be part of video game scene make your own. But I doubt you'd open source it. It takes monumental effort. Did you see indie games? It's veritable farmers market of small games.
  - SCHiM 5y ago
    The code runs on your machine. You do not own the game, the idea behind the game or the logic, but you do own the copy of the game on your machine. You can read and change your copy, regardless of what the ToS says. The owner of the game can retaliate, this is not law after all.
    - Ygg2 5y ago