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Definitely! When I first saw this I was so surprised that the developers took the time to do this, it's such a small thing but it's amazing. Made me have even more respect for the devs than before

One of my favorite Quark features is indeed the fact that it makes racists angry. :)

I appreciate the appreciation. Locking the thread cuz some people can't behave.

I get where a lot of people are coming and especially how contraversial this topic is, but racism won't end if efforts like that of Vazkii aren't put together. Although I cannot condone any of the harmful riots, I can condone peaceful protests because words are power and change WILL happen. Perhaps Vazkii is integrating this message in his best interest, but at least he has the right idea..

I really really really don't care about this. What am I supposed to do this while I am living in a country so far away from the US? Why should anyone outside the US get to see this message?

Sure, let's talk about that.

That propaganda nag screen was first posted as "bugfixes and performance improvements", which was a lie to trick people to install this user-hostile update. As a matter of fact, since the onTick remains forever active, the nag screen decreases the performance ever so slightly, so it's literally the opposite of what it pretended to be.

Initially Vazkii didn't want to give anyone a chance to avoid that screen, as it was set to display every time the game was started. After some feedback, he took a few steps back and even provided an opt-out method for the propaganda screen to avoid backlash. However, any mods that utilize the official opt-out method get hunted down and reported by Vazkii's fanboys and CurseForge removes the mods. Vazkii seems to be perfectly happy with the state of affairs, with the opt out documentation buried in release 244 changelogs where nobody will find it, and all mods that provide implementation of it banned from CurseForge. This lets him pretend to have a moral high ground while still forcing everyone to suffer from the nag screen to the maximum effect.

The skipping instructions only appear after 25 seconds, at which point the player has already been forced to read the entire message. Furthermore, the skipping instructions are a lie; pressing ESC will not skip the wait, it will instead change the message to a more hostile one, and another keypress is needed to skip that. The first keypress is enough to let the mod know the player wants to move on, but Vazkii wants to have the final word to harass the players who would rather just play the game. The message was unsolicited to begin with, but after the first ESC he's still maliciously forcing it upon the players who have explicitly expressed that they do not consent to it.

Vazkii likens himself to the police who's holding a knee on Floyd's neck as he makes the comparison between these two wait times in the second nag screen that appears after pressing ESC. He wants the make it clear that the player isn't skipping the message by themselves, Vazkii is letting the player skip it, on Vazkii's terms. This show of force is an unusual tactic for someone who is purportedly taking a stand against excessively oppressive authority figures.

A distressing description of police brutality, along with the attempt to guilt trip the player for just wanting to play, is the last thing anyone wants to see when they're launching a game to relax a little. Vazkii doesn't care about that the slightest bit. As a matter of fact, he has repeatedly mocked and belittled the critics who find his approach to be overtly hostile. It's as if the man himself is living in a constant state of anxiety and distress and unable to see the damage he's causing by forcefully pushing such distressing things upon others.

The entire propaganda screen is a form of psychological violence, and has no place in any minecraft mod. I cannot understand why anyone would think it's okay to harass players like this.