Re: Sex MUGEN 2.0
Thanks for your input, Drake. I do appreciate your understanding, even if you disagree, as well as your calm demeanor and civil expression. Here's my reply, though it probably doesn't matter much if you don't really care for H-mugen.
I suppose I can share a bit more on why I feel the way I feel. When I first started out here, I had the same mentality you did. I hated hoarders and felt that excellent modders like mugenero (and the other guys on FC2) should share their stuff. But after reading some of their comments on why they stopped sharing, I get their mindset too, which is that if you spoonfeed people with free characters, they don't learn or have ambition to make things for themselves. The comatose state of the H-mugen mod community only solidifies their mentality. And because I know myself, I absolutely understand the temptation to be lazy and just wait until mugen characters are uploaded, rather than mod or make my own. Heck, it's only when RMDB closed down that I really started to learn, out of desperation and need. That lack of trust for others to put out an effort to mod after being spoonfed is a crucial reason I'm not sharing.
Again, as a mentor and teacher IRL, for me it's the 'I'll help you, but I won't give you the answer' process that I enjoy, the 'teach a man to fish' mentality. And while I know you don't agree with that, the one thing that I feel separates me and my ideology from the other guys is that I'm willing to help others mod. If I didn't put that offer out there, I totally agree that it's quite rude, arrogant, and even manipulative to just tempt people by saying I've got this and that without wanting to share. As you've said, hoarding characters doesn't benefit others, just the same as lurking and waiting to be spoonfed doesn't as well.
And TBH, I admit I do feel a bit indignant about even sharing characters I HAVEN'T modded, just because they took so damn long to find and knowing people are just sitting there who can simply wait on their asses for me to upload. That being said, I don't think I'm a selfish person or a hoarder. The me two years ago would've uploaded my entire collection just because I remember how it felt to know others had special/rare H-characters and could easily upload without much effort/investment. But the reason why the H-mugen community suffers and is nearing extinction is two-fold: #1.) The people stop/never start modding because they can just wait for modders. #2.) Because of #1, the remaining modders stop sharing, due to a lack of respect for lazy asshats and a loss of passion for contributing to a dead and unproductive community. I could be wrong and get a lot of hate for this, but I think the solution is for all of us to start learning to mod. I know we'll have a ton of lurkers just waiting in the cut to download stuff and who never want to help/mod, but if we could get a few people who actively participate in growing the community--even if they start out as newbies--it'd turn this thread from the myriad "hey, how do you start mugen/do you have ___ or ___ character" inquiries to "hey, I'm working on actually making/modding ____ character, I could use some help." That's progress.
Sorry, this was a bit of a catharsis here, but I've lurked for so long knowing that I'd get a TON of flaming if I said what I'm saying now. If I'm proven wrong with new modders coming out of the woodwork, or if I can help new modders to the point where we all can create new/better characters (unlikely since I'm still a newb), then yes, I'd definitely push out all my characters and we'd improve all of our characters in a collective effort. Even seeing that people are talking and being a bit more engaged on this thread motivates me to get out of my shell and do the same.
TLDR: We lazy/unmotivated. Prove me wrong and start talking, learning, and working on bringing out new characters, while I provide as much support/guidance as I can. When the H-mugen community starts to actively engage and develop stuff productively, that'll be my cue to be more open and trusting to a living culture. Feel free to disagree and/or voice your opinion (hell, go ahead and bash me, because I once felt your exact frustration), but I hope you can see where I'm coming from. One last thing about uploading characters I don't own is that I'm sensitive to modders who don't want their stuff promulgated even after it's uploaded. If I do upload, I'll be sure to give credit and never take compensation for doing so, but sometimes modders just change their minds about uploading and I respect that. Minor point, of course.
@mugenhti: Thanks for the links. (THAT'S where I found the cow, sorry). I actually prefer the clothing one since it's an added challenge to remove the clothes, but I believe all Jeffrey did was change some code to do so. As for the Jill, I've had that for a while and it's actually the one I'm using to try to emulate mugenero's Jill, which has more raper creatures and can actually rape Jill herself, along with the added missionary anims and the breast squeeze (don't like that the zombie doesn't actually perform the rape anims). Problem is while I'm fairly good with changing things that already coded in the CNS files, I'm pretty awful at adding new things to the code.

And despite my whole spiel above about not sharing, I don't hate on others who decide to do so, even if it may be counter-productive to my mission. So kudos to you.
@thorn: Hah, TBH, I don't even play mugen much. I just mod and use the 'watch' feature a lot, so all I get is the Schlussel AI. My original Schlussel typically beats the 1.8b version though. No idea why. :/ Enjoy the cow though...if you want to add the clothes for any reason, just say so and I can provide the code.