if you want to write something just write something. if it's terrible that's what the trash is for. editing's a whole other job mate. you don't pop open a car's hood to have a look at the engine while driving it. that's not writing that's mad max

what if you were an artilleryman (or woman!) in the cia's anti-psionic corps and this was your howitzer.

Mrs. Vulture@bearsharktopus.itch.io · 2d ago

okay okay okay. so: it's puzzle quest + wingspan + factorio, as if it is also slay the spire, and a little bit of guitar hero, and typing of the dead raised the whole thing. it looks like found footage photobash collage. you are a CIA recruit in the 80s doing literal psionic ops. with typing.

the ‘army war college’ is like where a 12 year old boy who had to pretend to be a general would say he studied

the immediate discourse blew over, but it's going to keep happening, and to be the friend who's too woke (in original sense) it really is uniquely grisly that tupac specifically is the face of the "rights-holder resurrected AI celeb" as someone who would absolutely have noticed what it resembles

Throwback to that time I saw a "Guess this video game sound effect" blog ask for submissions and I knew exactly what I had to do: Submit the Streets of Rage 2 "food eating" sound effect, which sounds almost exactly like Pac-Man eating a fruit.

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copyright "is how artists make money" is just where the thought ends for most people. property ownership is how landlords make money too, but is it a good thing to do

The "but what about making sure artists get credit?" objection to copyright reform is especially irritating because treating moral rights (i.e., the right to attribution, etc.) as descending from or strictly subordinate to commercial exploitation rights is a uniquely American perspective. (1/3)

I swear people out here acting like HP is their diabetes medicine. You're not gonna die from quitting the racist wizard books for children. You're 39 years old, Christ.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 4d ago

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

i recognize that all software pricing is kinda bullshit, but sometimes it feels like people are taking the piss. the version of ableton i had only allowed up to eight tracks. pointless throttling to convince me to pay up.

this is a lot more even-handed than a lot of writing i see on the topic. glad it’s out there

v buckenham@v21.bsky.social · 3d ago

new blog post: blog.vbuckenham.com/i-built-pico...

glimpse into a fucked up alternate universe where undertale came out in chapters

am i taking it too far?

Marx was right; you really can see exactly where someone's class and relationship to capital molds their political positions into ones that support their own interests, almost every time. Consider the "socialist" Youtuber; which influence wins? Well,

Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · 2w ago

i still just really feel like AI stuff is basically illegal. like I don't think a good faith interpretation of "fair use" entails vacuuming up everyone's intellectual property to build your chat bot. that sounds wrong to me

there could be something i’m missing here, but mass web scraping (and indeed the mass book scanning) are only issues because of capitalist competition.

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i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

"defending" women sports by accepting the premise that professional adult woman athletes cant beat teenage boys seems like a losing position. its patronizing at best.

saw a take that ai is anathema to people who “actually enjoy making things” and, like… i take issue with that because “making things” isn’t one thing.

Eat shit Shakespeare

obviously this is islamophobia, but it's also the liberal framing of american empire as always being reactive. none of our actions ever have consequences and no one ever has valid historical reasons to be hostile towards america

Mohamad Bazzi@mbazzi.bsky.social · 5d ago

25 years after the tired American cliche of “why do they hate us,” helped instigate two forever wars (Afghanistan + Iraq), this is how @nytimes.com chooses to explain Iran’s political system:

whatever type of craft/process delineation you try to make between "art" and "not art", i guarantee you there are artists who have violated your definition. that's the whole game. you don't get to make the rules! you just get to decide what you like and what you don't like.

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

this bot is beautiful and its alt text is a quiet marvel of procedural language

Alhambot@alhambot.bsky.social · 6d ago

they don't want trans women to play women's sports bc 1) prohibiting trans women from women's sports (de jure) and men's sports (de facto) is a great way to otherize them as something not part of humanity 2) policing trans women and trans girl athletes is a socially-beloved Sexual Assault Machine

i still hate the doom "you control the buttons you press" tweet and that people repost it like it's real wisdom. fundamentally unserious approach to game design. that is actually very much what I buy a video game for. are the buttons fun to press. if there is bad button why did you put bad button

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · last wk.

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

intellectual property is a means of production, and thus the socialist position is that private ownership of it should be abolished.