#Nothing useful! ahaha

[tematchi]

Low quality comic I had to get done or i would forget

[n4rval]

ah. something i find a little funny is seeing people describe the way he speaks as "distant" or "detached", or even outright "cold"

i think it is very safe to say he adresses us in a way that is very personal. heartwarming, even. like someone who is excited to see us and show his work with every release (and has explicitly used the word for it).

idk you guys if you're too weirded out by him that's alright — in fact, the way he has this effect on people solidifies an uncaniness that is very important to his character — but there is no way you can look me in the eye and tell me that "SO TO BE HERE FINALLY ON THE VERGE OF CONNECTION IS QUITE EXCITING." or "I LOOK FORWARD TO CREATING A NEW FUTURE WITH YOU." or "SHALL WE? SHALL WE GO AGAIN?" is expressing nothing but professionalism🚶

[geisterzeit-art]

hai *makes gojo gyaru*

[zoriety]

I don't really like how so many people who were previously agreeing that AI art is theft are alright with palworld because it's kinda-theft but from a big company. I also think palworld sets a pretty bleak precedent.

edit at the top so I'm not misunderstood: palworld is not made by AI, but the dev Takuro Mizobe is very open about his support for it, and is morally on the side of borrowing heavily from what is popular. (link to his words further down)

I think people are missing the point with the arguments. The problem isn't that it's plagiarizing from Nintendo, which I also don't care about, but that the dev doesn't really mind about originality and about mimicking what's popular ( https://www.siliconera.com/how-does-the-palworld-ceo-feel-about-ai/ ). his other planned games are heavily inspired by others too (from hollow knight, for example). It isn't about who is plagiarized from, but the precedent set.

And I'm also seeing 'but it's really fun/I don't care because it's much more fun than pokemon'. Also not really the point - and possibly even the moral challenge here. If a bit of fun in a game is more important to you than the moral principle of avoiding financially supporting ai tech bros, I can't tell anyone not to - and if it turns out that enough people are totally okay with it and will give them money despite some hang ups, that's the win to them and they'll continue - and I suspect it will be!

For me, the dev's opinions and value of other people's creations is obviously little, and I want nothing to do with that. I also accept I seem to be in the minority with it; ultimately, you vote with your wallet with this kind of stuff.

FURTHER EDIT: I do kind of have to respect Takuro Mizobe for his honestly though LMAO. "I don't really care about originality, I'm just going to take what's popular so lots of people play it" I mean he's playing with legal fire isn't he, as long as he walks the tightrope of plagiarizing pokemon in-game models and changing them JUST ENOUGH to avoid being sued

Ultimately he is not really evil, realistically no company will lose money at this stage, but personally I'd rather play original games that aren't purposefully mashed up and regurgitated versions of others

[roostercrowned]

baby's first Winterfest (...: I'm overwhelmed by all the amazing art and the little bit of fic I've read so far was soooO good. I'm kind of emotional about the good vibes and community feeling. Thanks mods for working your absolute asses off coordinating this <3 <3 <3

[hazeism]

I'll stop drawing boring poses when I figure out WHAT THE FUCK EVERYONE LOOKS LIKEEE

[rainingincale]

Why is being a living exisiting human being so very confusing 🙃

[goferwashere]

haha hey guys this has nothing to do with anything that I just found out did you know that April Fools and Burn Pygmalion are my favourite albums of all time

[ittybittybumblebee]

New Guy could easily a tragic character if you think too long about isome things abt them but Zeyre not theyre genuinly not they could be but. AUGH i fhav a lot of feelings about guy you dont underSTAND shes a cartoon character she operates on funny cartoon character software you cant break him like that you COULD but hes a silly bendy straw you cant unbend it you cantAugh thats not . AUGH AUGH AUGH silly character runnign from everything but is genuinly having fun in life even thought theyr being an asshat and destroying stuff n playing harmful pranks in every town they come to n stuff lmao how canni even begin to convey this you dont GET IT

Its SILLY

SHES a CREEP hes A WEIRDO THEY DONT BELONG HERE

and thats fine By Xer. Completely. They exatterate and draw attention to it in every way possible and its part of its defining qualities that xe celebrate it and are happy in his own freaky way AND

And

And t tthey fucking HATE people they dont like you but if you met it screaming running down the sidewalk she would stop and say HIIIIII GIRLIEPOP DRANK ANY WINDSHEILD FLUID LATELY? YOU FREAKIN SHOULD DUDE ! ITS BONKERS NASTY (GOOD) BYEEEEEEEEEEE

Do you Get me you Cant get me the way i need you to . AUGH

Anyway thats all im going to go have pizza for suppperrrrrrrrr haha lol

* Im screaming at you btw and then turning around and walking away visibly shaking like i have the whole big whide world on my shoulders and its Crushing me to smithereeens

[akascow]

i think its so dumb that my highschool only had two language courses and one of them was latin. LATIN. THE DEAD LANGUAGE ?? WHY !!!

[crossthread]

What people without anxiety don't understand is that I'm constantly walking around feeling like I'm in mortal peril, and sometimes the feelings are right

[sourdoughriotstarter]

craig mazin... hear my voice... please make the seraphites more interesting in the series...

[zealctry]

if hidan doesn't want kurama like that is he willing to share?

unprompted, always accepting.

SNAP!! oh, not to worry, it’s merely a ( deliciously-flavored ) Pocky stick, held between Hidan’s teeth. not someone’s neck ( although it could be, should be ; he’s willing to accommodate this individual's clear death wish ). instead, he smiles, oh-so-sweetly ( overly so, to the point where rot slips in at the edges ).

“ excuse me? ” they’re two perfectly polite words; they shouldn’t sound like spit-out expletives. shouldn’t seem soaked in nitroglycerin, ready to explode at a single spark. “ like what, exactly? actually, more importantly,  care to explain why you're eyeing up MY property?? ”

@foxcurse can u believe

[spyroforlife]

Doc thought he could dominate Cleo, but as things get going, he realizes that what he really wanted was for things to go the other way around. She is more than happy to oblige, and Doc gets to find out just how intensely her fire can burn.

Word Count: 7,359

Rating: Explicit

One-Shot

you see Doc/Cleo femdom. You click

[artaelyn]

*points to Troy, Abed, and Annie.*

These are my emotional support community college students. They mean everything to me.

[notsoevilmagistrate]

A lot of people when they think America are also gonna think guns, which is fair, or red white and blue like France, Russia, and England don’t exist or something, being rude, patriotism: being ride or die for your country, licking its boots, being its bitch. But I reject all those things and I’d rather say the most American thing to ever do is to criticize the government.

Our very roots are breaking away as colonies because we criticized the government that hard, we made our own country. That’s why the constitution has so many things protecting us like the first amendment that allows us to group up and petition, to speak out. So I really think it’s crazy some people tell us to keep our mouths shut or accept things, like I once saw a guy at Wawa wearing some shirt like “America, love it or leave it” with a big fat American flag in the middle. And my first thought was like “no??? change it,” and I blurted it out loud and I admit I probably looked crazy. And that’s the thing about us and many politics, it’s that the climate of our country and its laws are constantly changing. To accept things and let other people be the lawmakers to your law abiding citizen is stupid. There’s so many of us and so many states that there’s no way we’ll all have the same opinion, and I’ve noticed that a lot of people who tell others not to say anything just want to be the only ones doing change, because it’s a lot harder for them if there’s people opposing their control every step of the way.

If we stay around and do nothing, the next thing you know it’s that you’re waking up to a world full of policies you don’t agree with, screaming like it’s a nightmare wondering what the fuck is going on, and for a lot of us that are afab that’s already our reality. Sometimes we gotta realize we’re the majority, us down here, and if I can’t vote then I’m at least gonna mope about it. It’s my god given right, and it’s not gonna seem all like a big deal until we have another “red scare” that repeats itself and those rights become infringed in fear of government spies and, essentially, ourselves(a lot of people mistake being against certain choices as being against the country, and it’s always been a big debate about where to draw the line, the spoken and written word versus active action, but that’s kinda a thing I don’t wanna blabber about right now).

So that’s why I feel some of the teens and young adults aghast about certain policies and decisions stating their discontentment out loud with full written statements, memes, coping with shipping Biden and Trump(I see that shit like our new take on political cartoons to shit on presidents and GOD do I love it), are some of the most American people ever in spirit. And just because they don’t use terminology like politicians to get their opinions across, or can’t vote yet, doesn’t mean their opinion is void because they live here just like you and me, and don’t want to destroy the country: they want to better it.