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#consumerism#anti-consumer#buy#sell#rich#money#i want to be rich#wealth#korea#north korea#korean soldier#soldier#war#tongue#silly#anticapitalist#communist#anarchist#left#postmodern#illustration#artwork#original#art#collage#colour#capitalism
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Seriously do we need to have a company in the PC industry that specifically keeps products that would work on other OS's from working on them, because Sweeney doesn't want you playing your purchased games on your purchased Steam Deck?
I don't want a marketplace where I HAVE to decide what the marketplace deemed the only useable option, when Steam/Valve has been incredibly helpful to making Linux an alternative to Windows for people.
Sweeney would force you to use W11 to play your games. Steam still lets you play your games on W7 and made an emulator for games to work on Linux.
Open. Free. Available. Easy!
Epic games? Locked down, you're not allowed, windows is god, we're gonna buy art websites and run them into the ground and try to force a monopoly of the internet through various means, including modding!
#epic games#tim sweeney#linux#Yeah Pay Piggy Useful Idiots are about to make PC gaming hard just to support a company that's actively pro-company#anti-consumer#and yes those 2 need distinction#being pro-company is obvious until you remember Steam has refunds#then you realize Oh Shit that's why they're buying exclusives#That's why they have a lower cut than the Entire Fucking Industry#they really hate how pro-consumer the PC marketplace is
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alternatives for ai to design ocs
hero forge
picrew
the fucking sims 4
your local furry artist
bitmoji
shitty photoshoped collage
DeviantArt bases
zepeto
making edits of your favorite character
searching "dress up game" on the app store
learning how to draw
#anti ai#“but im an uwu soft bean and i don't know how to draw”#then learn?#you know you can create right you are capable of more than just “consuming”#im not saying you need to train to be the best artist in the world or that you need to pursue a future in the art industry#you don't need to be perfect you just need to try#that feeling of needing things done right now only works to alienate you from the labor behind the things you love
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DC x DP
Jason never made it to the Lazarus pit or the league of assassins.
Bruce gave him that excuse for his green eyes and short temper.
Jason knows he didn’t crawl out of his grave with the giant Y that scars his chest.
Jason knows he’s a revenant.
Jason knows he needs to kill to stay sane. To stay whole.
A soul sucker they called him.
Jason agreed not to kill, because he misses his family. No matter how much he starves himself, it’s worth it to get Dick’s hugs, experience Tim’s genius, see Cassandra’s award winning performance, to help Damian experience a childhood.
Jason didn’t realize Bruce doesn’t know what he is. Jason didn’t realize Bruce meant Black Gate when he said he’d take him in the next time he killed. Jason didn’t realize Bruce had no idea about the anti ecto acts.
Jason swore to stay in line, so he’d never end up on that metal table again.
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dcxdp#dpxdc#dc x dp prompt#dp x dc prompt#jason todd#Jason thinks Bruce knows about everything#(the anti ecto acts#the fact that until Joker is dead Jason must feast on souls#the reason Jason doesn’t say at the manor is because Bruce would be investigated for housing an ecto entity#that Jason starts decomposing if he doesn’t kill and consume)#Jason thinks Bruce told his siblings it was the Lazarus pit bc he think Bruce doesn’t want to tell his siblings he’s an illegal entity#Jason thinks Bruce hides this bc the others would turn on him#meanwhile the whole family has no idea any of this is happening
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The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product
#just saw a very stupid post. but I will endure#these discussions also remind me of anti-vaxxer discourse#which in North America for Covid is framed as simply wanting to make the best informed choice as a consumer in a market*#ideas about public goods or civic responsibility towards others are incompatible with this consumer-citizen view of the world#like legitimately the idea of the consumer as the base civic unit of north american society is catastrophic for public health#and produces these interminable discourses about ‘media consumption’#which itself is a neoliberal framing! I think ‘media’ as a catchall term is neoliberal because it links all art with the commonality of#being a good sold in a market#*outside of outright fascist anti-vax beliefs I should say. Although from my research so far these things seem to overlap heavily lol#which is not surprising but the distinction is worth teasing out#.txt
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If the economy NEEDS workers working in degrading, dehumanizing, dangerous jobs where they have very little power, then you need to get a different economy. Any world that relies upon the exploitation and abuse of the workers needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. We can make a society where no one has to work a job that’s physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally, or environmentally unhealthy or unsafe for them. We need to create that society.
#original post#left wing#leftism#left#anti consumerism#capitalism#anti capitalist#capitalist hell#capitalist dystopia#capitalist bullshit#consumerism#consumer culture#workers#working class#exploitation#class#class war#classism#class warfare#equality#liberation
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my slight absence
I admit I have not been posting as often on this blog. This is not because of any lack of interest in supple muppet hole or lack of interest.
in truth, fellow muppets, I am having a crisis of faith.
as many of you know, I have a very intense personal history with h*rses. My own grandmother was consumed by one, her flesh torn like putty by its square and unassuming teeth. The community that has sprung up around the Croaker has been instrumental in healing from this trauma. I thank fan number 2303 most specifically. I have nothing but good to say about this lovely community and I do not wish to leave it.
My crisis lies with the very man who brought us together.
The croaker is becoming traitorous to my nature. He has embraced the very creatures who took so much from me. I do not know if I can go on worshiping a person who does not think of how many of his followers have been harmed by these creatures. I now find myself in the awkward position of having the man I have devoted myself to violating my very own DNI.
I would love some advice from my lovely community. Please advise. No matter what I will never forget the beautiful community I have been lucky to be a part of.
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Sign me up for the tithe in the Spring Court I hear rent prices in Velaris went up again.
#my art#acotar#acotar fanart#lucien vanserra#pro tamlin#tamlin#very serious tithe discourse#it's not that bad acctually#i'm so tired of seeing serious arguments about it#you - bean brained: tamlin and lucien as robin hood villains laughing and extorting his poor citizens from all their gold#me - galaxy brained: tamlin using all the consumables his citizens give him to feed all the fae he allows FREELY INTO HIS HOUSE#at least tamlin won't condemn my wholeass apartment complex coz he had a fight with his sister in law#anti sjm#trying to make tamlin look bad still accidentally looks good if you PAY ATTENTION FEYRE
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Cannot believe that 'access to quality art and writing made by other people is a luxury not a right, and artists and writers deserve to be compensated for their labour, because as much as I believe in the ethos of UBI, we live in a post-capitalist hellscape, and creators need to eat' is a controversial opinion in Leftist spaces.
#'if you are consuming the product of someone's labour you should compensate them fairly for it for as long as we live in this shitty#capitalist world' should not be a polarising stance#but apparently the leftist praxis leaves people's brains when you remind them that artists and creatives also need money and food#and that idealism does not pay the bills#anyway. I am anti-pirating from indie creators (which. authors are.) AND anti-AI. until we have good UBI. Then you can go nuts#but until that day saying 'it's okay to steal wages from creatives' is really not a great leftie look lmao#We Live In A Shitty Capitalist Society and the way to combat that is. surprisingly. not to take other people's livelihoods.#work towards UBI. We should all be doing this. But in the meantime don't shit on fellow poor people scraping a survival#it's really that simple
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tumblr users ranting about the death of media literacy and critical thinking vs an anti-vegan post with zero sources
#source: op said it#Ppl on tumblr would never lie#it doesn’t help that a lot of people are bias towards anti-vegan sentiments and this bias is often encouraged by the mainstream#But you’d think such a pretentious userbase would know that#No im sure the research paper paid for by farmers is extremely unbiased!!!!#Who’s a good little consumer? Who’s a good little meat eating tumblr user?#vegan
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Back to the "Gamers need to be more comfortable not owning their games" BS again for a second
No, I genuinely do not believe that anybody should be "comfortable" with the idea of not owning something they bought.
If you buy something, you should own it, and the company that sold it to you should not be able to take it away on a whim. The idea that you don't own your purchases is one that you should never be comfortable with.
Imagine if you bought a movie on DVD, and then later on, the person who sold it to you breaks into your house and takes it back. Would you be comfortable with that? Didn't think so.
Anyway, it's been said by so many people, and I said it in my original post about this, but it bears repeating; if buying something isn't owning it, then pirating it isn't stealing.
#ubisoft#piracy#pro-piracy#anti-consumer practices#consumer's rights#customer's rights#not sure what the correct phrasing there is
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anyone else do this?
antis dni, what you have there is an unwarranted sense of self-righteousness, not anything of real value
proship/comship/pro-fiction safe!
#scary crane shitpost#not fandom#proship#proshippers please interact#anti anti#anti-anti#antis dni#proship selfship#proselfship#proselfshipper#proselfshipping#stolen from an anti#i do this all the time LMAO#there's a ton of characters that i thoroughly enjoy that i dont have on my f/o list currently#and thats actually because adding f/os means updating the list on my strawpage#and doing that usually means drawing both my f/o AND my s/i for their source#and that takes. quite a long time#its not that hard but it's so fucking time consuming lskdhskdjhd#oh and also trying to come up with a unique tag for them#because the day i use the main tag for them is the day hell freezes over (aka antis leave fandom space forever)
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You don't need to read the whole book of "King of Scars" to understand the stupidity of its protagonists. You only need to read only one chapter. Take for example this:
A few Grisha: *betray the Darkling*
The Darkling: *kills them*
Zoya: *shocked Pikachu face*
Didn't those Grisha choose to take Alina's side? Weren't they aware that there was a war going on and their choice might very well result in death?
Zoya loves to make martyrs the Darkling's victims even though their actions were their own and the consequences reasonable.
'Without remorse'
I didn't know that the Darkling confessed his feelings to you, Zoya.
Zoya wants her people to feel safe and suddenly realizes that the country needs to be strong and its leader capable.
The Darkling who knew all of this and tried to do just that rolls in Elizaveta's castle right now.
The heroes are so painfully dumb it's almost remarkable. They curse Aleksander for his harsh actions but when they realize that they have to do the same to bring stability and peace, they panic. Because they find it difficult to do without making hard decisions but still won't admit that the Darkling was in their position but didn't act like a chicken and instead decided to dirty his hands with more blood to put an end to all of that.
No, his way is condemned as brutal. His feelings inhuman, his goals selfish. There must be another way for them. A more pure, holy way.
The Darkling no longer gave a shit about how Ravka saw him as long as his dream came true (even though he longed for their love). While the heroes care so much about how they feel and about how they are perceived that cannot even stand doing anything radical through force and blood.
#the darkling#anti nikolai duology#you do not read the duology (and I understand that) so I bring the duology to you#what the FUCK is happening here??#also I read Nikolai thinking about how he has some of his Grisha trying to make jurda parem bearable for his Grisha to consume#so that they become more powerful etc.#yo what? 😀#I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START#anti zoya nazyalensky#grishaverse#shadow and bone#aleksander morozova#pro darkling#pro aleksander morozova#nikolai lantsov
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day before a 5 day holiday weekend. office empty. got me thinking thoughts.
#thinking about raupi kaur hollie mcnish and the movment of populist poetry#how all media is populist right now and it’s no surprise its happening in a time of economic uncertainty AND a devaluation of art in society#not to mention a rise in anti intellectualism#thinking about how fanfiction is no longer a practice for writing but more an opportunity to get likes and reblogs#every day I see posts about how authors feel pressured to write for a specific character because all others are ignored#to you I say the mass market appeal is NOT worth you writing something you don’t care about#your audience of 20 will be more endeared to you BECAUSE you are feeding their niche#thinking about the inherent dichotomy between art and money because once you create for the common denominator you lose something#look at marvel movies - hell the state of movies in general: ZERO intellectual curiosity#everything is made to be consumed by the most amount of people#and it SUCKS ITS FUCKING GARBAGE#art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable#if everyone finds your work palatable then it’s not art it’s content to consume#RANT OVER#… or for the next 20 minutes until I get another thing to Think About
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Nintendo filed for the patent after Palworld was already out. In fact, the feature was already in several games before Pokemon.
So they legally stole an idea and are suing people for using such a broad concept of said idea.
Oh! And now they're taking down people's Channels for making videos about emulation (This (Emulation) has long be established as Legal? Legal. Bastards.)
If Nintendo wins this lawsuit, Japanese companies are going to patent Eeeverything and start suing Eeeeveryooone.
Nintendo Needs To Lose So Hard They Lose The Patent. Genuinely anything else? Kills the games industry.
Nintendo is willing to, Once, Again, Throw the entire Industry under the bus for Just A Bit More Money. These fuckers aren't even competing with Anyone, they just want to destroy competition. Remember what became the ESRB trials? Did you watch those? Because that was the first time Nintendo put the industry into uncertainty and censorship Just To Spite Their One Competition, Sega. Had the US government not been reasonable? And say "regulate yourselves" Gaming would have died.
Nintendo is absolutely disgusting, pathetic, incapable of competing with even it's own fans without pulling a gun on them, but hell has no fury like Nintendo's legal team seeing anything thay challenges Nintendo's perfect little image.
Please. Do Not Support Nintendo Anymore. If you care about Art, Creation, people's Careers, yourself and your friends, you will choose to harm Nintendo'a BottomLine by no longer giving them money, by talking shit online. Nothing else will work.
If Japanese courts take Nintendo's side, nothing will stop companies from patenting first person shooters, from patenting platformers, from patenting MOBA's, nothing is safe.
What Nintendo has effectively started is quite literally the end of gaming. They're Attacking Indie developers, they're attacking all artists of all sectors, they're attacking your ability to create, they're attacking people's livelihood, they're attacking everything built up over the course of nearly 6 decades, just to spite One Fucking Game.
#palworld#Nintendo#honestly if you're not scared you're not informed#literally the only way to stop this is if the consumer fights back#we are the other half of the free market There Is No Other Regulator Not One 0 Zilch Nada Nope#only us#of we do nothing? They win by default#straight up Japanese copyright/legal/patent is dumb as shit and there's 0 reliability#Nintendo needs to drop this fucking childish bullshir#and we need to focus on killing their Patent#pokemon#nintendo#gaming industry#I've been saying it for years now ya'll#actually since childhood so a decade minimum#Don't Support These Companies#don't support console gaming because all the big boys are dreadful for the industrt#and who else but Nintendo would come first to prove that the entire industry needa regulation so fucking hard#To support gaming you really need to push for it to be open for anyone to be involved with#Nintendo on the other hand thinks randomly filing patents at anytime should enable them to attack even the smallest of competition#Really consider the company you probably barely think about since it stop trying to compete with literally anyone#is being so anti-competitive. Not towards a console. But all of the industry#this today a nobody fuckin company#really thinks they should have such dominance of the industry#fuck Nintendo
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If I may speak freely…the way polin stans excuse Penelope’s actions and infantilize her reminds me a lot of how Taylor Swift fans do the same thing for her
Just so y’all know, they’re both rich white women that benefit from their own messed up version of “feminism”
#anti penelope featherington#bridgerton season 3#anti taylor swift#the way Eloise was starting to have character development#but they threw it all away just so she can be friends with penhellope again#gosh being a black woman consuming media is so frustrating
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