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ellisdee161 · 2 months ago
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Anti-Consumer
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jaythelay · 3 months ago
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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!
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0sbrain · 6 months ago
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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
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shewhowillrise · 10 months ago
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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.
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communistkenobi · 9 months ago
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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 
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sparksinthenight · 8 months ago
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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.
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the-milton-fan-272 · 2 months ago
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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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copypastus · 1 year ago
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Sign me up for the tithe in the Spring Court I hear rent prices in Velaris went up again.
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radley-writes · 2 months ago
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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.
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gunkbaby · 6 months ago
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tumblr users ranting about the death of media literacy and critical thinking vs an anti-vegan post with zero sources
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werewolf-cuddles · 10 months ago
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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.
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scarycranegame · 3 months ago
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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!
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aleksanderscult · 3 months ago
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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:
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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.
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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.
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chronically-ghosted · 4 months ago
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day before a 5 day holiday weekend. office empty. got me thinking thoughts.
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jaythelay · 1 month ago
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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.
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sweetbagel-sticks · 5 months ago
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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”
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