#as “choice theft”

[grassoftunnel]

Too Too Abstract Ushiromiya Kinzo Not To Be Respected

Kinzo being the person he was who dgaf about his legal family at all gives so much opportunity for people to project on him. Like because he gives them so little (even if that little is just being terrifying and violent and cruel, when not completely apathetic).

When the series is all said and done he’s less a character and more an abstracted memory (or at least this way of reading the story makes me feel better about the ways that it lets him off very light…or tries to do historical revisionism ijbol 😭 that man dgaf about those people! He had places in his heart for Genji, Nanjo, Lion, the Beatrices and that is IT!).

We don’t get an unambiguous look into his interiority. On the face of it, he was a brilliant man, magnetic, dazzling, romantic and passionate, a genius who achieved the redemption of the Ushiromiya fortune and reached miracles through sheer force of will. He speaks beautifully and projects an impressive aura that drags everyone around him into his own gravity. He is fiercely dedicated to his own philosophy, and completely unknowable to the people under his thrall. The ultimate Byronic hero. He even ends the story, utterly contented, without any regrets, having gotten every single thing that he wanted out of life. But our story doesn’t concern itself with that.

In our story he is nothing more than an illusion, he’s been dead for years, and gone mentally for longer than that, the characters we do get to know never really knew him. But his ghost is present in every shadow, eternally looming over the mansion, the island, and written into the wounds he left on their hearts. But that ghost is no longer him. We have only the damning facts of his life and the distorted, irreconcilable fragments of his memory in the minds of the people he left behind.

Whatever power he held in life, in our game he is a piece to the very last. Existing only as what others wanted and needed him to be, cosigned to the fate he tried to force on the Beatrices.

[vivalgi]

What in the AI f*ckery is PB up to again? There is 0 doubt the cover "art" for TDG was largely done with the help of AI tools.

Let's start with Farah. There's a lot of similarities in the hair between the in-game sprite and the cover "art" portrait, so PB probably fed both images and text prompts to the generator. What gives away that it's AI generated though is that part of the hair on the right side is randomly swept back.

Upon initial look Dante looks pretty genuine, a suave Latin-American actor, if not for the t-shirt changing to dress shirt. But if you zoom into the hair, it's definitely an AI generated smudgy mess.

This young nerdy girl with deer-in-the-headlights look and piggy nose is supposed to be our deadpan doctor.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this actress in an early 2000s black comedy movie. The hair color is totally wrong as well.

People have complained for a long time that Choices (East) Asian characters don't look very ...Asian. Probably that's why this generic young K-pop starlet looks nothing like Astoria the influencer lady in TDG.

The "artist" inserting the prompts should have clarified to AI that the COO has no gray hair or goatee. The pattern on his jacket doesn't even match his roleplay costume.

PB just generated a random black guy and copy-pasted the toupée on his head, which is probably one of the only two non-AI generated objects in the cover "art".

She is literally Sarah Hyland!

Again, like with the influencer above, the AI isn't aware that generally Asian men in Choices look big and bulky, along with other western beauty ideals.

Please stop this bullsh*t, @playchoices! AI generated images are not art, it's blatant theft. In order to train their AI tools, companies steal billions of artwork made by hardworking and underpaid artists. I'm certain you wouldn't be happy either if someone used your stories and artwork without your consent for training their AI to then profit from it.

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[yank-a-ton]

Hey @dsunivers I was your @gtavfest valentine! This was lots of fun to work on, hope you like it!

[vigilskeep]

Lmao see when you said ranger asha I imagined like. Dads with the cat they said they didn't want. "I'm doing the absolute bare minimum for this mission before I ditch Alistair and run off into the night why do I keep attracting strays (party members) and also strays (wild animals I didn't even know existed)"

this is how she would like to see herself jsgjsksk. unfortunately she loves and is delighted by both packs of strays and is incapable of even a halfway decent performance of pretending otherwise. sucker

[nrdmssgs]

Inhale, exhale.

Why is it almost always bot creators, that steal cod fandom art?

Don't get me wrong, there are others: online shops, fan communities, randos making edits...

But each time I see a TikTok vid that starts with "I made a ghost cai bot" - there is a 95% chance that I see an uncredited artwork there.

[daisychainsandbowties]

lol did Shin take Sabine's poncho???

haven’t even kissed yet and already stealing each other’s clothes 😌😌

[doolallymagpie]

i've got a take on mandoclones:

definitely don't like it when all clones seem to inexplicably be equally interested in mandalorian culture

like, in legends, the mandoclones were chiefly specific commando units, trained by mandalorians (IIRC they were vetted thoroughly by...somebody, idk who, to make sure they also wouldn't try to train the clones to be loyal to anyone but the republic, so it gets real fucked up)

but it seems like the common take nowadays is "clones are mandalorians, all of 'em, because they were cloned from one"

[theliterarywolf]

I'm not going to reblog anymore responses to that theft post, but it's interesting to have someone essentially poverty-splaining to someone who was:

A child of poverty

Who regularly experienced food-insecurity

Who has experienced the trauma of having to sleep in a car

Who was the child of a single mother

Who was forced into being an undocumented immigrant due to my bastard father not wanting to help her file when they were married

A child who was forced to take a two-year hiatus from college due to said bastard father not wanting to provide information so I could apply for financial aid

And who is only, as of a few years ago, in a place where, while money still isn't ideal, am not experiencing abject poverty like I once was

AND WHO HAS STILL RELENTED AND SAID 'I CAN UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO NEED TO STEAL FOOD'

[lilyoffandoms]

Mal x Daenarya for @storyofmychoices

Day One of the @choicesfandomappreciation Kindness event. Thank you Dani for being so supportive of each and everyone of us here in this little fandom. Thank you for hosting so many events to spread kindness around here and for being the absolute sweetest of all people. You are one of my favorite people ever <3

Warnings & A/N: None that aren’t canon compliant. Takes place after story time at the orphanage in book two.

The house is remarkably quiet with the kids tucked in and the priests gone home. Tyril and Nia had made themselves scarce after they determined to go find Imtura at first light.

Mal watched as she fiddled with her sleeves. Fingers pulling at unseen thread.

“So….”

He watches her hesitant smile and tries to convince himself for the hundredth time that she is real, really here, with him. It seems unfathomable after so long.

“So…,” he responds and before she can say anything else he’s on his feet and pulling her up and into his arms.

He kisses her fiercely before he starts a dance she remembers and they sway together through the steps.

How is it possible she is here? he wonders for the last time.

Screw thinking this can’t possibly be real. How can it not be real? There’s no time for thoughts like that. Not after so long apart. Not when he can feel her in his arms again. Hold her close and breathe her in.

All that matters most to him in the all the worlds and all the in-betweens is in his arms again.

Her.

Here.

With him.

The rest can wait.

The questions, the quest, all of it.

It can wait for them.

[maddie-grove]

Watching Don and Betty parent (together or separately) on Mad Men is so so sad (because I don’t think either of them ever wants to be mean to their kids! I think they both genuinely want to be better than their horrifying parents! The bar is just very very low!) but also kind of funny. It’s like if somebody gave some kids to the most neurotic of the popular junior girls at a private high school and a confident teenage drifter. How do they have a house??? They should be in a road movie about two college freshmen who couldn’t be more different but their boyfriend and girlfriend go to the same college so they carpool and hijinks ensue.

[asclexe]

Sea

awh :3

[vivalgi]

RIP Choices

Regarding the news about Nexon selling off the trainwreck of Pixelberry to some fresh AI startup, here's what that Rho game engine is supposedly capable of doing:

"We can generate textures, backgrounds, meshes, sound effects, scripting, character, designs, story narrative, whatever it is."

So, basically everything from technical to creative processes can and probably will be taken over by AI. I am not going to support this 🐂💩 in any way. Why should we pay for it if the AI has been trained on copyrighted content scraped off the the internet?

[whenthegoldrays]

sigh

[thoughtportal]

anti-choice and anti-trans legislation are two sides to the same coin.

[askbeannuts]

[Audino needs more Matron training before they're ready to deal with children full time it seems. Either that or "Gremlin William" is too much to handle.]

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[bluesidedown]

One of the great tragedies of my life (lol) is that about a year after my family got my dog just as she exited the puppy phase my classmate stole my phone, factory reset it, and wiped the memory destroying every single last one of my puppy photos :(