#that comes from another fucking problem. waaaaay bigger than this one. and that does very much involve greed

[daddy-ul]

Since you’re a Lars fan do you believe that Lars was right about Napster

Ah, isn’t this ask the dream of every Lars stan? /sarcasm

My dear duder, I can totally see that you are genuinely asking this bc you are curious, so I’ll give you two answers: the one I want to give (1) and the one you are expecting to receive (2) from someone who, in theory, likes the man in question enough to know abt the debacle.

They will be both sincere, at time sarcastic, passionate, but never aggressive.

1.

“Napster? Is it a napkin american brand or something? This european ass doesn’t know” is my standard go-to, bc IT’S BEEN 20 YEARS. ENOUGH.

You called me “a Lars fan”, and tbh the best thing I can do as his fan is... not engaging with it. Because it has been 20 years, everything that could be said has been said, and the man can’t take it anymore. It’s almost never posed as a real question but more as a dig, as a way to extrapolate scandal, a reaction, views or whatever.

2.

Under the cut - it’s gonna be long - you’ll find my actual thoughts abt it, bc ofc i have thoughts abt it.

The thing is that I dont think most people even know what actually Napster is about, at least for Metallica.

Long story short: Metallica does a song for a movie, they are still tweaking it and suddenly it’s on the radio. It’s I Disappear. Metallica (the band, the management etc) goes wtf????? How?

In 2001 Napster was about control. Nothing more, nothing less.

🥕 Argument 1: “It’s about the money! Lars Ulrich is a greedy moth--”

Rebuttal: Nope, it’s the 2000s, Metallica is a fucking juggernaut, they sold so fucking much in the years prior and after that Jason Newsted still lives confortably with all that money, without having to work constantly.

Also, these are the dudes who let you tape their concerts back in the day and nowadays they give you a professional mix of your concert for free with the ticket. PROFESSIONAL MIX. Do you know that mixing requires money and time? They could easily not do it. They do, and i fucking love it bc I have forever my concert in digital form and with a good sound.

🥕 Argument 2: “He was an ingrate! He wanted to attack the fans! To sue them! To--!”

Rebuttal: yeah, I know where you get this from but it’s also not true. This is the only point of the story where I think Lars was on the wrong side, and the man himself admitted that.

What really happed was: Napster said “we cant do anything bc we cant know who downloaded what”, and they were lying, and Lars was so irritated by that, that went and with a fucking car full of paper with names on it, read out loud ppl names that downloaded from the site. Because OF COURSE you can know who is who with IP addresses. And Lars said it was only a show of force, a “do you think we are fucking fools? stop lying” and not a “I will come to your house and demand money”. It really went out of hand, he was too much in the heat of the moment, he regrets that move, bc of course it was interpreted like that, even if he didnt absolutely want to come after the fans.

🥕 Argument 3: “But Lars--”

Rebuttal: STOP SAYING LARS. SAY METALLICA, FFS. This is the thing that piss me off the most: it 👏 was 👏 not 👏 Lars 👏

Okay, it was Lars, but he was Lars on Metallica behalf. He was not a rogue agent of Justice. Lars doesn’t do stuff like that on his own. It was a group decision. Metallica chose to fight for it and Lars, as usual, chose to be the spokesman. But most people just hate Lars... why? I cant even take you seriously if you drool over James Hetfield bc he is “so cool” but then you go on hating Lars for Napster. You are just not making any sense. Hate ‘em all at least, lol!

>>>>> Why do I say that it was about control?

a) The man himself admitted it.

b) have you ever heard them talk? Everything is about control with them, bc control grants you freedom. Like, they have their own record company just to produce their shit themselves. Nobody ever talks how they fought Elektra to get back their masters (and again Lars was on the front for that). They want to do it their way, they always do.

From 2000!Lars POV it went like this “how come our song is out on some site or whatever when we havent even completely finished it yet? Who gave them the right?”

Look me in the eye and tell me that any artist would be fine with that.

So, then it escalated so fucking quickly, but 2000!Lars didnt know what duststorm he was rising. I dont want to paint him as a hero or whatever, he admitted that back then he didnt know how big and complicated the thing was, he learned it along the way.

Nowadays the music landscape is completely changed and I dont think my opinion on it has any value bc I’m not an expert and I know so little about it. But I read different articles about how hard it is to make music for a living now.

I could go on and on (i just cut out a paragraph that compared what making money in the music industries was about for Queen in the 70/80s and what it is now), but I’m tired of thinking in english, so I’ll cut this short and make it sweet:

I believe that artists deserve to be paid for their art and I also believe that downloading some songs is not the end of the world. Yes, these two things dont contraddict each other bc the world can contain such complexity.

Support the artist how you can!; if everyone does that, it will be fine at the end.

EDIT:

The most insightful, short comment I found was made by kirk a couple of years ago.

They told him "see? Now everyone understands the Napster thing! You were right, thank god you won."

But he said no, no we didn't win.

I agree with him.

[bedlamgames]

Q&A #109

Today we have an amazing harpy, the never ending hangover, a statement on Whorelocks, and a bunch more.

[Anonymous said:] re: the Aruviel answer from the last Q&A: Thanks for the answer, and to be clear, what I meant by the chastity text variations is the ones where Toy With Them specifically talks about teasing their chastity, which I can get with slaves in chastity or slavers with the As You Like It belt, but not with Aruviel. (I even personally wouldn't mind if it occasionally drove her to distraction like the belt from As You Like It can do to a slaver, but I recognize that might be a bigger ask.)

 - Ahah, I get you. Sure I can look at that. 

[jamex590 said:] now sure if this is how you gut your bug report's or not but with the latest nohaven version sometimes when your smith make's a armour when you go to make a decicion on what to do with it it tell's you that you have no armour when you click on the armour i had that happen with 3 seprate armour's.

 - Here’s fine, also that should be sorted in the update I believe. 

[Anonymous said:] A slaver gold as camp bitch will be freely used by any other slavers but "make use of" still triggers the same "that doesn't seem like a good idea." Similarly you can't make use of a golem bedwarmer but they're still working away under your table when planning out assignments. Perhaps this may be intentional but it does seem kind of silly?

 - Dang amazed you were able to convince one to take either role. Will check that as you’re entirely right, cheers.

[Anonymous said:] Got this option on a Marauding levelup, both Agile and Clumsy: Choice 4: Jazel Dragongood - Ogre Female - Inexperienced Duellist - (Mon)(Str+)(Agi)(Fnd)(Sed)(Agg)(Clu)

 - Thanks for the spot. 

[Anonymous said:] A possible bug I noticed on No Haven 0.932, in that I ended up having a slave have a permanent Hangover set on her. The way I had it happen, was turning a slaver that obtained the enchanted pony gear (from the race mission) into a slave without having that gear removed. Once that ex-slaver became a slave, it wouldn't regenerate it's will naturally, and having a healer heal ended up giving them a Hangover that won't go away. You also loose the ability to remove the gear later.

 - Huh, that’s a very random very specific thing. Thanks for letting me know how they got there as that’s really helpful for working out what happened. Will see if I can recreate what happened. 

[Anonymous said:] Does putting a slave in a chastity belt actually serve a purpose? Even after locking an "innocent" one into one, it doesn't seem to stop slavers from sampling the goods after training.

 - Innocent isn’t just about physical virginity but a state of mind so any training after basic obedience it will be removed. 

[Anonymous said:] Is whorelocks officially abandoned?

 - Ooof, now that’s a question. Honnestly I don’t know? I’d not be happy if that’s the case, but practically yeah it kind of is. The whiplash of the reaction to the RAGS version (Highly positive) to Twine (fuck you, also why is this different game not exactly like another game) was dispiriting to put it lightly. Even more so as even content incomplete I personally think the Twine version is already far superior. 

It’s also a lot of a mess codewise. Was very much still learning when I first attempted to RAGS > Twine. Hell, even doing NH to Twine had a bunch of issues due to making errors in the conversion so you can just imagine what WR is like. 

There’s also that NH is waaaaay more popular, and takes so much of my time along with that getting a conversion too. Man I just hope history doesn’t repeat itself where suddenly things get so much more harsh when you remove the big barrier to entry that is RAGS.

Soooo, again I don’t know? Honnestly the best way to make it happen is to let me know there’s an audience for it still.

[Anonymous said:] Can you PLEASE look into something that will prevent slavers being sent out without assignments it's way too damn common and costs you a slaver or several and if one happens to be your leader your scrwed if nothing else an option to recall slavers from assignments as a workaround.

 - I genuinely have never heard of this issue? If you could let me know of an assignment that it happens on or ways to recreate it that’d be really helpful. 

Other than that RAGS is a finickity program so make sure you follow the warnings at the begining of the game which can cause serious issues. 

[Anonymous said:] I can't seem to find a way to start as a convent race aside from the unique scenario. Is this currently possible? If not any plans on adding that in in the future?

 - For now to play as Convent there’s the scenario, or losing your encampment to a Convent slaver. If you’re on the Patreon TF Edition however you can play as the scenario one in a regular playthrough, or start as the Promoted Slaver portraits which also include a Neko one. 

[From the patreon:] two questions 1- what happens if you ambush the ensnared rose rep 2- is there some kind of secret catch if you accept the slaver? :)

 -  1 that's purely there for RP purposes and 2 there's not (for now at least anyway)

[From TFGames:] Same. I really, really love No Haven, but RAGS is just so f***ing awful. I understand that converting it to HTML is impossible without just starting from scratch, but holy f*** is late game unbearable.

 - A conversion is well on the way to twine so hopefully you won't have to put up for it that much longer. In terms of progress technically everythings converted from what RAGS understands to what Twine understands, and I'm in the progress of making all that conversion actually work and having a workable UI.

[From TFGames:] And why isn't there an option to bribe the slaver with gold or first dibs on the slaves or whatever?

 - I do mean to add both of those sometime as an option. Likely when I expand bedwarmers so you'll have a slave immediately to hand to 'persuade' them with.

[From the Collective:] Not a bug per se but a funny thought: Slave - Kyurlina - Carakarr Harpy Female - - Examine

Name: Kyurlina Madclaw <==== Very appropriate name Race: Carakarr Harpy - Sex: Female - Status: Slave Traits: Flying - Seductive - Perceptive - Singer - Friendly - Werebear Condition: 84 Will: 78 Estimated Value: 189

A harpy flies in the sky Night Happens Oh It's full moon A bear falls from the sky

First thing to do: pick the aspect that makes you immune to wounding !!!!

 - Hahahah, that's an amazing win from the generation.

[From the Collective:] Magc Blight is negative despite Aspect: Unbreakable Honour that says it shouldn't

 - Given it was a Magic: Any check rather than Blight specifically I'm calling that one working as intended.

[From the Collective:] once again sometimes a re-roll  with probabilities under 90%[/quote]

 - That's the 1-100 roll being changed which is different from the probabilities. It first was a result over a 90 so you're getting a second go to get a better one thanks to the Watchtower bonus.

[From the Collective:] Deluge of Ooze - Rewards - New slaver acquired! - Zoe Valleyborn - Ooze Futanari - Inexperienced Lycanthrope - (Res)(Mon)(Tcl)(Slt)(Fnd)(Per)(Wer)(Lgl)

The Were Ooze 13 is still there !!!!  A blood curse on a Ooze needs explanations 

 - Heh, Were is well weirder than that and so a ooze were is totally viable.

[From the Collective:] Sky shaman I have a probability problem ... You add this slaver with positive traits and ends with bad probabilties

 - Any odds you see before the final odds are the 'in progress' ones using a different more free calculator, which is why it can go into minuses and the like, the final person you add locks in the final odds and so it that case where you have odds better than the caps it will make them worse even if they're contributing only positive stuff.

[From the Collective:] Some missions have Gown or Formal Wear (Oft:For) as positive factor but can't ask your camp to produce it or buy it at cutprice roses like with maid outfits

 - I've just got a commission done for an assignment where you will be able to do that, and that's also a good shout for Cutprice.

[From the Collective:] When the Week end comes  - Fel Tainted (Fel) assigned: +10% rejection chance applied Even with shadowplay aspect

 - Yeah it's a different check so doesn't apply. If it helps it's hard to keep the tentacles and the like hidden while in a short skirt and shaking pom poms  ;)

[From the Discord:] How common are wyverns, and are they related to the far more impressive dragons? :wondering:

 - They’re not exactly common, but not the kind of thing that would raise serious comment. They’re not at all related to dragons, and are pretty much just animals and not all that brave or bright either. They’re more big scavengers who look impressive, but aren’t up to much in an actual fight unless you manage to corner one and they can’t fly away.

[From the Discord:] Since we did get the Veil (:victory:), anything horny planned for this Year of the Ox?

 - Well Horned Ones already exist, and I’ve got no other bull themed races that could be added, and certainly aren’t already a part of the lore along with playing a very big part in WR. Nope no ideas whatsoever for what I could do for that. 

[From the Discord:] Since Convent sneks are coming, what would be the next more likely candidate race for dedicated Shallya worship? (Holy bunnies? :ohmy: :KaltMimi:  )

 - Oh man I’m getting flashback to when it seemed like everyone wanted a civilised city based Lago’Mae which completely and utterly clashes with their in-setting lore :D 

So definitely no convent bunnies. Other than that not sure. Theoretically could be any race which are on the more common side and have non-males in there.