sorry for being cringe *sob* *walks though the door but insteadof opening it i just noclip through*
Time for a new toon everyone!
We’re getting back to the website with this one!
hey no offense but jalapeñis lol
I absolutely here this with emulated games. It gets kinda confusing when im playing a playstation game on my pc with an xbox controller and it tells me to press 🔺️like wtf is even that
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i was looking at the undertale soundtrack on steam because it’s available to purchase, and im laughing so hard about the system requirements info..
public proposals are so embarrassing if someone tried to propose to me in public I’d walk away
Because we’re gay and love free dessert, mostly. Grifting is my love language
"grifting is my love language" is the greatest thing I've ever heard
We’ve proposed to each other 3 times now. The first time was in a park, with just us. The second time was immediately afterwards, in a restaurant, where the family next to us bought our dinner and left without telling us that’s what they were doing, and the restaurant gave us champagne and chocolate cake. The third time, the restaurant gave us Prosecco. At least one of use legitimately cried on each occasion, so we’re giving the crowd their money’s worth. But yeah, defn grifting.
need everyone to know that the artist who created this iconic artwork:
is STILL creating wolf art TO THIS DAY. TEN YEARS LATER. proof that the world is beautiful. you can find her art right here, and here are a few of her more recent pieces that I absolutely adore:
being pro-copyright is like a cartoon "i hate cool things" political stance
"you have to respect an IP owner's right to take down content in breach of copyright licenses" - person who spends their free time stomping on flowers and calling the cops on local skaters
*raises hand* I'm pro-copyright, but only because OpenAI wants access to everything, copyrighted or not
So obviously the current copyright system is broken (most egregiously by it lasting way too long) but surely you can't be against all kinds of copyright in the abstract? If there was no copyright at all then artistic mediums both small and large would suffer and much less good art would get made. Unless you mean to abolish it only after abolishing capitalism and creating a post scarcity utopia, in which case sure. But you can't just remove it completely from current society.
I can. Watch me.
But in a more serious note. If you think removing the concept of intellectual property would result in *less* art being made, have no idea how much art is currently not getting made because the artist who wants to make it doesn't have the rights to the necessary IP to make it. I for one have at least two albums that I started working on and never finished because they were genre-swapped covers of various songs, and I realized I'd never be able to release them because licensing every song I wanted to cover would cost me AT LEAST $500 which was way more than I would have probably made from it.
The only thing preventing Robert Kurvitz from making any of the other games he had planned for the Disco Elysium universe (a setting which he created over the course of over a decade of his life) is that he got kicked out of ZA/UM and he doesn't own the IP anymore.
In the television industry you can't walk two steps without bumping into some horror story about some creator not being able to finish their show because the network cancelled it but also refused to let them buy the IP rights back so they could take it to another network or finish it themselves, and now it's doomed to remain unfinished forever.
There is SO much art that people are currently dying to make but they can't because intellectual property issues prevent them from doing so. It's incoherent to think that getting rid of a system that exists to control who gets the exclusive right to use which ideas in their art would result in *less* art being made.
I'd like to add that from a Marxist class analysis perspective, copyright does nothing to help the proletariat. All of the examples that were given above are examples of bourgeois actors desperately clinging to their means of production.
The labels who will sue cover artists into their early grave for daring to cover a song are bourgeois actors defending their means of production. The means of production in this case being the commodified art made by the artists they employ, being sold as a product in order to make money.
Robert Kurvitz is not allowed to make any of those games because the new owners of ZA/UM are bourgeois actors defending the means of production they stole out from under him. The means of production in this case being not only the commodified art that is Disco Elysium, but also the studio itself.
The networks who cancel shows and hold onto the IP rights aren't just defending their means of production, they're also ensuring that the proletariat - the artists that they hire - cannot hold onto their means of production with the direct intention of stifling competition both from the proletariat and from other networks and studios. The means of production here is the IP itself, and by effectively taking that IP and putting it in the network's vault, out of reach of the artist who created it, the network literally steals the means of production and the commodity from the artists hands.
It is critically important to recognize the role that copyright plays in society and the economy as a mechanism for the bourgeois class to keep the means of production out of the hands of the proletariat.