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I don’t have a pinned post or anything:
blanket statement that it you want to create fanworks based on my headcanons/meta you are more than welcome to! knock yourself out
@renmorris / renmorris.tumblr.com
note: I have used round brackets to indicate things I am unsure about as opposed to round brackets since it seems they have used square brackets in some segments. I think it'll be obvious what's THEIR round brackets and what's MINE tho
Might update tomorrow when I'm not as tired if I go over it again and notice some errors or read some stuff I couldn't before, otherwise I might type out everything else I can see in that portion of the video
I encourage everyone to look at the screenshots or video themselves to see if they can read something themselves more accurately than I have. You can see the leak here.
I know we're all in a lot of pain with the Locust City leak but I do feel like it’s our duty to have faith that one day Elysium will be returned to the people who created it. The legal battles are ongoing and being defeatist about it is really not helping anyone. It’s heartbreaking but it’s not our place as fans to say 'oh it’s over and hopeless'
The misuse of the "insult to life itself" quote from Miyazaki on AI burns my yams so bad bc the original context is being disgusted with how a characters movements are dehumanizing to disabled people specifically bc of his empathy for a disabled friend and it's such a sadly rare sentiment, this cognizance of how we casually inflict indignity upon disabled people and how he finds it disgusting, I hate seeing it obfuscated
In the video he sees character animation where the presenter comments on how the AI can be used to model "grotesque movements humans can't even imagine." And Miyazaki immediately mentions that he thought of his physically disabled friend, who struggles with movement, with the implication being that what's "insulting to life itself" is the degradation of people like him to grotesque monsters. Regardless of my feelings about AI art I don't think it's worth obscuring this humane thought process to have a rhetorical weapon
There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.
A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.
I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.
Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)
Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.
Bulgaria - 35% Croatia - 45% Cyprus - 12% (!!!!) Czechia - 47% Greece - 27% Italy - 41% Latvia - 43% Luxembourg - 20% Malta - 11% (!!!!) Romania - 48% Slovakia - 47% Slovenia - 38%
SEVEN countries out of 27 have met the threshold so far. Deadline is 31st July, 2025.
LMAO DEVASTATING