autismdragon

guy saw one ugly dude in a video game and said "this can never happen again, i will design bishonen for the rest of my life"

Alltistics: If you dont have emotions "correctly" you dont have emotions.

Raymond has stated that his actions were in line with Biblical teaching and principles of Christian education, and argued that he’s been a victim of “cancel culture.” He denies the charge that he suffocated the child until he became unconscious.

How dare you besmirch the name of Balthier with this settler garbage.

Sometimes a new take hits and its so infuriatingly bad I feel the need to share it. I avoid the stuff thats just the same old shit GamingCircleJerk recycles but sometimes there's some freshly bad new take lol.

The game I've been playing the most lately is Flicky for the Genesis lol. I cant get enough of it and its endless so.

Well, for a second there it seemed like the Democrats were trying to win. Then they pulled a "thats enough effort for this election cycle".

As far as I know the only proven way to deal with RSD is through talk therapy (whoa, there's a thread about that rn, one I'm ignoring) and like the usual coping mechanisms people talk about like mindfullness and cognitive reframing and such. I deal with it pretty bad too and Ive had the same thought and there's not like a medication for it or anything (though anti-anxiety stuff can help) so you just gotta learn coping mechanisms the best you can. I totally understand how hard it is to deal with in the moment. It hits me on like a daily basis. But yeah its a learn how to cope thing. And I'm not there yet myself. I still let it out on other people and react bad to rejection, and it can be very not pretty.

Alternatively she was never good and we just memed our way into thinking she was.

I'm not going to respond to most of this because its just completly misguided but I did want to zero in on probably the worst part.

if the people who make entertainment and art are comfortable and content with secure jobs

Are you under the impression that the majority of artists are currently in this position lol? Like is that where your brain is broken on this issue you think most people who draw or write for a living are comfortable?

Lived a long full life. Rest well.

Independent Artists are not working class. They do not get paid in wages and they control the means of production. They are petit-bourgeoise.

This might be technically true but saying this as an excuse to why its ok for corporations to plagiarize from independent artists is like actually horrific. (And its vaguely shitty though not as bad to use it as an excuse for why its ok for individuals to plagiarize from independent artists).

Like I'm sorry I know that technically under the terms definition an independent artist barely scrapping by on a handful of commissions or patreons who struggles as much as any minimum wage worker to make ends meet is as "petite-bourgiouse" as a jetski dealer who lives comfortably. But there are two things I gather from that

1. Them technically falling under the same umbrella doesn't excuse treating them the same because the material conditions they are facing are different. One is clearly vulnerable to exploitation, the other simply isnt in the same way.
2. Honestly? We probably need new terms if these two things fit the same definition as the definition currently stands, because they are materially different in so many ways. I refuse to be a slave to Marxist definitions as they currently stand if they cease to be useful to describe our material reality, and I'd say this is a pretty clear case of them not productively describing our material reality.

Intellectual property is bullshit as a concept but under capitalism independent artists are vulnerable and exploited and should be protected from plagiarism. Particularly in the case of a bigger fish being the plagiarizer, whether that bigger fish be AI companies or situations like James Sommerton plagiarizing smaller creators.