#Corporate License

[thetwobosses]

Hearing about Volition's abrupt shuttering has left me in a weird empty, mourning mood tonight.

When I first started playing Saints Row: The Third almost exactly ten years ago, little would I know how much it'd end up changing my life. I found my best friends through Saints Row's Tumblr community, friends I keep up with daily even though all of us have since moved on to different fandoms. I got to know many other amazing people in the community, through all the shared art and headcanons and roleplays. And I got deeply invested in the creation and development of my OCs, these silly and badass and tragic imaginary people who shared my headspace almost every waking moment of my life for several years.

All this I got from a game series its studio had clearly poured their hearts and souls into, even through all the constant corporate meddling in the development processes over what must have been the last fifteen years, and now finally, a sudden death knell. Volition the studio is no more, its staff laid off without warning or fanfare. And it's just so unfair to everyone who'd worked on the games, and I hate that it's yet more proof (as if we didn't have enough already) that the current system of giant game publisher oligopolies gobbling up everyone they can get their hands on and then taking them behind the shed to be shot when they don't immediately return a double of their investment just shouldn't. fucking. exist.

It sucks. I don't have much more to say except that I hope the now ex-Volition game developers all end up finding new and maybe even better employers soon. And just maybe there'll be some new studio rising from the core of the Volition creative team. We'll see.

#saints row #the state of game development is bleak indeed #like what was the POINT of buying up Volition from if they were just gonna shut them down #Gearbox/Embracer didn't even get the Saints Row license; that's still with Deep Silver apparently #not that DS also didn't suck as a publisher #as did THQ before them... #pretty much the majority of the big flaws of the SR games throughout the series can be blamed on corporate meddling #endless rewrites and forced content inclusion and last minute content cuts etc #Volition didn't fucking deserve this treatment. Not back then and especially not now #At least we'll all have the memories...

[moghedien]

if you're buying digital media of any sort (ebook, movie, tv show, music) and you cannot physically download it onto your harddrive and do with it as you please, you are not buying it. if you have to go to the distributor's site/app/platform just to use the digital media that you bought, you are not buying it.

amazon will literally delete tv shows from your library that you have purchased if they lose the license for it, and you will have no way to watch/listen to/etc the media that you supposedly bought, because you're not buying it if you do now actually own the files that you're paying for. if you have to go to amazon or apple tv or anywhere else just to watch it and can't pull it up on your own computer with your own software, then you don't fucking own it.

#let me radicalize you all into getting back into physical media #like literally two days ago I saw someone posting about amazon deleting seasons of a tv show they bought #because of licensing issues on amazon's part #don't fucking buy digital media from big corporations that don't actually give you the files

[fyeahygocardart]

Dark Contract with Patent License

#Dark Contract with Patent License #yugioh #ygo #D/D #yugioh tcg #ygo tcg #Field Spell Card #Field Spell #Hey it's the Leo Corporation building

[songsintheattic]

the idea of getting mad at people for offering an unpaid internship is incredibly stupid. if you don't want to do it, just don't?

but if you have the opportunity to learn new skills in exchange for labor instead of spending thousands on potentially worthless classes, then it's absolutely the best thing you can do. people don't want to pay you for skills you don't yet have. it's not rocket science.

#for industries that require licensing it may not be of much value but it does at least give you a chance to see if you like it #believe me i would gladly work for free on Saturdays to learn something that gets me out of my stupid corporate job #m

[do-you-have-a-flag]

there is a lot to say about the ethical problems and blandness of AI art but also just as someone who likes digital art because it’s low maintenance low cost to pursue, i think that it’s INCREDIBLY BORING to look at ai art because the creative process is lost

like people might gripe that digital art isn’t “real” art because of the difference in craft 

but ultimately i think each individual artist shapes their workflow to suit their needs and some people are able to do a lot of design work using presets and filters and photo-bashing and generative tools in ways that are creative and using a process that takes thought and problem solving

and personally i like the process of high effort art in traditional mediums and that reflects in my digital drawings, i love painting to render texture and light to an image for example, while i do use brushes and other tools overall i think the actual act is soothing and fun

and i think the creative collaboration when working with someone else’s prompts (a process that can be immensely frustrating when one-sided) is also a valuable experience as people can ask questions and negotiate concepts you might not have thought of on your own. the immediacy of output with ai, the way it flattens composition to the most common plagiarised components, it’s fun as a what if or a starting  point but it is a creatively incomplete endeavour specifically because the ai is communicating nothing and the person creating the prompt is almost entirely removed from the creative process. one sided intentionality without the meat of creation

ALSO for contrast i was thinking about the tradition of fractal art/fractal flames dating back to the 80s but more specifically being boosted in popularity alongside the world wide web thanks to one person’s algorithm in 1992. that guy now works in AI generation but back in the 90s he created an open source code that took mathematical iteration and translated it into graphics in common software applications that anyone could use. as a result i saw so many cool abstract almost mandala-like spacey images in the 2000s on deviantart and people are still making them today. it’s an artform that can only be successfully executed thanks to computers, it i complex in the process of execution but thanks to computers the process of creation is quick and seperate from human effort, the output is also very nice to look at. 

Why do i like this form of generative computer art and not so called a.i?  Because the algorithm for fractal art is pure mathematics translated into imagery, while generative a.i/neural networks datasets inherently require an input of other people’s work. a process that requires ethical consideration in ways that mathematical inputs do not. both use data to create images but what do they feed on? how are they applied? does their implementation say anything about their process or output? 

because as far as i see it, technology is neutral and usage is where the good and bad emerge, the process of generative images is a marvel of technology and how we as people love to create. but the way that these tools synthesise what they are given is a process so seperate from the people inputing prompts i really feel like it’s people losing the most fun parts of art (emotion, communication, and participation) and receiving the worst results of commodification of art (plagiarism, formulaic content, aesthetic cowardice, narrow perspectives, exploitation)

#long post #repeating things i've said before #but i really do think a lot of people who simp for ai art #and act like this situation is people being bitter they aren't as efficient as a machine #are philosophical cowards #and i mean that sincerely i think it is a type of thinking that is so embarrassing #also once again why are ai held to a different standard than actual creative professionals #when it comes to copywrite and licensing and plagiarism? #that's a rhetorical question the answer is corporations do not care about you and they will replace paid work with free garbage every time #i don't think everyone who develops ai tools are evil i think it is a fascinating process #but i kept this post mostly to my PERSONAL theories around art and creativity rather than ethics #cause otherwise i would just end up ranting about the irresponsibility and lack of moderation/oversite in the tech world as a whole #and others are more qualified and informed on that topic than i #but everyone is qualified to talk about what they think about art so i can make this post lmao #sorry for rambling in the tags too i love to never shut up

[vinyls-and-valentines]

Top 10 Scooby-Doo media to make shitty show-writers watch before making a show for the Scooby-Doo franchise

#not to scooby-doo post on side but world would be a better place if these folks watched legend of the vampire; zombie island; cyber chase; #and a couple few i can't name off the top of my head #mostly i have gripes with velma and daphne characterisations but imo the latest haloween special had some scuffed scoob and shaggy #characterisations and didn't do fred any justice either #idk. maybe it's just me whining but i've seen enough straight-to video to not expect 1:1 parity since. y'know. different teams and all but #i swear if you look at straight-to-video content between 2002 and 2014 you get more consistency than if you compare say mystery inc and be #cool scooby doo. and even if we're talking demographics! what's new scooby doo would kick be cool scooby doo's ass any time!! #anyways uh. something something corporations use creative license as a cop-out to make easy money out of established IPs #like hell! i even like duck tales better because while they've taken major creative liberties with the characters they still have kept the #vibe of the early to mid-2010s comics which the show was (more directly) based on #<- guy who's unreasonably mad at how dumbed down kids's shows are these days because she grew up with 2000s and late 90s re-runs

[skyblep]

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#i wish the corporation who owns my college burns to the ground #fucjing 29C the ac isnt eorking and we still dont have the license to use our animation programs #three weeks into the fucjing classes im so tired im so

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #OCEAN #MITCHELL CORPORATION #TAITO #TAD CORPORATION #ACTION #RACING #ARCADE #LICENSED #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #AMSTRAD #SPECTRUM #NAVY SEALS #ROBOCOP 2 #TOKI #PANG #CHASE H.Q. II

[fellhellion]

Would genuinely have not begrudged Miguel if he really had beat the shit out of Stone and threatened to make him drink his own Rapture, and it wasn’t just a daydream.

#literally tearing that man apart with my bare teeth I HATE HIM #THE FACT HES MIGUEL’S BIO DAD TOO. KYS!!!!!!! #tunes talks 2099 #all rage at fictional characters aside I really like how that bit of tension is written #because even though you KNOW stone doesn’t know Miguel’s spiderman #otherwise he wouldn’t have bothered with the cloak and dagger bs #it’s so fucking threatening. the whole 😳 btw we’re the only licensed supplier of the drug we tried to get u addicted to so u couldn’t resign #sad! and Miguel being unable to really DO anything while he’s being threatened lest he land the entire corporate proxy war directly on top #of his CIVILIAN head as well

[slaren]

i got a promotion at work!!! and ive been there less than 2 months B)

#now ill be a coordinator instead of an associate #climbing the corporate ladder while i wait to get my license so i can do fkn field work with my degree #im proud i proved my usefulness so quick #i think they also really needed someone lmfao my managers wanted me to apply for the position #so i did :p

[oflgtfol]

even in 1994 in a comic clearly meant to be critiquing corporatization, theyre still out here making comically communist villains. like capitalism is literally the force of evil in this entire story but lets still make an over the top communist villain anyway

#what was that one venom comic that did something similar to this #license to kill or sign of the boss one of those #‘the sick heart of the capitalist west’ IS EVEN MORE TRUE for the 2099 world than the 1970s #(since this guy was in cryofreeze for 135 years and only just woke up in 2099) #like fucking come on man the corporations literally run the police and private militaries #and constantly spy on the people and theres literally no state government anymore bc its all just corporations ruling in their #own corporate city states #and the rich people buy high tech weapons ans go patrol poor areas ans literallt just kill poor people for fun in their free time #like its a capitalist fucking dystopia 😭😭 #GIRLIES WE NEED COMMUNISM IN 2099 MORE THAN EVER #brot reads marvel comics #spiderman 2099 (1992) annual 1

[doctorslippery]

#wotc #wizards of the coast #ogl #licensing #bingo card #corporate speak

[nobossinc]

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[swanye-fediverse]

What This Project is All About

My first post to this account was detailing what all I hoped to achieve but it was written as, well, a post and that can be hard to quickly tell what the contents are, for many people.

So, for anyone who may have questions, I hope, with Swanye, to create social media which

will never have ad.s

will always be available as a free option, never requiring that you pay for it

will absolutely never collect and sell your data; you will never be the product

will prioritize disability accessibility

is always open-source

requires any who use the source code to make accessible their version as open-source and viewable by anyone

will have tools that allow any instance of the software that you run to administrate and set the rules for your community

will never use an algorithm to modify the order of posts on your dash or try to shoehorn in people you don’t follow into your dash

things like recommendations of people to follow based on hashtags or likes will have an option to turn off or opt-out

any algorithms for such things will be transparent and readable since the project is open-source

namely, attempts to put control of your online presence and your data back into better control of you

I may edit this if I think I’ve forgotten any; but these are definitely the reasons I started making this (and felt there was a need to make it).

There’s absolutely no reason everything you interact with online should be a product with decisions about what happens with your interacts left up to others; the internet – and social media – was supposed to be a way for people to better be able to make connections with other people about the things they love or are passionate about and it was what excited me about the Internet, originally.

I want some of that back; and I think that federated, open-source software can do that.

I always assume that people will just inquire, if curious about something, and that, if I was unclear or confusing in my first post of this account (or this post, right here), people would just inquire about Swanye.

But that can be daunting, especially if you don’t quite understand what the thing is, to begin with.

So, hopefully, this drills right to the heart of what I think Swanye can do; and, if any of that sounds interesting to you, absolutely feel free to ask about it.

Part of this account is not only to detail the features that’re being developed but to answer any questions or possible hopes for an improved Tumblr anyone might have.

I don’t think corporations, usually, actually serve us a product which actually best serves us; so…what if we just cut the corporations out of our social media, entirely?

#Fediverse #Swanye #Open-Source #Accessibility #GNU Affero General Public License #GNU General Public License #AGPL #GPL #Copyleft #Corporations

[asalescommunity]

Welsh, England can be proven that financed a crime in Ukraine. Putin, Zelenskey can be proven a theft with CBA to steal a database from millions of entrepreneurs. While Ziobro is complicit of it. FSB, SBU and SB agents have false documents.

#A bank #banks #outer banks #jonathan banks #elizabeth banks #hilary banks #sasha banks #paul banks #oliver banks #a verification #a verification license #An investigation #A investigation license #A corporation #Corporations

[smallredrobin13games]

My heart goes out to all the other indie creators who will be affected by this chance. The fact that WoTC has chosen to do this is a clear sign of corporate greed and shortsightedness.

Fuck Hasbro and fuck WoTC for fucking so many people over.

#dnd #ttrpg #yes I know this sounds very corporate #It's just a quick post while I try to finish the massive dnd project before the new license goes into effect #Anyway #Support Indie Creators