Bro was playing all sides.

Roblox sounds like AI but with child labor.

Yep. The whole ‘they don’t know better’ is just a way for the other team* to imply they are smarter and the ones who know THE truth. While failing to see the reality right in front of them.

You know who else says this? Every other American lmao

So. The US? Lmao

They know. The voted for it and are witnessing it quietly.

But don’t forget the files guys. Keep talking about the files instead.

“He Is also my son.”

Hmm… She appears on and off at Kame House I think, but mainly as a background character. Agreed they did her dirty.

It might also be important to mention that history isn’t a line up. Yeah sanitation was great in Rome, but it had taken a nose dive by the time the empire fell and the Dark Ages in Europe started.

Yes, but you’re decades away lmao

You:

Artists do labor for free all the time **myself included **

I’m glad you’ve had that privilege. I’m not sure what else you think I might be referring to or how you think this is not ‘engaging’ with what you said.

I said nothing about the second half of your a message because it’s a semantic argument, a.k.a skill issue:

Yeah, go to someone telling them you can do their work better than them, out of the blue, and they’re not going to have have a good response.

What if you said: “Hey guys. I love the community! You might have seen me commenting around too. I just wanted to let you know I do art sometimes and if you’re ever looking for new assets, like your banner, I’d be happy to collaborate. Cheers!”

Would you be upset at getting a message like that out of the blue? People cold solicit all the time, it’s not a bad thing.

But it’s not going to work if you present like you know better than everyone else. People disagree with people, not with facts.

My whole point was that being able to give away your time and skill for free is a privilege.

What’s the point of clutching pearls at the use of AI, if the result of not using AI is checks notes artists don’t get paid for their work anyways because now you can hang the use of AI over their heads to get art for free, with the excuse that doing so ‘is not pro free labor, it’s anti AI’

Valuing art is giving value to art. No budget for art? Cool, use AI. You get what you pay for. But wait, you’re telling me the solution to put more money in artists pockets is instead for artist to give MORE art for FREE? (For the noble cause of avoiding AI of course) See how insane this is?

I have nothing against gifting art. But that is what is it is: a gift. Something of you that has value, with your time as a baseline, that you are choosing to share. Some people are privileged enough to be able to give it away for free. Some are not. The effective reality is that the more art is gifted in the name of moral crusades against AI, the harder it is for artists to live off art in a world where the genie of AI can’t be put back inside its bottle.

I hope this makes you happy and engaged lol

Edit: Here’s another idea. Want to volunteer for your community? Cool, how about organizing a GoFundme to put together money to commission a banner. Maybe make a post about the possibility of doing that instead.

Bam. You have given to your community for free, you have made a community event of it. And even if all you get is 5 bucks, that’s five bucks that some artist got to spend in their gacha addiction thanks to something they created.

That’s what I mean when I say valuing art means giving value to art.

I’m glad you have the privilege of being able to give away your time and work for free.

If that’s what it seems to you, you might want to reread their comment. You’re way off base.

If they wanted to do it for free, they would have offered.

It’s hard to gossip if everyone is dead I guess.

“Your honor as you can see by this wall of furry smut, things could be much worse than what my defendant put their game.”

Yes it’s difficult. That’s why it’s a federal mandate. Otherwise I’d do it myself in my kitchen. Wtf Trash writing is this?

It’s all posers man. It’s about the ideas, not the tags.

I was hoping for Matrix levels of scorching the skies

Lemmy over what?