I write stories about flawed people who want to do good things.
Free speech absolutist. Code is speech, schematics are speech, story is speech, ideas are speech
Protagonist of the next story with the Merrimack Pattern 1 musket.
Experimenting with an odd combination of toonshade outlining plus realistic ambient occlusion. Goes surprisingly hard.
A reminder to anyone interested in gun adjacent things: World of Guns' full access DLC is now only $15. Invaluable if you need broad research for firearm design.
@DrDeath1776 Funny enough, the ATF used to sell dog plushies, which they don't anymore. I bought one a few years back as a joke and now I might be one of the 3 people who's ever bought an ATF dog plushie
@2Aupdates Reminds me of some online gambling platforms where people would pretend to be habitual gamblers by logging on at weird hours and the like, so the platforms would give them free betting money to "encourage" that.
@Atat_Re The main reason for that is that whatever they made is not *my* vision for the story, how I would've had it play out, my philosophy when making the characters and plot. The same can be said with art illustrations too; only you can make something derived from your own vision.
@Atat_Re The same can be said for writing, which is what I dabble in. So many AI-generated books now. But thinking about it this way has been helpful: If an AI or even another person took my story concepts and wrote it themselves, it's not like I can't write that premise anymore.
@TheJungleMan0z@Okabe_Rintar0IF This would force every game studio to have at least one American on their teams, which is an outrageously funny concept.
@Atat_Re Usually happens when an acct is breached, they can't take any chances. Unfortunately that makes the question of rejoining the servers spiky since it's technically ban evasion in a sense.
@Valkyman733 I had a similar thought, except imagine if you ran a computer recycling business and send used computers and parts to the past a week right after their launch, back when they were flagship, to resell them at their highest value "used". Technically you're not breaking any laws.
@creaturemiaow@RibeyeSteak69@Ret_Art69 We clearly are not going to convince one another, so let's part ways here. You can believe whatever you want to believe, I will continue to advocate for the Right to Repair what you've bought and paid for with your own money. Have a good day.