I see so many artists and clients dealing with scams and abusive refunds here, it's breaking my heart.
Please, even if it's a 20€ commission : make a contract.
I know it's boring, but it's to protect both artists and clients from scammy behaviours.
NON-FICS writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
A Message For All Gamers:
We don't ask that you agree with our position, but that you respect our desire for physical media the same way WE respect your right to play digital-titles. What @Sony is proposing strikes at the very heart of gaming for many consumers. You may believe that an all-digital future is inevitable, and you may be correct, but many of us, gamers just like you, feel that this is a chance to send a strong message to the industry, a message that we believe benefits both digital and physical players.
📲WE BELIEVE that choice is important for everyone.
📲WE BELIEVE that competition in the marketplace is healthy.
📲WE BELIEVE that video game preservation is a legitimate argument for the continuation of physical media.
📲WE BELIEVE that termination of accounts and delisting of games/loss of content are legitimate concerns for advocates of physical media.
📲WE BELIEVE that gamers who pay for a product should OWN that product, not simply rent the license.
📲WE BELIEVE that Sony has acted in bad faith towards its customers in how they have managed the decision to phase out #PhysicalGames
📲WE BELIEVE that both physical and digital media can and should coexist.
📲WE BELIEVE that, as stakeholders, all players should have a voice in the decisions that affect gaming.
📲WE BELIEVE that, if left unchallenged, corporations like Sony will act out of self-interest and not in the interests of gamers.
#PSBlackout #BoycottPlaystation #NoDiscNoBuy #OwnYourGames