Crusty old meme recycling boomer joke.

OK Loomer.

That's a bit like saying you can find cheaper rollercoasters outside Disney Land.

It's true, but price isn't why people go. It's prestige and experience.

Controversial opinion... Not all horror has to be event horror and that a lot of what we are perceiving as Indie Horror success right now is actually just a form of mainstream-like hype.

Take Longlegs... The trailers, the casting of Cage... These are classic mainstream cinema tactics.

Novelty is fine, but doesn't that ho back to the times of free vomit bags and life insurance policies?

Maybe grabbing attention should be from well crafted films telling great narratives that resonate with audiences, and if you have to think "outside of the box" then your box isn't big enough in the first place.

This is the internet. It's OK to swear here.

So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?

Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.

I suspect most memes are just 1980s British mid stand-up routines in disguise.

Absolutely agree. Or at least, if he wants to call himself that he can't be upset if people disagree.

There's an interesting thing there about the legitimacy of the artist.

Most artists and creative I know are rather comfortable with people disagreeing with them and the value of what they make because they understand the value of it to themselves.

I'm an artist and that happens because I make art, not because someone bestows the title on me.

I think the AI crowd is touchy because they dont get that. What joy is there when it is made for you? A prompt is not craft.

I think the main condition here is that he wants to be seen as a writer when he doesn't write. He could legitimately call himself a storyteller, or someone who crafts narratives, but that isn't legitimate for him. Instead he needs the validation of a title he doesn't deserve.

I also wonder how he deals with criticism of the product. If someone reviewing his books calls the language clumsy, does he see that as his failure as a writer or the failure of the AI. The fact he will have to confront that is fascinating.

It isn't my painting that sucks, it is the image I copied it from.

The devil is in the details. Different contracts state different usages.

Often, I'm hired to make things for folk, and they own it entirely. I see these things out in the world, I sometimes see other artists hired to butcher it to fit a new purpose. But that's OK, I account for that, and often I hand over the source files from the things I make... Layered documents etc.

However, there's a really disturbing trend of large companies appropriating fan art and claiming that because they own the IP any derivatives belong to them too. This is far ickier.

The main thing though is credit. You'd think that giving a nod to the original artist would be nice. It costs nothing and can have a massive impact on their business.

In all fairness, commenting here is like reciting the specific summons to raise Contrary Mary.

/s

Not viruses as such, at least according to the inventor of the term, rather they are already part of our inheritable structure, our DNA (so to speak) seeking new ways to be inherited.

We are our memes.

Thank you.

Though that is great example of mental dexterity.

Considering something from a number of angles.

'4 kelvin essay' is also a decent name for a math rock band.

Pretty sure Gaza doesn't need the Green party declaring genocide on them, they're already dealing with one.

I dont know if this is cool, but I recently published an essay on why generalism is a cool sort of specialist to be.

Nothing in particular

It's a slightly long read (4k), so in case that isn't your thing, the upshot is that generalism is specialising for uncertainty and that being a polymath is pretty cool.

Also, being a polymath is your default state and capitalism really doesnt like it.

Deep.

This is now classic stoner chat.

This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago...

No music on MTV

I'm sorry, "lenchings" is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.

I'm telling you this as someone that works in the arts, that's just not true.

You can pirate digital material and repackage it. I see illustrators getting their designs ripped off by large scale clothing manufacturers all the time.

Similarly, I know some acts that have heard their music on adverts and films and haven't been paid. It seems like it is being stolen if you ask me.

There needs to be protection or the creation of art becomes a luxury for those that can afford to not make money from it.

What's wild here is that when you talk about IP you are talking about entertainment and art and not lifesaving drugs and technologies on a global scale.

It's a very privilidged western view of copyright and IP.

And as I said in my comment, it isn't my customers that want stuff for free, often they want to pay to support me. Those laws stop big multinational corporations from taking my work and selling it on their t-shirts.

We are social creatures, but fuck me, we need to eat and pay rent.

I see you make art. What if I said to you, I'd like to give you some money for that art, for maybe a print of it. Not just so that I can own some but because I want to support you.

And then someone just copies your art and gives it to me free. You get no money for it.

Are you genuinely OK with that? Are you saying that everything you make is copyright free?

So you think that because some people chose to make things for free there should be no legal protection for people that want to sell what they make?

The only people who can choose to make things for free are the privilidged few.

As someone who makes minimum wage from my intellectual property, the IP laws (in the UK) have allowed me to prevent the very wealthy just taking my ideas and profiting from them.

And they have tried repeatedly.

It isn't the law, but the corruption of the law that's at issue. However, without that legal framework there would be no financial incentive for anyone but the wealthy to make IP.

Is that what you want? Entertainment by big corporations only, and art made solely by the upper middle classes?

I use both, but honestly, some mastodon users can't help but be outright patronising and hostile to newcomers.

The whole "we don't do that here" vibe clearly puts folk off. Weirdly, it isn't the long term users that do that, bug more recent converts.

Why do you think that is?

It could just be the focal length of the camera lens too.

good explanation of focal length and face shape

So... Games designer makes design choice?

Hold the front page.

He's got to liberate all the speech

"The jar was accidentally damaged by a young child visiting the museum, and the response will be accordingly."

Well, that's their nearest hospital getting bombed then.

"What's you're biggest weakness?"

"I'm going to say my honesty"

"Not sure I think honesty is really a weakness..."

"I don't give fuck what you think.".

Jason Lee?

Sure you don't have condimentia?

I like following verbal meme trends, then watching them die out.

Couple of years ago everyone described nearly everything as "spicy".

The overuse if "hear me out" before making a mid statement.

That dark period of time when people used "amazeballs".

It's always been about context and provenance. Who took the image? Are there supporting accounts?

But also, it has always been about the knowlege that no one... Absolutely no one... Does lines of coke from a woven mat floor covering.

He's been arrested, not sentenced. That's the innocent until proven guilty bit.

Not sure where you are from, but I suspect not the UK.

Dan Simmons, Hyperion... Or Carrion Comfort.

I'd love to see some modern tries at Dashiel Hammet's work too.

Seconded.

You don't believe in the same fiction as me!

Huffing lead is just OG eating microplastics.