[adrianricker]

I love drawing cute scenes.

[lochichichi]

I know I don’t usually reblog things here but please more people look at this amazing thing.

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

[slitherpunk]

aaand they're tripling down. beyond ghoulish.

[steelweave-deactivated20240222]

What's crazy is that this is actually a pretty significant rollback being staged as "we never did anything wrong". Their forums literally did say that things like charity installs and every single run of a game in WebGL would count! They said it would be a fee for reinstalls. They already clarified that this was as bad as they all feared. They only announced these "clarifications" after the reality was found that they were trying to see how much they were able to get away with.

This isn't a clarification. They are backing off. But they are holding on, desperately, to any semblance of the original plan.

[steelweave-deactivated20240222]

The echoes of what we saw with WoTC changing the OGL is striking, and makes me think the same philosophy is driving this idea.

For those not in the know, Wizards, the company that own D&D, rolled out ironically draconian changes to their license that would make it so that anyone that published content using their system would get ridiculous royalty charges and gave them an unreasonable amount of ownership of any content you created. The RPG, notably, had consistently been getting tons of content from 3rd party publishers, and many have entire careers based off of using D&D as a platform. Everyone lost their shit over these changes, and Wizards doubled down for a few days, confirming time and time again that things were exactly as draconian as everyone feared. A bit later, Wizards said "uhhh here's what we actually mean" in a blog post, rolling back a ton of the worst changes, while claiming they were not changing anything at all.

YOU ARE HERE.

After that they released like 5 or something (based off memory) changes to what they said, trying to claim "everyone was winning actually" when they were actively losing things they wanted constantly. One of their major competitors announced a new, better standard during this time that a lot of those disaffected rallied behind. That same competitor got so much interest that they completely fucking ran out of core books. Homebrew publishers were leaving the game in droves. Hell, home games just fucking stopped playing the game entirely. They eventually had to just say "fuck it", completely ditch what they had planned, ditch the cozy position they had that benefitted them, and switch from the Open Gaming License (that gave them a lot of benefits) to just switching to Creative Commons. People still don't trust the company, and while its still the biggest name in town at the moment, everyone is eyeing other future plans they have with extreme suspicion... like the new Unity based virtual tabletop.

I don't know what philosophy is causing the exact same (thus far) sequence of events to play out (other than capitalism obvs but we can get more specific, surely). But we've seen where this goes. I doubt they'll be able to keep the new monetization strategy, they are already losing money. People don't trust anymore, and I can see that a lot of developers are dropping the engine. Unreal (and maybe Godot) are going to make some kind of wild, probably half baked, announcement that will directly benefit those most impacted, if I had to guess. And while they won't lose their majority recognition at this point, probably, they will be losing the trust.

I know my own projects will switch to Godot but its really interesting to see this same scene play out several times over and over. I'm not unique in saying this, but it seems we are finally reaching a point of capitalistic greed that even the average person can't stand it anymore. Here's hoping we see dramatic changes to how we approach sharing ideas soon.

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[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

Hey I'm gonna start something that'll maybe go nowhere let's go

Can we get this poll to a million total responses for no other reason than Number Go Up?

hell yeah we can

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lol. lmao.

number go up

hee hee. hoo hoo.

oh oh big number? big number go higher?

*reblogsreblogsreblogsreblogsreb

pff. psh. pfaw.

level 10 fool

I hereby declare under penalty of owie that I will give OP $5

Voting ended onApr 23, 2023

[everythingfox]

“What is this sorcery?”

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Her smile when she realized he was there… 

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[iwanttoseethemburn-deactivated2]

Pyrrha: Thanks for training with me Yang

Yang: Hey no problem! It was cool training with you.

Pyrrha: you gave me a good challenge though. Phew I’m tired.

Yang: Heh hi tired I’m Yang.

Pyrrha: Pftt that was so bad.

-Later-

Nora: Reeeeeen make me pancakes!

Ren: In a minute Nora.

Nora: I’m hungry!

Pyrrha: Hi hungry I’m Pyrrha.

Ren, Nora, Jaune: …

-Nora kicking down Team RWBYs door-

Nora: YANG XIOA LONG!

Yang:Huh?

Nora: *grabs Yang by the shoulders and shakes her aggressively *WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OUR AMAZON QUEEN?!

Yang: WhAT aRE YoU tAlkIng abOUt?!

Nora: SHE TOLD A HORRIBLE DAD JOKE!

Weiss: No way she didn’t. Pyrrha is a pure soul

Nora:*stops shaking Yang* Ruby Oder your sister to stop corrupting our teammate!

Ruby: it can’t be that bad guys.

Jaune: Yang is a bad influence on Pyrrha!

Pyrrha: *peeps her head into the room* No…She’s a Yang-fluence

Yang:PFTTT THAT WAS GOOD!

Pyrrha: You don’t know Xioa Long I’ve been waiting for that

Nora: *grabs a pillow and starts smothering yang* DIE!

Weiss: *helps Nora*WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THAT PURE SOUL?!

Pyrrha and Ruby: WEISS,NORA NO!

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I choose you, human ☺️. Now is nap time 

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[mysharona1987]

Just a hunch here, gop. But I think being 14 and married to a gross older man or dying in a mining accident is a bigger threat to a child than hearing about trans people.

[theconcealedweapon]