#And that includes content creators

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

God. This is so heartwrenching.

[linkeduniverse]

August art

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: homophobia mention / transphobia mention / ]

Hate being mad on main but since apparently some people wanna be homophobic and transphobic in this fandom, on this website, in this year, I gotta say boy howdy I sure do love how literally none of the characters in Rise are cishet! Not a one!

Pride month? More like pride year, yeah?

(But yeah if there’s any homophobes or transphobes following me I heavily suggest you leave now, please.)

[genericpuff]

Webtoons Is Making Moves - So Should You.

We all saw it coming ages ago and now it's finally here. There's no more beating around the bush or doubting if anyone is "reading into it too much", Webtoons' use of AI in its more recent webtoons is not an accident, not an oversight, but by design, it always has been. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that the work that already exists on the platform won't be safe from Webtoons' upcoming AI integration through scraping and data mining. Sure, they can say they're not gonna replace human creators, but that doesn't change the fact that AI tools, in their current form, can't feasibly exist without stealing from pre-existing content.

Plus, as someone who's tested their AI coloring tools specifically... they're a long, LONG way away from actually being useful. Like, good luck using them for any comic style that isn't Korean manwha featuring predominantly white characters with small heads and comically long legs. And if they do manage to get their AI tools to incorporate more art styles and wider ranges of character identities... again, what do you think it's been trained on?

Also, as an added bit that I found very funny:

Um, I'm sorry, what fucking year is it? Because platforms like WT and Tapas have both been saying this for years but we're obviously seeing them backpedal on that now with the implementation of in-house publishing programs like Unscrolled which have reinvented the wheel of taking digital webtoons and going gasp physical! It's almost like the platform has learned that there's no sustainable profit to be had in digital comics alone without the help of supplementary streams of income and is now trying to act like they've invented physical book publishing!

"The future of comic publishing, including manga, will be digital"??? My brother in christ, Shonen Jump has been exclusively digital since 2012! What rock have the WT's staff been living under that they're trying to sell digital comics as the "future" to North Americans as if we haven't already been living in that future for over ten years now?? We've had an entire generation of children raised on that same digital media since then! This isn't the selling point you think it is LMAO If anything, the digital media market here in NA is dying thanks to the enshittification of digital content platorms like Netflix, Disney+, and mainstream social media platforms! That "future" is not only already both the past and present, but is swiftly on its way out! Pack it up and go home, you missed the bus!

Literally so much of WT's IPO pitch is just a deadass grift full of corporate buzzwords and empty promises. They're trying so hard to convince people that their business model is infinitely profitable... but if it were, why do they need the public's money? And where are all those profits for the creators who are being exploited day after day to fill their platform with content? Why are so many creators still struggling to pay their bills if the company has this much potential for profit?

Ultimately even their promised AI tools don't ensure profit, they ensure cutting expenses. The extra money they hope to make isn't gonna come from their content generating income, it's gonna come from normal people forking over their money in the hopes that it'll be turned around, and from Webtoons cheapening the medium even further until it's nothing but conveyer belt gruel. Sure, "making more than you spend" is the base definition of "profit", but can we really call it that when it's through the means of gutting features, retiring support programs, letting go editing staff, and limiting resources for their own hired freelancers who are the only reason they even have content to begin with? That's not sustainable profit or growth, that's fighting the tide which can and will carry them away at any moment.

I'm low key calling it now, a year or two from today we're gonna be seeing massive lawsuits and calls to action from the people who invested their money into WT and subsequently lost it into the black hole that is WT's "business model". This is a company that's been operating in the red for years, what about becoming an IPO is gonna make them "profitable"? Let alone profitable enough to pay back their investors in the spades they're expecting? The platform and its app are already shit and they're about to become even worse, we are literally watching this company circle the drain in the modern day's ever-ongoing race to the bottom, enshittification in motion, but they're trying to convince us all the same that they're "innovating".

Webtoons doesn't want to invest in its creators. We as creators need to stop investing in them.

[detectiveneve]

not including major story issues — most notably wyll’s complete lack of plot, effort, and care in contrast to other origin stories — and not including actual gameplay mechanic stuff, I really hope larian distances and separates itself from fandom feedback going forward like. it’s utterly inane to me to add lines for gortash & durge implying a deeper bond & then immediately remove them because of a sect of player backlash (mostly players from what i can tell that didn’t want their big scary durgeguy fantasy to be gay.) like, we can talk about the effectiveness of the patches, the drip-by-drip implementation of new story stuff that may not exist by the next hot fix, but constantly trying to cater to fan outrage, let alone fan ideas, “fanon,” etc will literally only cheapen the game, and possibly make it borderline unplayable in terms of being attached to certain story things that get patched out for no discernible reason (astarion’s poetry sewn into his clothes you will always be missed.) like, its your story!! please stop listening to twitter clamors for whatever minor story thing they don’t like (that doesn’t actually do anything but impede perhaps someone’s HC or Perfect Playthrough—which is again, where fan works etc come through, not actual changes to the game’s story). put that effort into what’s actually needed, like fleshing out wyll’s writing & having some transparency about THAT. it’s soooooo annoying. fan access to creators has never. ever. ever ever ever worked out well. i know there was a precedent from EA that fan access helped improve story & gameplay, but quite honestly, especially in characterization writing, there were downgrades from EA in some areas that were entirely linked to fan “feedback” that amounted to I Don’t Like When Women Arent Nice To Me. anyways

[daradiostarzz]

Not to sound like rude but like why is tiktok extremely allergic to rareships also that's an extreme mischaracterization of them they didn't "hate" each other they drifted apart cause of Enzo's insecurities only to make up again THEN enzo WITH THE REST OF THE OTHER TRIO and w HNVR at the very most they had a turnaround (even if it conflicts alot w book 3)

And this is coming from someone who had this book 7-6 years ago and during covid struck I reread that book CONSTANT so I know what I'm going off about

[superrainbow06]

I BEAT IN STARS AND TIME YEATERDAY IT WAS SO GOOD!!

I didn't post about it cause I was overwhelmed. Very emotionally heavy story. Also I forgor. But it's very good, I think that anyone who wouldn't have a panic attack and or die because of the content should play it (PLEASE check content warnings on games before you play them, especially this one, so you don't have a panic attack and or die. Or if it just makes you uncomfortable its also cool to want to avoid it but I like being dramatic sometimes)

This is genuinely the best take on a time loop I have ever seen in any media ever. And the writing is incredibly good also, everything in it is so carefully constructed that it all feels very real and realistic, the characters actually feel like real people who are having conversations, the dialogue flows super smoothly and is very coherent, the overarching story is very good, and the worldbuilding, though not incredibly present in the actual game, the hints you get throughout the game of how the world works is soo good, really puts you in the place of the character.

Also, for any depression havers out there, this game is very much centered on how a time loop would affect a person's mental health if it were to happen, and it DOES NOT HOLD BACK. It gets into all of the stuff normally presented in a game with depression as a theme (celeste, chicory, etc) but also goes in depth about the stuff people don't like to talk about with depression (so, again, check the warnings on the game before playing if you are interested) which I really appreciated. This game really manages to make you feel absolutely terrible in the best way possible. I am going to force everyone I know and love to play this game

Also please go check out @insertdisc5 they made this whole masterpiece of a game (excluding the music and sfx, but it's still extremely impressive) and I think it should be more popular.

[snakeoid]

what do you think of the new natlan characters

this is what i said almost exactly a year ago and what i think now. i dont play genshin anymore and i dont want to give the game any more of my energy or time so i dont really care because it's exactly what i expected. the amount of people who care and probably are already f2p in comparison to the amount of genshin dickriders who spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on this game and will spend even more for a new region and characters is huge. from a business perspective they aren't losing much thus i don't think they'd care enough to ever do anything. imo the only good form of protest is. to stop playing genshin

[rnoonjelly]

Couldn't find any Rollerblading Barbie CC for my sims so I quickly recolored some other custom content to make an outfit! They aren't perfect recolors, they've got a lot of small errors, but they'll do the job if you just want them for photos like me :3 For these to work, you NEED the mesh for each piece btw!

♥ Barbie Recolors Here (SFS): x ♥ Mesh: Visor | Jumpsuit | Elbow Bands (Bracelet) | Knee Pads (Ring) | Roller skates

♥ Link to the hoop earrings (not my recolored version)

[sadbeautifutragic]

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[butchweasel]

The original looks like a brand name dress, while the LindaSim one looks like the knockoff you’d get in the mail after ordering something with a stolen picture off shein/aliexpress/temu

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

“I want more content of the girls” okay. Make the content you want to see

[kakusu-shipping]

Rät by Penelope Scott has been a Nezu song in my head for years. Glad to finally be able to put down some of the vibe of why.

[hamletthedane]

Eric Barone continues to be THE video game creator of all time

(also fuck the YouTube copyright bots and their borderline illegal practices)

[thislilfecker]

make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite.

I was tagged by: your mom

Anyone who wants, please consider yourself tagged!!

[yanderespamton78]

Addicule my beloved,,,,,, where are you,,,,,,