You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't know. I kind of feel like doing it now would be unfair to Aliroz and Imicow, who wanted to do it earlier but weren't offered the choice.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what? Sure. Anarchy in the Heapers' Hangout
I just rolled Fossilmaiden's eponym in Mudae. (I didn't claim the character, though; by the time I had finished looking up the character out of curiosity the claim period had already expired.)
(For anyone who doesn't know, Mudae is a character-claiming gacha game on Discord. It just has thousands of characters that you can "roll" to randomly generate. One of them is "Fossil Maiden" from Hellsinker..)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Does anybody else feel like HH has been kind of slow lately?
Like, in the sense of pages taking longer to load, not in the sense of lack of activity, though the latter is definitely true
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Do you think when Ken Jennings first signed up to be a Jeopardy! contestant in 2004, he had any idea that from that moment on he was going to spend the rest of his life as "The Jeopardy! Guy"?
Including hosting the first games to air after Alex Trebek's passing?
People talk about getting advertisements specifically targeted to be relevant to them, but I'm getting Youtube advertisements for things I haven't ever needed, wanted, done an internet search about, or even been thinking about, and which make me uncomfortable.
Sometimes I just want to watch a video on how to fix a vacuum cleaner without having to wonder why the Youtube Algorithm thinks I ought to get advertisements for polyamory relationship counseling and breakfast restaurants.
The fact that any books I would write would inevitably enter the public domain is a significant part of why I no longer wish to write books.
If I did write books, it would be mostly for the purpose of making money for the publisher, because publishing companies are good and I love them, but I would also be writing for the sake of making money for myself and my kin, and the public domain ensures that eventually my books would serve neither purpose.
It also would allow future generations to do whatever they want with my work, a horrifying prospect which is also a good argument for never creating anything.
The fact that any books I would write would inevitably enter the public domain is a significant part of why I no longer wish to write books.
If I did write books, it would be mostly for the purpose of making money for the publisher, because publishing companies are good and I love them, but I would also be writing for the sake of making money for myself and my kin, and the public domain ensures that eventually my books would serve neither purpose.
It also would allow future generations to do whatever they want with my work, a horrifying prospect which is also a good argument for never creating anything.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The fact that any books I would write would inevitably enter the public domain is a significant part of why I no longer wish to write books.
If I did write books, it would be mostly for the purpose of making money for the publisher, because publishing companies are good and I love them, but I would also be writing for the sake of making money for myself and my kin, and the public domain ensures that eventually my books would serve neither purpose.
It also would allow future generations to do whatever they want with my work, a horrifying prospect which is also a good argument for never creating anything.
I'm curious to know how you feel about modern works based on public domain works. Surely there are some you enjoy?
The fact that any books I would write would inevitably enter the public domain is a significant part of why I no longer wish to write books.
If I did write books, it would be mostly for the purpose of making money for the publisher, because publishing companies are good and I love them, but I would also be writing for the sake of making money for myself and my kin, and the public domain ensures that eventually my books would serve neither purpose.
It also would allow future generations to do whatever they want with my work, a horrifying prospect which is also a good argument for never creating anything.
I'm curious to know how you feel about modern works based on public domain works. Surely there are some you enjoy?
The crux of my thoughts on this is the distinction between "public domain works" and "modern works". I don't much like the idea of the latter becoming the former (for example, A. A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh is, to me, a modern work, where Herman Melville's Moby Dick isn't), in the same way I don't much like the idea of the former becoming the latter (I suppose this is another way in which I dislike change).
My enjoyment is irrelevant, the fact that I enjoy something does not necessarily justify it (and the fact that I think-I-ought-not-to-do something does not necessarily make-it-wrong-for-other-people-to-do something).
Furthermore, I think that, given the (to-some-extent) monopolistic/oligopolistic state of non-print books (eBooks and Audiobooks), the public domain functions as an IP catalog for Audible/Amazon or their equivalents. My works would only be providing a source of money for my publisher and family for a handful of decades after I die, and then after that, they're making money for whoever distributes them or controls the means of their distribution or makes works based off of them (for comparison, a sufficiently long-lived fruit tree could still be owned and managed by the heirs of the heirs of my heirs).
I think most modern-works-based-on-public-domain-works are done in innocent creativity and thus are not necessarily less "worthy" than modern-works-not-based-on-public-domain-works, but some are less pure-hearted.
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That is an entirely valid view, one which I think many authors share. The fact that I don't have that view anymore means that (in my opinion) whatever fiction-books I write would feel to me like they were "impure" rather than coming from "innocent creativity". If the point is the material gain and providing for others, there are things I'm better at which I have fewer qualms with, but, well, that's just my view.
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Disney’s running out of time…
2024 is two years away!
MOCKED I SAY!