It’s hard to make money from Adobe when they charge you £66 a month.
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It’s hard to make money from Adobe when they charge you £66 a month.
It was also a work of fiction.
Or propaganda.
A lot of 80s/90s TV was selling a lie because it was primarily written by the upper middle classes portraying the lives of the working class.
They had little idea how things actually worked.
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Is this showerthoughts or oldbumperstickers?
That makes a lot of sense.
As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.
I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.
I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.
And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.
Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.
As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.
They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.
When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.
People will knock nostalgia … They see it as a sort of softness, a yearning for the past…
But what they miss is the way that it can create intergenerational connections.
That’s a really lovely thing to hear about your relationship with your dad and Ms Pac-Man.
Wait, that sounds libellous.
I think people who played those games on CRTs originally remember the feel of the visuals. It is a rather nostalgic thing.
The filters aren’t the same, but they’re not a bad approximation. Mist of those games were not meant to be played on modern hardware and look worse for it too.
Then there will be a ton of folk who just do it because they see other people do it. That’s fine too, especially if they are enjoying themselves.
That’s the point. If the filter makes you feel happier, go for it. It’s an aesthetic choice.
OK Loomer.
Exquisite.
Also the first twin stick arcade game I played.
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.
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.
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.
Deep.
This is now classic stoner chat.
This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago…
You’ve managed to get the affinity stuff working under wine? I can’t get publisher to work correctly. I just wish they would make a native version. I’m happy to give them money for it even.