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"happy mushday"

Infinite Painter.

For one of my brothers. Mush on cake.

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

#creative commons #digital art #painting #kawaii #mushroom #mush #cake #rainbow #birthday

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"Miserable Runt"

Infinite Painter.

Simple sketch of Enoch from Off. I've always loved how his hands are just claws. Fits very well with the game's art style.

#digital art #sketching #neon #off enoch #off game #claws #ink

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https://eliasbouchard.bandcamp.com/album/extremely-extended-sounds-of-brutal-pipe-murder

because it wasn't extended enough

#shitpost #the magnus archives #elias bouchard #jurgen leitner #brutal pipe murder #extended sounds of brutal pipe murder #ambient music #paulstretch

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shoutout to when mike oldfield wrote a song where the only lyrics are GIOVANNI DELFINO, FRANCESCO DONATO, PIETRO POLANI, ENRICO DANDOLO (the names of four venetian religious leaders)

#mike oldfield #shitpost #the doge's palace #enrico dandolo

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Spot-on, Mr. Metro. I find video games, curiously enough, are the only industry where people tend to credit entire faceless gestalt corporations of thousands of men for the artistic efforts of one.

Like, for example, you might find, on an upload of "Telephone's Theme', a description saying that the song is "by Nintendo". It's a song by Toru Minegishi, who wrote it as score for an entertainment work produced by Nintendo.

Nobody says "The Imperial March" is "by Lucasfilm". They say it's a song by John Williams.

Because games are a medium where the development teams are often hired under the same corporate banner that is publishing the work, it melts perceptions of individuality into one bland mass.

Like, I have nothing but for respect for the game designers who work under Nintendo, they seem pretty cool.

I have nothing but contempt for the investors and businessmen for whom these game designers work, and here's why: (https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/11/21/how-nintendo-misuses-copyright/). Fucking Pinkertons, man.

Because both the game studios and the business that owns them are named "Nintendo", the two are synonymous in the public mind.

There's the "Nintendo" who is paid to animate Mario, and the "Nintendo" who wants to assassinate autistic children for drawing their own pictures of Mario.

It means the entire company gets credit for its devs' work, creating undue worship of the suits.

It also the means the devs might get unfairly blamed for their bosses' spitefully litigious behaviour.

It's also video games as a medium, because of this conflation, that get the most corporate worship.

One who happens to like Star Trek, SpongeBob Squarepants and Top Gun never calls himself "a Paramount fan", even though all of these are Paramount-"owned" franchises.

Nobody would credit the entirety of Paramount for William Shatner's acting decisions.

Talking of Pinkerton (the private detectives), nobody who likes Pinkerton (the album) calls themselves a "Universal Music Group fan". They would call themselves "a Weezer fan".

Nobody says "Parlophone are such good songwriters" when talking about Lennon-McCartney.

Somebody who likes Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon probably will call themselves a "Nintendo fan".

On a similar note, there's not a single Valve game series I don't like, yet I still do not call myself a "Valve fan". I am typically satisfied with Valve's services enough to willingly support them by doing business with them, yet they are no friend of mine. A company is a gestalt entity functioning as a vehicle for its members to profit, and I believe it dangerous to consider any company your "friend". It's strictly transactional. A customer's satisfaction with a product and subsequent willingness to support the product's vendor is not a personal relationship between customer and vendor.

It makes me angry/sad, though, that there are people convinced enough that a company is their friend to make excuses for it.

Like, "Nintendo is only doing minor standard copyright protection!".

Fuck off, mate. Nothing minor about destroying a passionate community of millions of people. Nothing standard about this when not even Cap"GRRR WE HATE MODS NEW DRM INTRODUCED TO STOP MODS"com or Dis"we're extending copyright universally by 20 years solely for our own profits"ney are doing this. Nothing "protection" about destroying fan animations that in no possible way impact your sales figures. There is no "use it or lose it" provision in "IP" law, as much I wish there was. This tomfuckery is within the realms of copyright law, yet has no reason to happen other than spite, spite towards a community who existed to sing your praises. "All rights reserved" means "we reserve our right to shit on you at discretion", not "we must shit on you".

The biggest of "Nintendo's friends" who makes these kinds of bootlicking excuses tend to be fanartists, funnily enough. Who's to say they're not on the chopping block next?

"Brand identity" is a meaningless endeavour in fandoms nowadays. You can't be an Anne Rice. Rule 34 applies whether you like it or not. I'm sure Hasbro were not intending My Little Pony to garner an audience of 30-ish-years-old autistic men, yet it happened anyway. You can't control these things. You are not the weaver, no matter how big you are. You are a mere fly trapped in the web of expression weaved by the great spider calling itself "man". One would do well to learn that.

Now excuse me, I'm off to read Catch-22 by Penguin Random House. What do you mean, "it's by Joseph Heller"?

Previous anon here, it's not hate, I'm not judging you. You're cool, in fact. I just find myself personally unable to like Splatoon anymore, in the sense that it's a game series all about expressing yourself and being creative, then when hundreds of thousands of autistic young people express themselves and are creative using its characters, the company just shoots them down in flames. Such a betrayal of the values promoted in the work makes me unable to continue liking it, knowing that everything it stands for, everything that attracted me to it is a thin corporate platitude. How do you do it?

I'm going to be honest if this is somehow the first time you were disillusioned by the fact that capitalism completely stifles artistic freedom then I don't know what to tell you man. Like you just get over it LOL.

Of course it's all full of hot air. But also, like, the people actually making the game have nothing to do with these decisions that you're talking about. They are completely different people. The game devs have absolutely no say in how Nintendo's legal team utilizes their power over their IP. Splatoon's sentiment of individualism and artistic expression are still genuine by the people actually putting it in there.

If you really can't enjoy art because of the fact that capitalism produced it, then I have bad news for you: there's not a single piece of art in this world right now you can really enjoy. How can any of us enjoy anything then? How can I enjoy a media who champions consumerism is one of the main ways to achieve artistic freedom and happiness when I'm a communist? You just get over it.

#corporate worship #nintendo #artistic expression

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"Red Plaster"

Infinite Painter.

Painted over the fine texture of a sticking plaster stained with blood from my wrist. Interesting, the diagonals' changing direction.

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

#creative commons #digital art #painting #photo edit #plaster #blood #pattern

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"magnus squid"

Infinite Painter.

Another weird squid. This time it looks slightly like a Magnus Archives animatic.

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

#creative commons #digital art #sketching #squid #ink #neon #glowing #spooky #eye #the magnus archives #not really

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"psychosquid"

Infinite Painter.

Not much to say 'bout it. 'Tis just a psychedelic cephalopod.

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

#creative commons #digital art #sketching #neon #glowing #rgb #psychedelic #squid #ink #cephalopod

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Icicle Inn, you coward.

#final fantasy vii #icicle inn #reblog

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"mush huggi ii"

Infinite Painter.

more cute mushrooms huggin. this time they have lil stubby arms and also there's a rainbow

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

#creative commons #digital art #painting #kawaii #mushroom #mush #rainbow #hug

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This is a very good way of summarising it.

If you write a story featuring Superman, but you're legally forced to redesign him a bit and rename him "Epicman", he's still blatantly Superman. The law considers that an "original character", but the reader can see that you want to write about Superman and that the "ersatz" character is still clearly Superman.

Everyone knows what "unalive" means, but it's clear, when you say it, that you're trying to say "kill" and are simply muzzled.

Nobody's stopping you from making a distinct original character (an Omni-Man of sorts), and nobody's stopping you from making a distinct euphemism for death ("her metabolic processes are only of interest to historians"), but when the "original" status of the ersatz or euphemism is so blatantly forced, people can clearly see what you mean anyway.

EDIT:

This is Epicman. His real name is Jim-Al.

He comes from the planet Argon, and he's decently strong, and can shoot laser pointers (not heat rays) from his eyes. He dies if you touch him with a chunk of frozen solid argon. He can fly, but only two metres off the ground.

His power is concentrated in his bendy moustache, okay.

He has a human alter ego, Clarice Kenneth, where he works as a clickbait blogger/"content farmer" for BuzzFeed or someone like that.

He fights for the British way!

CC0, he is.

I've always hated when people make the argument against decreasing copyright duration because "Why do you need to use other people's characters when you can just make your own legally distinct stand-in?" and, talking to friend of the blog @o-hybridity I kinda realized how to articulate why.

Y'see, art is a conversation. Artistic works are always in conversation with past works by others, pushing and pulling on not just general ideas but the specific manifestations of those ideas in each work that inspired it, "standing on the shoulders of giants" and so-on.

So, in this framework, being forced to used a legally-distinct stand-in when the original character would suit it better, is basically the literary eqivalent of being forced to say "unalive" instead of kill on social media.

#public domain #ersatz #unalive #reblog #creative commons #superman

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite word was "singular".

Like, "I ejaculated in a queer fashion as the silhouette of a most singular man stood in my dimly-lit doorway. It was Sherlock Holmes!"

#sir arthur conan doyle #sherlock holmes #shitpost #singular

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

#shitpost #reblog

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Ed Balls

#ed balls

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Well, obviously your first name is Splatoon and your last name is Gamefiles.

what do you guys think my name is im curious

#splatoon #shitpost #reblog

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go forth and hurt their Brand Identity

#shitpost #mario #nintendo #reblog #3d animation

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"magnesquid"

Infinite Painter.

weird floating electric cephalodude

CC-BY-SA 4.0.

#creative commons #digital art #painting #squid #cephalopod #magnets #electric #neon