captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on i can’t tell if this is edginess or mental illness? i hope she’s doing okay 17 hours ago:
She has serious issues and you can’t save her. She can hurt you pretty badly on accident if you try
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 20 hours ago:
Dude, lesbians don’t either. Ya cool. Though i imagine some straight women in poly relationships with bi men may recognize it
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 1 day ago:
I don’t either. But if they’re joining an intramural league, I oppose it. Because its a league defined by amateurism in which nobody’s really seeking to profit.
When we talk NCAA or Olympics then I think that as people are starting to profit off of it the athletes should profit. Though I ask why we’re endorsing the everyone profit model rather than the “college sports teams should more resemble high school ones and we create a minor league instead” model.
Lets go to a form of labor I’ve done: open mic nights. Comedians should be able to make money off their craft, but open mic nights shouldn’t pay because that creates conditions that ruin the point. It’s a space where anyone can go up, try their hand, and with minimal judgment perform. You being good is a nice surprise to the audience, unlike when you’re being paid where they have reason to expect it. It’s a different environment, one more focused on the human desire to create and perform and share it and on the development of skills to a level that they can be sold.
That’s what amateurism is about. It’s about keeping it low key, keeping the expectations reasonable, and keeping the vibe of “people are selling their stuff here” out. It’s the same reason that as a former nudes poster who has dated nudes sellers I’ve wanted to keep those communities separated.
So yeah, it kills the vibes and for us supporters of amateurism we know we’re losing out on highly skilled people’s contributions to our communities when we say we’d rather them not engage in commercial works in those realms. Thats OK.
And I’d like to add that I do purchase art from former amateurs when they move into professional realms. Tamsyn Muir is my favorite author and her writing drips of her fanfic history. But her fanfic is for her and under a name idk if shes even released, and I wouldn’t buy it if she were to sell it wholecloth, because that kills the vibes.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 1 day ago:
Being paid to compete in professional sports vs being paid to compete in intramural sports. It’s the same industry is it not?
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 1 day ago:
Labor is labor, and copyleft is great. Hell copyright has massive issues. But also if youre going to participate in amateur labor where it would be illegal to profit, something wonderful and fulfilling for many people, then you don’t get mad when you don’t get paid. If you decide you’d like to make it something you get compensated for you can file the serial numbers off as has become a common practice for fanfic writers who achieve a certain level of popularity.
But also, the exchange of money changes the nature of labor. Labor done out of love and a desire to create and act and give to one’s community is deeply human and quite satisfying and it’s why amateur communities develop culture of amateurism. And it’s why many people who don’t want to do these things for a living choose to do them for a hobby
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 day ago:
Temple only runs family friendly games. And the entire doom series, which has been deemed sufficiently holy
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 1 day ago:
Defending amateurism in amateur fields is reasonable. Especially when amateurism is a legal defense of the practice such as modding. Professional mods without official license are copyright violations.
This is similar to fanfic communities. The amateurism of the field gives it part of its charm and community, and it also makes it easier for people to come in, develop these skills, and move into creating and selling original works if they’d like to move in that direction.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 2 days ago:
No you’re both drawn to the local center of gravity which is on a direct line between both bodies’ centers of mass and is proportionally closer to the object of higher mass.
That’s not really relevant in collided objects per se, but it means you and the earth both pull each other equally to a point that happens to be located ever so slightly away from the center of the earth. Well you would if there weren’t a ton of other gravitational influences including the non uniform shape and density of the earth that make you basically rounding error in terms of gravitational force. But you do impact it
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 3 days ago:
Unfortunately yes.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 3 days ago:
The number of people who openly admit to coworkers that they have couch guns scares me
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 4 days ago:
That’s why they speak like that. That’s one of their more blatant, but the goal is always to have plausible deniability. And as an added perk when they use some of their less well known dogwhistles they get to call antifascists crazy.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 4 days ago:
What nazis say to refer to Saul down the street who works as an electrician. Well all Jewish people really, but they aren’t excluding the tradesfolk
- Comment on Standard tRump supporter 5 days ago:
There’s also the idea that they’ve earned their government money. I once dealt with someone like that. Her ptsd disability money was earned unlike everyone else who didn’t suffer for it in her eyes. Higher taxes meant her victims (she was emotionally abusive af) couldn’t spend as much on her and higher government spending meant that the government couldn’t spend as much on her.
These people don’t think that their money will go away.
- Comment on ain't your buddy, pal! 5 days ago:
I love that Ohio is purple in all of these
- Comment on Anon needs to spend less time on 4chan 5 days ago:
There’s also an element of if you keep acting a certain way it starts to infect how you think as seen above. Some of those people essentially trained themselves to be massive racists
- Comment on Anon needs to spend less time on 4chan 5 days ago:
They’re thinking of private pool vibes of people relaxing quietly.
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 6 days ago:
You say that but I was a student protestor a decade ago and it wasn’t this bad. And regardless just because our government is violating the law and our nation’s fundamental ideology (liberty and democracy) and has been for some time doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call them out on it
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 6 days ago:
That depends on if we consider Thomas Paine a founding father or a criminal speaker.
Free speech means you can speak freely
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 6 days ago:
Then bury gold in eagleton
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
“Tortitious sandwich with beef”
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
At a certain point I have to assume they just slap a bunch of "le"s on and call it a day
- Comment on i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces 1 week ago:
Ah yeah no, so what would happen is you’d get here, called Arabic, and then treated like shit. If you’d like more information on the topic ask a kurd who’s tried
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 week ago:
But it may stop observing itself. And as the part of the universe that does that, I’d dislike i5
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
As someone who’s been catcalled many many times while presenting female and once while presenting male (by women). Yeah tbh it felt similarly threatening. When you’re walking alone in the dark all big burly and bearded and just hear a voice calling out sexualizing you it’s scary. Like in retrospect now I can recognize that it was probably a drunk/high/low inhibitioned young woman displaying the confidence of youth when surrounded by friends. But I was scared because if she’s comfortable doing this she probably knows something I don’t if she chooses to escalate.
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
Similarly if you grow a John brown beard but condition it that worked for me as a 18 year old but that was 12 years ago so ymmv
Muttonstache also works
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 1 week ago:
Banned for some mandated for others
- Comment on Say thanks 1 week ago:
Hey, Quayle is the one who told pence to not do a coup
- Comment on Say thanks 1 week ago:
The overemphasis on his eyeliner may be taken as such
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
There’s also a lot less pressure to marry early or at all. Like, I’m married because I love my wife and wanted to marry her. Had I been pressured to marry younger I probably wouldn’t’ve met her and may have resented being pressured in before I was ready.
- Comment on Keir Starmer offers US tech companies tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs 1 week ago:
So danegeld, surely that’s never backfired