Of course she’s getting sympathy.  She’s a white woman.  He’s not white, hence he deserves the scorn.  /s

What the techno-utopians who comment on articles like this fail to realize is that they’re considering AI art generators as a neutral tool that has somehow materialized out of thin air. Considered in isolation, it is a promising instrument - but the reality is that such technology is developed and wielded by…

I mean, if “provides gender affirming care to trans children in consultation with a doctor” is sufficient evidence of abuse to take people’s children from them and throw them in jail, Cruz probably deserves the death penalty for this.

I can relate. I do art on the side (although I’m trying to make it my main job) and I’ve gotten chewed out for “exorbitant, Queen’s ransom” prices for...charging $20 for a fully inked, colored drawing with a background.

So I can’t imagine how bad professional artists get it.

Artist who makes their living with their own art

What exactly do you mean by a “real” job? Are you trying to say that your job is somehow more real than hers or did you put the quotations because you understand that that’s not really the correct contextual word? “Traditional” job might be apt, but illustrator is a very real job, it takes time, effort, mental…

Forgot to mention they own the art. So they can make all their money spent on paying them and profits from any other media they see fit (digital/physical merchandise.) Now said artist can’t use that image to make their income when their illustrations are their only form of income. They can edit and repurpose the…

It sounds like it would’ve been a loading page, which can be a large illustration and the time it takes depends on the artist. She said it would’ve taken her weeks which means that the $3k flat fee falls well below her hourly rate and I get turning it down because of that.

I’m assuming Epic has its own department for…

“With the budget given, it doesn’t feel ethical to take this project,” they tweeted. “The time it would take for a WFH assignment from such a high earning game where I can’t even sell prints would barely leave me with a living wage.”

The rich are rich by exploiting those poorer than them. It’s a universal truth.

“The rich are continuing to be among the cheapest.”

There’s a lesson in there.

i walked into one today, and the employee running the store had to put a sign on the door that he will close for 30minutes to get lunch.... Gamestop has him alone, in December... what a scummy place.

Well, she seems nice, in a rabid badger kind of way. Actually, rabid, racist badger. Yeah, a real sweetheart.

Some of the context might be lost for people who aren’t particularly plugged into the Melee community.

That is, if you ignore the last 20 years. No tournament every run before the Panda Cup has ever been licensed by Nintendo. It has always been a mutual understanding that ‘we do our stuff and you do yours’. In fact, if you read the initial statement by SWT, it states that they had been in talks since April with…

It only comes across that way if you think they are lying and not Nintendo.

An ugly Mexican standoff if I’ve ever seen one, except one where we don’t know if Nintendo is holding a gun to PG’s head, or placing it in their holster.

They literally list the evidence in the Twitlonger and multiple TOs from different organizations have since corroborated it. 

This is incorrect. Nintendo explicitly assured the SWT team over the course of twelve months that the circuit was something Nintendo actively supported. They only pulled the plug on it literally days before the final tournament. So no, it is not expectable or average for Nintendo to do this simply because the company…

If people are less willing to forgive Will Smith for an open-handed slap than they are to forgive Woody Allen for sexually assaulting his own daughter or Chris Brown for beating the shit out of Rhianna because they saw the slap and didn’t see those other things, those people deserve to be made fun of.  (Also, my…