captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 days ago:
Ok 49 days is impressive for a lettuce. It’s also impressively bad for a prime minister.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 days ago:
Lettuce see how that goes
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
Guns and Republicans
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 6 days ago:
See the fact that you have that strength of character is why you don’t have to pull the stupid shit they all do.
I’ve been ugly, I’ve been hot. I’ve been unprincipled, I’ve been principled. I’ve been charmless, and I’ve been charming. Listen, I’m gonna keep aiming to be principled, charming, and hot in that order.
Being ugly sucks but you can easily get past it. Being off putting sucks, but people who know you know you. Being unprincipled seems great until your reputation is terrible and you have to live with yourself
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 1 week ago:
"Attempted murder? What next? The Nobel prize in attempted physics?
- Comment on i can’t tell if this is edginess or mental illness? i hope she’s doing okay 1 week 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? 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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! 2 weeks ago:
Then bury gold in eagleton
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 2 weeks ago:
If society would see that as the goal of every company and to do so in a way that doesn’t discourage investment I suspect things might be better ovv
- Comment on Benefits of ADHD medication outweigh health risks, study finds 2 weeks ago:
These articles are less for you than to increase willingness to reduce barriers to diagnosis and prescription
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
“Tortitious sandwich with beef”
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks 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 LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 2 weeks ago:
And I think that’s where the issue falls with this. People who found companies feel entitled to similar labor levels as their own
- 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
But it may stop observing itself. And as the part of the universe that does that, I’d dislike i5
- Comment on Birth control: US scientists develop world’s 1st male contraceptive pill 2 weeks ago:
Banned for some mandated for others
- Comment on Say thanks 2 weeks ago:
Hey, Quayle is the one who told pence to not do a coup
- Comment on Say thanks 2 weeks ago:
The overemphasis on his eyeliner may be taken as such
- Comment on Keir Starmer offers US tech companies tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs 3 weeks ago:
So danegeld, surely that’s never backfired
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 3 weeks ago:
Alternatively April fools air raid sirens
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
The difficult part of engineering is figuring out what number you have to round then multiply by 1.2 or 0.8
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
OK, the solution is “how accurate will make the physicist and accountants both only kinda mad”
- Comment on Call it an excuse. I call it therapy 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and as someone who’s been there and can enjoy alcohol responsibly now, if quitting seems like a huge commitment, take a month off. It’ll still be there when the month is over, but if you’re still craving it after the month maybe take some more time away.