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It is when most of them cry about scraping, but move to another site that does the same thing. It's why I said use Nightshade or Glaze on your art and keep the original on a different site.

I always found that move to be dumb. Not only is bsky scraping like X, it's post policy lets any company scrap. X was just upfront about it, that's the only diff.

According to the bluesky ToS, anything posted is inherently giving a license to bluesky to use to train their AI, sell to third parties, alter and use in marketing and products. All without having to pay you for it. Section 2, part D Bluesky’s Permission to Use Your User Content. You keep...

Slower and slower releases until: A. Hiatus announcement B. Just one day ghosts Author complaining about getting scraped. Usually leads to moving to webnovel. And I don't move sites to chase authors, so it may as well be dead. Author already having two or more stories and declares they're...

Parsee from Touhou. Fallen Angels from the old testament. Ghosts.

Chose the most extreme side to fit a narrative did we? Is it woke to have a PoC main character? Of course not, and even if it was, does it matter if the game was good? Like with Submautica Below Zero and Bauldr's Gate 3. What is woke is replacing the MC with a girl boss like Ghost of Yotei...

Unfortunately the games with ugly characters are produced by companies that fired veterans and hired based on DEI mandates. Sweet Baby Inc is just the canary in the coal mine. They only get hired because there's DEI hires that drank the kool-aid in the companies willing to hire them. Not all...

If I go purely by time played, then it's Minecraft. If I go on emotion, then it's Nier Automata. If I go by money invested, then it's World of Warcraft.

Generally speaking, antho and were-beasts are niche. I say this as a former World of Darkness player. For every 100 D&D elf and human player, there's 1 WoD player. And most WoD players are vampire players. The Werewolves, changelings, wizards, wraiths, demigod, and demon players combined don't...

I learned Tasmania has a crop circle problem. A problem caused by Wallabies crashing fences to get high on poppy flowers, then they roll around in circles stoned outa their gourd.

There's no reason to do so when, as a man, I just get my stuff taken by the woman in a divorce, and the courts usually side with the woman. Heck, just spam your family social feed with vids like: They'll eventually get he idea that the game has changed and men are the losers.

I don't see the problem. Steven King started out with smut stories for Playboy. Heck he got married while doing that, and only wrote his first novel "Carrie" because some people crapped on his work.

It'll turn out a bit funky. That was my experience with the Dune series after Frank Herbert died. And that was with his story board and notes to go on.

I saw the trailer and thought, "Why is there so much Edo era stuff?" It's on the level of a setting being middle ages Europe but people are wearing Victorian clothes.

Elementals, spirits, undead, and Fey often also have psudo-immortality. Elves and the like tend to be tied to mana/magic, the divine/demonic, and in the case of elementals laws of reality. That gives them extraordinary life spans. That's the base mechanics of why. As for plot, authors tend to...

The Ring, The Thing, Alien... I guess I'm partial to monster dread.

To me, magical girl shows were always darker than expected. Like Sailor Moon or Utena. With the more lighter kind like Pretty Cure, and Card Captor Sakura came later. But now that I look at a list, it started rather light with Sally and Tutu. So I suppose it's just a generational cycle between...

IIRC, webnovel has you sign over your publishing and IP rights if you sign up for monetization. Scribblehub and Royalroad don't have monetization, but also don't require you to sign over ownership. Amazon has exclusive publishing rights, but you keep your IP and copyright.

Fantasy, Scifi, and Isekai for me. All for one reason. It's a different world. I really like world building and reading about things not seen IRL. I pay attention to the news and hit up history already IRL. I want my fiction to be an entirely different world.

Well, the cost is FAR cheaper than everything else. Even black and white manga is more expensive to make. Heck, because the cost of entry is so low, it has the most creator access of any medium. For the longest, novels were the only way to experience other worlds. Ever since special effects...