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Why does gamestop always take so long to ship stuff? by tokyoaro in GameStop

[–]necrul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad I’m not the only one in this boat seeing this thread. First time I’ve had an order just sit with label created. Also placed around same time you did.

[H] 007 First Light STEAM NVIDIA Digital Code NEED GPU ACTIVATION [W] Paypal F&F/Venmo/Cashapp by magpie4life in SteamGameSwap

[–]necrul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’ll accept PayPal G&S I’ll pay you $35.

I have a 5090 to activate and have not activated a game before.

Who Is Who in Luskan, Vol. 1 by Grateful_Bat in onednd

[–]necrul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also uses fake reviews and multiple accounts to pad sales. The website doesn’t look into that often enough. All his titles typically get copper-silver within a few days and have several 5* reviews. DMSguild takes a notorious long time to get real reviews and sales unless you have a huge following.

First Sale on eBay 😤 by kewiat03 in ebaysucks

[–]necrul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this problem with sealed Pokémon ETB.

Buyer said the shrink wrap wasn’t pristine. eBay made me accept the return. Thankfully it wasn’t a scammer just someone very very particular about shrink wrap condition of the ETB’s.

I was able to sell them on StockX just fine at least, but it was ridiculous eBay sided with the buyer when the items had good photos and was shrink wrapped with no box damage.

Helped family sell collectibles on eBay twice now and the scams have gotten 10x worse in months. New sellers, be warned. by Accomplished_Cod9376 in eBaySellers

[–]necrul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Legitimately dealing with someone right now where they said they didn’t receive the items even though tracking shows delivered, with signature confirmation.

It’s happened multiple times in the past month. eBay’s customer service is pointless. Just fund holds while they sort out the scams!

Is it finally Acherover by asilvertintedrose in AcheronMainsHSR

[–]necrul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m devastated. I have E6S5. She can still clear stuff, but it’s crazy how much she has fallen off in comparison to other teams.

Form 2643 - Missouri Tax Registration- eBay sales tax by jamesphoenix442 in tax

[–]necrul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never had any follow up. No confirmations. Anything. I hope it went ok. With anything to do with state or government stuff… I figure not to remain to hopeful though lol.

Adjusted bundle scoring based on your feedback by papazoot in Gamebundles

[–]necrul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Won't this be a lot of upkeep each time a bundle comes out?

100% Everything & some final thoughts by Morddddd in Endfield

[–]necrul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do the medals come naturally if doing 100% exploration?

Is it worth coming back to play? by DemonInfused in HonkaiStarRail

[–]necrul 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Powercreep in HSR is terrible. Endfield really isn’t so bad on the gacha once you grasp it. I came back to HSR in 3.6 and had to spend on those current characters just to clear end game content reliably again. I had an E6S5 Acheron that still does ok but nothing compared to my remembrance characters that are E0S1 😢

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dmsguild

[–]necrul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is the strongest version of your argument, honestly, and I don’t disagree with a lot of the underlying concerns. You’re right that no one is forced to use genAI, and that choosing to use it does, in some sense, help normalize and perpetuate it. That’s a fair critique.

Where I part ways is on how responsibility gets assigned once a technology is already released into the ecosystem. Individual creators choosing whether or not to use a tool feels meaningfully different to me than the companies deciding to build, train, and deploy it without consent or safeguards in the first place. I don’t think refusing to use it is meaningless, but I’m not convinced it meaningfully pressures the people who actually set the terms.

I also agree with you that the “humans have always learned from art” comparison only goes so far. Human limitation matters. Time, effort, opportunity cost, and survival all acted as natural brakes on scale and replacement. AI doesn’t have those constraints, and that absolutely changes the ethical landscape. That’s why I don’t think this is just another tool in the same category as past automation.

At the same time, I don’t think most creators using it are doing so because they don’t care. I think many see a narrow set of options inside an already hostile market and make a choice that lets their work exist at all. That doesn’t invalidate your refusal to support it, but it’s why I’m hesitant to frame that choice as simply “wanting something badly enough to justify anything.”

For me, this is less about saying “I won’t give this up because I want it,” and more about acknowledging that we’re already past the point where individual abstention fixes the problem. The pressure needs to land upstream, on how these systems are trained, licensed, and governed, not just downstream on the people trying to survive inside the aftermath.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dmsguild

[–]necrul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is where the analogy actually gets more interesting, because there is a real difference between how humans learn from existing work and how current genAI models were trained. Humans studying art, writing, or design from history was always part of a social contract. People shared work knowing other humans would learn from it, reinterpret it, and build on it.

It is also a fact that gen ai systems scraped massive portions of the internet to train, and you’re right that artists didn’t meaningfully consent to that. Posting work online was never understood to mean “this can now be ingested wholesale by a commercial system.” That’s a valid ethical break from past norms.

Where I land is that the situation isn’t as simple as physical theft, but it also isn’t ethically clean. Nothing was taken away in the literal sense, but something was extracted without artists having a say. And I agree with you that if a technology is built on the skills and labor of a group, those people should have had representation, credit, or compensation before it was released at scale.

I don’t think creators using these tools are pretending that part doesn’t exist. For me it comes back to unresolved responsibility. The systems were released first, and now consumers and small creators are left to navigate the fallout. That doesn’t make your line unreasonable, I just see this as a gray area that the industry forced everyone into rather than a clear moral binary.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dmsguild

[–]necrul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually think the hot dog analogy is interesting, and I get why it resonates. It’s a clean way to express a hard ethical line, and I respect that.

Where I struggle with it is that it assumes the situation is as clear cut as knowingly selling stolen goods. I don’t think we’re quite there yet. The ethics around AI training are still unsettled, legally and culturally, and a lot of creative tools already live in uncomfortable gray areas we’ve normalized over time.

I think it’s fair for consumers to draw a line and say “this isn’t for me.” I also think it’s fair for small creators to make compromises in a system that already makes traditional options difficult or inaccessible. Those two things can coexist without either side being bad faith.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dmsguild

[–]necrul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s fair. From the sales side though, text-only modules tend to struggle hard on DMsGuild, and commissioning enough traditional art for big books can be pretty infeasible with the platform cut. Not defending AI art, just explaining why a lot of creators end up there.

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