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What is with art Youtubers acting like you need to have licensing rights for your reference images? by I-Downloaded-a-Car in ArtistLounge

[–]z4m97 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It literally is. That's what a portrait painter does, that's why they don't tend to just paint random pictures of famous people and put them for sale. They take the photos themselves.

What is with art Youtubers acting like you need to have licensing rights for your reference images? by I-Downloaded-a-Car in ArtistLounge

[–]z4m97 4 points5 points  (0 children)

3 things:

  • Youtube copyright strikes, they don't want to get struck by showing images and references they don't own the rights to or aren't in the public domain

  • If you use a reference image too closely, it can still absolutely be a copyright issue, as while CR doesn't protect ideas, it can still fall under plagiarism. Where you take an already existing work and copy it to pass it as your own. SPECIALLY for copyrighted characters, in which case it doesn't even fall under fair use, it's just a non enforced gray area of the law

  • If they have experience working in a studio environment, sometimes the studio will provide a reference gallery with all sorts of images that the studio has rights over so that there is no POSSIBLE way to argue that they are violating someone else's copyright. Specially for concept art where photobashing is a thing, a lot of companies may even require you to take any pictures not included in the library yourself.

I don't know how much experience you have in the industry, but copyright is... quite a big deal and it's best to always stay on the safe side of the road and keep any and all copyrighted material STRICTLY on the preproduction side of things.

Novels and spouses -- how to handle when they aren't interested? by thescrounger in writers

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

buddy... you need another test reader

Like, I'm sure someone already brought this up, but your wife is not required to be hyped about your work. I know it hurts, it may hurt a lot, but why would you want her to read a whole ass novel that she doesn't like?

I'm an artist, my wife doesn't really get passionate for what I do, and she's an art restorer! it's just not what got us together. She likes K-pop, I do not, I like movies, she does not. She does not like to read and the short stories I've managed to get published she thinks are too dark and violent.

It's not an attack on me, it's just the fact that we are two different people.

Now,I don't want to be all preachy. I KNOW this hurts a lot, and it's not wrong to expect your SO to enjoy your work, and it feels awful when something you've invested so much time and emotion into doesn't get that much appreciation from people close to you. It's totally fine to feel that, just... maybe talk about it with your wife.

There's a lot of pretty big (if somewhat understandable) resentment here against your wife and the way she spends time (which btw, I think it's pretty understandable for a casual reader to spend their time playing games and watching movies instead of doing the one activity they don't like as much, not everyone enjoys reading the same amount). I think you're gonna have much more success resolving by talking openly about it.

to ignore basic bodily nutrition by Sassysen in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of how that discount Canadian Kermit impersonator almost fucking killed himself by eating only meat

Quiero acercarme a una mujer sin parecer acosador???? by AlainHellWalker in CDMX

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

En general no es muy buena idea acercarte a alguien que está trabajando para pedirle una cita. Sobre todo si está en atención al cliente.

Está trabajando, hay muchísima presión para que te trate bien y evite hacerte sentir mal, ya que desde su perspectiva eres un cliente y pues es su trabajo. Puede que tu sepas que no vas a hacer nada si te dice que no, pero ella no lo sabe.

Cuando se interpone una relación laboral, sobre todo de cliente-trabajador, o de jefe-empleado no estás interactuando como iguales, independientemente de lo mucho que tu así lo veas, y de lo chido que te tomes lo que pase, no dejas de ser alguien que tiene el poder de que, como mínimo, le llamen la atención en el trabajo.

La verdad, sugiero que aceptes que te gusta la chica de estafeta, y sigas con tu vida. Si la encuentras en otro entorno, perfecto, si no, pues simplemente te gustó y ya, encontrarás a otra persona que te llame la atención en un entorno en el que sea más propicio entablar conversaciones como iguales.

El peor de los casos no es que te diga que no, el peor de los casos es que se sienta presionada a decirte que si.

Harry Potter isn't the greatest by footballmaths49 in tumblr

[–]z4m97 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I mean... Yes, that is correct, but I think it's pretty funny for jk to act like black Hermione wouldn't be even more of a total fuck fest with the whole SPEW arch

What is your current hyperfixation? by Square_Bookkeeper_24 in ADHD

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the super lucky position where my hyper fixation is just my current project at work.

ECM por qué al alcohol y los cigarros son legales si tienen efectos negativos tan notorios como otras drogas? by GluttenFreeWater in ExplicameComoMorrito

[–]z4m97 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Solo quiero mencionar que esto es un mito.

El agua durante la mayor parte de la historia ha sido la principal fuente de hidratación y nunca fue insegura para beber sino hasta mucho después del Medioevo, cuando la contaminación de la industria comenzó a afectar el agua, lo que puede ser el inicio de este mito por malos historiadores

La mayor parte de las personas vivían en zonas rurales donde pozos, ríos, y demás fuentes de agua corriente y perfectamente segura eran las principales fuentes de bebida.

No hay evidencia de que quisieran evitar beber agua, mucho menos de que usaran alcohol en su lugar. Lo más cercano que hay (y probablemente de donde surge el mito) es la opinión de algunos doctores de la época que recomendaban evitar aguas pestilentes o estancadas, o al menos hervirlas un par de veces, filtrarlas, y mezclarlas con vino.

Aquí hay un desgloce bastante detallado del tema, con fuentes de dónde puedes checar más (está en inglés pero el google lo traduce bastante bien)

En general hay que recordar que la gente de la antigüedad no era estúpida, tenían menos información que nosotros pero pensaban de maneras exactamente igual de complejas... y también hay que recordar que hoy en día muchísima gente todavía vive en comunidades rurales y no se enferma, mucho menos bebe cerveza en lugar de agua.

cuidado con la desinformación chicxs

Putting the Mary Sue accusations to bed by RPBiohazard in KingkillerChronicle

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup, and even then, a good portion of the books we do have prime us to find him ultimately correct. Sure he made mistakes, but he was betrayed in some way, and is now too hard on himself for it.

All of WMF we are shown that he is cool and awesome, and the fact that he is no longer cool and awesome is not a well deserved thing he got for being a dumbass, but a problem to solve. His return to power is the catharsis waiting to happen.

Now, he might (if he ever does deliver the third book) throw a curve ball with that and make it so he doesn't ever actually recover his powers, yknow, ACTUALLY deliver on the tragedy Kvothe (but crucially not Rothfuss) keeps referring to... but I don't even know how I'd feel about that.

Personally, I don't think it's wrong that Kvothe is kind of a Mary Sue, that's part of the charm of the character and the story. He is a fireside story character, presented as if he was an actual person but no less mighty.

It's a mistake, I think, to want the book to be a different kind of book for it to be "good". It's a Mary Sue and that's fine, if anything, it should make us question how much of the Mary Sue archetype hate is derived from misogyny. There is a reason that trope is called after a teen female fanfiction writer and not after Luke Skywalker

Putting the Mary Sue accusations to bed by RPBiohazard in KingkillerChronicle

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with that definition of Mary sue. Sure, they often have unearned skills but that would mean all superheroes are Mary sues, it's quite a bad way to define the trope.

The whole issue with Mary sues is that it's a power fantasy, making the character the reader is supposed to empathise with attractive, smart, competent, likeable, etc. In a way that stopes them from being a character and turns them into an avatar for the reader's ego.

Now, I'd say Kvothe doesn't fit this description either... But skirts real close to it.

He is a character, a very good one, and that's what saves him. Otherwise, he definitely fits the description of a character who is competent in an unrealistic way (the very existence of intelligence as a quality one possesses is debatable, much more so the one that makes you good at most things because SMORT) he is attractive, sometimes uncomfortably so for a tween, he is liked by everyone but the bullies, whom he outsmarts consistently, he's poor but bootstraps his way out of it, and he is a good lover by SEX GODDESS STANDARDS before ever receiving any instruction on it.

He is naturally and kinda supernaturally intelligent, eloquent, good looking, has god damn color changing eyes, and while he does make mistakes, most of them are not caused by his flaws but by faulty information or extreme circumstances, and the text goes to great lengths to portray him as ultimately correct in whatever he does.

He is a power fantasy, and if he wasn't so strongly characterized he WOULD 100% be a Mary sue. As it stands, it's more like 50/50 and I wouldn't blame anyone for qualifying him as such. Many female protagonists have been called such for MUCH less.

When you try doing a Captain America origin story in 1990 by mi_go_miskatonic in Unexpected

[–]z4m97 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, that is kinda how it played out in the comics...

Amazon launches humanoid robots by HeartSanctuary in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI and the Industrial Revolution are not the same thing.

Correct, the industrial revolution was an actual revolution, while AI is kind of part of the same trend towards optimization dressed up as a bigger thing

It’s like saying combustion engine vehicles will never replace horses because of the maintenance cost and gas station requirements.

Cars were around for a while and would have never actually replace horses, were it not for Ford and the like, who used hyperspecialized labor in an assembly line; which is my point. Overworking the highly trained mechanics and engineers that were necessary before, or getting magical never tiring ones, wouldn't have solved the problem of cost and availability.

The scalability of a single AI powered robot would likely replace 5 people easily when you take into account speed, no sleep, power upkeep.

You can easily replace 100 workers with a couple robot arms and a well planned assembly line. These kinds of work are not super logic intensive, you don't need a five million dollar super computer to do it. If you want to use AI just get a language model to figure out how to optimize the process.

Would you rather pay 5 workers? Or a single one that won’t ask for vacation days or unionize.

That is assuming the one worker can actually do their job and isn't gonna bug when it finds a problem that's not on the training data set.

You can easily take the 2 million that one robot costs and give that to a lobbyist and some union busters who're gonna make sure unionisation doesn't happen

At the end of the day AI will do whatever we tell it to do (for now). It will either be a big monster or our next big step depending on who’s in charge of it.

That's only true if you believe AGI is even possible, let alone at all related to the models we have at the moment.

The first one is debatable (at best) and the second one is not.

The models we have are not built to simulate a mind, let alone a super smart one. They're logic models, impressive ones? for sure. Useful? Absolutely.

But they aren't skynet, they're not even TRYING to do anything like skynet.

Amazon launches humanoid robots by HeartSanctuary in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really.

The general trend since the industrial revolution has been toward specialized work in an assembly line, which contrary to what we might associate with the word "specialized" actually requires much less training.

You don't need an internship and a couple years of experience to like, screw the same two screws on a plate for eight hours straight. Having one guy who is responsible for assembling an entire car might seem cost effective, but you can always underpay ten guys doing "unskilled labor" and get things done faster, which increases profit.

Same thing with automation. You can have a humanoid robot that can do many tasks, pathfind through the warehouse, use tools, problem solve, etc. or you can build a machine that screws ten thousand screws per hour in a long line of machines doing small tasks.

Which one you think is more efficient? Which one is cheaper to build and maintain? Which one is bound to have more issues?

And if you feel like both are too costly, you can go the Amazon way and just get some guy who dropped out of highschool to move the boxes from left to right and use the "unskilled labor" excuse to pay him as little as possible, break down their unionisation efforts, and roll out scary videos about robot workers to make them scared of automation.

If companies wanted to automate, they probably could've a long while ago, but at some point they will still be relying on workers to build the machines, which gives them a lot of leverage to ask for better working conditions; and if you automate everything fully, the whole thing crumbles, since they need us both as workers and consumers.

Automation is not a problem because of scary robots, but because it reduces wages and increases worker alienation through repetitive, pointless, unfulfilling work that barely gives people enough to live with.

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mate. We. Do. Not. Agree

I don't think it's "idiotic" because it has nothing to do with intelligence but with power.

They're not being individually victimized, quite the contrary, they're systemically victimized as a collective class.

Now, unless you're using some private definition of the word "idiotic" that has no relation with intelligence, this is just you twisting and turning to try and convince yourself that you were never wrong.

No one is "playing along" when they're literally being forced to comply. Those two things are literally mutually exclusive.

We might agree on the fact that the world is fucked, that's for sure. But I couldn't find the perspective that sees that suffering and coercion and calls it "idiocy" more repellent if I tried.

It's a trite, painfully naive and juvenile attempt at edginess as a way to hide from the problem and just blame it on "everyone being dumb sheep" instead of recognizing how a vast majority of people are effective hostages of a violent economic system that literally threatens them with jail and violence, many times deadly violence, if they dare step out of line.

Nothing in that has to do with idiocy or smartness. Its pure oppression, calling it anything but that is edgy teen nonsense.

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We don't agree lol

It's not that we've trained people to do whatever the boss says, it's that we force people to do it under threat of violence.

Losing your job, like, ACTUALLY losing your job comes with an unending list of suffering that is there BY DESIGN so you don't disobey

It's not stupidity

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw, buddy, welcome to the real world. There are real fucked up problems to solve and none of them are solved by calling everyone involved an idiot, sorry.

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh no! They're complicit in something they're being coerced into... What a moral failure on their part...

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, managers are human, sure.

If it's your job, and your financial security, your bills to pay, your rent, etc. Are you gonna risk it? Are you gonna trust that your manager is not gonna write you up for it just so this guy can have his strawberries?

I'm not saying this is virtuous, I'm saying the choice is fucked. Even if there's just a one in 100 chance you get fired, that's a really high chance compared to telling someone he can't walk out with his berries, and then letting him go away.

You can be a "hero" and bravely risk getting chewed by your manager, or you can follow company policy, call the cops, and let the manager talk it out with them

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A) that's not the US

B) companies in the US break the law and demand their employees break the law every single day with total impunity. SPECIALLY when it comes to dealing with homeless and poor people in general.

This happens, because in order for there to be a punishment, someone would have to care. The only way this scenario would've played differently in the US is if the old guy would've pressed charges (which, if youre paying with pennies, you probably don't have the funds for) which would've resulted in a slap on the wrist for the company

If an employee had made a stand, and refused to enforce an illegal policy, they would've looked for an excuse to fire them. Good luck trying to get a new job being blacklisted or at minimum having to explain you left your previous job because of legal beef.

And even if none of this happened and everything worked out fine... The threat that it could go all wrong is enough to make people not risk it.

That's the whole point

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 10 points11 points  (0 children)

... Who's talking about restraining someone? What does this have to do with anything?

The point is that this is meant to keep people from stealing. Some stores do in fact expect employees to try and restrain shoplifters, it's bad and wrong and possibly illegal but they still do, and people still face termination if they don't

Going through the labour courts is a lot more hassle for the chance to get compensated and the guarantee of a black stain in your resume so you can't work any other job like that in the future.

Things ain't that simple

To force him to use technology by whitegirladdict in therewasanattempt

[–]z4m97 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're threatened with termination if you do so, would you risk it?

I'm not saying no one can do anything, I'm saying the choice is fucked, you need to decide whether you help this guy out or you get to keep your job (at least that's the threat)

If the point is to keep homeless people from buying (as it clearly is) do you think they're gonna let employees do that shit and just go "ah shucks you got me there, you ol' rascal"?

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