& Enriching! Everytime I reinvent something it gets more rich, adding layers unto what came before.
Expecting artists to create in a vacuum is like plopping cake-mix into a pan and expecting it to automatically bake with 6 layers of icing inside and fondant outside complete with decoration.
Sadly this isn't the case, you have to 're-invent' the cake by adding icing, fondant and decorations to it.
I've personally taken many existing characters and re-invented them.
This does NOT mean I completely threw away everything about them from the past, infact I tried to stay as close to the previous sources as possible while adding something new to them.
One cool example is Carl Banks/Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck he wears all red, but in Disney's Ducktales he wears blue, in my personal crackfics he wears green+gold.
In the first example he is very greedy, the second he is still somewhat greedy but more soft, in the third the guy has pretty much said "fuck it" and while he keeps his cash he's now wholly embraces there's more to life than money.
Right there you can see artists building on top of previous works, starting with Carl Barks, Don Rosa built on his work, Disney built on their works and then I built on all of their works combined.
Unfortunately, Disney wants to control who builds on "their" stuff, fortunately I thought to myself "fuck Disney" and did it anyway.
I am now suddenly less capable of having my own characters? Nope. I have a bunch of them. Is what I did too Scrooge suddenly "unimaginative"? Not if you can reinvent him as has been done multiple times.
I even went as far as to pick my own hues/tones of his original colors and come up with new styles for his clothes.
And he's just one of several characters I've reinvented. NOT including new characters which must be invented from scratch then reinvented as they develop!
...And then those same people take those same nude Half-Life/Left4Dead skins, import the My Little Pony meshes, make porn of the two combined and then upload to it YouTube where people like me stumble across thinking it was something else.
If Xxsephirothxx wanted to make a new female Worgen face with a phallic design in the fur, I (and everyone else) would be forced to download it.
Neverwinter Nights handled this situation really well.
They had something called an "override" folder where you could add in your appearance modifications and it would change them even on servers without your mod loaded.
No one else could see it, unless you gave them the files of course.
You can kind of do this in WoW but you can get banned for it, unfortunately.
There was this server that had like 20+ gametypes more than half of them 100% user made content.
They had a racing gametype, a "lego-builder" where you can make houses with a gun that let you place/shoot blocks and objects around, some kind of "Japanese-Gameshow" type where you had to survive/navigate obstacle courses.
Entire port of the original Unreal game with multiplayer elements, some kind of "Defend your fort" game where you got to build your fort and then defend it from attacking monsters complete with an RPG level up system.
They even had an RTS gametype. I don't really remember the rest but there was alot.
I haven't gotten into the Morrowind mods, or the Neverwinter Nights 'modules', modding is truely the lifeblood of gaming.
It'd be one thing even if they limited modding that they'd actually provide a huge variety of options and customization.
But, they don't, World of Warcraft *cough* female Worgen *cough* with their 1 Derp-Chihuahua face comes to mind. Or how they brought in appearance tab but restricted it so much it almost made the entire thing pointless.
Now their new race they are adding the females only have 1 face... AGAIN. If I could mod the face I wouldn't care, but, I can't.
Diablo 3 is even worse I can't customize my character at all, and there's NO appearance tab just dyes.
I don't understand this new trend of limited options coupled with disallowing modding.
You can learn far more by following and altering existing code than you can by trying to create something on your own. As you become more comfortable with inner workings of the programming languages or other tools you are using, you gain more confidence in your ability to create something from scratch.
Bingo.
I used to take other people's stories and just change the names of the characters. Over time I started changing the stories themselves. After a while I began to understand how they wrote what they wrote and why...
Eventually I got good enough at it that I didn't want to use someone's elses story anymore I could make something far superiorly suited to my needs and tastes. And that's what I did from then on.
I did the same thing with artwork, mapping, modding, all sorts of skills. In the copyright world this is called being brainless/imaginative/unoriginal .etc But in the world of logic it's called self-teaching.
You cannot learn without copying. Even teachers will make you copy things (Such as letters, for small children learning the alphabet) until you learn them.
And you shoved your monopoly down everyone's throats after you became obsolete. Guess you don't care about other people's cultural rights. No big surprise there. You're trying to keep monopoly. You may never keep it. Life goes on. But you, MAFIAA, you're super special. The rules don't apply to you, right?
Um, if you don't get the permission you need, then you don't get to use the property you don't have permission to use. Just like everything else in the real world.
Did you get permission to act like a jackass on this blog?
Also I'm curious as to why they decided to use white instead of red, since red mirrors their intention more than white which is usually used to mean 'purity'... Wait, I think I get it now.
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You say it like you're some kind of fucking Borg.
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She is, busy with her new movie "Seder Masochism".
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Expecting artists to create in a vacuum is like plopping cake-mix into a pan and expecting it to automatically bake with 6 layers of icing inside and fondant outside complete with decoration.
Sadly this isn't the case, you have to 're-invent' the cake by adding icing, fondant and decorations to it.
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This does NOT mean I completely threw away everything about them from the past, infact I tried to stay as close to the previous sources as possible while adding something new to them.
One cool example is Carl Banks/Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck he wears all red, but in Disney's Ducktales he wears blue, in my personal crackfics he wears green+gold.
In the first example he is very greedy, the second he is still somewhat greedy but more soft, in the third the guy has pretty much said "fuck it" and while he keeps his cash he's now wholly embraces there's more to life than money.
Right there you can see artists building on top of previous works, starting with Carl Barks, Don Rosa built on his work, Disney built on their works and then I built on all of their works combined.
Unfortunately, Disney wants to control who builds on "their" stuff, fortunately I thought to myself "fuck Disney" and did it anyway.
I am now suddenly less capable of having my own characters? Nope. I have a bunch of them. Is what I did too Scrooge suddenly "unimaginative"? Not if you can reinvent him as has been done multiple times.
I even went as far as to pick my own hues/tones of his original colors and come up with new styles for his clothes.
And he's just one of several characters I've reinvented. NOT including new characters which must be invented from scratch then reinvented as they develop!
It's not just innovation it is also EVOLUTION.
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Scarred for life.
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Neverwinter Nights handled this situation really well.
They had something called an "override" folder where you could add in your appearance modifications and it would change them even on servers without your mod loaded.
No one else could see it, unless you gave them the files of course.
You can kind of do this in WoW but you can get banned for it, unfortunately.
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There was this server that had like 20+ gametypes more than half of them 100% user made content.
They had a racing gametype, a "lego-builder" where you can make houses with a gun that let you place/shoot blocks and objects around, some kind of "Japanese-Gameshow" type where you had to survive/navigate obstacle courses.
Entire port of the original Unreal game with multiplayer elements, some kind of "Defend your fort" game where you got to build your fort and then defend it from attacking monsters complete with an RPG level up system.
They even had an RTS gametype. I don't really remember the rest but there was alot.
I haven't gotten into the Morrowind mods, or the Neverwinter Nights 'modules', modding is truely the lifeblood of gaming.
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It'd be one thing even if they limited modding that they'd actually provide a huge variety of options and customization.
But, they don't, World of Warcraft *cough* female Worgen *cough* with their 1 Derp-Chihuahua face comes to mind. Or how they brought in appearance tab but restricted it so much it almost made the entire thing pointless.
Now their new race they are adding the females only have 1 face... AGAIN. If I could mod the face I wouldn't care, but, I can't.
Diablo 3 is even worse I can't customize my character at all, and there's NO appearance tab just dyes.
I don't understand this new trend of limited options coupled with disallowing modding.
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Bingo.
I used to take other people's stories and just change the names of the characters. Over time I started changing the stories themselves. After a while I began to understand how they wrote what they wrote and why...
Eventually I got good enough at it that I didn't want to use someone's elses story anymore I could make something far superiorly suited to my needs and tastes. And that's what I did from then on.
I did the same thing with artwork, mapping, modding, all sorts of skills. In the copyright world this is called being brainless/imaginative/unoriginal .etc But in the world of logic it's called self-teaching.
You cannot learn without copying. Even teachers will make you copy things (Such as letters, for small children learning the alphabet) until you learn them.
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Did you get permission to act like a jackass on this blog?
No? Well STFU & GTFO.
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Oohh ah oohhh!!
Internet killed the MAFIAA star
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I'd rather be known as Lady Blue of Internet Anarchy than Lady Red of Internet Communism.
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