Posts by leon@peoplemaking.games
(DIR) Post #AWotLRRAw4XJmc85po by leon@peoplemaking.games
2023-06-18T15:22:39Z
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@Liquidream @wogan the key thing that Harmon did was really extrapolate Campbellian mythic structure to *episodic television*. Harmon maintains that writing episodic is much more challenging than serial, which is why we see so much less episodic shows where everything is artfully reset at the end in a way that makes you believe it isn’t reset, and way more 40 hour movies that have a 5% chance of ending well.I absolutely believe there’s a lot games can take out of the story circle because it’s pulling a similar act - episodic TV is tricking you into thinking the characters have agency and consequences, but they can’t because then it wouldn’t be episodic (and it would alienate new viewers). Game writing is frequently tricking players into thinking their player character has agency and consequences but they can’t because then it wouldn’t be implementable (or a game).
(DIR) Post #AhkEKyqhWMDrHMx6iO by leon@peoplemaking.games
2024-05-10T01:31:26Z
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@stroughtonsmith 20” maxiPad would be great and funny
(DIR) Post #AmF2ety9XRnwne5nvs by leon@peoplemaking.games
2024-09-21T22:13:56Z
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@futurebird @mcc now I gotta know if artists of the former incorporate the latter into their subjects
(DIR) Post #ArqJJXEQjN0BeDMflQ by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-08T00:34:30Z
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@lunarood @mcc 💯It’s increasingly clear to me that the “deal” of open source was written by folks who vastly overvalue the worth of source code and is used to dodge considering the morality of irrevocably donating money, aid, and weaponry to the worst people you can imagine giving them to
(DIR) Post #ArqJJYrSfjokhYdMEy by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-08T10:49:51Z
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@whitequark @lunarood @mcc i’m certainly opposed to academic publishing’s business and IP model and the resulting perverse incentives for academiabut no, I’m not concerned about the free and unchecked spread of peer reviewed *information*, especially between experts. What I think we need to be more careful about is the spread of *products*. Products should be considered immediately applicable as weapons and/or revenue sources to the worst people the authors can imagine and licensing decisions should go from there.
(DIR) Post #Arr4zWZ8IEz1adZWvQ by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-08T18:20:38Z
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@ignaloidas @whitequark @lunarood @mcc While it's certainly true that academics write software programs, they generally do not have the education, interest, and/or funding to turn those software programs into commercially valuable products with high utility and usability. This is perfectly normal; their research questions tend to begin 'is it possible to make a system that' rather than ‘is it possible to launch a product that achieves’.The more general open source community on the other hand continually creates software that is useful, usable and commercially viable, often directly competing with commercial products, like OpenOffice or Wordpress. This is good for everyone, unfortunately, 'everyone' includes *everyone*.Additionally, academia has a much, much more mature understanding and relationship with ethics than most FOSS projects – this is the real source of my concern, the misconception that you are helpless but to give good stuff to bad people so you can participate in the gift economy.
(DIR) Post #ArrQwQUEdVoArKD1cG by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-08T22:47:40Z
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@ignaloidas @whitequark @lunarood @mcc I am concerned with freely and irrevocably distributing turnkey software products, apps, usable or sellable by non-expert outsiders to do or finance harm. I just think it would deeply suck to be hurt by someone using work I made and gave to them, with my blessing to do whatever they want with forever, provided they shared the modifications they made to the source code. It keeps happening with increasing regularity and it sucks and we could stop it as a community with a very minor cultural shift.Academia does make important breakthroughs, but academics publish proofs of concepts to other academics, around their speciality, typically not broadly applicable products to the general public which hateful morons can immediately and freely exploit and weaponise en masse. I can't think of any counterexamples off the top of my head, and the funding model wouldn't make sense, but if they exist I think they should absolutely consider their products’ risk profile.
(DIR) Post #ArsLWngbSAgWfXuobI by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-09T08:48:40Z
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@ignaloidas @whitequark @lunarood @mcc If someone is hurting people with your stuff, you shoud be able to opt out of complicity. With pretty much every other type of licence, if someone is doing bad things, you can terminate the licence. If I choose to use a licence where I can’t do it, like it or not, it’s effectively the same as me volunteering for them. While you can’t stop someone using software by just revoking a licence, there is a world of difference between being an accomplice and having your work illegally used against your permission. And you in turn change their stance to criminal, against the rule of law and corporate interests, which for a certain type of baddie fights against their image.Corporations use software with and enter into revocable agreements all the time. Every single one of them are, from sales contracts to employment contracts. Eternal, globally sublicensable, transferable, irrevocable are freakishly rare terms even on their own, let alone all together.
(DIR) Post #ArsLWqA6FTT4LbjOr2 by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-09T08:56:24Z
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@whitequark @ignaloidas @lunarood @mcc I’m not making any claims as to legal efficacy. I am suggesting that I feel there there is a difference between volunteering your work, and having it stolen
(DIR) Post #ArsLWrW7D6fkYB2UoC by leon@peoplemaking.games
2025-03-09T09:14:47Z
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@whitequark @ignaloidas @lunarood @mcc Imagine I wrote a song, and released it under CC0, and it was picked up and used by facists as an anthem. If they stole it because I kept it ARR, I could issue takedowns everywhere they posted it. I could use the platform they are giving me by their violation to call them out publically as criminals who are against the rule of law and property. But they didn’t steal it, I gave it to them. They might even thank me, like how Truth Social thanked the Mastodon authors.I don’t feel that’s the same result at all.