Gadg8eer

Wait, is this worth elaboration or am I better off not asking?

Oof, that guy’s probably ended up with a kiwiFarms thread.

If he lost a kid who liked that show, that certainly would explain it. His story sounds so sad, if true, I can’t imagine what that would be like…

lol, so Exactly What It Says On The Tin is common where you live then, I’m guessing?

Is he an Ancient Greek time traveller or something? I swear, that would make for a kickass movie. “You all know the guy. Or girl. That one person in your town, or one of those people if it’s a city, in the impossible urban legend. They’re weird, possibly nice, possibly just creepy, probably mentally damaged.” montage of the other examples “This is ours. We called him the artist. Pretty mild, he just sat in coffee shops and watched people walk by. One day, though, our perception of him would change. Not just in this town, but in this timeline. This… is what happens When Worlds Divide.”

That and humans in general are all crazy in some way. “Normal” is a standard we can try to achieve, but it’s neither realistic nor ideal. At some point a person is sane enough that you have to say “why criticize someone for being themselves?” instead of questioning or distrusting it.

Sounds like a fun town in various ways, lol

Are you a trucker? Or is this a meme? If it’s the former, I’m impressed and worried that that’s common enough to be recognizable.

And people in high places would say he’s “useless” far too often. Oh well.

Glad the municipality at least recognized his efforts, I just mean that in general that doesn’t happen. Really shows that town had better priorities than most.

I hope the guy is still doing okay?

Woah. Spooky. I hope the birds weren’t in pain, Ravens are corvids and basically some of the smartest and emotionally relatable birds.

Aww… I’m glad there are people like him, those kittens were probably doomed otherwise unless there was a local animal shelter and even then finding homes for animals tends to be difficult.

Neat!

Sadly, this is literally the case; it’s a genetic deformity she and other people have had from birth.

Wow, that… that really makes you think. No wonder UFO nuts refuse to admit Roswell was revealed as Project Mogul in the 90s, their belief might be all they have left and if that’s somehow obsolete…

F-ing A! Props to him, it’s a very unique look and most people can’t seem to work up the courage to do more than follow trends.

Certainly a better king than most!

So is art itself. I might not name things the same as my inspirations or create anything identical, but I haven’t written a single thing that wasn’t based on something else.

I don’t want the AI being trained on my work either, but that’s because I oppose “automated mass slavery”

“Oh, you don’t want to be a slave in return for only the most basic of food and shelter? Sure, see if there are any jobs out there anymore, now that robots can do all of it for rich arrogant god complex sufferers like me. Lets lay the new ground rules… You’re DISPOSABLE to me. Beg and worship or die.” - A designated slaveowner’s thought process, 2084.

Stop thinking like a capitalist and start thinking like you’re an angry drunk if you really believe LLM should be outlawed. Envy is not a flattering look on anyone, you included. At least protests and riots get shit done, even if that means sacrificing a lifestyle you’re clearly only enjoying thanks to being self-centered in your artistic pursuits.

Fact is, art is SO hard that I am in my 30s, broke and have no employable skills other than research, social skills (barely, blame Autism for ruining it for me) and creative ability.

I earned, like, $15 to $20 CAD from publishing a book of short stories on Amazon over 2 years. Before you ask why, I am not excluding quality as a possibility but for the most part it’s because nobody is into optimistic post-singularity sci-fi anymore and I refuse to rely on anything but word of mouth for advertisement because screw the advertocracy.

My point is, if people pirate Cody Gibling’s works, I’d rather they do so because I only want enough money to be comfortable and anything else I get would be aimed at more serious pursuits like activism. You know what I pirate? Anything that they make too hard to access in the first place. Like dead MMOs or completed movies that were cancelled to get the studio a free tax break.