My feeling of relief when my gf said she didn't want to watch it was immense.

You got the cheese sweats

Saving the gun for pirates

Don't threaten me with a good time.

lol you didn't answer my question, so, yeah, done here.

What about *other* people's wishes?

Cool for you, I guess, but what if the rest of us want to do something else with our work? Like--aren't you the person who was like "if an author doesn't want fanfic made with their characters that should be respected?" Why is this instance of a writer's wishes fundamentally different?

Yeah, I don't buy the "this fucks over poor people" argument at all. It "fucks over" entitled people.

Isn't that...a library

I didn't say that was the only value of art, but if you don't believe that artists should get paid for their work that they put out their in the marketplace--fuck off.

Right, like we all *know* in an intuitive, bone-deep way that AI jerkoffs shouldn't get to feed people's work into the Theft Machine without express permission and recompense, but for some reason we're supposed to humor "but I want it and deserve it, fuck your rights as the creator."

It devalues art and normalizes the devaluing of art.

Marx had this whole thing about people not being alienated from the products of their labor and these people are determined to avoid that bit

If you need an outside group to playtest this I could definitely get my players onboard with the concept

I run a tight ship

Thank you!

I'm not looking for a justification or condemnation of the practice; I was asking what the alternatives were.