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You advocate a

• technical
• legislative
• social
• harassment-based

approach to fighting AI art. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is About Itself

The Stanely Parable (referring to the first game) was largely about this notion of author versus audience--who is actually in control of a story when it's told? Each ending in the Stanley Parable explored different ways of resolving the power struggle--does the Narrator have power over Stanley? (Countdown, Mariella, Apartment, Freedom endings) Or does Stanley have power over the Narrator? (Wrong Choice, Zending, Not Stanley, Games)? Or maybe it's the player who has ultimate control? Or the game designer? The Stanley Parable was "about itself", but really the deeper themes I think are about the form and structure of narrative, and how narrative control is a type of power.

(also I've decided that the Homestuck Epilogues are just a worse version of the Stanley Parable, sorry everyone.)

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (referring to the second game as a whole) is also about itself, and the Stanley Parable, but is more generally about ideas of nostalgia, seq

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Homestuck Uses Discord

The Beta Kids

• John - Is the owner, but doesn't really know how to run a server.
• Rose - The only one with a good internet connection and a good mic. Always on topic.
• Dave - Shitposter. Exclusively posts in #memes or if there is no meme channel, will post memes in every channel until one is made.
• Jade - Pretty much everyone treats her like the actual owner of the server. Hangs out in #general to welcome newbies.

The Trolls

• Karkat - Always in voice chat. His microphone is somehow the shittiest mic out of anyone.

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-- prehistoricCanidae [PC] started texting sanguinaryOsteomancer [SO] --
PC: :3
SO: Love you
SO: I'm laying in a bunch of stuffed animals
PC: Show me!!!!
SO: I'm downstairs now. i will layer
SO: Actually I'll just throw you on them
PC: no yeeting me!!!
SO: YEET THE BOYO
PC: NO YEET THE BOYO!!

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SCENE: Karkat and Dave are playing Minecraft.
TG: ok now take this and go milk the cows while i finish setting up the automatic harvester 
GAME: carcinoGeneticist has received: Empty Bucket
GAME: carcinoGeneticist has dropped: Empty Bucket
CG: AAAARRRRGG. STOP GIVING ME THIS SHIT.
TG: dude what are you doing. dont fuckin drop it.
CG: SHUT UP DAVE. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
TG: it's just a bucket. we need it to get milk from the cows
CG: WHY DO I HAVE TO DO IT WHEN YOU ARE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF GETTING YOUR OWN FUCKING UNPASTEURIZED DAIRY PRODUCTS FROM YOUR BOVINE ANIMALS WITH YOUR OWN FUCKING HANDS
GAME: carcinoGeneticist has received: Empty Bucket

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The Beta Kids

• John Egbert - Likes all video games but is bad at all of them.
• Rose Lalonde - Likes interactive fiction, but is more interested in the story than the actual puzzles.
• Dave Strider - Likes really bad games, but only ironically. Is currently making "SBaHJ: teh VIDO gAEM???"
• Jade Harley - Likes Simcity-esque games. It's fun to manage a tiny city and make people happy!

The Alternian Trolls

• Karkat Vantas - Likes hard platformers. Good at them, but gets mad when really close to the end and dies.

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Alignment Systems in Alternian Roleplaying Games

Alternian tabletop games, similar to human tabletop, often utilize a form of "alignment" for characters. In human D&D, for example, this takes the form of the Lawful/Chaotic and Good/Evil alignments, where lawful and chaotic tend to describe a character's own adherence to personal value, respect for authority, and so on, while good and evil tend to describe a character's moral stance, selfishness or selflessness, or end goals. This results in 9 possible alignments. Alternian D&D (typically written as "D∧D" instead) too has a similar concept, but instead has the concept of HEROIC/JUST and Pacifistic/Bloodthirsty alignments.

![An Alternian tabletop alignment chart table with "pacifisitic, mediatory, incendiary, bloodthirsty" as the columns and "HEROIC, NEUTRAL, JUST" as the rows. From left to right, top to bottom, the following characters are written: [HEROIC] Tavros, Kanaya, Karkat, Vriska. [NEUTRAL] Nepeta, Terezi, Equius, Gamzee. [JUST] Sollux, Feferi, Ara

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