MU Peeves Thread
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@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:
I wonder which I would judge myself less for: stealing a celebrity’s image to use as a PB, or using an AI-generated image that I can be pretty confident stole its contents from some artist’s work.
As a bit of a devil’s advocate here:
Not touching on the subject of AI imagery b/c that’s still a really sticky mess that I’ve not solidified my feelings on.
When it comes to using celebrities as playedbys I really feel like people get too hung up on it. Saying that you’re “stealing” a public available image is a little bit insulting. When we use celebrities as playedbys we’re not, I fucking hope, going out and finding our favorite celebrity and taking a picture of them like some sort of weird paparazzi stalker. We’re finding publicly available imagery.
We are then saying ‘this is kind of what this character we write about looks like’. We don’t make money off of it. We are not stealing royalties from the celebrity by using their image as an inspiration. Because this is a free hobby that the only money involved is hosting the servers and the domain names. Players aren’t paid for their writing, staff are not paid for providing games.
It is fair more harmless a hobby than say people who do twitch streams of tabletop RPG and use celebrity images to represent their characters. Or say steal images from artists. Or even so far as to commission a fantasy rendition of their favorite actor as their character. That to me crosses a line.
What we do in the hobby is a hobby that is creative and transformative and none of us are making money off of it.
(If you are somehow making money off of MUSHing, please tell me how.)
Like, I’m not trying to start a fight or say I don’t get your point-- I do. You don’t liked celebrities used as playedbys and that’s fine for you to have that stance. But the new byline that we’re stealing from actors by using them as a media representation of characters we write about kind of irks on me. We’re not stealing anything. There’s such thing as fair use and transformative works but also we’re not stealing b/c we’re not profiting off of them.
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@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
(If you are somehow making money off of MUSHing, please tell me how.)
me too please DM me
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I mean…someone told me once that they actually make something like 2k a month writing and selling smut novellas and they got all their practice and inspiration for it from the hobby, soooo…
I used to have my pride but…at this point I wouldn’t sneeze at an extra 2k >_>
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@Wizz I’m clearly writing in the wrong genre.
That said, I think I know who that was. Werewolf erotica, yes?
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they never told me the specifics, lol!! I guess I shoulda asked so I could get in on that market, cuz dang
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@Wizz But that’s not really making money from MUSHing. That’s MUSHing plus even more work.
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pfffffff fine, you’re technically right
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@Wizz The best kind of right!
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The IRE people turned MUDs into money.
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@Wizz said in MU Peeves Thread:
I mean…someone told me once that they actually make something like 2k a month writing and selling smut novellas and they got all their practice and inspiration for it from the hobby, soooo…
I used to have my pride but…at this point I wouldn’t sneeze at an extra 2k >_>
I know someone who makes half a mortgage payment on selling smut on Amazon. She’s actually good at what she does.
To be fair, that’s half a mortgage payment in the Seattle metro so that’s really goddamn good.
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@Wizz I’ve tried, but for some reason I can’t just finish a book. Even a short one of like 30k words. My brain just goes: “Brrrr.” And stops before a satisfying end to the plotline.
And I can’t make myself do an Adrian Blue style career though I’d probably make a lot of money if I could.
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@SpaceKhomeini said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Wizz said in MU Peeves Thread:
I mean…someone told me once that they actually make something like 2k a month writing and selling smut novellas and they got all their practice and inspiration for it from the hobby, soooo…
I used to have my pride but…at this point I wouldn’t sneeze at an extra 2k >_>
I know someone who makes half a mortgage payment on selling smut on Amazon. She’s actually good at what she does.
To be fair, that’s half a mortgage payment in the Seattle metro so that’s really goddamn good.
I wish I could just get over whatever barrier in my brain makes me give up before I’m finished with something and just do it. But my brain just won’t let me
It is a highly frustrating part of myself, because I know that I could make decent money writing if I could just do the writing.
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I don’t think so?
It may have been someone I RP’ed with. But it would be cool to know if there was a scandal I was involved in I didn’t know about.
So I am guessing it was the person I was in the scene with. I have never edited a TS involved scene and posted one.
Mind you this doesn’t really bother me now but /I/ would never post a log like that. I am way too self conscious about my writing and It may be the poster asked me if I cared and edited log went up and I said I didn’t mind. But yeah if this was a me thing I didn’t post the log.
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@Buttercup I did have a couple other folks who also remembered confirm my memory that it was on a Thomas log. But obviously it’s not visible to the public eye either way who wrote the OOC note!
Anyways I wouldn’t call it a SCANDAL. Just funny!
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@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
I wish I could just get over whatever barrier in my brain makes me give up before I’m finished with something and just do it. But my brain just won’t let me
relatable content for sure, lol. sometimes I wince thinking about the literally hundreds of unfinished bits and pieces that might have been maybe something, moldering away on old drives I can’t access anymore
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That was definitely my bit. And yeah, the child was part of their story.
And so, I’m guessing my RP partner posted it and while I don’t remember it, I’m sure I gave her player permission or said I don’t care. I would assume such because that player has always been honest and permission seeking with me over a couple of games.
Sorry.
Although I would question someone who requested the full log, I hope that didn’t happen lol. I wouldn’t personally post my smut nor find it appealing to do so but I don’t care enough to get sideways about it either.
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@Buttercup said in MU Peeves Thread:
Mind you this doesn’t really bother me now but /I/ would never post a log like that. I am way too self conscious about my writing
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Me, an introvert, trying to play an extrovert.
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@Snackness That’s me playing characters that drink and curse. It takes effort and I very often just forget.
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@Polk That’s me playing characters that don’t drink or curse.