edit 6/21/23. i don’t really have a DNI/F bc idgaf just don’t be weird but here’s a quick one: 1. proship or whatever you lot call yourselves now sail AWAY [sitcom laugh] and 2. Ok look having a fandom dni is lame i know but at this point im so tired like for real. Anyway this is not a safe space for sol/ky or sol/asuka shippers i’m serious.
Do you pay for Spotify Premium?
yes, it’s the only way to make spotify useable
no, I will never submit to their terror campaign of ads
I use someone else’s Spotify Premium account
no, but I pay for another music streaming service
something else
feeling greatly outnumbered in my principled (read: spiteful) stand against paid subscriptions
One fallacy, I think, of anti piracy arguments is that a lot of them seem to assume that if I'm unable to pirate something I'm going to pay for it instead rather than going "oh! that's a terrible shame" and then quickly forgetting about it
"If you were not pirating [media] you'd be paying for it and therefore piracy is evil 😡" actually if I were not pirating that media I would be thinking about something else. I have made the decision to not spend any money on this and even god himself could not shake it
the research on this was already done decades ago and then quickly squashed because the record labels did not like the finding that people who pirated music were spending way more money on actually buying music legally than people who did not pirate music. it turns out people who care enough to pirate media are generally big fans of that media and willing to spend money on it if they have the money to spend
article is from 2009 so we have known this for a LONG time.
The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15. Researchers found that those who downloaded "free" music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry's largest audience for digital sales.
Wisely, the study did not rely on music pirates' honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase.
kecskefeszek asked:
for the ask game 1, 6, and 9?
1. the character everyone gets wrong
look. everyone is expecting me to say sol badguy. and they wouldn’t be wrong because everyone fucking loves being weird and annoying about sol all the time.
but like. this is not a sol-exclusive phenom. pretty much every character i can think of i’ve seen people wildly misinterpret for the lamest punchlines possible. It sucks out here man
6. which ship fans are the most annoying?
solky fans easily. And that’s all i’m saying about that❤️
9. worst part of canon
i’m going to direct you to my friend jim @fauslayer and what he had to say to this question here because it puts my gripes with strive’s epilogue into words better than i could
i absolutely do not count asuka taking the flame of corruption out of sol’s body as any sort of apology for all the shit he put sol through. sooner or later sol was going to die if it was kept inside of him and asuka fucking knew that. it quite literally was the bare minumum he should’ve done for sol at that point, frankly!
also this doesnt even begin to get into. jack'o’s weird heteronormativity beam writing but like that’s a whole other can of worms.
kingofdinosaurs asked:
do as many or as few of these as you like, but 7, 12 and 17?
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?
i don’t want to say bridget. I don’t want to say bridget.
god nobody can be smart about her anymore i’m sorry. tokenization is an actual disease and frankly testament has been getting some of this too but its really really bad with buri. Unforch
12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
…❓️ idk about this one honestly
17. there should be more of this type of fic/art
sorry. i think you already know some of my thoughts abt this matter but i think DI is very effective as like an extended metaphor for own disconnect from his body bc of [EXTENDED TV CENSOR BEEPING] [YOU DIDN’T PUT 2 HERE AND I DON’T WANT TO SPRING THAT ON YOU AT RANDOM] so i wish more people would like. examine it a bit more throughly wrt to this aspect. idk
kingofdinosaurs asked:
1 and 9 for the ask game? for anything, go crazy with it
fauslayer answered:
its been awhile since ive crazytalked guilty gear i wanna do that again
1. the character everyone gets wrong
i think everyone expects me to say faust here and thats still true but i think. a lot of the people that actually care enough about faust to continuously talk about him are right. and the ones that arent i usually explode with my block button because like. ppl misinterpret dr baldhead because nobody cares him. thats ok. same with faust later its just that theres more people who know who he is. theyll either eventually understand him or stop talking about him. circle of life.
but. god damn. how do so little people care about and understand multiple MAIN characters of guilty gear?
i havent met a bundle of goons are frequently misinterpreted as sol and ky and at this point i WILL argue jack'o. that edgy-ass post about ky hating himself for liking men and having Yucky Extramarital Affairs XD because hes a catholic XD or whatever genuinely makes me see red and want to fucking kill people.
i know its a fighting game so every fucking ham and egger on planet earth thinks they can just turn their media literacy off except for their Special Little Blorbini (who they always ALSO misinterpret) because thats the exception to fighting game characters being BAD and for DUMB PEOPLE but if you dont engage with fucking SOL AND KY as characters youre genuinely missing so much of guilty gear. but god forbid people pay attention to Angry Brown Dude Who Surely Has Nothing Else of Value Besides His Pale Wifething or Haha White French Guy Who Certainly Doesn’t Spend All of GG Trying to Better The World For Everyone Around Him No Matter What The World Throws At Him. some of you are going to hell for what youre saying about sol badguy and ky kiske that is fucking all.
9. worst part of canon
oh guilty gear strive main story like without a fucking doubt dude. sorry i ROUTINELY get on tilts about sol’s story being resolved by asuka once again violating sol’s bodily autonomy without his consent and instead of it being treated like a compound of all of asuka’s problems and a clear showing of his flaws as a character it’s celebrated and sol just throws away the life hes carved for himself through years of agony and discontent to Go Back To Being Feddy because thats clearly what the end of the xrd story implied he wanted guys. I just kinda pretend all that shit with I-No and Axl didn’t happen as well to be quite honest. how was strive main story so. genuinely BAD in so many regards when another story was like. expertly crafted to be something true and beautiful. daisuke what happened. Where is Potemkin btw can we like give him a moment to himself
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