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Just a few recent rants and observations: Cutesy things I rarely rant about the front page, actually, I prefer to rant about people ranting about the front page, but I have to admit: The cutesy pictures of lockets, trinkets, flasks and pocket watches, post-worked in photoshop for cute colors and bokeh, are straining the limits of my tolerance more than crotch shots and slutty MySpace-style self-portraits taken with a cellphone camera. Bronies And talking about the front page: I recently stumbled upon an article which, much to my astonishment, mentioned, that the fan base of the My Little Pony show ("Bronies") is mostly heterosexual males in

My latest journal is getting a bit old now, so I guess it's time for another entry / rant. Instead of a long one like the last, I will cover a few issues: Art theft: While copyright infringement (a.k.a. art theft) is often an annoying thing, here on dA, it sometimes gets treated like it's the worst kind of crime. In comparison to some dA members, the RIAA seems to be outright forgiving and their mass suing of unemployed mums appear as a generous act. If you read journals, forum posts or news articles about „art thieves", commenters regularly go over the top. Some silly kid which used some manga drawings on his blog / dA account / whate

I might be entering dangerous terrain and it hopefully won‘t turn out to be a real minefield, but it‘s something I notice every time I‘m browsing for stock images, textures and other things I could use in a render: To put it bluntly, many stock images rules just plainly suck. Let me start off with two things: 1) Of course, I appreciate the effort stock creators put into their works, which they then offer free to the community. 2) I fully accept, that the creator and copyright holder has the right, to make up and impose any rules she wants, to her stock pictures. But from a practical point of view, those rules are often annoyi