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Recent content by SmokeRichards

  1. Silver Swallow has passed away

    Truck-kun has come for another.

  2. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Well, first off, that's plagarism and theft. Second off, The courts decide what is and is not legal. If I'm broke and can't afford to fight a lawsuit, then I takedown at the first notice. It's not illegal. I just couldn't fight it. Have you read anything I've written? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm...

  3. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    "Noooo!!! Not my GPT 3.5 translation! I'll save you scammer-san!" *Proceeds to hurl body between thread and the [hammer]* Yes, very nice. Look, I like QQ mods. They never come into my threads. Ever. They don't give a fuck unless I ask them to give a fuck. QQ has like, three rules; Don't be...

  4. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Wait. You're telling the thread "Help! I've been reincarnated as Naruto in a generic fantasy world" is not the peak of fiction or translation? ... I've been lied to. I didn't ask to stumble into that thread. I didn't want to stumble into that thread! And now that I have, the emotional damage...

  5. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    I think that if the machine translators hadn't been shitting everything up, I'd be a lot more "Mods, how could you do this?" I mean, the mods would still be right. But I'd feel bad about it. Well, there was this one user who was complaining that the mods didn't give them time to move their...

  6. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    If it's not legal, and it's not illegal, than defacto, it is permissive. Western civilization operates on proscription, not prescription. If it's not transformative, then it's illegal. The bar for transformative is very low. It's not hard to clear. As little as ten percent can make it...

  7. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    I would probably be a lot more sympathetic if you could look at translations and they were all works of love. It's still be pretty iffy for the reasons I've already outlined, but at least then it'd be more complimentary. It's polite, even in the fanfic scene, to ask for permission for recursive...

  8. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    I meant what I said. There's nothing partial about a translation. You're changing the format, not the content. I don't care if I can't understand the language. I'm sure people could put english text into a format my computer cant parse. If someone posted my fic on a website I couldn't access...

  9. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    It's polite to ask for permission if you are lifting anything, and doubly polite if you are making recursive fanfic. Legally, fanfic writers do have certain copyrights to their own creative ideas, characters, setting and plot (To the point where if you are an established IP holder, it's not a...

  10. Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Fanfiction exists in a legal grayspace that no one really wants to take to court because no one wants to risk being wrong. The publishers don't really want to pursue fanfic because if they lose, suddenly it's open season on their IP, and the fanfic writers don't really have the money, and even...

  11. How are you enjoying the story so far?

    How are you enjoying the story so far?

  12. Go ahead. I'll take a look

    Go ahead. I'll take a look

  13. Are asking me to write something, or...?

    Are asking me to write something, or...?

  14. I take it your enjoying TWH?

    I take it your enjoying TWH?

  15. Eragon and Inheritance Cycle fanfic

    Right, so we have No Stars in Sight. Destiny/Inheritance cycle. What you need to know about Destiny is that there are Warlocks, and Warlocks are basically magic users of the semi-eldritch variety. Sometimes when they look up into the sky, the sky looks back and it's face is screaming and has...
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