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1. Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 07:45:55 UTC Valenoern

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   • georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 07:45:53 UTC georgia

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     @Valenoern "dysphemisms" i love it
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   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 07:45:54 UTC Valenoern

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     > in which i jokingly repurpose 'mockbuster' to mean an original clone that may have a few uncanny similarities to the original by design

     I've been meditating a bit on what clones and fanworks really are.

   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 07:45:54 UTC Valenoern

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     in my mind using 'mockbuster' ironically was supposed to do the opposite of dysphemisms like 'piracy':

     who are the original mockbusters really hurting when probably way more people review them for fun or watch them ironically than have been tricked?
     all they're actually doing is offering more options, albeit usually shitty ones.

     I felt like we should exhaust the word until it was no longer negative and people began to see 'ripoffs' of things as synonymous with the freedom to create anything

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   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 07:46:41 UTC Valenoern

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     user #Birdhammer reports over to the Not-Spyrolanders chat group.

     "So what's the news on Infinite Birdventures?"
     "Game sales have almost met the quota to pay off development. after that, you'll be able to torrent it free from anywhere."
     "Nice. I might actually pay for it to move the needle over faster."

     a few months later, the so-called "rights" to Infinite Birdventures move to the Media Freedom Conservancy and the studio begins working with a talented community member to draft its next game.

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   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 07:46:42 UTC Valenoern

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     I wish there was a way for there to be a 'pine64' of media studios

     that is, one technically working within capitalism, but providing useful non-shitty products that usually market pressures prevent from existing while everyone throws up their hands

     i imagine this producing something like, 'official' adaptations of what are primarily community projects with no single 'owner'

     and selling physical discs etc purely to pay costs before blatantly making the work common property of the fanbase