Soul Train

VERy good work.

Well consider that people will create characters based on IP they developed BEFORE they ever set foot in the costume creator.

Does using the tools NCSoft put in the game transfer that IP to NCSoft? Or is that 'copyright infringement' even though it's the player's personal intellectual property?

Plus there's artwork, stories, history... all of that surely can't be NCSoft's property cos you used a game to 'prototype' the character, can it?

There IS precedent for that, though. If I write a story while using my work laptop, on my work network, sitting at my desk at work, TECHNICALLY it's created using my company's 'resources' and therefore they can lay claim to it. That's happened for inventions and other ideas before, quite a few times.

Not that they'd want it... unless of course, I made lots of money with it. THEN they'd want to cash in.

Actually.... I believe that we as players own the IP of the character concept...


.. but not their powersets or costumes. Also, as long as they're within the game milieu, NCSoft assumes to hold the trademark as a game-generated character (unless we remove them from the servers prior to striking out on our own.)

Now, I am NOT a lawyer, and my understanding of this could be wrong.

those are cool, man!

I look at writing and editing as two separate parts of the same job - building a story from the written word. Spelling and grammar mistakes are to be expected when one is doing 'stream of consciousness' typing into the computer... but you have to go clean them up if you expect to be taken seriously.

unless you're e e cummings of course.

And even he was able to construct amazing things from words.



So, yah, if you're pitching yourself as a writer for hire, then your 'resume' or business card had BETTER be polished. Otherwise you come across as a hack, no matter how evocative the prose.

The gems MUST be cleaned and polished before they are set, lest the tiara they adorn have no sparkle.

... dad burn it, ah guess ah ahm, at that...

(finally broke down and got Texas DL, only now I got Vision Correction added... Curses! means I'm gonna have to get prescription sunglasses for my riding... )

Bad enough you took all the curvy roads for yourselves...




... and I was born in COLORADO! so there.

*looks at Rowr's costume* That, I can probably do.

*looks at Jutey's* That... is gonna take some fiddling. SAARRTOORRIII! SODACAAAAAN!! HELP!!!

OOOoh. Nice work.


And ya... dunno what's scarier... the 'outfit' that seems to be some sentient form of madness, or the fact that such a lovely girl would wear it as her sole means of covering....

I dunno, Jute might shoot me full of arrows if I put you into one of my stories.

... OK I can behave.

Seriously, I've been on a Poser kick for the past week, Sartori sent me some custom SoulTrain costume goodies (we're not worthy!!!) and so now I'm working on some *cough* downtime type renders with her sig-other Chastity Blades.

That, and I'm determined to master the art of posing props and prop figures.... dynamic clothing... etc etc...

.... fine. :P

I'll just have to start pumping out bad Poser art again.

And semi-racy vignettes. Can't forget those.

Hey now... I point people BACK to the artists!!! So if y'all aren't faving the original it is SO not my fault!!


.... slackers.... *glare*

Nice work!!!

[ QUOTE ]
OK, not a bad issue by anymeans, but cottage cheese in lasagna? LTICTTI!

(leave the Italian cooking to the Italians!)

[/ QUOTE ]

I must agree. Go ricotta or go home...

(and yah, I'm aware of there being dairy-free variants... kind of like a restriction for an Ouroboros task force, however you can pull it off for the badge is OK.)

Wow!!

That's great!!

Not unless you withhold the fruit. I hear Scarf likes fruit.

Aerones, and Crestent

Yanno... until we actually do the IRL meet-n-greet thang, it doesn't much matter, does it?


... I hope it doesn't.

Now THAT'S cool!!

Meh.

I look at prose and poetry as art as well as de peeksures... plus so many mediums (traditional, digital, vector, 3-D, sculpture...)

It's all good!!!

And Aerones is the smexy. That is all.

Whoooow!!!

That's just amazing. And smexy. And all kinds of yum, too.

Artistic lesbian with ADD... is it me, or is there, like, a Lifetime movie in there someplace?

I occasionally get comments like that.

9 times out of ten, it's someone soliciting art for themselves, or promoting some club. Basically spam. I just hide the comments and move on.

*squeeee!!!*

*looks for Soul Train in the queue*

Damnit. This is gonna take awhile.