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you said: To ban (generative) AI, it would have to be illegal to begin with. 

Not at all.  This is a private site.  You're subject to whatever rules the powers that be decide to make.  Your participation isn't mandatory, so you opt to either a) follow the rules or b) not use the site or its services.   You may not agree with the rules, but you still have to follow them in order to post here (or any site that's privately owned).

Also, re: legality -- For visual art (and probably writing, though I haven't seen any cases on it yet), you already can't copyright AI-generated content.  It's technically not yours.  It's still new enough that the legal rights/status of content created by machine is still being debated (obviously), but right now, if you put up a game with AI images, and some other creator came along and used all of your images with their own text?  It's legal.  It's shitty.  But it's legal.  (And no shittier than stealing from a bunch of artists by using AI, really.)

I buy a lot of games here.  I want to know my money isn't going to lazy AI-bros.  From the perspective of someone giving y'all money, I'd much rather give a human money than reward unethical gen-AI prompt typists.

You are my new favorite person.  Also, I'm kind of craving gazpacho now.

This was fantastic!  I only had a few minutes this morning, but ended up sucked in and finishing the day.  (Other stuff can wait, right? :D)  Thanks so much for putting this together!

If you do, tell me how it goes!  This stuff is fascinating. :)

Go!  Pet the alpacas for me! :D

Thank you!  I was able to nab a copy.  (The shipping was more than the game, though.  Yikes!)

That makes much, MUCH more sense than llamas, regardless of how they're emoting.  :D

I'm new to all of this, and have what's probably a stupid question:  What's LLM?

I've been wracking my brain and everything I come up with includes laughing llamas.  :)

I'm trying to throw money at you for this, but for some reason, it's telling me that there's no paypal associated with it or something.  I can buy other games, but not this one. :/

Is there another way to get ahold of this one?

Thank you!!  <3

(Because, as seen in the title here, I tend to be a bit...wordy.)  :D

That would be kind of...awesome. :D

Sooo, in other words...you stole it because the creator wouldn't give it to you for free?  And then posted about stealing it on the creator's own page for the game?

<3  And thank YOU for letting a newbie play along. :)

Sure, I'd be happy to. :)

Just speaking as someone who buys way too many a robust selection of games pretty often:

I'd be less likely to buy the bundle if it was a mix of videogames and physical games or game assets.  I really only buy physical games, largely because I have the hand-eye coordination of an overcaffeinated warthog.  If there are videogames in a bundle I'm looking at, most of the time, I don't even download them.  Same with predominantly horror games -- it's a no-go unless there's some other compelling part of play.  (I'm still afraid there are demon clowns under my bed after seeing Poltergeist at age 12.  And I'm fifty-some-odd years old now, so...lasting impressions.)

I'm assuming* that other people are also either exclusionary to their format choices or have a few types that are their thing.  Separating the bundles into format (IF, video, physical, assets) would mean I could buy more of what I actually want, while being able to support creators making things I enjoy.  And hopefully putting a spotlight on creators I may not have found organically.

(* you know what they say about assuming, so maybe speculating is a better term. :D)

(makes tiny little squees of Happy)  :D

If itch had heart reacts, I'd be filling this box with them.  Thanks for the encouragement! (insert more hearts here)