Found Lyrics: Leon's Ending (Dead or Alive 3) at 8:47 AM

  

 

"Dreaming hard dry winds are dancing in the sunset You can hear far away eternal voice Nothing changed our love Nothing changed our love I'll be there for you"

 

There, you're welcome!

Why I'll always skip Youtube ads at 10:26 AM

 

We're coming in hot!

 

You know, I've been using Youtube for over 10 years.  To some of you who are younger, for whom Youtube has always been Youtube from after Google buying it, it may seem that Youtube has not changed all that much in a decade. And indeed there's still many things that are basically unchanged.

Yes, this is where you put in the jokes about the comments section.

And I'm not here to lament that it went from a  social network (I had "Youtube Friends") to something that tries to sell you Batman and Robin when you look up clips of it. If YT us is now a service then YT is now a service and there's no fighting back against that.

With that said, if Youtube is a service, then we judge it as a service. Here's the service: You browse through  the millions of vids, find one you like,  click and the video plays. There's channels native to Youtbe providing original content, there's officially hosted preexisting content suppliers, and there's "guy at home trying to get you to help him steal superman." varieties of quality. You can rent or I think buy movies for Youtube, you can..."find" movies on Youtube, you can find somebody who hosted just that good clip from that good show or movie.

There might be some ads, too. 

 

Now, skipping ads is something I generally did not do...because I used my internet browser to watch YT instead of  the dedicated app, so I did not get ads. I didn't do it for that reason, I just thought Google had enough control of our lives that I should also be using their app for something I could see on the internet. I considered it a failure on their part not to put ads in the browser, and no, I wasn't gonna reward their failure by watching it in their app.

But I understood that watching this ads helped  Creators, so if ads ever played I did not skip them, because I knew at least there was a solid chance Lewis Louhaug or Phelan Porteus or Lindsay Ellis or Larry Bundy or Bob Chipman might see some money from it. I know how this works, a single view is /nothing/ but little by little you fill the cart, as my momma used to say.

I did not like the ads. I don't remember ever seeing a Youtube ad  that made me want what it was selling. And while I might have tolerated them, there where certainly ones that crossed some lines. Like I like you guys, but I'm not watching 20 minutes of Prager U just to watch 8 minutes of you. I do not like you THAT much, I don't think I like ANYBODY that much.

 

But it was understood that watching the ads was broadly good for Youtubers and skipping them, I assumed, sent some kind of virtual signal to YT HQ that you weren't ENGAGING with the ads. When you saw that ad you knew you where doing your part.

Unless Youtube chose to just give all that money to somebody who  claimed the copyrights of the work. 

Yes indeed, YT has been notorious for years by handling  copyright disputes by just  putting  the ads and giving the entire winnings of that video to whoever claims owns some copyrighted material in it, even if the material is 10 seconds long and the "owner" can't prove it owns anything. This happened to me recently, as a midi of the first 30 seconds  of Smoke in the water was met with offers to just put some ads in there and give the money to Deep Purple, or delete the clip.

I am not allowed to monetize my own channel. I used to , but YT changed the rules so that you had to have a lot of views to monetize. So I'm not allowed to put ads for my own gain. If you see ads in my videos just skip them, it's just money going to some company. It does not support me. 

This Partnership can't be held together.

So watching the ads supports creators unless it doesn't and they don't even let you know, either. They don't let you know you might be putting up with these garbage ads for nothing. Depending on the content you're watching there's a solid chance that money is going straight to nobody related to the video.

And lately there's been a lot more ads, if you've noticed. That's because Youtube recently rolled out a policy where they're just gonna be monetizing unmonetized content for themselves, off of the people they don't allow to monetize because it "just didn't get enough views" before. They're putting ads in just old videos or videos of clips of shows, and you can't even know if the money is going to Fox or themselves.

So that's Youtube as a service: Where your video you made for fun in 2010 is now making anybody money but you. What's where "prosumers" went. So if you aren't skipping the ads because it might support the creators, remember that there's a solid change it isn't. Like, imagine one of those  "antipiracy nags about how  15,000 people worked in this film" and then there's an asterisk like "*and some of them might have even been paid! Who knows? Well not YOU, that's for sure."

Personally on my end   I'm always gonna skip, and if I can't skip I'll refresh the page. Maybe it won't be always, maybe sometimes I'll be to busy, but I'll do it when I can. Pretty much  all my favorite creators all have said YT barely gives them money anyway, and they're all on Patreon at this point.  Supporting authors is a nice sentiment, which is why those who exploit authors always have  that one up their old sleeve. They'll then say supporting them is supporting creators.

And no, I don't think I'm important enough to tip the scales of YT with an "ad boycott" that will force it to treat it's creators fairly. I'm just one guy. But if it's all the same, this one guy isn't  putting up with more Manscaped ads until you give me a reason. 

See? I can change my terms as well.

New Video! About Copyright at 8:19 AM

That's right, I am mostly recovered from the  marasm of the Trump era and ready to get back at you on. I even made a thumbnail and stuff can you believe it?

Telling a Good Story at 7:00 PM

I watched a  movie once. It was called Black Water. A rare case of random browsing turned to full movie watch, I watched this movie at the behest of my mother, who was  at the time suffering from brain cancer, with very few days to live, so I often think about this. It's one of the last things we did together.

The story regarded 3 people, a newly pregnant woman her husband and a female friend of them, all living in Australia. They go on  a trip to a crocodile farm, and then the farm owner offered to take them on a boat trip. 

But then it all goes awry when during the boat trip a crocodile overturns their boat and carries away the  captain, and the other ones must cling  to tall treas while the hungry croc tries to out maneuver them.
The man got eaten in front of them, and one of the women (I forget which one) was bitten and died from the injuries. In the end, the final survivor  took a gun from the body of the ship captain, used it to kill the biggest croc, and got out.

A harrowing story of survival. I like those kind of stories. You know, surviving nature, and like, dangerous animals. I liked it.

And then I looked it up in IMDB. Apparently this movie was inspired by real events, which made it even more amazing! Why surely, they must have added some here, and embellished something there, but like if it's inspired by real events you expect the changes to be within reason.

For example there's been discussion  about 6 Days in Falluhaj, a video game about...The Battle of Fallujah. Making a videogame based on a real military operation  that took place within most of our lifetimes in a war that isn't even over and...well it's the W
ar on Iraq. It's like...known to be bad. 

See, that's how I chose to describe the Iraq War. Known to be bad. 

Pretty bad, yo.

 The devs have discussed that their videogame, which was already cancelled when it was slated to be released in 2009, is "not trying to tell a political commentary", which one presumes means sticking to the facts, right? This videogame, which will be released on PC, will tell the story during that battle where over 800 humans died. It's using the real people who really where there, and a dual campaign where you're going to play as both the U.S. Forces and  an unarmed Iraqi trying to escape.(BUT DEFINITELY NOT AN INSURGENT!)
It will not, however, include  certain details, like American use of White Phosphorous and Uranium shells, because apparently none of the Soldiers they talked  to knew nuthin bout this whole "war crimes" business.

From an interview these guy's heart seems to be in the right place. He's saying he doesn't want  the player to come out liking the events, he just, it seems, wants to make you feel like, and for, the U.S armed forces that shot some people there, for some reasons or whatever. And uh...if he's been trying to get this game about this particular even out for 15 years he must REALLY believe in his vision.

But is that enough? Is wanting to tell a good story enough? What is our responsibility when telling a real story involving real people?

There's a general thinking in Hollywood,which for far long is videogame's north star, in which  telling a good story trumps reality. Sometimes you condense a whole lot of people into one person. Sometimes, you just include a person that wasn't there, and then kill them off for pathos. And yes, sometimes you lie about war to make one side look better and another look worse.

In Black Water's case the real story is there where 3 men riding on bicycles (neither of them pregnant), when a sudden rise in water swept them away. One of them  was unconscious and last seen in the jaws of a crocodile, and the other two hung on to trees for a night until they where rescued. There was no boat, and there was no captain, and there was no gun, and it was a fairly shorter ordeal.

I mean...Australia technically exists.

And my mom didn't have cancer and is alive to this day.

But it makes a good story, doesn't it? It gives it that extra punch, it makes it relatable.   I mean, it seems like a total rat bastard thing to make up, but if it makes the story better, it's worth it. Right?  I tugged at your heart strings with these lies, and if it made you feel what I wanted you to feel, do I have a responsiblity to her, to you, to myself, to tell the truth?

Because the difference between heroic and  villainous in media can often be what camera angle is covering you and what notes are playing while you describe what it is you want.  The difference between invader and  liberator  can be an establishing shot of cheering people. And that's already a heavy burden when the characters are fictional and not real people. What you choose to say and not say matters.

If you're gonna dip your toes into that water, you  need to take that into consideration.

They made a sequel to Black Water.  Thinking of watching it. Will they raise the scales? Are the crocs bigger, the situation more dangerous?

I do like a regular creature feature.

The future is stupid and so is this guy at 11:47 AM

My entries for Project 2034 at 7:05 AM

 

 So here's my entries for Project 2034. To show you how to do it. 

 

 Cheng Liu is a gifted freelance photographer.  She is the biggest fan of The Visitor.

 

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Bloodsucker

A heiress to a hotel empire, Venice Ivanka West thought she was the best. When an accident during  a shooting of her reality show turned her into a gruesome  mosquito monster, she grew insane with the idea of filling the world with her mosquito larva.

Queen Avadon

Ruler of a planet of insectoid humanism Avadon  is a cunning foe to Earth!

The V Dog

The V Dog comes from a planet of sentient super dogs who overthrew their cruel bipedal masters.

The V Bird A Watcher cursed by God to be turned into a bird, The V Bird used it's powers to trick V Sister into  turning it temporarilly back into  it'sn full form.

Space Rider A cosmic bounty hunter, it is believed Space Rider is in deep debts that hell do anything to pay.

Fromp Crime family. Owners of a large space mafia, The Fromps are always looking to get space rich to pay off for their patriarch's horrible buisness sense.

Zap Is a content creator, who's constant antics brought her to the attention of Aliens. She agreed to wear a special device that allowed her to shoot electricity, but only if her alien observers liked what she was doing. If she met a minimum of disaproval she'd die.

Duron A radioactive robot powered by an atomic heart,  Duron's brain is a copy of the brain of the cientist who created him

Zosh A former cult leader in a destroyed planed, Zosh likes to go from planet to planet, asking for praise, and destroying those who won't

V  Survivor While Visitor went about his buisness here on  Earth,  his older sister's ship became stuck in a desolate planet full of crime.  When she finally did reach her brother on earth, he'd become a big hero and someone had made a magic copy of her.

Nnijd a peskty Djinn from  The Smoke Universe.

Candy Maker Sonya Wenkler is the daughter of a sweets tycoon who tried to kill her father as  a way to get back at him for leaving his buisness to someone else.

Mirror V There is a mirror universe, where all beings are made of broken shards of glass. Mirror V is their hero.

Llorona Blanca  A police officer, Ramona Fuentes accidentally gunned down her own son while on duty. Distraught, she thought she heard a voice tell her to kill more people  to bring back her son.

The Visitor an ALien Superheroe who is visiting the planet. He very often changes costume.

I-Cortex a cyborg Alien, I-Cortex  goes to planets and offers  advanced syborg technology only to use it to steal people's information.

Ryan Rex: A former military officer, Ryan Rex is the leading supplier of weapons across the world. But secretly he's a bad guy!

Roxxane Rex is a mad scientist, and Ryan Rex's twin sister.

Hitgalut This creature's species colonizes world's by sending cloning machines  to dangerous planets and having them continually make varied clones until some of them have to survive just by sheer luck. But in the planet  Hitgalut was born was so dangerous it took  him being an absolute invinsible monster just to survive.

V Sister   While sifting through The Visitor's belongings,  Cheng Liu came upon a picture of The Visitor's sister. Just as suddenly a genie appeared and offered to grant her one wish. She wished she could be with that girl, and the Genie granted her wish. The Visitor was shocked, surely this wasn't his sister. And she wasn't when the real one came back she didn't liek it one bit.

Jack Hammer Slam: A Basketball star and inventor Jackie The Hammer  Hampton was disappointed when his inventions for a better  basketball game where used for evil. So he invented himself a super suit and wernt after everyone.

Update:  Some colors. I finally got that scanner!

Empress Badushka swore she would never marry someone who couldn't kill her in battle.This was a trick to never marry.

 The entirety of this blogpost, and any text or art shown in it s released under  a Creative Commons licence, free to be used by anyone for any reason, with no need for attribution. With that said,  you are higly encouraged to refference the term "Project 2034" when you do use it.

To the extent possible under law, Gabriel Ramirez Cruz has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to My entries for Project 2034 . This work is published from: United States.

Project 2034: FAQ at 7:18 PM

 

 

 So you've  seen my video... but you still have questions! I  am always working in my clarity but I do think I'm  a lot better texting intent than I am  speaking, so if you have doubts, I will do  my best to help you with that.

What is Project  2034?

Project 2034 is my pitch to...everyone, to create a collective  universe full of characters for  everyone to use when Superman becomes Public Domain, there's  already characters  and mythos that anyone can draw from on that day.

 

So that when that day comes , creators don't have to necessarily  produce an entire Superman cast whole cloth.

How do I participate in Project 2034? 

Simply create one or more characters or element and release it as Creative Commons. You don't  have to write the whole character's  life and misadventures, though you're welcome to be indepth. 

 Make a character you think would feel at home in Superman stories in 15 years and would compensate for all the characters people won't be able to use, either power wise or drama wise,

And then you show me your creation and in Jan 1 2022 I will make a video  about all the creations people did. Send it to Drawnder@gmail.com or @ Drawnder on Tweeter.

But what  if two people  make the same idea?

Like ok, I did most of the characters I'd  add to, and some of them may overlap with your ideas  for Project 2034. That's  great actually. 

There aren't any dibs in Project 2034. We aren't competing to see who makes the best Black Zero knock off.  In fact having a choice is kinda good in my eyes. Don't be discouraged if somebody came up with a similar idea.

Is WB gonna sue me for participating in this or for using the characters for it?

For participating on it probably not. I could probably try to make a drawing of Superman and release it under  Creative Commons right here and they won't even find out.

As for using the characters from it, I can't quite guarantee it, because they can sue you for things they don't even own, as seen before. They might sue you. No promises. 

To minimize this project ending in a bunch of lawsuits, I recommend the following:

 

-Don't make your character so close to a DC one that they can put them side by side and  say it's the same characters. If you're character is just Doomsday with a bowtie or like Steel with a Mustache, then it's possible people using it could get sued. Of course, people using it also have a responsibility. If the character is too similar then...don't  use that or change it just enough. Use strong judgement.

-Don't make the character's story be exactly similar to another character's Wiki entry. Make their backstory short and vague and add at least two details that  are unique. The people using the character will decide to add or remove more as they see fit.

-Don't publicly allude to which character is inspiring you! This might be later used against you or whoever in court. While it's unlikely they'll chase down  a 15 year old post on the Deviant Art forums just to prove it was copyright infringement, unlikely isn't impossible. ESPECIALLY  DON'T DO THIS ON THE VERY POST WHERE YOU'RE RELEASING THE WORK.  Be smart.

Do:

 

Don't:

Ok but what's in it for me? I give away a free character and then get nothing back?

No, you're not giving away  the character. You can still use it for yourself, if you think the character has potential. Somebody could popularize the character...and then you, creator of the character, still have access to using it yourself. You're losing nothing.

What you get is: If the idea of working on Supeman once he becomes public domain is something you'd like, or maybe not yourself but you'd like other people to do it, then a collective pool of potential characters to draw from could help people in that not so distant future. 

If this project gets off of the ground what you get is a vibrant, collective universe of Superman characters that anyone can expand upon. If that sounds like something you'd want to happen, then  you can support the project, by creating for it, or just sharing it with people and letting them know about it.

What's in it for you?

Nothing that you won't also get.

See, to me characters  like Superman oughta be Public Domain already, but thanks to copyright extensions in the 90's and 70's that's been put off. I consider this robbing us of works we deserve. And even if they somehow undid it tomorrow, the time can never be brought back. I will be mid 40's  when these characters finally lapse.

And you know, I could just sit here and grumble about it and already have sat here and grumbled about it. But I think  besides that, we can at least take a shot at doing something  that will partially undo the harm these copyright extensions have done, and time is on our side.

You mentioned other characters...

Yes, Batman was created a year after Superman, and shortly after  that Wonder Woman.  A project like this but for those characters is something  we can get going, Spider-Man,hmm...

Like for Spider-Man, you're looking at 2057. We can do it but...will you even be alive to see it? 

Personally I'm down but...let's see if anyone's interested in these closer ones, first.

Or don't. If you're really gonna  send it to the  far future, you don't need my permission. I'm into time capsuling, myself.