No, two times!

ONE day, we'll make it

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I'ma fit right in with those coders you talked to: it doesn't really bother me. But! I don't ever think I have anything worth stealing. Most times something's taken there's no ill intention. People like something so they grab it and use it and share it, that should be praise in itself since it was good enough someone loved it and put it to use. They just may not think to credit. So definitely talking to them first is probably very important, as they may not have had any intention to 'steal'.

The interesting thing about coding is even if it looks exactly the same visually, it could be built completely different under the hood. And really... Trying to claim you own any arrangement of divs and boxes is bordering ridiculous in my opinion. There's many different ways you can code something, but anyone half-decent would be able to recognize the best way to build it efficiently and could very easily arrive at the same solution without even looking at your code. Having it written exactly the same name-wise and style-wise is unlikely though.

Being able to look at someone else's stuff and learn from it is pretty much how a lot of us actually grow our own skills if you think about it. Whether it be code or art, you likely began by seeing something you liked, studying it, and learning from it. So this idea of hoarding your creative pieces like a jealous dragon actually bothers me more than stealing does. It stems creativity and growth on a greater level.

You know that the 'Great Masters' back in the day, all those famous works they're known for (paintings wise anyways) a huge part of their pieces weren't even painted by them. They had their studio underlings trying to learn off of the Master copy as perfectly as possible all of their stuff, and the ones that they deemed good enough would actually get to paint the backgrounds and 'less important' parts of a commission before the Master even touched them. Then the Master would come in and paint the figure. The copies can be so good it takes a while to figure out which is the original genuine 'master' piece.

When patents came in and copyrights and such our creative/inventive advances in technology and other venues staggered greatly. Cause compared to back in the day when someone would make a thing and another would see and and find an improvement then just do it, that can't happen anymore as easily. Instead you have to see a thing, learn how it works, and then reinvent the wheel to make any obvious or great improvements.

I like the idea of patents protecting the original creator, don't get me wrong, I think it's despicable to take an exact work, do nothing to it, and then blatantly claim it as your own. But our society has gone rather crazy about patents and that sort of thing. There are literally companies who all they do is hold the rights to things and then make their money by suing everyone they possibly can. That is just gross. I feel that the very lengthy period they cover that stalls any advancement is sometimes more of a detriment as parties cling to self indulgence.

Everything I've written code wise I give openly and encourage anyone to change as they want/need or just take it and play with it. I don't need credit, but if you wanna tell someone where to look to get something like it go ahead. I know what I did, and can do, I don't need others to tell me how good/bad I am and if someone wants to claim it as their own well usually that'll come round in some way; or it's easily proven that my posting is way earlier than theirs so I don't need to worry about it.

Just like when writing a story with others on forums or GMing, I don't control the entire thing cause you know what? Someone else just might have a more interesting and better idea, and who am I to deprive the group of it just because it isn't mine?

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Renegades by Feeder

I spend majority of my time on forums really, very little actually RPing and more doing more behind the scenes updates and mechanics -- such as creating new quests, features, or contests.

Outside of forums though I mostly play video games in my free time. No specific type really, but I luv goin' for achievements haha ^^; Otherwise I'm pretty boring. Just started a 2 year program for web dev so I don't have much in the way of free time outside of my forums ;D

The new place looks great! You guys did a wonderful job and I look forward to all the pretty things other members come up with ^^

I did want to mention though you may want to fix the urls to placehold.it in the 'Welcome to Pixel' thread, since they changed their links. The adjusted urls would be: via.placeholder.com/125x150.

Cheers all!