GOURD_CLAE'S PROFILE

Reality is a lovely place...but I wouldn't want to live there~♪

Hiya, I'm Gourdy!
I'm a chill guy with a Kingdom Hearts-esque avatar.
I absolutely adore video games!
I'd also say I'm a fairly decent writer.
If there's one thing I like to do, it's talk!
So, don't be afraid to say hello~<3 I won't bite.

::Gallery Stats::

::Most Quoted::
1. CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK 8
2. Liberty, LockeZ and ivoryjones 5
3. kentona, Marrend, sooz, unity and nhubi 4

::People who are quoted 2x in a row::
CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK
ivoryjones
nhubi
Liberty
Red_Nova


::People quoted and how often::
Gourd_Clae 7 (aka Gourd is secretly narcissistic...)
Misc 4
Leophard 1
ivoryjones 5
Trihan 2
Strangeluv 1
CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK 8
LockeZ 5
King Arthur 1
kentona 4
Neverm0re 1
Max McGee 1
Karsuman 1
Kaiterra 1
thatbennyguy 1
InfectionFiles 3
Pyramid_Head 1
Link_2112 1
Craze 2
Cyberdagger 1
Deckiller (rip) 2
BurningTyger 3
Solarlune 1
Liberty 5
Adon237 1
Isrieri 1
UPRC 2
Marrend 4
Corfaisus 1
NewBlack 1
Minnow 1
Little Wing Guy 1
Seiromem 2
Feldschlacht IV 2
Ratty524 1
Unity 4
Yellow Magic 3
Avee 1
________ 1
pianotm 3
nhubi 4
karins_soulkeeper 2
Addit 1
TungerManU 1
kory_toombs 1
accha 1
Merlandese 1
Happy 1
Sooz 4
Mr_SuNa 2
llan14 1
Ebeth 1
suzy_cheesedreams 1
Linkis 1
Dudesoft 1
CashmereCat 1
JJJ7 1
slash 1
Red_Nova 2
Kylaila 1
Pizza 1
REunfound 1
XxXhelazz 1



::Gourd's Favorite Quotes Gallery::



" I'm sorry baby Cthulu, I didn't mean to make you cry! "
--- Gourd_Clae ---



" Kids these days! Always ' I wanna design video games! '
Why don't they ever choose a respectable job like Firefighter, Police, or a Porn star?!
"
--- Some Old Hag ---



" I hold grudges. "
--- Gourd_Clae ---



" If the number 666 is considered evil, is 25.8069 the root of all evil? "
--- Leophard ---



" Quoting Galore~ (totes not stolen from gourd~) "
--- ivoryjones, in her carbon copy of my Quoting Gallery ---



" They keep talking about killing me. I think I like that. "
--- Gourd_Clae ---



" Tiny wolverines in your underwear. "
--- Trihan ---



" Where am I going to go seduce old guys now "
--- Strangeluv ---



" Ocelot is not a bishounen!!! "
--- CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK ---



" One year closer to when giraffe marriage is finally legalized "
--- LockeZ ---



" One can never have too much brownies. "
--- King Arthur, irc ---



" OVERMODERATION IS KILLING THE NANNY STATE THAT IS RMN! "
--- Kentona ---



" I'm going to skip over the deep conversation on language and just post what I got when I did it.

Typed in: Dude, where's my car?

Got back: Hello, car.

Apparently I found my car while waiting for that to finish translating.
"
--- Neverm0re ---



" when your ban, your ban so hard even your gender is purged from having ever existed "
--- Max McGee ---



" need more dominatrix nessy fanart "
--- Karsuman ---



" Gourd_Clae :: Erm, look at the comments on the video. Like 100,00 people think she's cute

Cave_DOG_IS_BACK :: 100,000 people are also murderers and Dracula, statistically
"
--- IRC, debate about YouTube singer's looks ---



" Cave_DOG_IS_BACK :: people who put things in their coffee

CAVE_DOG _IS_BACK :: are terrorists. basically.
"
--- IRC ---



" Kaiterra :: I mean what's Facebook basically?

thatbennyguy :: an empty cup.
"
--- IRC ---



" Gourd_Clae :: Also, she's kind of chubby, but still really sexy, Clareain.

InfectionFiles :: More cushion for the pushin'!
"
--- Random Art Topic ---



" It's too bad they couldn't keep things calmer. It would have been nice if the strike had only been...

( •_•)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)

... a miner incident.
"
--- LockeZ, regarding miners ---



" You make me cry pincushions. "
--- Gourd_Clae ---



" Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. "
--- Pyramid_Head ---



" Today's user title is brought to you by the letter N "
--- Link_2112 ---



" Life is turn based. Your turn. "
--- ivoryjones ---



" Everybody starts a noob. "
--- Craze ---



" I was viciously gangstalked by a group of ducks today. "
--- CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK ---



" Gourdy keeps the last dodo in his basement. "
--- CyberDagger ---



" I guess some people are part of this new anti-capitalizing-i movement... "
--- Deckiller ---



" Gourd_Clae secretly fantasizes about Roxas topping him- and getting circumcised by the broken glass lining his anus :P "
--- BurningTyger ---



" I talk to people on IRC, therefore I am. "
--- Solarlune ---



" most people i know have flat boobs "
--- ivoryjones ---



" Sometimes, when you absolutely need to beat a motherfucker, you need to beat a motherfucker with another motherfucker. "
--- Random Youtube Comment ---



" Ivoryjones:: WHATS YO DICK LIKE
Ivoryjones:: HOMIE
"
--- IRC ---



" motherfucking plants in your motherfucking houses... "
--- Liberty ---



" God gives the hardest battles to his toughest soldiers. "
--- Some Smart Person ---



" I should have known those "business trips" were nothing but an excuse to have hot, steamy gam mak with another community! "
--- Adon237 ---



" Birthdays are good for your health. Studies have shown that the more you have, the longer you live. "
--- kentona ---



" Y'know what? You guys are alright sometimes. "
--- Isrieri ---



" RMN being fast again feels... so weird! Really happy that everything's loading pretty quickly now since RMN was growing so slow that it was depressing. I almost became an alcoholic. "
--- UPRC ---



" Buttered side up again!? "
--- Marrend, on bread beds and their problems ---



" I've always wanted to play as a chicken instead of just feeling like one. "
--- Corfaisus, probably ---



" There are three certainties in life.

1. Death
2. Taxes
3. More RMN Bros
"
--- UPRC ---



" Aaah okay, ugh my stuff dun look at good now, but oh well D: will see what it turns out like when finito. "
--- NewBlack ---



" Ah, that first helping of Markerscore. There is no going back now! "
--- Marrend ---



" everyone clap for minnow. she's special. she needs it. "
--- Minnow, 2014 ---



" Also, I’d like to personally thank my win on Minnow and Gourd_Clae for not being able to finish Razed are the Powerful in time. Thanks guys. "
--- Little Wing Guy ---



" Kentona MS: 15778
My MS: 15948

I'm the king of the world!

(....for now.)
"
--- Deckiller ---



" I don't play by the rules, I'm rude. "
--- Seiromem ---



"Quiet, you! Or a refrigerator will fall on your head!"
--- Marrend ---



" That idea actually sounds extremely sexy. "
--- Feldschlacht IV ---



"I hope Liberty likes what I've done with my map..."
--- BurningTyger ---



" Don't take my daily dose of Gam Mak inspiration from me! ..."
--- Unity, with murder in her eyes ---



" WHAT I CANNOT HEAR YOU YOU AREN'T TYPING LOUD ENOUGH "
--- Ratty524 ---



" Gourd Clae :: bgcghxmbbgj]

YM :: same

Unity :: This is the way the world ends…not with a bang but a bgcghxmbbgj].

Marrend :: The world began with Nu, and it shall end with Nu. This is the truth! This is what I believe! Until a few moments ago.

Kentona :: Looks like someone is trying to make it to the top of the most posts list
"
--- In What are You Thinking About Right Now? ---



"A very ugly picture painted with a beautiful brush."
--- Linkeagle Eclipsewalker ---



" Back in the days, reading the manual was like foreplay. It got you in the mood for the "real thing". "
--- Avee ---



"The fact that the arm of a woman is stuck in between the boobs of another is just fantastic and deserves my stamp of approval."
--- InfectionFiles ---



"ive got a science joke too

what do you get when you combine oxygen carbon hydrogen nitrogen and calcium

the answer is you

youre the joke
"
--- _________ ---



"Earlier tonight, I killed a spider with a copy of Charlotte's Web. I'm not sure the spider perceived the irony."
--- pianotm ---



" Sorry you've been demoted to demi-god. "
--- nhubi ---



" Can I critique your potato salad? Does it follow the three-celery rule? "
--- Unity ---



" Sorry if I sounded like a weasel or anything, but really... "
--- karins_soulkeeper ---



" I remember when I used to be a dingus, and then I became an Addit. "
--- Addit ---



" Your instructions weren't clear enough. What do I do with the viola? "
--- TungerManU ---



" The whole point of becoming a game developer was so I could get stalked. "
--- kory_toombs ---



" Why is that town excited? "
--- nhubi, who died waiting for an answer ---



" kentona pls "
--- accha ---



" Though seeing someone try to screw their own brain is probably something people would pay good money to see. Not me, people, I'm not people."
--- nhubi ---



" I'd go with drugs, you can explain anything with drugs. "
--- nhubi ---



" I'm excited to skip over that narrative! XD "
--- Merlandese ---



" You're both pretty, precious snowflakes with valid ideas and thoughts so agree to disagree and move on with your lives. "
--- Liberty ---



" hmm. also i thought they said grind up against Gourd which is something else entirely.
"
--- BurningTyger ---



" Holy crap I everything alot."
--- kentona ---


" Happy :: There's a finnish proverb: you shouldn't lick before it drops!

Sooz :: What is the intended meaning behind that? Because all my brain is offering is something to do with testicles and I am 90% sure it's not supposed to be that.
"
--- CYOR: Mafia Game Thread ---




" I am a serial killer. "
--- CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK---



" wait, this isn't twitter "
--- Mr_SuNa ---



" why is the enthusiasm of someone's one word greeting something that would tell you their alignment, in any case!! "
--- CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK ---



" YEAH! TWO PAGEBREAKS IN A ROW, BITCHES!"
--- llan14 ---



" Yes, I think we'd all like to see a wall of butthurt."
--- pianotm ---



" And oh god don't say etymology you'll summon Xand's ghost."
--- Ebeth ---



" Now I can finally be a gourd bgcghxmbbgj] instead of just feeling like one~<3"
--- Gourd_Clae ---



" You are all cruel, cruel people and I love you. ;.;"
--- Liberty ---



" I am Gourd's dad IRL"
--- CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK ---



" Believe it or not DubROVnik was my phone autocorrecting DynRPG. "
--- Trihan ---



" One of the better ant-depressants out there. "
--- nhubi ---



" I like the shark dude's tight buns. "
--- suzy_cheesedreams ---



" #NotAllRats "
--- Yellow Magic ---



" ah gees, all you guys got great presents and all I got was coal and a lump of poop to clean up from my cat :( "
--- Linkis ---



" Need to wife her one day. "
--- Dudesoft ---



" You're oddly happy Ilan, a little too happy... "
--- Mr_SuNa ---



" 'It is only 80 more reviews'

Aaaaand we'll be right back with... 'Things Only Nhubi Can Say' after this break!
"
--- CashmereCat ---



" "I dream of making a game that will cause the servers of RMN to get even slower >:D "
--- karins_soulkeeper ---



" I'll never go out with a doubleposter!
That's what girl would say.
"
--- JJJ7 ---



" Just so we're all on the same page here, I feel like it's important you realize that rocky mountain oysters are not vegan. "
--- LockeZ ---



" KENTONA IF YOU PUT HALF THE ENERGY OF YOUR SARCASTIC POSTS INTO YOUR GAM MAK "
--- slash ---



" Actually, another villain/antagonist type I like is the unpredictable one that just makes you question yourself and your assumptions. Like Cave_Dog, for example. ^.^ "
--- Liberty ---



" What tension? It was a classroom. It was a clock which looks nothing like a bomb. It ticked... wow. Tick tock motherfuckers. "
--- Liberty ---



" Oh, and giving King Solomon the foreskins of a hundred men! What an item gathering quest that would be! "
--- pianotm ---



" it's supposed to be an illegitimate game. if it was not conceived within sin's embrace, it cannot be entered. i'm sorry, my child. your pure heart must be shattered. "
--- Craze ---



" The quantity matters less than how much suck you can remove. "
--- Sooz ---



" We're all so determined to turn unity into Super Satan for some reason. "
--- Red_Nova ---



" Be the kind of person that, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the Devil goes, 'Oh shit, he's up,'"
--- Red_Nova ---



" The posting has only just begun... "
--- InfectionFiles ---



" I won't be on that quote gallery. I'll just keep giving out hugs. "
--- Kylaila ---



" No look, his fetish is completely non-erotic, PG-13 wank material. Don't judge him. "
--- LockeZ ---


" You weren't thinking: You were 12. "
--- Yellow Magic ---



" Tis why I posted it! Join! Please! I need friends. I'm lonely. "
--- Seiromem ---



" You're in for a challenge if you're trying to take the "RMN Town Drunk" title from me. "
--- Pizza ---



" The M is for murders. "
--- Sooz ---



" You're alright, dude. Part of being an adult is doing what the fuck you want. "
--- Feldschlacht IV ---



" It's like giving birth to a child, only to then bury the child like you never even had one. "
--- REunfound, on cancelled games ---



" Please excuse me, my brain interpreted Sooz's post as a boss fight "
--- LockeZ ---



" OH NO! WEIRD AND UNFORTUNATE SERVER DESTRUCTION! "
--- unity ---



" One time I made fun of a nerd while he was eating and he ran away crying and I got his pizza. "
--- Sooz ---


" I didnt send you that. Youre worst than... Lets say.... XxXhelazz!! "
--- XxXhelazz ---

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Is AI generated art ethical?

@iddalai I'm just going to drop the convo and say sorry! My intention was not to call you a fascist. My thought process was that if I held a view shared by bad people, I'd want somebody to point it out so that I could think on it more closely. That might have been silly since I don't know you very well, so you didn't know my intentions. In the future, if you want to avoid upsetting people, talking about "not wanting to harm ppls egos" comes across as arrogant while denigrating a whole form of art you don't seem to have experience with comes across as close-minded and mean-spirited. I'm sure you're a lovely person who is neither of those things, and you didn't deserve to be made to feel bad either way.

Is AI generated art ethical?

@ozzy That's a good consideration! In my experience as somebody with less money, I got a single tablet and a computer as a gift over the course of like 20 years and that was enough. Before that I practiced with mouse. I imagine getting new supplies all the time would be impossible in comparison, but I don't know everybody's situation!

@Irog I'd discuss UBI but I don't fully understand why it was brought up ;w; I like the idea in general, but Due to the nature of capitalism I fear that UBI would get predated on by landlords or utility companies but Idk

Is AI generated art ethical?

author=iddalai
author=Gourd_Clae
@iddalai No, tbh the idea digital art requires less skill/talent is ridiculous. it's a different skillset not a lesser one. citation: I do both physical and digital art. (also I find physical easier a lot of the time lmao)
Not ridiculous at all. Skill and talent are different things though. I never mentioned talent.
Skills are something you can develop, Talent you either have or you don't.
I was using them as synonyms since they often come together. I said my lived experience contradicts your model of the world and you skipped over it. How do you reckon with that?

author=iddalai
author=Gourd_Clae
I don't know if nearly all art made today is digital but, if it is, assuming it's because it's easier is a bit silly. Art is more accessible as a program for many people, as technology is everywhere, and needing to collect and pay for art supplies before now precluded more lower class ppl from doing art. more people in the lowest classes can make art now as opposed to a century ago.
Am I the one assuming? There are several factors, but being easier to produce is indeed one of them. You are even justifying my point. Reduced costs and high accessibility. That translates as: easier.
If easier, to you, means two parts of "more people are able to get their hands on art supplies" and "the act of art itself is inherently easier to do" than yeah i see how you might think it's easier. i would agree with you on the first part but again disagree on the second part bc it's been my experience otherwise.

Here's a video about fascisms veneration of older art also with some cool modern art (that maybe isn't art?) thrown in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5DqmTtCPiQ

if you watch that iddalai, you might understand better my intentions with the note on fascism.
Going to leave the rest bc you're kind of starting to talk like sephiroth as you get further in the post. None of my post was meant to be aggressively inflammatory! I was being a little cheeky with the "no offense" part obviously, but i was just mimicking the (slightly nasty) tone in your other post where you go on about knowing what you say will bruise egos. Just figured you could take it in good fun, as you were dishing out hard truths yourself, sorry!

On another note about ai art being art, I feel like it could be good for generating meaningless patterns for the purpose of making you feel something. Kind of like the clouds i was talking about earlier but you're meant to feel it more than think about it. We've been talking a lot about egos, and an art piece that just exists without meaning is kind of intriguing. People do things like that, but they're people with biases and meanings that seep in. An ai might have similar problems based on its training but might get closer. Think of those gifs with the triangle you're supposed to breath with guide meditation? It could be like a way of turning your brain off and disconnecting from your ego. That's arguable more of a tool than art, but we use art as tools all the time anyway. (which i guess is my larger point, and why i think ai art should be considered art -- art is a lot of things and comes from a lot of places arguably not all of them human even if they require a connection to humanity)

oops another edit bc i keep having thoughts. has anybody seen the beetle that does art bc im not going to be the one to tell her that her art is less valid bc she's not human!! /hj

cw beetles doing art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3c1d8xOhA

or consider that video games werent considered art forever. the level of changing and interaction kind of precluded them and they were rarely beautiful. the idea that art is something that ONLY requires a human with a soul is kind of modern isnt it? it was pretty strictly about a static image made in a certain way, or a song. now a public performance can be art, defacing anothers art might be art, maybe beetles can do art, maybe nature can do art and maybe ai can too? im not a historian though this is just my own preconception of how ppl thought of art lmao


Is AI generated art ethical?

Assuming that ai art starts being made ethically I don't have any problem considering it art. It's like looking at a cloud and projecting your own thoughts onto it. Obviously, a cloud wasn't made to be looked at and interpreted but presumably ai art is.

I don't begrudge people saying it's not art though bc I don't want to just project onto clouds every time I look at art - it's nice for there to be some intention or expression there. I'm going to prefer a human being behind the wheel 9.9 times out of 10.

Is AI generated art ethical?

@iddalai No, tbh the idea digital art requires less skill/talent is ridiculous. it's a different skillset not a lesser one. citation: I do both physical and digital art. (also I find physical easier a lot of the time lmao)

I don't know if nearly all art made today is digital but, if it is, assuming it's because it's easier is a bit silly. Art is more accessible as a program for many people, as technology is everywhere, and needing to collect and pay for art supplies before now precluded more lower class ppl from doing art. more people in the lowest classes can make art now as opposed to a century ago.

Sounds more like an ego problem on your part assuming your worldview must be the only explanation for a phenomena. No offense, of course!

(also not like, an accusation, but the assumption that art is degrading and made by ppl who are less worthy/talented is an idea that makes you vulnerable to other strains of thought, fascist in nature, about degradation of society)

Is AI generated art ethical?

author=calunio
Tricky subject. My initial answer would be "no", but I don't have a firm opinion. Some people are comparing it to taking inspiration from, drawing with references. It's not the same thing. Someone mentioned tracing... not exactly the same thing either. We're dealing with something that has no precedents, it's hard to compare.

Ultimately, I this will be decided legally. And I hope they just create rules that forbid AI to be trained without the permission of the owner of the content, which should drastically weaken them.

I used a single piece of AI art in my game, and I decided, as a personal policy, to mention it was AI generated in the credits.

----edit---

I'm also surprised people are not discussing other AI content, like chatGPT. Same problem. People are usually less particular about property of they texts, but still, lots of text were used without permission.
From what I understand it's pretty similar to tracing just in a way that'd be really hard for any human to do.

I don't really care if ppl who use AI are considered artists or not, and don't think anything made with AI is INHERENTLY less creatively important.

That said, I wouldn't consider what is essentially complex tracing to be "transformative". whether it's transformative or not, the way current models are trained is pretty blatantly unethical and don't love ppl using legalese to justify using models where the AI software is trained on art by artists who didn't consent to have their works used in such a way.

Homage to Final Fantasy (I) - Possible Chain/Stitch-together Game

I also like the idea of stitch. More collaboration before the hard part and then less chance for hold-ups during the hard part sounds good!

Party builder looks good fomi!

Homage to Final Fantasy (I) - Possible Chain/Stitch-together Game

What would you say the difference between a chain game and stitching together parts would be? The second option is what I imagined when I heard chain game.

Nice progress btw, the systems look really good so far!! I like the idea of having magic in chests as a halfway between nothing and shop. Locke's ideas on equipment mechanics sound super fun as well!

Homage to Final Fantasy (I) - Possible Chain/Stitch-together Game

I'd love to participate when you guys get to passing the game around! I also think I prefer 2 for customization options, but am open to 3 if you don't mind scripting out individual inventories.

edit: Very swanky canoe action by the way!!

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