RODEN'S PROFILE

Marrend
Maybe there will be a time when rips will be disallowed for new game submissions. However, as stated earlier, they are kinda part of the site's DNA, and retroactively denying games that used them would cull a lot from the site's library. We even have a thread dedicated for people to seek out the old, and obscure RPG Maker games. I can almost guarantee there are games listed there that have rips. Should we lock the thread, and move it into Archives if rips ever become illegal on this site?

This is off topic, and I guess makes me a bit of a hypocrite due to circumstance, but I think it would be pretty much impossible to impose the rule in the same way if it ever came to be. The "problem" is too far gone and too pervasive to be fixed by simple black and white means like that. Just an artifact of time.

Besides, like I mentioned already, the community is pretty well moving away from that anyways as time goes on, so it's something that will eventually be either socially unaccepted or just a part of the history of RM culture.

For the idea of AI being built into certain tools, I think the "good faith" argument does come into play, but it's also a situation where responsibility and impact is more removed in certain cases. It's like... Many people wouldn't kill an animal themselves, but they'll still eat meat, and those aren't necessarily contradictory things.

AI being used to create entire assets, code, or writing is a more blatant sort of... replacement? It's more "morally repugnant" to people because it's very obvious and direct. Nobody thinks the same of using something like a re-scaling tool or a program that automatically checks code, because the overall input is still human, if that makes sense? Its sort of like the effective difference between a machine totally replacing a human job versus just making it easier and more efficient. That distinction is still obvious nowadays. Perhaps in the future it won't be, I dunno.

Part of me really wants to do this, but another part knows that I never finish event games...

then another part entirely asks how the hell I'd make any real paranormal event into a game

E: Frogge I am sorry, I thought it was public when I saw the name change and shit

I mean I'd love to see a day when rips also weren't allowed, but it;s not a grey area as I described because there's literally a rule about what is and isn't permissible, even if it's somewhat informal. Besides that, the fact that the community has been gradually moving away from that mindset for years and years now while promoting creator-made assets, freeware stuff, etc, makes an outright ruling less necessary.

If rips were suddenly becoming a big thing right now as AI is I would expect the policy to be the same as what's happening here, and it would be just as justified. The fact that its so baked into the DNA of the community means that we can't do anything retroactively at this point, is all. Getting out ahead of the next issue before it becomes ingrained is just smart.

I don't trust RMN any more. I've privated all my gamepages, and I have absolutely no intention of ever uploading any games in the future. You're not going to convince me.

Yes, god forbid you just make your own content or collaborate with other people, something this site has pushed and supported for like more than a decade at this point

Very proud of RMN being one of the few creatively geared sites I know of to do the right thing and outright ban that nonsense. Protecting actual artists and their work, and encouraging people to actually learn fun and useful skills or collaborate with other creators.

I'm not gonna lie, if I had the cash and was at that point in development I probably would