PIANOTM'S PROFILE

author=Liberty
Get in on this guys~ ^.^

Doing it right now.

If the fact that you don't have dark powers means nobody gets them...then why do I have some of mine, aside from the fact that I worked for and sought them out and continue to do so?

Nobody has ever found the complete schematics to Thomas Edison's ghost box. Do you know where they might be found? I am interested in acquiring them.

How did Houdini do it?

Why did Irwin Schrodinger quit being a scientist?

Why do scientists insist that gravity is a pull when satellite telemetry has already observed and proven that it is a push (We are not being pulled to the ground by our own planet, but are actually being pushed to the ground by the combined energy of all of the astral bodies in the universe, an energy our own planet contributes to)?

"Basic RTP is a dish best served cold." --Old Klingon Proverb

"I don't want to lose my gam mak! I NEED my gam mak!" Captain James T. Kirk, to Cybok

Being one of those who is making a fangame, I have no room to criticize anyone who does the same. As a seasoned fan fiction writer, I will say that absolutely everyone posting to this thread, both the nays and the yays, make excellent points.

When learning any discipline, I believe it is essential to begin your journey by traveling roads that have already been laid, after all, you cannot design a car if you have never seen one, tune a piano if you do not know how it is supposed to sound...

When you begin to draw, the first sketches you make will be bad. When you begin to write, the first passages, poems, entire stories will be poorly written, but this is nature. Even Mozart had to learn how play the harpsichord before he was able to arrange "Ah vous dirais-je, Maman!" (better known as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) for his earliest variations at the tender age of five.

Having a structured guide helps. Writing fan fiction isn't copying; it's reinterpreting the work of another man, something that famous artists have done since the days of the pharaohs and probably earlier, and something famous artists will do until the end of all things. When you create something, you breath life into it, give it an identity. It is foolish of us to assume that that which we create continues to belong to us. Once other people have seen our creations, that very act changes the nature of our works, of our creations. People immerse themselves in our creations, make them their own and thus our creations evolve into something greater, into a lifeforce that nobody can define, much like a child growing up and making his or her own way in the world.

If you choose to make a fangame, don't worry about it being terrible. After all, the true artist creates for himself. It's okay, because what comes after will be better, and what comes after that will be better still, and then you might make another fangame, and then that one will be okay. Don't worry about your work being derivative. After all, by choosing to make a fangame instead of an original work, you are continuing an ancient tradition that has shaped art, and indeed our very society throughout history and if you don't think being a fanboy or fangirl changes history, then you need only look at such tales as the many stories of King Arthur, written, rewritten, almost all of them derivative, and so loved that they have helped to shape the morals of entire nations and the policies of their governments.

As I have said, everyone here makes an excellent point, and in your decision to make a fangame, all of it should be considered carefully, but let nobody tell you that it's a bad idea, or that you should wait until you are more experienced (when does that happen anyway?).

Fanboys and fangirls rock, and let nobody tell you different.

author=Dyhalto

author=pianotm
@Dyhalto I sure as hell hope you're wrong about this bill not gaining any traction. This country badly needs it. It just isn't right that whoever has the money can legally buy however many politicians he or she likes. I certainly don't have the money to enjoy that freedom and I doubt many, if any of you do, either.

I agree, but electoral reforms never take off by themselves. Something like this actually passing is usually a byproduct of when a populist majority takes control of the political scape, and that won't be happening until a more grassroots issue makes the plebs come out (eg. world war, depression).

Actually, the fact that is before Congress is part of a grassroots movement. This resolution was proposed and pushed by the Occupy movement and its supporters. It has 41 cosponsors in the Senate. The Senate has drafted this resolution in response to the backlash to the Citizens United ruling. Letter-writing, emailing, phoning: we haven't let these people rest on this issue and if this didn't have a chance of going through, people like Ted Cruz wouldn't be coming out of the woodwork.