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That’s why I’m thinking the folders were merged in error.

This would require so many different people to fuck up it seems pretty unlikely, not to mention they would have to take those images, resize/edit them, put them into the game, and have not one person notice they deviate from the images that were agreed upon. You don't just 'upload someones folder'.

Oh wow that was incredible, hahaha.

I can almost guarantee you that what happened is that Antireal’s art was saved to one of the artists’ “inspiration” folders, and somewhere between creating an inspo gallery and that artist quitting/getting laid off, the files got merged into a “concept/assets” folder. Likely when going through the laid off artist’s hard drives, they found images that they probably assumed were all originals.

I've worked in games for 18 years, and outright theft of assets happens constantly. I worked on a game where an artist took an asset (from a rather well known game) and outright used it, no changes. Another place I worked an artist took an (extremely unique) weapon from an IP and just copied it over.

If you look at the Bungie art it couldn't possibly be an inspo gallery because they are just straight up used with (some) changes made to them. This was absolutely known to have occurred, and wasn't 'an' artist. You can see why they do this because even in the event they're caught, they can blame a former employee, and pay some nominal fee for the actual artists work.

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

Trans rights are under attack, maybe let someone be happy if the found something to be happy about, why can’t you let them enjoy it?

I mean cool appeal to emotion but that isn't what we were talking about. The government is attacking the rights of people who are trans, including their passports, and pretending they aren't isn't helping anyone. When people were under threat from the Nazi's in the 30's would it have helped to tell people to just 'let them be happy' when the Nazi's weren't yet able to put them in camps?

Having traveled before with someone in that exact situation, yes, there will be harassment and TSA may very well intentionally force you miss your flight and end up waiting to fly standby on the next one. But as of now, you generally do get through, which cannot be said for traveling internationally without any passport at all.

So you were in this exact scenario, TSA prevented the person from flying like we've been saying, but then didn't prevent them from flying on a standby on the next flight?

Colour me skeptical.

Because they did issue a fully authorized passport… Even with the wrong information, the government has issues it for them to be able to travel

And because the information is inaccurate, it's pretty likely to not work as a passport.

Fuck you for the title, now that goddamn song is stuck in my head.

After hearing she was still issued a passport at all? Yes, actually. There are quite a few (trans) people who probably feel a little bit safer than they did yesterday when they thought they were trapped in the country.

How does having the wrong gender on your passport mean you aren't trapped in the country?

How do you handle going outside when there are random people in public, in stores, on the street, at work, who do not believe in vaccines?

Vaccines don't need to be believed in, they've worked and will always work. If the number of these people is large enough to prevent herd immunity, then I do so oblivious to their absolute callous disregard for sick children and the elderly; I simply don't know that they're awful, shitty people who claim to be human beings, who could so very easily save the lives of these sick children, yet refuse to do so, really just because they can, and it makes them feel superior.