The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

It's definitely just a USA issue for now. Pretty much net neutrality in a nut shell is that our internet providers, like Verizon and Comcast, currently cannot prevent us from visiting certain sites by lowering bandwidth for those sites and such. It's illegal because of net neutrality. However, if we lose net neutrality, then Comcast can say that they do not like that people are using Netflix and Youtube rather than, for example, Hulu. So Comcast will lower the bandwidth for Netflix and Youtube for its customers, saying either the customers have to pay more money to get the regular bandwidth for these sites that Hulu has, or, if Youtube and Netflix want to be on the regular bandwidth platform automatically, then those companies have to pay Comcast a certain amount of money every month in exchange for the regular bandwidth.

ISPs are already monopolistic as it is, but this gives them way more power than they should have. It allows these companies to control where people go to get their news, their facts, and other things, as well as decimating the chances of new companies from taking off on the Internet without having to deal with hefty fees. It's to the point that this is so bad that Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Deviantart, Discord, Youtube, and Imgur all have banners up for it.

Yeah I'd heard about how bad it is. I just don't get WHY the government wants to do it?? Is it just because they get donations from the internet providers? I mean there must be some "reason" for why they're even considering it?

If it goes through, won't new internet providers just pop up that DON'T restrict people? Then everyone would just sign up with them instead xD

[Noblejanobii]

Yeah I'd heard about how bad it is. I just don't get WHY the government wants to do it?? Is it just because they get donations from the internet providers? I mean there must be some "reason" for why they're even considering it?

If it goes through, won't new internet providers just pop up that DON'T restrict people? Then everyone would just sign up with them instead xD

It's not entirely clear why exactly the FCC is reconsidering this but there's a few factors at play that make sense. Firstly, the current FCC chairman is largely anti-net neutrality and the common theory as to why is because he worked for Verizon at one point and Verizon is already kinda breaking net neutrality laws (they're only getting around it because of the wording of the stuff they're doing so it kinda clears on a technicality). In addition, the way American politics works nowadays it's impossible to get elected without accepting corporate money, some of which comes from ISPs. So when something for or against the corporation's interests comes up, that corporation will often "remind" the politician that they funded the politician's ability to get into office so now it's time to pay up by passing or voting against bills that are in the corporation's offices.

That's the thing though, without net neutrality that can't happen. New ISPs already have a difficult enough time because they're fighting against monopolies that can easily out perform these smaller companies bandwidth and price wise. They'll just either buy the new company or run it into the ground because these companies have the money and power to be able to get away with it. And if we lose net neutrality, not only will it be nearly impossible for any new businesses of any kind to function without being charged large fees, but also the ISPs will get even more money from corporations and people to fund more politicians and keep the cycle going.

[Chakramaster]

Most things just involve money and people trying to keep their jobs by throwing ideas or bring back ideas. Guess we will see where it goes

[Noblejanobii]

Yeah the vote is supposed to occur in five days I believe.

[Chakramaster]

we'll see what happens soon enough. It's been put up before so we will see if it will go through this time or not

[Neo Emolga]

So far...

Creative Writing (pretty much done, just need to proofread. Doesn't compare to Noble's in length, but I'm playing my cards anyway).

Drawn Art - Haven't even started yet. Still trying to think of something to go with Dazzling! I'm debating whether to do a PMD Team Charm picture or something with electric rodents in tuxedos and top hats. XD They both strike high on the fun potential.

Graphic Art - Haven't started yet either. Urf. I feel like I should have had this done by now.

Comics - Still time, but haven't started that yet either! XD

Bleh, I feel like I've done nothing this week! Yesterday's RP post took almost three hours to crank out. I thought I'd get way more done yesterday than just that! XP As for today, all I really did was just add a tiny bit more to the CW piece and have a bit of an ending going. Might just need an extra paragraph or two to wrap things up, but there's not much more to go with that.

I vouch for section rotations next time. It's very taxing to try and keep up with everything. :P

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I've been doing way less than I wanted to :/ I've just been too busy, sigh. Gotta try and at least get sprite art done!

[Chakramaster]

So far...

Creative Writing (pretty much done, just need to proofread. Doesn't compare to Noble's in length, but I'm playing my cards anyway).

Drawn Art - Haven't even started yet. Still trying to think of something to go with Dazzling! I'm debating whether to do a PMD Team Charm picture or something with electric rodents in tuxedos and top hats. XD They both strike high on the fun potential.

Graphic Art - Haven't started yet either. Urf. I feel like I should have had this done by now.

Comics - Still time, but haven't started that yet either! XD

Bleh, I feel like I've done nothing this week! Yesterday's RP post took almost three hours to crank out. I thought I'd get way more done yesterday than just that! XP As for today, all I really did was just add a tiny bit more to the CW piece and have a bit of an ending going. Might just need an extra paragraph or two to wrap things up, but there's not much more to go with that.

I vouch for section rotations next time. It's very taxing to try and keep up with everything. :P

I wish I were as creative. Having some slight limitations right now makes it twice as hard. Luckily my phone is being fixed and I updated my router and it seeeeeems to be running a little smoother now. Hopefully I can get a good post in tomorrow. At least.....that's the plan. Right now I'm...using my ooooooooold laptop. The one that randomly will lose internet connection indefinitely until the computer is restart xD. My lap is on fire too because the fan doesn't work.

I feel like the Drawn Art is coming along very nicely! I wasn't ready for all the amazing submissions either. I don't wanna be biased during those or sound too harsh. I feel bad doing that...and while I'd love to chime in and say which of those I'd love to see I think that'd be helping and that wouldn't be fair xD. I still just wish I were half as good as most of you in drawing.

[Scytherwolf]

I'm having a really hard time coming up with a comic. Short stuff is hard for me as I usually take a lot longer to tell a story. I really need to figure it out and get this started though, because it has to be done before I leave on vacation. D:

[Chakramaster]

I wish it were easier on me for the RP as well. Even that I've struggled coming up with an idea of where to take it. I have the character down, but no lead in to pretty much anything. So randomly coming up with something is....well...odd and doesn't feel like it hits the nail just right like I'd like it to

I can imagine how hard it is to come up with the comic ideas too along with actually creating it. Either way I'm sure you will get it. You're all super creative with your work.