Just so you know, on the Castlevania Facebook Group, an user by the name of "Ryu Hayabusa" has been uploading videos of the "Castlevania LCD Chronicles", based on OpenBOR.
He's been extensively posting stuff there, so if you want to chime in on Facebook, look for the open group "Castlevania".
The FB page for Ryu Hayabusa links to the game, which links to Ericard Productions:
clicky (http://ericard.webs.com/)
What part of plottwist saying "you stole my sprite and used it without my permission and I DO NOT want it used, and want it removed from the game" didn't you get? Not knowing his name is one thing (which is also bullshit, it takes ten seconds to check the page the sprite was posted on), but he made it abundantly clear he didn't want his work in your project, and yet you're still using it.
So you've jumped from haphazardous ignorance to straight-up theft of content. And you think this is okay, because why? And don't give me that crap about the game being "too far done" to remove the sprite; that's not a valid excuse, that's you being a lazy fuck to try and cover your ass for stealing someone's content.
Remove plottwist's Dracula sprite. This matter is not for you to decide, and the creator has vehemently demanded you remove it. At this point you're just deliberately being an asshole.
Otherwise, we're just gonna keep posting and repeating this until either you get the message or other people see what kind of person you are. What you're doing is wrong and your justifications for it are fucking pitiful.
Remove plottwist's sprite. He's denied you usage and repeatedly told you "no." Take the hint already.
Actually, seeing as the design is all original and the name Dracula isn't outright copyrighted, would the sprite not qualify as an IP? Sure it was made with Castlevania in mind, but if plot simply removes or otherwise alters those ties to the CV IP the sprite basically becomes his, if I'm interpreting the USCA and whatnot correctly.As long as plot created the sprite, he got all rights on it.
...Ericard has tried selling the game to him, for 15 bucks.(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi3.kym-cdn.com%2Fphotos%2Fimages%2Foriginal%2F000%2F826%2F248%2F811.png&hash=89b1770dae7dd73bf823922c834278d6)
Real fuckin' mature, Ericard.
Posting this screenshot as I dont know if the post is going to get deleted.(click to show/hide)
Notice how Ericard refers to himself on third person now.
Ryu is Ericard. As soon as I posted the link, Ericard came online here.
If it does not get deleted, keep reading here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204577638/permalink/10152947840602639/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204577638/permalink/10152947840602639/)
UPDATE: According to the moderator of the group, Ericard has tried selling the game to him, for 15 bucks. He tried selling copyrighted material that he didn't create. Also, Ryu is one of his many fake accounts.
It may also be necessary to give advice to these wiki.I tried to do my best to remove the picture from pages, but as I'm not admin there, I cannot delete it. I left a message to Ericard.
http://castlevaniafan.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity (http://castlevaniafan.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity)
http://castlevaniafanon.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity (http://castlevaniafanon.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity)
I tried to do my best to remove the picture from pages, but as I'm not admin there, I cannot delete it. I left a message to Ericard.
He responded with what's in the attachment. Stay classy, Ericard.
He responded with what's in the attachment. Stay classy, Ericard.Yes, I saw it. Pretty classy. 8)
I'll bet you he's like twelve. This level of stupidity just screams "youngin."
I feel like every time he speaks I lose a year off of my life and get a little dumber.
"I'M GONNA PUT THIS IN MY GAME, BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT AND CAN'T REMOVE IT!"
Hopefully not before you finalize your game :'(
lol, wut?
Don't make fun of twelve year olds. They can be very mature. This guy just seems like he has no concern for anybody else. Like the world revolves around him.
And I've met my share. Most of them don't really care about others' perspectives, and have varying degrees of mentalities that...
Well I don't what the hell ya'll try to say, but I decided not to remove the sprite okay?!? No matter how many years you're going to say but the sprite must me in the game permanently, I will not credit to the author and I will not give him the damn face to the world, okay. over and out..
I don't think we're being too aggressive here.
Hell, if I'm being honest, I don't think we're being aggressive enough.
Our forum is the #1 search when it comes to Castlevania and anything social (Forum). Though the site is old, this Board is very much alive. The problem is, it's very easy to grab our contest stuff as a result.I'm with that, it's a start. Anything else that he has coming is on him...
Just search for Castlevania sprites and undoubtedly something from this board will come up. This user did not even have to make an account to grab the stuff.
Users like this user is the reason sites like gbatemp force you to sign up to even see attachments. But then, this user did make an account. The mistake was advertising a game with stolen content at the very site from which the context was stolen.
We can add a rule about using content without a creator's permission being a bannable offense, but it's not solving the problem and, in my opinion, a superfluous rule. But if enough of you guys debate about it, I can add it to the Fan Stuff rules.
Just know that it's a "bandage on Cancer" kind of measure.
Well I don't what the hell ya'll try to say, but I decided not to remove the sprite okay?!? No matter how many years you're going to say but the sprite must me in the game permanently, I will not credit to the author and I will not give him the damn face to the world, okay. over and out..
Ericard, I think you may encounter problems in the future. I wish you good luck with real life. Your online life just ended, as you put the biggest Castlevania forum of the Internet against you. Wherever you'll post the game, we'll find it and people will know you stole work from other people. Whatever you do, we'll find you.
And don't think you're safe behind your screen in your mother's basement: justice can find you for stuff you do on the Internet (trust me, I know what I'm taking about). Trying to sell a game with stolen material in it is illegal (possession of stolen goods), even on the Internet.
You still can remove plot's sprite from your game, and I'd recommand you do that. It's still not too late to get away without any more trouble -- just remove the sprite, and replace it by whatever you want.
But what you're proposing is basically bullying. As justified as you believe it is your harsher strategy so far has been about as successful as your attempts at polite requests.
You sound like a one of those lawyers who defend criminals. That is not a good thing.
You sound like a one of those lawyers who defend criminals. That is not a good thing.
You're right, you haven't done all that stuff.Considering that there isn't much we can do legally, the best we can do is to make an example out of him that this shit does not fly.
However this thread has been used to direct other users to ericard's presence on other websites with the intention of harassing him. theplottwist has stated that he is "badmouthing this dude, wherever I go and he is present" not to mention the numerous times that this user has been insulted here and you've expressed a desire to be more aggressive.
What ericard has done is wrong, that's true. However I don't think that ruining his reputation does anything to fix that. It's just petty.
There is a big differance between following an individual and publicly saying "Hey, you stole this and your a bastard!" and going to mods and saying "This content is stolen, can you please remove it".
You're right, you haven't done all that stuff.
However this thread has been used to direct other users to ericard's presence on other websites with the intention of harassing him. theplottwist has stated that he is "badmouthing this dude, wherever I go and he is present" not to mention the numerous times that this user has been insulted here and you've expressed a desire to be more aggressive.
What ericard has done is wrong, that's true. However I don't think that ruining his reputation does anything to fix that. It's just petty.
There is a big differance between following an individual and publicly saying "Hey, you stole this and your a bastard!" and going to mods and saying "This content is stolen, can you please remove it".
This thread should be stickied, for reference to newer people.
Also, casting another vote to content theft being a bannable offense.
If this thread targeted any other member I doubt it would have gone this far.
Can we make a "THIEF" award? ;DChange someones forum credentials? That'd be kinda funny! X-D
Can we make a "THIEF" award? ;DI lol'd. Thank you. :D
Can we make a "THIEF" award? ;D
This is a very good idea, but as I see it some people are too sensitive and maybe "THIEF" should be "PLAGIARIST" award.
This thread targets a single user and encourages other members to follow and attack him and thus far the moderators have only either contributed to it or laughed.
Well, I understand where you're coming from, but as I've mentioned, Ericard has earned some opprobrium, and the hope is that a public grilling like this will get him to change his ways. If it doesn't, us mods will discuss it and see what we can do.
instead of making every attempt to settle things amicably is a bit wrongheaded don't you think.
That's the thing, we *have* tried to settle this amicably. People have repeatedly told Ericard that what he's doing is wrong, I've spoken to him about the immorality of plagiarism, but nothing seems to be getting through to him. You're correct in saying we could just ban him, but as Jorge said earlier, that might keep him from ripping people off here, but then he could just go somewhere else and do the same thing. Thus, the hope is that public shaming will really give him the kick he needs to shape up, and ensure he doesn't plagiarize from *anybody,* not just us CVDers.
Let me be absolutely clear I'm not defending how he acted, I agree that what he has done is wrong, but I also think that this misguided notion that ericard has to be "grilled" to change his ways is equally wrong. It hasn't made any headway so far and it never will.
Well, now you're simply grasping at straws.
First, it HAS wielded results. First Ericard was happily publishing about his things without any obstacle (and even had people behind him cheering him up). Now he's known as twat by the biggest Castlevania forum. Not mentioning the FB group, where he was banned along with every mention of him or his work, which I'll bet were the best places he could ever speak about his Castlevania-related things.
I call this progress. If he's not willing to change, ALL these people are not willing to forget what he did. Every time his work rises, someone will appear to point at it, and point back at this discussion. The more people know about it, the less inclined/more restrained from showing it he'll be. That is, until the sprite is removed and he learns his mistake.
Second, by saying he "never will" is quite a weak assertion. We don't know that. I personally think he will, simply because he's being publically shamed into complying. If he doesn't, his game won't lift ground, simple as that.
And if your goal was (presumably) to get ericard to remove the sprite that all amounts to nothing.
For someone who just a few weeks ago was going on his own crusade against anybody who made fangames, you're awfully vocal against this crusade against a thief and an asshat.
Pot, meet kettle?
Just that we're doing something, you don't agree with it, and we're defending our opinions and actions.
It's been explained more than a few times why we're doing this and why we feel it's justified. I don't know how many more times you expect us to repeat the same thing. If you don't get it or agree with it, fine, but it's getting a bit tiresome having to watch you say the same things antagonizing us over and over. We've explained ourselves, stop dragging it out. You're against this thread, but you're contributing to it and maybe keeping it from fizzling out.
I'm doing the most I can do at the moment, which is badmouthing this dude wherever I go and he's present.Dracula9:
What a twat.Piscesdreams:
Also, am I the only one laughing over him using one of those Flash waifu makers for his character portraits?
"He is a most confusing individual. Everything he says is contradictory, moronic and self-serving. "I'M GONNA PUT THIS IN MY GAME, BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT AND CAN'T REMOVE IT!"dracula9:
I feel like every time he speaks I lose a year off of my life and get a little dumber."
"I'll bet you he's like twelve. This level of stupidity just screams "youngin."'pisces dreams:
Seems like that's Ericard's mentality. A clusterfuck of wut
Dracula, I think Kokushibyo was *making fun* of Ericard, i.e Ericard is so dumb even 12 year olds are smarter and more mature than he is. XD"dracula9
"I wouldn't be against getting a whole troupe of people to follow him everywhere he posts the game and leave comments over what he's done and downvote the shit out of it all until he gets the damn memo and stops being a bastard."Jorge :
"DDoS will Cure what ails ya."
First, it HAS wielded results. First Ericard was happily publishing about his things without any obstacle (and even had people behind him cheering him up). Now he's known as twat by the biggest Castlevania forum. Not mentioning the FB group, where he was banned along with every mention of him or his work, which I'll bet were the best places he could ever speak about his Castlevania-related thingstheplottwist:
"That was my primary goal when the discussion was friendly. Now that he derailed it into hostility by being a dumbass, the goal changed: Screwing up his name is the goal.
The person guilty of plagiarism deserves the entire wrath of Anonymous, as far as I'm concerned. It is not bullying, it is vigilantism since the person has done something that the society sees as wrong.
Bullying would imply that the user did nothing wrong and people are just meanies who are being big meanies doing and saying mean things, those meanies. Meanies.
This is not the case.
I stand by my opinion, but my opinion and what the Castlevania Dungeon's collective administrative stance on something are not always in alignment.
I suppose in the future I should post what is my personal opinion and what is the forum's administrative stance...
...or not. I really don't care to do that much work for an insignificant percentage of the forum populace.
I think a ban of Ericard would at least satisfy both parties and points of view at least in THIS forum. (For the millionth time.)
I just wanted to post what I found about Ericard on youtube.
"YOU STEAL MY MOD AND YOU VIOLATE THE ENGINE COPYRIGHT, NOW CEASE ALL YOUR STUPID FIGHTING STREET GAME VIDEO AND MY MOD THAT YOU MODIFIED RIGHT NOW!"
"FUCK YOUR DICK ASSHOLE, YOU STILL USING MY MOD WITHOUT CREDIT AND STEALING ALL MY BASE STUFF!!! I SAID BRING IT DOWN ALL THE STUFF THAT YOU USING ALL THE TWELVE CHARACTERS!!!"
These are comments of the Casval Char a user who I think is Ericard because the same channel promotes the videos of the Castlevania with the stolen sprite.
Also one more comment from the same idiot - "The projectile is so fucking cheap and no challenging at all, go suck the hell with this dunk." This post was left on a Fan made Castlevania game.
And some people here will tell me that I should not try to dring this mother****** down? Seriously?
You know what we DO have a rule for? Junior-moderating. So knock it off.
When I return from vacation, we the moderation team will discuss what will be done.
This guy has us all quite riled up. No lie -- aside from the obvious errors he's made, following this whole story has been fairly amusing. I hope we all find at least some amusement in this...laughing, even at oneself, is healthy. I would also hope we don't all get so upset that we end up turning on each other over whatever thoughts, feelings, or comments come out in this craziness. :-S We're all good pals here!
Our forum is the #1 search when it comes to Castlevania and anything social (Forum). Though the site is old, this Board is very much alive. The problem is, it's very easy to grab our contest stuff as a result.I have to disagree. Firstly, to agree would be on the first topic: being the #1 search found online. And there's good reason for that; until things like this happen that is. Easy to make an account? sure. easy to rip off others work? apparently easy as well. But to brush off blatantly stealing someone's work AFTER said person clearly gave no permission..not cool :rollseyes: another thing not too cool is slamming "junior-mods". Look, im not a mod, have no desire to be one. I'll be the first to say that things can get me from zero to pissed off in 2.5 seconds lol, so that's another reason why i could never be a good mod. But for "junior mods" to get heat from stating the same things that countless of us have said on here already is uncalled for. I agree with the majority, Ericard's ass needs canned! He needs to continue to suck at life and live in everyone's shadow like he's shown us he can do so well. Dicks like this one is the reason why A LOT of us "real" fans have our love for the game just trashed when we want to take a stab at making games as well. I dont know about you guys but from here on out ANY artwork i may contribute on here will have a nasty watermark on it to keep bitches like this one from stealing from me as well! So in closing, i agree with the above quote in this aspect: "Our forum is the #1 search when it comes to Castlevania and anything social (Forum). Though the site is old, this Board is very much alive." Keeping things like this from going without consequence will ensure that at some point or another we get trumped by another cv site. Just the way it goes. Eventually people get tired of getting shit on and look elsewhere. Again, not bitching - theplottwist, dude it sucks that someone stole your shit, all you gotta do now is just make something that absolutely crushes theirs. Trust me, i've been in a VERY similar boat here also and posted my thoughts on it as well. All you can do is keep doing what your doing man. $0.02 - end rant
Just search for Castlevania sprites and undoubtedly something from this board will come up. This user did not even have to make an account to grab the stuff.
Users like this user is the reason sites like gbatemp force you to sign up to even see attachments. But then, this user did make an account. The mistake was advertising a game with stolen content at the very site from which the context was stolen.
We can add a rule about using content without a creator's permission being a bannable offense, but it's not solving the problem and, in my opinion, a superfluous rule. But if enough of you guys debate about it, I can add it to the Fan Stuff rules.
Just know that it's a "bandage on Cancer" kind of measure.
This guy has us all quite riled up. No lie -- aside from the obvious errors he's made, following this whole story has been fairly amusing. I hope we all find at least some amusement in this...laughing, even at oneself, is healthy. I would also hope we don't all get so upset that we end up turning on each other over whatever thoughts, feelings, or comments come out in this craziness. :-S We're all good pals here!
Really? :o Excuse me for actually giving a crap about what if going on in the forum and offering a suggestion and responding to something that someone else already mentioned.
I am not doing much moderating at all actually, considering I don't have Any power to do so.
You said in the past that you want members to take some initiative and not really rely so much on the mods to have to do everything well, here I am offering my suggestion which by the way is one of the tamer ones I have seen on this thread.
And, just so we are clear I have asked before in the past to become a Mod if possible and become a more productive member of the dungeon. Considering since the beginning of the year that all of the new contests and even some past threads were single handedly my ideas, U would think that you would appreciate members policing their own without dragging mods into every little issue.
It's not like I have even PM' you to hell about this issue or anything, it's just this issue is obviously a major issue considering that you have alot of members of the dungeon in general that are all sorts of Artists and we are very protective of our original works.
I am sure other members agree?
It's not like you even have to agree on what we suggest, but don't act like I don't have a voice here.
I have been more than courteous depending on some of the other stuff I have seen on this thread...
Please look at the rules. See rule No.6 for what the definition of "junior moderating" is.
I will not have members instigating lynchmobs.
The moderation team and I will discuss these matters upon my return. As Gunlord reiterated earlier, we ask for your patience until we the mods can have a proper discussion about this... which will not happen for at least a week.
Dear Forge and other admin, I decide to put down the Plottwist sprite from the mod now. I apologize for the behaviour and that I done to plottwist and other members. And I have a few demands here:
1)Delete this topic, and also delete another topic in fan stuff
2)Terminate my account, PS:I don't need to be here anymore.
I hope your apology and actions are real. If that is the case good luck.
Please look at the rules. See rule No.6 for what the definition of "junior moderating" is.Instigating a lynchmob?! When the heck did I say anything about starting a lynchmob?! A matter of fact to be technical I didn't even start this thread!
I will not have members instigating lynchmobs.
The moderation team and I will discuss these matters upon my return. As Gunlord reiterated earlier, we ask for your patience until we the mods can have a proper discussion about this... which will not happen for at least a week.
So you propose to just let him get off scot-free and probably do this to somebody else?
I didn't say it was a perfect answer
Jorge knows what's up.
I'm with that, it's a start. Anything else that he has coming is on him...
Lucky me I don't play by this "be a better human" code. If I did, people like Ericard would be going around scott free doing their shit using my things without anyone stopping them. It's a silly self-imposed samurai restriction that generates no results whatsoever.
A person that does something wrong, needs to be reminded what they are doing wrong, or they'll never change.
By exposing Ericard and marking him as a thief, MAYBE he'll rethink his ways in the long run and eventually stop his antics. I know some people who do, so I'm positive in that. Until then, let the badmouthing run amok. It's not like it's having any effect, is it ;) ?
Also, I find it funny that you're expressing concern for him being "harassed too much", when the one starting it was himself by demeaning my work. You reap what you sow, I guess. I told him through PM that this was going to happen because he was acting like a twat. It's not like he didn't knew it or didn't have time to fix his mess. It was his choice to go on with his shenanigans, and this is the most I can do. So I'll do it.
It should be locked.
This thread targets a single user and encourages other members to follow and attack him and thus far the moderators have only either contributed to it or laughed.
If this thread targeted any other member I doubt it would have gone this far.
This thread should be stickied, for reference to newer people.
I'm surprised he hasn't just been banned, given the amount of trouble he's caused.
I'll add to the votes as well. I'd suggest that perhaps if amends and an agreement are made, perhaps banning won't be necessary?
I.E. if someone had apologized and gotten permission, or apologized and removed the stolen sprite, perhaps instead of conversations on banishment we could instead be reminiscing good times over a spot of tea and some crumpets...or a hamburger.
Also, while I do think some example should be made of the offender, there probably is a line to avoid crossing. While a sticky for the sake of a warning to other spriters is a valid idea, we don't want him permanently in stocks do we? "THIEF (http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/199279-the-memory-card-88-the-mark-of-a-thief/LoZLinksAwakeningTHIEF-620x.jpg)" is a deserving title right now, among others it seems as he continues to dig a grave for himself, and this instance should be stopped. Notifying admins of the stolen content etc. in this game seems like a good idea. However, people do have the ability to change and "grow up". Perhaps in time, he will learn the proper way(s) to cite and use the intellectual property of others. And it may be a long time before that happens...but eventually the rat is shocked enough (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KHTqt4unso) to learn it's way through the maze, right?
If someone do idiotic stuff like that they should be punished. In our case he deserves to get exposed in ALL possible ways about "his" work everywhere.
With his refusal to remove the sprite from "his" game he, at least for me, is no longer a real member of this community.
The sprite is not even mine and I raged like mad when I saw what he did and how he refuses to remove this sprite.
I will "hunt" him down :D
Ericard just took the first step of becoming a criminal. And we have to leave him alone? Just hope he will be banned here? That is not how things work in my eyes. I will go to the other Castlevania sites with proof that he is a thief and make him sorry for his ignorance.
Having been on the wrong side of a situation like this before, I can confidently say this is not bullying. Bullying would be harassing Ericard while in the process of, or after, getting the sprite removed from the game. Bullying would be if Ericard was cooperating with you guys, but you still followed him around and labeled him "THIEF" wherever he went. Bullying would be making death threats or illegally using his personal information against him.
This is not any of that. Ericard was caught in a copyright violation, and instead of apologizing and taking the sprite out, he:
1. Lied about finding it on google
2. Argued that it was fine because there was no explicit copyright statement on the sprite
3. Insisted it was impossible to remove, despite the fact that anyone with the brain to make a game obviously knows its not.
4. Pissed on the quality of the work
5. Continued to promote his game on other websites
6. Pretended to be another person on said other websites to avoid direct scrutiny
7. Returned here to finally and defiantly declare that there was no way the sprite was ever being removed
At this point he's not becoming a criminal, he IS one, and if he has a website that hosts this content it should be taken down.
I apologize if I came off as if I were singling you out, darkmanx_429.
I react in this way whenever I see a lynchmob arising.
I also apologize if my actions and words appear rough. Be assured that this is due to heavy events happening in past years.
In those dark times, forum cliques were rampant, and even a few mods were part of those cliques.
It would only take one uppity forum member calling for a ban for people to rally behind that person, and force a decision from a Mod or two.
Because of this, the rule exists now.
It is a fundamental rule, and I take great care to enforce it by bringing it up whenever there is such an attempt.
Since I have not been paying close attention, I was not aware of others suggesting a ban prior, but from what I saw, it appeared as if you, darkmanx_429, we're spearheading that campaign. If I'm wrong, supreme apologies.
My PERSONAL opinion about the DDOS attack has little to nothing to do with what the executive decisions of the forum regarding the user should be.
Within the confines of the forum, we the administration, have always discussed what to do about policy, members, rules, etc.
What I suggest people do outside of the forum has nothing to do with this, as I explained in an earlier reply.
As for taking your ball and going home stamping your feet, darkmanx_429, that is your decision. But you're not tethered here and I will not go around making hasty decisions about forum policy due to one or a handful of forum members' desires. It's just not going to happen.
You can suggest action from mods using a PM as mentioned in the rule. Public outcry and rallying for a decision is a good way to get it ignored. Go through the proper channels, please.