you call it "fumble" - I'd call it intentional internet colonization

your government failed to secure its cultural safety on the internet, and community was transferred to US-controlled platform

I'm saying artists don't want anyone doing *the same art they do*

GPL ideal gives everyone ability to copy-paste and expand anything, with only obligation to allow everyone to do the same to you. Artists culture is far removed from that

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even more than that, I see people arguing for MIT(!) to lessen the legal burden on fellow programmers

that's the kind of cultural difference I want to point out

and some of my favorite works have been shutdown for background art

creation of new competing products is seen as a catastrophe by sellers, but as more competition by buyers

and our concern as a community basically has been "but do we have enough anti-monopoly protections in place?"

imo, that's happening because 2 cultures formed under extremely opposite incentives - "I do stuff and anyone else also doing it is taking my money away from me" vs "Please someone else do same thing as me, it would be so awesome/easier"

the closest art-relating thing to GPL ideals are fanfics. And opinion about ai-generated fanfics has been much closer to our coders view - "sure a lot of it is bad, maybe there's also too much of it, but... there's also some good stuff, so it's good?"

chance of any individual game on that list getting played by you approach zero

and that falls exactly into the second outlined category

either the game grabbed your interest on the first try, or it won't push you over the "interested, but not now" hump in every next encounter

what can be a reason for an upper limit?

"serious hobbyists" would've already heard about Braid and be in the "played it already" category

if you want a serious challenge, try making some drivers

consider providing your pc time for https://www.mersenne.org/ distributed compute project

at least now you are one of the most qualified people to check the result, transform it into understandable (by humans) state and grow stuff on top of it