all jokes aside this entire thread is one big nonissue because in the world of competition the better product will always win, whether it be the ripoff or the original. if you like the gautier00 flavor of jayce-esque content, then he has the thing just for you. if you like jayce's handcrafted bullstuff then download it. none of this stuff is copyrighted so there's no intellectual theft going on.
i guess you could call it plagiarism but i prefer to call it heavily inspired. jayce doesn't own the idea of uninteresting brown rooms or jack frost or stuff (although the OC part was definitely plagiarism). gautier00 is merely iterating very subtly on jayce's ideas and refusing to provide credit at his own discretion which is a richard move but he has no obligation to do so.
all of this is just people exercising their freedom to design and contribute and iterate on similar ideas, as everyone in history has done. it's apparent gautier00 is inspired by jayce (or obsessed) but a lot of people take inspiration from people and art styles that dictates their entire creative thought process. i was obsessed with bushido and dedicated a month where i studied all his stuff closely just to unlock the secret behind good models (it was decorative screws)
The main problem isn't about plagiarism, Phanto, it's about how creepy Gautier is being to become Jayce. Yes, you have the freedom to exercise your ideas and inspiration, but to the point where you're following every single move of your inspiration is going too far, even outside of Blockland. In your case, you're saying that you're basing your stuff off of Bushido, which is understandable since he's no longer with our community, but in Gautier's case, he tries to replicate his content as soon as Jayce does it.
You have no idea how stressed Jayce is about this ordeal he's been forced to face for years. Even though this is a forgetin' lego game, Jayce cannot comprehend this inconceivable battle that challenged the end of all of his memories for this game. Hell- we're under Gautier's shadow at this rate because of this. I doubt that half the members of the Fraternized Arcade (Gautier's public discord group for Blockland) even know about the origins of Gautier's creations since they're mostly exposed to him rather than Jayce. This is challenging Jayce's life for Blockland, and it's quite depressing. His motive has slowly been killed off by Gautier's "ctrl+c" act, and the Tavern- for sure- doesn't want that to happen.
Why are you always bad at devil's advocate?
