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Literally just print paper. Glue it on cardboard and a cardboard stand. Its the simplest diy project. You need scissors and glue, primary school supplies. This is very cheap, very easy arts and crafts. Its not just primary school supplies, but its primary school arts and crafts level skill required. Its quick, its quicker than earning the cash to spend on a standee. Consider paper. Paper has it for you.

Paper is also biodegradable.

FAQ:

Q: I dont have a printer at home!

A: An office store or library has it.

Q: But will they let me print copyrighted shit?

A: If the printers are self serve, they dont know. Unless its something absolutely socially unacceptable, nobody is going to glance over your shoulder and then rush over to stop you. Even if the printers are not self serve, I’ve never dealt with a business who cares.

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Legal disclaimer: Satire/Parody. This post is a joke. Do not break the law, especially because you read some dumb blog online.

You should pirate Undertale. Its a decade old, and still sells a ton of merch, meaning its creator is not at financial risk. It got DRM-free releases, meaning pirating it is fairly trivial. But its not entirely non-trivial, you will learn a lot about piracy by pirating Undertale. Its also a small game in terms of file size: if you make a misfire, you won’t lose too much in terms of download time. Just watch out for viruses! It’s a good game, too. It’s a popular game, its an influential game, its one of the Games You Should Play TM. But if you don’t want to play it, the game starts quickly, you can easily boot it up to check you did it correctly and transfer your new skills to pirating something you want to play.

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Hard drives are physical media.

There’s a specific tech illiteracy that’s been deliberately engineered, where people don’t know the difference between files stored on their computer and data accessed over the internet. This is an important distinction, because drm-free files stored on your computer are physical media to the same degree an optical disc is.

A movie in your hard drive is not significantly different from an optical disc, in terms of data encoded. These are different storage mediums for the same data.

The files on your hard drive cannot be revoked, unless you let the DRM in! Don’t let the DRM in! Hard drives: they’re physical media.

Its kind of brilliant, right? Businesses control your access to movies through the cloud and always-on DRM. They convince you that your hard drive is an ephemeral item, one you can’t control. Finally, they convince you to buy their expensive premium product to remedy the problem they’ve created. You aren’t sticking it to the man by “returning to discs”, you’re falling for their marketing campaign!

And what can you do about it? I mean, you can pirate

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I love government funding for the arts!

Its ok when an artist who receives government funding creates something ugly, niche, or bad. I’m just glad when money is spent on bad art, instead of the military.

However, its far more often that an artist makes something that rules.

I think we need more government funding for the arts. They can never spend enough on art! No arts budget is too big, its impossible to do.