I really don't expect this to go anywhere, but I want to make a stance that dammit we're better people than this. Aren't we?

Who?
Warner? Hasn't he proven enough times to your eyes that he isn't?
You, me? We've been in this long enough to know. I just felt compelled to let you know my stance on it.

Walt, one thing I learned about you is it's never a big deal for you unless it affects you personally. Case in point: sprite theft where you were indifferent until that one guy years ago, whose head you took clean off.

IIRC (I might be wrong) whoever it was tried to put that Dante sprite in a contest. You can't win a skill contest using other people's skills.

For the record, whoever asked my help has got a yes for an answer, even you (even if you didn't like how it turned out), even moreso, I've offered my help to people who didn't even want it. Had that monkey of a kid asked either for the edit or help I would have said yes to help him improve it, he posted it as his own, when it wasn't. It was a lesson that the user needed to learn.

It's not the same in this case. Warner is stating beforehand he'll use the character as a base, not calling the thing his own. Not to mention people have stated the possibility of him making the sprites open source and letting other creators code that for him, if that's the way he wants to work, and leave his works as mediocre as they are right now it's his mediocre choice, as much as your choice (or mine for that matter) to continue or not whatever project you may have in the oven, or release it as crappy as it might be.