TV, movies, music, video games, the internet, what's next to carve out and ruin?
My one "the kids are wrong" take is when I was a kid, selling out was bad, but now it seems that it's celebrated.
The fans are happy that their favourite creators are getting the bag in a world where that's impossible with just an average salary, I think it's sweet. I do this too though I don't really have any creators I like
No doubt getting the bag is nice, but when millennials were kids the selling out part was considered bad not because getting the bag is bad in itself but because getting the bag usually means changing the nature of the art to make it more marketable. It means answering to the rich guys handing you the bag. I just miss that acknowledgement, that the art would be inevitably watered down by appeal to larger markets.
it's not so much that it's celebrated, selling out still sucks, it's just that we understand that you gotta do what you gotta do in this fucked up system we're in. selling out is winning, and we can respect that you won, even if you sold your soul to do it
One thing I like pointing out to gamer types who believe there would be no innovation without capitalism is that many of the most successful games on the market are derived from free mods.
The most popular game ever was made as a side project by a Soviet scientist
Comrade Mojang really turned his life around after the Soviet Union collapsed
the Soviet Union collapsed
You mean was murdered!
i am the one
who arranges the blocks
which rain down on me
from up above
they come down
then i spin them around
'til they fit in the ground
like hand in glove
Mods depends on the full game though, FOSS games is a much better comparison
Hey Hexbear, are you guys looking for VC funding? We could really make this a big thing! I love this "commonism" or whatever it is this community talks about. With the right cash injection, Hexbear could really 10x or 100x its audience!
Damn now the Viet Cong wants to fund us too? How will that work with our CPC and Kremlin sponsors?
if the admins ever get an offer for VC funding, they better post that shit straight to the dunk tank or we riot
Someone offered to buy the site a while back and the Twitter DMs were indeed posted
Do you have any link to that?
It looks like everything prior to 2021 has been removed from the official Twitter, so no. Maybe @HexbearIntern@hexbear.net does?
Edit: found a relevant post:
It's posts like this that makes me be unable to enjoy anything at all for a few days
Sorry, I'm a depressing motherfucker.
Fuck. Ain't that the truth.
On extremely rare occasions the right people exist in a company where they're funded to do it for profit and somehow manage to turn it into an untainted passion project.
This creates things that stand out as absurdly over-delivering compared to everything else in their field. And nothing comes close to them again until by some accident another team manages to create a passion project with full funding.
You can just say Baldurs Gate
I was thinking that yes.
WhatsApp and Signal come to mind
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