Very thoughtful interview not just on NFTs (I especially appreciate the point about non-profits legitimizing the scam by participating) but about the nature of crowdfunded artistry, the difference between being paid for clicks vs. paid by people who enjoy your work.
As a disabled creator with ADHD that has only recently been treated, I've had long periods where I've struggled with the question of, "Am I actually providing enough value for the money I bring in?"
But at the end of the day, that's up to the people putting the money in.
And the correlation between how people value what I do and how much money they spend is much more direct in crowdfunding than with other payment schemes in between us, like if I were employed for fixed wages by someone who sells my labor indirectly through products.
I'm prepping some moves for 2022 that I feel good about, on a creative and professional level. I've teased a bit about something that I'm going to be doing for and with anyone else who would like to write more. Planning to share the first real details of that tomorrow.
I guess keep following me if you want to know more, or watch the hashtag #NiNoBilMa
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One thing I think the internet troll brigade missed about Revelation Part I is that the first episode was the series finale and heroic send-off that He-Man and his fans never got, due to the cranked-out toy commercial nature of the original series.
He-Man's already blurred-together adventures just kind of tapered off without any kind of resolution for the character or for the dangling plot arc(s) like Marlena knowing her son's secret or Teela's true sorcerous heritage when the suits decided it was time to sell She-Ra toys.
Working on nomenclature for abilities in my TTRPG project and after I found myself adding clarifying language to an opaque tier nomenclature that Tier III was specific things you can do, Tier II was stuff you can do, and Tier I was some bullshit...
...I dropped the references to numbered tiers and just called them Things, Stuff, and Broad Stuff.
An ability is a Thing if saying you're going to use it tells everybody what you're going to do.
"How are you dealing with this joker?"
"Roundhouse Kick." That's a thing.
It's Stuff if saying you're going to use it tells everybody what method you're using or outcome you're going for, but you still have to clarify what you're doing.
(Caution to bystanders: Do not @ me with RPG suggestions or "Have you tried...?", that's not what we're doing here.)
So, I enjoy D&D-style tactical combat and I've been trying to drill down what I like about it while moving away from what I see as the wargame fossils in it...
...which I think robs it of a lot of narrative richness and the actual dramatic potential of combat by basically reverting to the "all these characters are just *very small* units in a war game and they're fighting to the death" model as soon as combat is joined...
...and in between working on models of tactical combat that allow for more back and forth, more variety of win and loss conditions, more ways for the player side to lose and the game and story keep going... I keep thinking about things like the Kids on Conveyances system.
In the annals of ways I have injured myself, there's a lot of foolish ones, but the sheer variety of Wile E. Coyote-like comeuppances I have received while *specifically* trying to avoid this problem is a category all its own.
Step 1: Clamp projector to shelf by bed.
Step 2: Connect projector to nearby laptop.
Step 3: Point projector at ceiling.
Step 4: Recline with handheld USB control device.
Step 5: Say "oof!" as projector falls on stomach.
...I was going to list multiple different such experiments but they're all mostly variations on "in order to avoid dropping my phone on my face, I dropped something else, larger and heavier, somewhere on or around my person".
Anybody who is concerned by the plight of self-identified "trans widows" (*vomit*) should be against conversion therapy, for robust childhood education about gender, and affirming care.
The broken marriages that leave "trans widows" come from shoving trans women in the closet.
These women do not lose their husbands to a cult; they married women who felt compelled by society to try to Be A Man in a society that led them to believe that if they married a woman and had kids together, manhood would naturally follow.
And yeah, it's a bad situation to be in, but this Dan Savage-style nonsense idea that the solution is to shove the trans women who got married while trying to Be Men into the closet and keep them there "for the kids" or because "you made a vow"... that's a hostage situation.