Art and Fear -
A good book about the internal and external challenges to making art, along with the rewards.
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Wednesday, 17 May 2017
quote [ This, then, is Good Guy Valve — a corporation which employs precision-engineered psychological tools to trick people into giving them money in exchange for goods they don't legally own and may never actually use while profiting from a whole lot of unpaid labor and speculative work ... but isn't “evil.” ]
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midden said @ 10:28pm GMT on 17th May
Valve is a corporation. Its primary reason for existing, regardless of what its founders may have originaly imagined, or what you imagine, is to make money. "Good Guy Valve" is good marketing. Valve mostly sells completely non-essential entertainment and makes a hearty profit. (Yes it does sell some other software, too, but that's a small fraction of its income.) You get something like 100 hours of entertainment for every dollar you spend with Valve, and you are bitching about it? Turn off the fucking computer and go play stick ball with some friends for Christe's sake.
midden said @ 10:30pm GMT on 17th May
Valve is a corporation. Its primary reason for existing, regardless of what its founders may have originaly imagined, or what you imagine, is to make money. "Good Guy Valve" is good marketing. Valve mostly sells completely non-essential entertainment and makes a hearty profit. (Yes it does sell some other software, too, but that's a small fraction of its income.) You get something like 100 hours of entertainment for every dollar you spend with Valve, and you are bitching about it? Turn off the fucking computer and go play stick ball with some friends for Christ's sake.
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midden said @ 10:28pm GMT on 17th May
Valve is a corporation. Its primary reason for existing, regardless of what its founders may have originaly imagined, or what you imagine, is to make money. "Good Guy Valve" is good marketing. Valve mostly sells completely non-essential entertainment and makes a hearty profit. (Yes it does sell some other software, too, but that's a small fraction of its income.) You get something like 100 hours of entertainment for every dollar you spend with Valve, and you are bitching about it? Turn off the fucking computer and go play stick ball with some friends for Christ's sake.
