Adding to my prior rant.
What the hell am I talking about?
I’m talking about what’s best for US. As opposed to what might be best for any individual in particular. Cuz I don’t care about individuals. Except for in the muchiness of all of us. You know, how individual Z has that sorta unqualifiable thing that all of us want so we think about it hard and in the end we’re… not one-celled animals anymore?
I’m about that. 46n2.
In between my last story post and this I went ahead and developed a Video Game. You know, a TnA Renpy thing. I spent about a year going into Daz from the ground up. How is this done, exactly? And I enjoyed all that doing.
I was so excited (or possibly even desperate given a year of diligent crushing upon) to release what I had been working on and then… it got eaten by asshats.
I absolutely made it clear at GO that the entire project would perpetually remain entirely free (nope, no Patreon). All I might want in return is some sort of frank discussion on things and some back and forth gobbly gook. Rather than that, I fielded 90% complaints. And not complaints about structure or intent, conceptuals, even visuals - mostly just, “of 100 different options I would most prefer selection 47” “or I would want 26” “or why the hell isn’t it 93?” You suck!! Etc.
So what the hell is that?
Oh, I know what it is.
It’s 10 years of having a phone in yer hand while you cross the street hitting “what I want” buttons.
IS that good for us?
Does anyone really think that’s good for us? Do you think about, at all, what it might be like to get whatever the hell you want without any effort whatsoever. And if that were true for everyone else around you. Would there actually be ANY of anything?!
There wouldn’t.
No one would bother to go down to the water and fish. Or pick the lettuce. Or even think to grow it for christ sakes. We’d all be dead.
And THAT.
Is what we’re going to be.