The kickstarter has raised over $270,000 in less than one day. Goddamn, I love this fandom.
And people are already making counter-movements!
(I really do know where he is coming from though,and I kinda agree with him.)
Honestly?
The guy comes off as a total hypocrite. He's sitting there updating his blog when he
could be working in a soup kitchen. He's spending money on trivial luxuries like
internet access when he could be donating all that cash to Goodwill.
Seriously, he's complaining because people actually sent Hussie money to fund the creation of a Homestuck game. Now I don't know about you, but I pay for the creation of video games and movies all the time. The only difference is that I usually do so retroactively, by purchasing the item at a store of some sort.
So to lambast people spending money on this sort of thing, I'd really have to decry people spending money on luxuries of all kinds, ever. (And, wouldn't you know it, a lot first world economies
run on people spending money on luxuries. It's why recessions tend to be vicious cycles. People can't afford to spend money on luxuries, so nearly every business out there makes less money, and can afford to spend even less on luxuries.)
Honestly. That money's not any more wasted than the money spent on television programs, movies, books, comics, cards, sports, theater, cars, or pretty much anything of that nature, and if this dude has decided to stop following Homestuck because the fandom isn't throwing all their money at panhandlers on the roadside then he'd better swear off of everything and retreat to the mountains and live as a hermit. (I doubt he'll be producing a lot of cash with that lifestyle, but really: houses are an unecessary drain on precious charity money when you can live in a cave for free!) Meanwhile, I will still be here, occasionally enjoying peoples' totally-unnecessary-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things fiction.
Bleah. </rant>
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