Sorry GP :-[
We obviously grew up watching the same great TV. Shame they cannot ever be shown again.
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum is a BBC television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the last months of the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had both served in similar roles in India during that war. .... The series has been accused of racism, homophobia and pandering to imperialism.Any modern day tv critic with an ounce of woke would have a stroke.
In capitalism, the proper way to do things is,The "natural order" sounds like a conservative version of the "right side of history", which is a toxic faux-argument. But the more general point is an interesting one, because from a neoclassical perspective (often represented by the Austrian school, today), the entrepreneur what makes the economy more efficient, and thus is essential to economic growth and development. The entrepreneur does this by taking risks, specifically expending capital and resources today in order to make the production of consumer goods more efficient tomorrow. The market rewards those who act efficiently, and destroys those who do not, and the end result is a more efficient process of production. That's why entrepreneurs reap the profits, and not their employees, who are paid before the capital development is finished, and thus don't take the same risk.
1. create good or service people want
2. sell it to them
in that order. Kickstarter reverses the natural order of things, and thus is bound to lead to all sorts of perversions.
Just take the time to make a proper product and self-publish or whatever, then you can't be cancelled by anyone. You also can't collect a wad of cash and then delay for years and eventually give people nothing. It's better for everyone.
Cancel Kickstarter!
But while entrepreneurs sometimes use their own money, they more commonly get it from investors. [...] But it's a major change, from the perspective of the investor, or backer. Because the backer has been stripped of the potential upside of being an investor, which is the profits.Correct. Which is why it's bullshit, and leads to perversions.
You can always borrow my uncensored dvd's, which I keep next to my hotpants-WonderWoman and Are You Being Served sets :)
So, back on topic, I remember the Cowbell guy from a kerfuffle a few months ago, but where is Luke Crane on the scale of SJW-to-Shitlord? The KS comments make it seem as if he was on purpose creating the controversy.
I've gotten a lot of quality rpg products via Kickstarter so it's not all bad. For instance, I've gotten many, many, 3d files for dungeons, buildings, terrain, and minis via Kickstarter. I've also received great sets with tons of extras from Goodman Games for DCC, MCC, and Lankhmar boxed sets, plus great books from Kobold Press and other publishers that didn't contain an ounce of woke. It's just been the last couple of years that it's gotten so damn flakey with wokeness. There have been a lot of rip offs too with no products being delivered but I've only had maybe 4 or 5 out of dozens and dozens of successful ones.I have too been satisfied with quite a few kickstarters. However one of the downsides is in many cases, if you don't back a project there is little chance of ever obtaining the product. While this doesn't often affect written works which are often later distributed as PDFs or POD, it does affect material products... board games, miniatures, playing aids, electronics etc. With investment backing you can produce regular runs to meet sales. The only way I've seen this done is to start new kick starters for new runs of old products.
Live by the Mob, die by the Mob.