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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • rekliner@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMerger Rule
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    11 months ago

    This is a great time to support people like Olan Rogers who have worked for all the majors and are bucking the system. He funded his latest animated series pilot through kickstarter and is getting funding for the rest of the episodes now. Imagine that: paying creative people in advance and bypassing the corporate bullshit. He’s even left kickstarter behind now to take payments directly. https://godspeedseries.com/

    Also with mentioning when Alan Tudyk did the same with Con Man, a comedy tribute to the Firefly fandom that was fan-financed for 2 seasons.

    Helluva Boss doing quite well too.

    You may not hear about shows like these because promotion is just not worth throwing any money at… The following is already grassroots and the powers that be make it tough to compete against their ads. But there is quality stuff being made by directly funding film makers. There just needs to be more ways of finding funds for up and coming talent.

    (And there needs to be a better place to release non network shows than YouTube, but that’s a whole other can of worms)





  • rekliner@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAccurate?
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    1 year ago

    Steam just made a big step forward with steam link, but previously the headset manufacturers were releasing Windows only link software.

    Also there are now open source solutions like ALVR… But like most FOSS it can require some know how.

    (Or maybe he meant Meta is getting all his data anyways, why be picky)





  • It’s worse than the just Karens. If you don’t pay the fines they will put a lien on your property and eventually evict you. This has created a strong market pressure towards swindling people out of their places. Financial groups that manage HOAs wholesale are now the norm and they love encouraging Karens to generate nonsense rules and report offenders… They get a cut of either the fine or the home sale sand get to play the role faceless enforcer. There are no regulations on how high fines can go, nor how high LATE FEES on those fines can go, nor how soon “late” is.

    We are way past the time when HOAs were harmless funny people hyperfocusing on lawns… It’s a predatory business now.