MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

Yeah that's true. But motivation's tough, I've got a chronic illness that leaves me feeling fatigued much of the time, I don't have the energy of a normal person, I'm not feeling up to working on games a lot of the time, and I don't get paid anything for this and there's not too many eager and vocal fans to motivate me either. There are a few, thank god, and without them I'd have quit a long time ago.

In my youth I worked hard and I got games done but I just don't have that kind of energy anymore. I'm not a healthy person and I have nowhere near the wellness or energy levels of a normal 28 year old man. So I've got to learn to work not just hard, but work smart. Because the last time I finished a full length game was in 2006, and that sucks.

But I mean fundamentally with that aside I agree with you. It's what I've been saying about writing for years and years. To paraphrase Stephen King, it's not glamorous or romantic or fun, you're not always going to be inspired, most of the time you go about it more like a plumber laying pipe or a carpenter joining boards than anything else.

author=Link2112
That is a terrible story. I can't argue against that. But there is one vast difference besides race. Those women do not have the guns in their hands. The fucking assault rifles are iffy, but the other two have them "holstered". The older lady is the only one who's doing it right, though. I'm not suggesting anything other than there is a difference between holding a gun in the ready position as opposed to it being "holstered".

idk man like i am not sure 'swinging around a toy gun in one hand idly while shopping' is worse than 'having a real actual assault rifle hanging precariously on a strap from your back fat while shopping'.

I agree with you that the lady with the holster is the only one doing open carry even close to right.

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author=harmonic
Okay Cave_Dog, I guess white racism doesn't exist. I'll change from now on.

Harmonic we've been over this before so I know you understand.

Racism against white folks does totally exist and is perpetrated by all kinds of people, including white folks and is not excused by the invocation of past grievances.

However, it's unilaterally less serious in its impact than the massive social harm caused by institutional racism over the years.

author=harmonic
Also, affirmative action, racial hiring quotas, non-existent race-based college scholarships (they exist for everyone else) and higher test standards for whites for government employment is institutional, systematic, and economic racism.

Strictly speaking, that isn't racism because it does not arise from a belief that whites are inferior. So to be clear, set against white people we have an institutional bias that isn't racism, and we have racism that isn't institutional. And that's already pretty bad.

While I agree that all of that is super problematic, it just doesn't matter as much as the epidemic of police officers cavalierly murdering black people without consequences from a justice system that seems not to value black lives. While I agree with you that all of those issues are fucking bullshit that piss me off, please don't mention it again in this thread.

I think conversations break down because SJWs/leftists get tired of anti-SJWs insisting that the existence of "reverse" racism (disclaimer: I HATE that term) be acknowledged in every conversation that touches on race and anti-SJWs get tired of SJWs/leftists refusing to ever acknowledge it in any conversation.

author=Adon
bigotry does not equal racism... those aren't the same thing.

racism is the institutional & systematic, economic & social oppression of a race by another race

bigotry is intolerance of other people who have either different opinions AND/OR do not share the same identities as they do

You've got your semantics wrong, bud. Just google the definition of racism and you'll see that. If for instance your dad hates black people that's still racist even though your dad is neither in control of nor influenced by institutional, systematic, economic or social systems. Racism has a broad definition.

author=Adon
also i'm white

Not gonna lie, this does not exactly shock me.

If Yellow Magic's "Favorite Thing" is still white people arguing about race on the internet, this thread must be like Christmas every day for him.

I read them a few tmes actually but I guess I didn't retian too much orz

Sorry man, my health has really fucked up that prediction.

Pay a fair price for your commissions or make due with what's already out there.

There are some nonfacts that wouldbe freelance artists really need to unlearn. Probably the most important thing to understand is that when you do work-for-hire as an independent contractor for a company that is NOT a private commission and cannot be treated remotely the same.

But this is definitely OT.

author=Liberty

author=Max McGee
Thiamor:

Here is the thing...professional covers a very wide range of artists and a wide range of prices. You can find extremely gifted artists that will work very cheap, and they may well even be better than more expensive artists who can charge more because they are more well known.

They should not. The reason they are cheap is because people take advantage of them or constantly do the 'oh, but x was cheaper' or the bullshit line "you'll get exposure". Quite frankly, if their work is good you should pay them well. FFS, sorry, but this is something I feel pretty strongly about - people getting paid fairly for their work and not getting ripped off just because they're artists. It's ridiculous and people who do it should feel bad.

You have no fucking idea what you are talking about. YOU SHOULD FUCKING FEEL BAD.

Do you have any idea how ridiculous it is that you assume what my company pays is exploitative simply because I described it as "very cheap" relative to asking for 70 goddamn fucking grand just to finish a stupid SNES/PS1 Era JRPG clone which people do in RPG Maker year after year for a $0 budget?

The dozens of artists we have helped to earn a living wage for their passion over the years of our operation by providing them with paying work when others wouldn't because they weren't as well known as the artists getting paying work who were charging ten to a hundred times more...GOD fucking forbid a company should have a budget and should pay out accordingly to their budget and get the best quality work for their money rather than ignore their budget and structure their freelancer pricing schedule based on some abstract ABSOLUTE concept of how 'good' art is...ffs...I can't even...LEARN HOW THE WORLD WORKS before you start holier-than-thou soapbox moralizing about business ethics from the total blind ignorance of a hobbyist's perspective.

I am done with this thread.