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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 6235035" data-attributes="member: 1620">I'm sorry if you consider it rude. I was actually speaking in earnest. I consider what you put forth to be an outright error and am comfortable saying so. Oh, for Gygax's sake ...You seem to be under the impression there were many of them to begin with.Look, as a writer who was tired of having to hound people to pay me what they owe, or not being paid at all, I decided to become a small press publisher. It's worked out great for me, and it's worked out for the artists who work with me, who usually get paid within an hour of handing over their work. That is made possible by the circumstances you rail against. I am now able to create things I otherwise never would have been able to publish, and am earning more money than I would have freelancing alone.The way the industry works is shifting and that cannot be changed. I know it, and you also know it, obviously. Yes, the amount of crap hitting the market has climbed because of the lowered threshold for entry into the market, but so too has the amount of great product that otherwise never would have seen the light of day. There is a balance.As happens every time a market shift occurs, you either find a way to adapt or you become extinct. Right now, you're the guy screaming about how the printing press will put scribes out of work.Don't be that guy.</blockquote>