D&D 5E Sell Out: Hasbro and the Soul of D&D

[jasper]

Number nine... number nine... number nine...

Get you love potions out here.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Generally selling out is applied to music.

Generally it is a term used by gatekeeping anti-capitalist hipsters to describe anything they don't like.

Usually means someone drastically changed their style

An artist who can only do one thing is lacking.

to try and make more money.

It's their job to be popular, and if they do their job well they will make money.

It's not their job to keep turning out the same old stuff year in year out to please some aging hipsters.

 

[jasper]

There are two type of artists. 1. One who art pleases people. And the people give them cash. 2. One who art only pleases themselves. Generally the number 2 are full of it and jealous of the number 1.

 

[Zardnaar]

Generally it is a term used by gatekeeping anti-capitalist hipsters to describe anything they don't like.

An artist who can only do one thing is lacking.

It's their job to be popular, and if they do their job well they will make money.

It's not their job to keep turning out the same old stuff year in year out to please some aging hipsters.

I said change their style drastically.

Pearl Jam for example us different to 1991 PJ but they don't sell out at the time.

And some artists have confessed to doing it as well eg Bowie.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I said change their style drastically.

Yes, a decent artist should be able to work in drastically different styles, and with different media. And once you have done something and it is recorded, is it pointless to keep doing the same thing.

And some artists have confessed to doing it as well eg Bowie.

A lot of artists are idiots. Bowie was doing his job and staying relevant - he was an idiot for guilt-tripping over it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yes, a decent artist should be able to work in drastically different styles, and with different media. And once you have done something and it is recorded, is it pointless to keep doing the same thing.

A lot of artists are idiots. Bowie was doing his job and staying relevant - he was an idiot for guilt-tripping over it.

He said there was no passion in it and did it purely for the money in the early&mid 80's.

His words. Money's not everything.

 

[FrozenNorth]

The only thing we as consumers ever "owned" is our characters and how they interacted with a campaign along with whatever house rules we have.

That is why my new character is named McInley #copyright #trade mark.

 

[Imaculata]

A lot of artists are idiots. Bowie was doing his job and staying relevant - he was an idiot for guilt-tripping over it.

Well, he also pretended to be gay because it was trendy at the time, when he clearly wasn't. Yeah, that was a thing at the time artists did.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

He said there was no passion in it and did it purely for the money in the early&mid 80's.

He had to go to work for the money. Just like grown-ups do.

His words. Money's not everything.

Without it you don't get to eat.

If it's just you you can be as selfishly passionate as you like and die is squalor, but Bowie had a family to provide for.

 

[Zardnaar]

He had to go to work for the money. Just like grown-ups do.

If he wasn't an idiot he had enough money by then. I don't judge to harshly sometimes selling out also makes good music sometimes it doesn't.