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wish there was a modern day equivalent of medieval patronage (one rich patron you had to convince, rather than pleasing and amassing hundreds of small patrons
by istorical 5y ago
wish there was a modern day equivalent of medieval patronage (one rich patron you had to convince, rather than pleasing and amassing hundreds of small patrons with online astroturfing and self-aggrandizing spam marketing), I would love to spend my life creating virtual worlds you could travel through as beautiful as those fractals but with interesting things to do and discover inside.
was scratching my artistic itch and self-funding exploring such things but ran out of money and had to go back to the real world:
https://cmadams.itch.io/preydrivr https://cmadams.itch.io/preydrivr
- high_byte 5y agoyou just described angel/VC investments vs. crowdsourced investment/bootstrapped income. there are thousands of ways to make a million dollars: you could ask one person for a million dollars, you could ask a million people for one dollar, or anything in between. you could start a patreon & market it through youtube because I think the concept is right.
- mandmandam 5y agoBasic Income would allow for this. For everyone.
- Keyframe 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojoWorld_Generator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojoWorld_Generator