This is both remarkable and sad. A scheduled suicide blog post: https://willopines.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/punched-out/
I get his reasons. It's tiring to be an obligate social creature when you're not good at being social.
But if you go down that mental road, consider that the opinion of "the masses" will always be irrelevant and usually somewhat dumb. It's okay to be bad at social interactions, too.
It's not that "nobody cares", it's that it's irrelevant if anybody cares as long as you do.
@redacted Thing is, I perfectly get where he's coming from. I create things. At least some people tell me they are good things... And that's usually the extent of it. The value of my work is *considered* transitory, despite my livelihood depending on it being shared and spread, supported, and the like.
To gain that value, I have to play in a sport that I have never been taught to navigate, and still haven't worked out to this day.
@redacted Minor example: I said a thing, and all of a sudden, two "prominent" folks in their circles follow me. I have no real idea why. Similarly, I have no idea why the person whose article I responded to, who I agree with, has had no reaction whatsoever, but *did* react to someone else.
I'm winging things, and I'm almost constantly shocked that *nobody seems to be noticing* .
@redacted Thanks for that. :)
Aye, it's interesting, tbh, because the fiscal aspect of games writing (Let's leave the art out of it for now :P ) also helps prevent the one thing that would help the possibility of a basic income (IE - Games press union.)
Doesn't help we're plagued with "For Exposure" assholes either. But in the UK at least, one could see that as an outgrowth of the Zero Hours Contract bubble that's grown over the past decade, at least in part. :|
@TMWReviews I've had the advantage of being good at sth that requires almost no people skills. My brother is in a similar boat as you: He has to market himself despite having neither interest in nor skills for it. I don't have a solution.
Reminds me of @CobaltVelvet's meta-rant: https://blog.xomg.net/meta-rant.html
Most intrinsically driven people would like to follow their passion and earn enough to live. We're not there yet, but only because of politics, not lack of ability.