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This is a great time to support people like Olan Rogers who have worked for all the majors and are bucking the system. He funded his latest animated series pilot through kickstarter and is getting funding for the rest of the episodes now. Imagine that: paying creative people in advance and bypassing the corporate bullshit. He’s even left kickstarter behind now to take payments directly. https://godspeedseries.com/

Also with mentioning when Alan Tudyk did the same with Con Man, a comedy tribute to the Firefly fandom that was fan-financed for 2 seasons.

Helluva Boss doing quite well too.

You may not hear about shows like these because promotion is just not worth throwing any money at… The following is already grassroots and the powers that be make it tough to compete against their ads. But there is quality stuff being made by directly funding film makers. There just needs to be more ways of finding funds for up and coming talent.

(And there needs to be a better place to release non network shows than YouTube, but that’s a whole other can of worms)

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This is the sobering reality for many a hometown hero of physical sports too. Being the best in your city, 1 in a million even, puts you in tight competition in college sports and then worse as a pro.

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On behalf of the dads: We used to let you win all kinds of shit and you never knew! Then one day we couldn’t beat your anymore… and we had two choices while you gloated: convince ourselves we let you win or let the mid life crisis begin.

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Battle beyond the stars did it 43 years ago, so why not?

Safe to say a lot of the new Disney Star wars stuff is basically seven samurai in space

But hey, the original 7 were technically in space… We’re all in space Morty, literally everything is in space!

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Sure, but be aware it’s a popular line from The Matrix series specifically about predetermination!

https://youtu.be/eVF4kebiks4?si=izWhOER6wP_NBJvr

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What will really bake your noodle is you just did.

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Glad to see the other misinformation classics like Richard Gere’s gerbil mentioned.

Anyone remember Jamie Lee Curtis was secretly a hermaphrodite?

It was known. I don’t trust anything I learned pre Internet anymore, including the number of planets.

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You’re right. Steam link exists for Linux but doesn’t connect to the new VR app. I agree valve likely has every intention of tapping this market soon though

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(when administered as part of a single mission study in Zimbabwe funded by Bill Gates)

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Steam just made a big step forward with steam link, but previously the headset manufacturers were releasing Windows only link software.

Also there are now open source solutions like ALVR… But like most FOSS it can require some know how.

(Or maybe he meant Meta is getting all his data anyways, why be picky)

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