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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > BSS: Bisexual Super Son > Real Life Politics in Comics
 
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Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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Otherkinsey Scale posted:

I feel the need to link this interview. Though that might be the wrong phrasing.
drat that sucker's like 13 years old now. Time flies. I've heard rumors he has somewhat mellowed out? Or at least regrets having put so much focus on his bitching about feminism?

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Dec 22, 2003

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Pierson posted:

My line for seperation of art and artist has always been "does buying this work benefit the person who made it or the people who share his ideology?" I refuse to buy anything by Orson Scott Card because I don't want any of my cash to go to that rear end in a top hat, but I'll sometimes get H.P. Lovecraft's old work because as far as I checked his estate are just regular people who had a terrible ancestor.
Lovecraft died without issue and all his work is in the public domain. The worst you'll end up doing is giving an RPG company some money. Or a guy who apparently managed to make a career out of studying H.P. Lovecraft.

Barnes and Noble had a real pretty hardcover of 'everything he wrote, pretty much' for $20. They don't do that if they had to pay anybody.

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Dec 22, 2003

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zoux posted:

Folks there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Some portion of every dollar you spend goes to some piece of poo poo somewhere.
Nothin' gets past this guy!

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Dec 22, 2003

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zoux posted:

Har har but fretting over whether buying a book you think you'd enjoy is going to somehow reward bad people is dumb.
I don't get how come. If I buy a new copy of Ender's Game, I know that Orson Scott Card is getting a cut. If I instead buy Terry Pratchett books, or dildos, then OSC isn't getting that money - or if he does, it's at a much greater remove and involves him purchasing shares in the dildo factory.

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Dec 22, 2003

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zoux posted:

No I'm saying that wringing your hands over whether to buy stuff that you like because the author, or publisher, or whatever might be a "bad person" is stupid.
I bow to your superior wisdom.

There's also always the secondary market. If I buy Ender's Game at the library book sale, that money goes to them, not Card!

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