[dewhelmed]

Wow, what an unpleasant hate-filled response to a single paragraph taken out of context from the entire post.

The fact that his work is still referenced, is still part of the game, and wanted by people on t-shirts/mugs/etc is significantly more contribution than the moronic made-up "0.000000000001%" number you claim.

He is a flawed person and he admits it several times in his post. But he also uses his story to highlight some good points about how broken the tech-capitalist system can be for artists, and that is my takeaway from this post. So please have a little empathy, it is not easy to know if you are being treated fairly in this complicated world today.

[wikfwikf]

The fact that t-shirts and mugs are available on RedBubble does not prove that anyone wants to buy them. The business model of RedBubble means that merch can be created speculatively for no cost to anyone until it's actually bought.

[wnkrshm]

People are tattooing it on themselves though, that's something that isn't usually offered on etsy or redbubble as an online order?

[dewhelmed]

Fair point.

[lelanthran]

> Wow, what an unpleasant hate-filled response to a single paragraph taken out of context from the entire post.

Oh please, enough hyperbole, we got already that in his post.

I read his entire post before I posted my reply, and his entire post is whining about how much the employees who ultimately contributed to building, selling, marketing, administration and supporting the game got paid compared to his contribution which, in all honesty, added virtually nothing to the game.

> The fact that his work is still referenced, is still part of the game, and wanted by people on t-shirts/mugs/etc is significantly more contribution than the moronic made-up "0.000000000001%" number you claim.

His contribution being referenced has nothing to do with the quality of the contribution. IOW, people are referencing the content because it's part of the game; had his contribution been swapped out with any other content, they'd still be referencing it.

As far as you calling me a moron goes, objectively, his contribution to the success of the game, measured by almost any metric you'd care to use, is statistical noise. If it were not there no one would care. If it were removed no one would care.

> So please have a little empathy, it is not easy to know if you are being treated fairly in this complicated world today.

I have empathy for those who area treated unfairly. This poster was overpaid for what he produced. There's a line of people who would have done a better job for half the money while still making a decent living.

He hit a jackpot, and is too self-involved to realise this, even now. His lack of self-awareness is so high that, while reading his whine, I half thought it was satire or parody of some sort.