legitimately I do not understand why more billionaires don't fund media passion projects
if I had eleventy billion dollars I would absolutely be doing shit like "I will give you people a hundred million bucks to give me a world class KOTOR remake" or funding romcoms based off my fav romance novels
if I had eleventy billion dollars I would absolutely be doing shit like "I will give you people a hundred million bucks to give me a world class KOTOR remake" or funding romcoms based off my fav romance novels
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bastard could have just funded the Bloodborne remake for like 0.01% of that and been a national hero
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I’d start a game studio and make a bunch of weird space games, starting with a *Galaxy Quest* space sim
And even cheaper ones like funding a national rerelease of dope indie films in major theaters with a huge marketing push.
You could have so much fun helping introduce more people to the random thing you like!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Inspired_by_the_Life_and_Times_of_Scrooge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Scrooge_McDuck
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They became friends over their shared passion for McDuck lore, and the cover art to the album was the last time Rosa drew Scrooge.
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So yeah, it would be cool if more mega-rich people did more stuff like this. ❤️
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https://youtu.be/j7JwprGVSjA?si=LYkizg59vdm6xEDc
I'll pay you extra, and other than that, just make your cool shit at your leisure! I'll help market if you want but no pressure!
Y'all get no rent, just keep creating and come potluck and movie night with me.
When I was in banking, clients would lament they weren’t earning decent % on their mountains of sidelined cash.
Rich people are a waste.
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ZAP new museum
ZAP new depart...no, fuck that, new university.
ZAP endowment for artists
Billionaires are so boring. Celebrity dick rockets, please.
A serious need that will grow in time is one of my stupid money ideas
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"I am giving a million dollars to every county in the United States for health care" only costs you 3.143 billion dollars, and it buys a lot of good will.
(Fuck, I feel old)
The world's most expensive movie ticket, so it is said.
The bar is in hell and yet he clears it.
Philanthropy is a stunt, and frankly I don't see humanity in any of those bozos to take their contributions seriously, especially not Bill
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/curt-schillings-vanity-project-strikes-out-10-years-ago-this-month
He just did it rather quietly.
Sooooo many series I would be finishing up
These are hollow people chasing empty promises of a dystopian future they rule because they can't see value beyond numbers.
That's not how you become a billionaire....
he also optioned Iain Banks’ Culture and I’m very happy that went nowhere
A little while after syfy cancelled it and it was added to the amazon prime catalogue.
It was probably decided already, but makes for a neat story.
It can also kind of be boiled down to one basic maxim.
They're boring.
It's a matter of stinginess down to their own clothes, all else is out of boredom not passion
Or a penis substitute by showing how rich they are and able to buy stuff.
Yes. I have dreamed of this.
I feel there are way too many ways for rich people to "invest" their money instead of letting it go.
(Just the Frank Herbert books.)
Then we turn him into the most unwillingly unfortunate wizard in all the Disc.
(I would absolutely have poets and composers on retainer, itself a media passion project.)
Anyhow, I'd definitely fund a live action series of Charles Stross' Laundry Files 😄
I'm not saying the robber barons were good, but I'm stating outright they were smart.
But I assume a huge part of it is to even get a billion you need a hoarder mindset and media projects are budget losses they cant comprehend.
The ONLY way to become a billionaire is to skim money off a huge amount of people. You simply can't do it through hard work. You can't.
I'd be getting so many things made.
"A wall feature with real Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur bones"
It describes it as an "airborne" palace!?
Also claims the owner is anonymous - in the same sentence as giving his name.
https://www.superyachtcontent.com/superyacht-news/yacht-design-new-builds/does-the-worlds-most-expensive-yacht-even-exist/
Obviously Bezos sucks, but he occasionally has recognizably-human impulses.
And the people there still looked at him like he was trash -- because he was. He had their level of money, but would never be one of them.
Trump can wear a tux, but he will forever be classless.
Apple does it for business reasons. They think it pays off in TV, tablet, and phone sales, and that eventually the service itself will turn a profit. They also sell thru it.
Instead it's all the furries who are doing it instead... we just can't fund big media projects.
It's just that their passion projects are white supremacy, or having babies with thirteen different women, or pretend seasteading is possible at all, or throwing moneey for LLMs to burn.
These guys have a bunch of hobbies and they all suck
I’d fund more seasons of “The Venture Brothers” and “Teenage Euthanasia” and then disappear into obscurity
Middle-class people with an extra thousand dollars to spend do this.
Don’t wish on the monkey’s paw.
https://bsky.app/profile/buckrawheat.bsky.social/post/3lp6n3yxcns2i
But, somewhere up the thermocline between merely disgustingly wealthy and rivaling the GDP of nation states, the current batch lost their own humanity.
We need the fresh batch of gross tech billionaire ghouls to fund the gaming projects instead of simply paying people to play for them
High speed rail isn't important to them
It helps the doors
But their extremely robust train room with more square footage than a low-income family home? That's worth fixating on.
He wanted to promote environmentalism so he wrote a big check to make Captain Planet
The other stuff is fine though.
I know that was a thing in the nft space for a bit because of its ties with nfts, but not sure how much it permeates the general space (or maybe mobile/dedicated space only?)
(I even found the perfect property, but not the winning ticket, alas.)
[Goes back to weeping about Wheel of Time]
Honestly ensuring those I employed made a living wage would be a drop in the bucket compared to the economic returns of running at cost or net loss/not for profit community kitchens to make sure the county/state/nation didn't go hungry.
That billionaires have billions and don't do this means they're all fucking evil bastards.
Also Crimson Skies 2.
Any time I have even a hint of money I’m spending it on my friends and taking everyone to dinner and sports game (I have 4 colts tickets just so I can take people).
If I had a billion $ we’d all be doing and making such cool shit.
(I would also keep writing larger and larger checks to Steve Jackson until he caves and puts GURPS under ORC.)
They would rather you hack off one of their limbs than take a million dollars from them.
It's why they'll spend half their fortunes on private armies rather than pay taxes.
The people who do that never make it to a billion. They plateau at hundreds of millions of dollars. Costs a lot of money and time to make a world class kotor remake, and by the time you've earned a return the asshole that used the money to instead dismantle companies made another bil.
If it was me, I’d do the Hearst thing and pay all the best comic artists and writers to make cool comics just so I could have more cool comics to read.
So yeah, truly obscene Nike money.
Nostalgia inc is right there.
For all the fans of any show ended too soon.
1. Start my own record label and throw money at local bands I like
2. Throw money at Bethesda to make an elder scrolls series in the same vein as the fallout tv show staring at least one oc of mine
3. Bankroll at least 2 new furry cons.
(Shit with that kind of money I could buy the whole damned Transformers franchise.)
And also, like, commission oil paintings of my OCs being badass and/or beautiful lmao