Full quote’s a bit too long for here but I made it a note on Substack: https://substack.com/@robotfanclub/note/c-45244885
Or you could buy the whole issue cause it’s great: https://shop.apwot.com/products/issue-3-special-edition
Again, credit to Grace Curtis for the most amazing quote I’ve read in a long time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ve never been as delighted and blown away by such a scathing (and accurate) description of the kinds of people who destroy artistic industries. It’s just… ❤️ I love it. The Flash boom was a creator-driven movement and no creator would design the system we have now. This is the work of vapid marrow-sucking venture capitalists wielding business degrees like truncheons. They are an army of amazingly boring people, men and women who could not pass a captcha test at gunpoint, who have convinced themselves that generating maximum profit at any cost is a fun and interesting thing to do with their finite time on earth. They are headteachers in spirit, if not in name. If we are to have any future we must stop taking these people as seriously as they take themselves. - Grace Curtis, “Flash Forward: A requiem for Nitrome - Kings of the Once-Mighty Web-Game.” A Profound Waste of Time Issue 3
From Grace Curtis in #APWOT issue 3:
“...no creator would design the system we have now. This is the work of vapid marrow-sucking venture capitalists wielding business degrees like truncheons. They are an army of amazingly boring people, men and women who could not pass a captcha test at gunpoint, who have convinced themselves that generating maximum profit at any cost is a fun and interesting thing to do with their finite time on earth...”
The full quote is incredible. This is a masterpiece 🤌
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