The French revolution represented a changing of the guard, where there was previously several estates competing for power, the nobility, the clergy, and everyone else -- the rich, and the commoners. The French revolution represented a burgeoning middle class between the rich and the commoners successfully for a limited time knocking out the ability. However, that revolution ultimately failed and that's one of the reasons that marks was so focused on the bourgeoisie. But let's say for a second that you wanted to elevate yourself to a new nobility. It seems to me that you would allow a revolutionary class to eliminate the clergy, and then you would make sure everyone was hyper fixated on the rich and middle classes because then a new nobility would have a monopoly on power.

My first impression to anyone who is saying "you can't dismiss it until you've tried it" is "watch me".

Absolutely nobody and nothing are entitled to my attention or anyone else's. More importantly, absolutely nobody or no one is entitled to my money. New game releases where I live on 80 to 100 dollars. That's a lot of money. That's almost a full year of supporting a YouTuber at a fairly high end. That's enough money to hire an artist to do a non-trivial work on fiverr. It's enough money to buy enough rice to feed yourself for months. And then for a lot of these games, they'll get mad at you if you decide early on that you don't like it, you're supposed to play it for 40, 80, 100 before you are allowed to decide that you don't like it. That's a big investment in time and money if you don't think the product ever made the initial case for investment. 

It might feel unfair, but your current work isn't what sells your current work. It is your last work that sells your current work, and at present mini video game companies are woefully lacking in that regard.

I've put out two books now, and I would love it for people to give my books a chance. The ebook for each is very reasonably priced, just a few bucks, and even if you read the whole thing end to end a novel takes about four continuous hours of reading. But again, I'm not entitled to that time and I'm not entitled to that money. If I happen to break out as a writer, I will be praying to God for creating universe in which I can succeed, and if I never do it's just a reality that creative works are a gamble that may or may not pay off within the commercial window for a work.

A significant proportion of children do not play outdoors regularly at all. Which makes it bizarre that many of those same children are growing up environmentalist, for an environment they never visit.

Working on building a universal debian/ubuntu repository for one of my favorite packages.

Already got all the latest (and not so latest) x86-64 compiled, now I'm on my way through arm64. Planning on i386, armhf, armel, and once I dig up my raspberry pi zero w I want all the relevant packages for raspbian too.

Next step for me after that will be to forward port the code changes I needed to the latest and fix up major stuff in the lintian warnings such as requiring PIE and the like.

If things work out, I'll have to start looking at different distro families too, such as arch, redhat, centos, and gentoo.

But given that my empire of dirt is all old x86-64 machines, the process of building all these other cpu architectures is slow and fiddly!