Cows were brought over. The northern natives never made any attempt to domesticate buffalo. The southern natives domesticated llamas and alpacas but they produce less milk for their weight so if it was used in pre-columbian cuisine it likely wouldn't have been a staple food.
You cannot compete with things like
SUCCESS IS NOT A ZERO SUM GAME.
TI, I think I'm zeroing in on the problem in your thinking.
Have you ever heard of Dominic Cellini? He's a children's book illustrator. When I first ran across his art he had a few thousand followers on Instagram. Now he has 200k followers and his character Emmy the Robot Maid is the informal mascot of /k. I think he's working on a printed version, and possibly an anime. As far as I can tell, the entirety of his success hinged on having an interesting character and posting it on 4chan/c.
To you, this is immaterial. The idea that someone could self-make a media franchise with potential value in the hundreds of thousands or low millions is of no consequence because it has no societal impact.
You're impatient. You're not trusting in the consumer. You're not confident in the products you would offer. And more than anything else, YOU'RE USING OTHERS TO MEASURE YOUR OWN SUCCESS.
Successful people don't do that.
making animation is not the same as making an actual movie
You're right. It's harder than making a movie. But as Tatsuki demonstrates, you can almost do it as a one-man-band (if you have a psychotic work ethic and cut corners like a chinese factory).
normie social media
You only need 4chan. Everything else is gravy and if you've got something good enough, everything else will fall in line.
Okay, since you lack the imagination, I'm going to spell it out for you. Let's suppose you want to create an anime.
We use the Little Witch Academia model.
Step 1: Create an OVA episode with no expectation to be paid. Distribute it on all mediums. The objective here is not money, it's just to show what you are capable of delivering and to build interest.
Step 2: Go to a RELIABLE crowd sourcing system and pitch a follow-on. Get money.
Step 3: ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH ON MAKING IT.
Step 4: Give it away on bittorrent.
Step 5: Sell official merch.
Step 6: REPEAT ON A BIGGER SCALE WITH A NEW PROJECT
YOUR PROBLEM TI is that you, like the RIAA and MPAA, is that you think the objective is to GET PERSON TO GIVE YOU MONEY FOR A THING YOU'VE MADE (past tense). This is old world thinking. It's a dying model of business that's inflexible; it CREATES the very stodginess you (and I) see as a problem.
The future is to frontload development costs by crowdsourcing, and then like Lucas, relying on merchandise. The days of tickets and SKUs and residuals ARE OVER. That's the past. The big players are still around but they are dinosaurs and they are dying. That model is failing because the stakes have become so high (to them) that marketing has become the biggest expense (to ensure that targets are hit). It's like the problem of rockets getting bigger; you need to carry more fuel to carry more fuel. The cost of marketing has run away from the cost of production.
The new way is frontloading of effort to build interest and then crowdsourcing the heavy costs (and thus knowing WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO DO). But the caveat is that you have to actually work your ass off to deliver. You can't just Cloud Imperium it (although as Cloud Imperium demonstrates, I guess maybe you can).
Fuck fandom.
Seriously, fuck fandom.
With all seriousness, I think one of, if not the, worst mistake of western civilization was the invention of copyright. It was a mistake, it should never have been invented, the very concept of intellectual property should never have crossed the line into fiction and music and art. It should have remained in the realm of patents and trademarks and the creative endeavors should have been left on the level of minstrelsy in the eyes of the law.
You're still thinking about this in old terms.
TI, I don't get you. Your perception of how shit works (can work, does work, should work) is stubbornly rooted in how the world worked in the 90's.
You remind me of a number of people I know. Rather than tell all their stories I will clump them together and say that they all say they have something they want to do, but they aren't doing their thing because they're missing some component they're convinced they need (typically money).
It's basically a mindset that actively goes looking for excuses to not try, and it pisses me off to no end.
I don't mind people who are lazy and have no ambition. Because at least they're honestly living the life they chose. But I hate cope. I absolutely despise cope and people who practice it because in my eyes they're trying to claim virtue on the basis of having dreams. Frankly it's even more disgusting to me than the SJWs that claim virtue on the basis of immutables. At least their BS is measurable.
"Your Graces must forgive me, but you are now free to go."
"I am sure this infernal work has not saved your bastard queen."
"Her Majesty has won the argument."
"By what count?"
Autism is certainly involved if shit like Eragon and The Golden Compass can get made.
The right doesn't seem to appreciate telling STORIES, and when they do bother it's shit like The Passion of the Christ.
You'd think conservatives and libertarians would be able to churn out stuff like The Expanse left and right but nope nope nope.
The worst part is, we can't counter it.
In context, that is the laziest bullshit I've seen in weeks.
You have completely failed to learn the lesson of Prelude to Axanar, which is that a determined group of average Joes can match the production quality of top studios with consumer products. The only thing limiting people is their attachment to existing intellectual property.
They wield prog retards like a weapon.
It goes a long way back.
Carter's failure demolished the mid century liberals. In the post-mort the Democrats realized that Reagan had managed to take old labor from them by appealing to cheap nationalism even while running the economy even further into the ground with the farm crisis and the savings and loan crisis.
Now, Reagan failed to actually reinvent the GOP because the wrong faction won in his wake. GHW Bush and the rino crowd successfully marginalized the proto-Trumps like Pat Buchanan. The proto-populists had their revenge with Ross Perot, but in a sense it was a pyrrhic victory to kick out GHW.
Meanwhile, the Democrats realized that they COULD NOT run a progressive and win. But they also couldn't win without the progressives. So the compromise they arrived at was Clinton, with an ultra progressive VP (Gore). Clinton-Gore was essentially a bait and switch the DNC played on the far left, or at least that how it came to be perceived when Gore failed in 2000. Obama inflamed that divide even further by being in many ways a continuation of Bush's policies.
Yes, but they aren't the ones own-goaling here.
It's the democrats that are so concerned about the appearance of historical guilt, yet they show their open hypocrisy by retaining the party name.
It illustrates that their entire claim to morality is bullshit. The progs know that if they were to proclaim the democrat label itself to be malign, and try to rebrand, they would effectively just be ceding control of the DNC back to the 90's New Democrats that they've been fighting for party control since Newt took the house from them.
Then what the fuck was to hit armor class zero.