This was the original meaning of Patreon: be paid to do what one likes, worrying less about earning a fair wage somewhere else.
Rewards were just a small thank you, when the creator had time, IF had time at all.
People should return to that state of things, instead of drawining due to rewards.

Worldbuilding and lore building is so exciting! I love doing this stuff SO much! :D
Despite it being not so easy, especially when starting something new and completely from scratch, I'm sure you'll get so much satisfaction from it! :D

This is such wonderful news. I saw it was out of need because of your landlady, but as you said if one can it's somehow better to invest the same money in something that at the end will be yours and only yours than give money to someone that can kick you out. 🫂

Uhh thank you for your credit! 🥰
Sorry for being so extremely in late, but my pc died (and my phone is dying too XD) and took me a month to return while I was detoxing from socials.

To think that I RPd Ethan and my partner RPd Heisenberg 😂
And I haven't even played it bc it's absolutely not my genre.
My partner absolutely loves Heisenberg XD

I absolutely need to get out of all this, somehow, someway.
I feel like the more time passes, the worse it'll get and I have so many things I'd like to do.

I don't lack ideas. I just feel constantly paralyzed in the ADHD sense of the term.
I'm unable to focus, to organize what I want to do and to do it.
I keep accumulating ideas and projects but I've become unable even just to watch the YT videos I'd like to watch to learn new things 😭

For me, it's almost never the "how you can do it ethically" but also "why do you want to do it" "for what" and "with which goal".
If the community do it to be rich w/o doing nothing for the rest of their life, contribute to nothing and just roll among hyperconsumism and luxury, personally it's a no.

I mean, ideally, wouldn't be better to run this massive chain of pure calculation power for research and to discover/pushing something who would really benefit the world like volunteer computing projects do (Rosetta@Home for an example)?

When you buy a unit of cryptocurrency, you buy nothing but the philosophy behind it. The (to me utopian) idea. It exist only as long as someone is eager to pay real money to buy them or to give money when you sell them.
It's not different from setting up a currency made from Monopoly bills or shells

Moreover, on a macro-side, crypto consumes energy that could be used for something better, imo. Cryptos can exist only if an informatic network still exist. In a world so power- and water-hungry we're using systems that consume both IMMENSELY to generate a currency that exist only on a virtual plane

The micro-cosmos are almost never a problem. Is not plastics. Is not AIs (speaking of energy. Not stealing ppl's work w/consent for training). Is not lumbering. It's the greed behind it, the speculation, the big names exploiting everything. With these "actors" involved, "ethically" is not possible.

Trying to collect the hardware in the less brutal way possible or stripping the whole market of gaming GPUs through bots, raising prices 4x to poor ppl who need a simple one to play on their pc like happened a few years ago, forcing nVidia to develop a specific one for miners, trying to limit that?