I was reading the
Battlestar Galactica blog like a good geek and ran across a
really cool posting by Ron Moore which happened to have some commentary about Hollywood that I thought was really great.
On Gaming: "...
To put it succinctly: these are seriously smart people, doing seriously smart things with a deadly seriousness of purpose..."
On Gaming vs Hollywood: "It was especially interesting to contrast the
conversations I had with people in the gaming industry with the typical
conversation with people in my own industry. My industry tends toward
the narcissistic, finding new and exciting ways to be in love with
itself and its own hype, sometimes to the point of being in love with
being in love with itself."
Yes, Hollywood is full of asshats that don't try to improve themselves or their industry and feel that they deserve to be where they are. The gaming industry is young and hungry and works really hard to improve rather than resting on their laurels. They deserve our money more than Hollywood does.