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[Beat Bandit]

it's not like most of the people contributing probably would be contributing that money to other projects instead

It totally is though. Cases like Hussie or PA are notably extremes, but they are situations where people are literally posting about how they couldn't help but go back and continue giving money as quickly as they earn it, even after the game made more than any person should be allowed to in a year in five minutes.

More realistically it presents your other point

Now, you could make the argument that these high-visibility games crowd out the smaller, lesser-known ones, but this is a problem that already exists in Steam Greenlight today.

Which is more likely to help the really small games; the average user kicking maybe $10 a month to projects or spending an hour a month going through their favorite genres and clicking a button for each game they like?

[Shinra]

Why are you comparing the hussie/mspa kickstarter to Penny-Arcade? The kickstarter is literally to fund the development of an adventure game based on homestuck. It is not to make the site ad free or whatever.

[Ted Belmont]

I'm comparing them because the argument, "This kickstarter is taking money away from other kickstarters!" has been used against both of them (including by me, but I will admit, I was wrong). That's not correct. It's not like these are just people browsing kickstarter, seeing these projects, and saying, "I shall donate to this project instead of <insert random indie project here>!" These are fans of the webcomics in question who, if those kickstarters didn't exist, would probably just throw their money away on merchandise or soundtracks or whatever, rather than contributing to other kickstarter projects.