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FreeKillB posted:Aren't Kickstarter pledges limited to $10,000 though? Yeah what the gently caress orzo why isn't your joke accurate to Kickstarter's loving rules man, keep up
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A little while back I came across a pretend company called Grey Design that designs cars and yachts for the "ultra wealthy". From what I can tell, they have never designed or created anything and have only made pictures of completely unrealistic silly cars and car-yachts that they could never ever get the funding for but serve to look really cool to 12 year olds. Their funniest concept by far is the Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Car http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/massiv-racing?c=home The video that apparently was taken down in shame had the "Lead Designer" talking about it with unfunny l33tsp34k subtitles.
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Well here's a... thing I found while looking for Kickstarters. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1727847183/hero-monster-girl-quest-3d?ref=category Someone apparently decided to try to Kickstart a 3d remake of a porn game--except Kickstarter apparently doesn't allow porn games... so this is apparently a Kickstarter for a remake of a porn game with all the porn ripped out. I don't even know what to say to that.
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Based on the FAQ it looks like they're making a "clean" and an "adult" version, and are skirting around Kickstarter's rules against adult content by saying they'll only spend the money on the nonadult stuff, which will be used in both versions of the game and seems rather shakey to me. Also, isn't Monster Girl Quest supposed to be a really disgusting/disturbing game?
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senrath posted:Based on the FAQ it looks like they're making a "clean" and an "adult" version, and are skirting around Kickstarter's rules against adult content by saying they'll only spend the money on the nonadult stuff, which will be used in both versions of the game and seems rather shakey to me. Monster girls are a perfectly legitimate fetish!
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senrath posted:Based on the FAQ it looks like they're making a "clean" and an "adult" version, and are skirting around Kickstarter's rules against adult content by saying they'll only spend the money on the nonadult stuff, which will be used in both versions of the game and seems rather shakey to me. Being hardened by years of internet use to the point where I can survive exposure to almost anything, I braved the Wiki. It uses the ever-popular tactic of "Wait! This demon may look like a barely pubescent girl, but it is over 1000 years old!". In context, I shouldn't have to explain why.
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senrath posted:Based on the FAQ it looks like they're making a "clean" and an "adult" version, and are skirting around Kickstarter's rules against adult content by saying they'll only spend the money on the nonadult stuff, which will be used in both versions of the game and seems rather shakey to me. The very basis of the game is that if you lose a battle the PC will be raped by the monsters. So it starts with rape and gets worse. Also, like Jedit said, there are a lot of the usual Japanese "very old demons that look like prepubescent girls" characters.
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BenRGamer posted:Well here's a... thing I found while looking for Kickstarters. Why do they start the video off with children crying/being disgusted? It's the most creepy thing.
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^^^ Because whatever virtues they may lack, truth in advertising is not one of them.toanoradian posted:The very basis of the game is that if you lose a battle the PC will be raped by the monsters. It's actually worse than that. The monsters "fight" by trying to rape the PC, and he loses if he enjoys it.
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Whatever weird fetishes adult people might have involving fictional stuff is their choice. What makes me  is the fact that the intro video involves a pair of parents deciding to make an 'old school'-style game for their kid out of this. That's not cool. That's not cool at all!
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Mar 16, 2013 15:25
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John Rogers (creator and showrunner of Leverage, among other things) had a couple of thoughts on the Veronica Mars Kickstarter and it's worth a read. He spent most of Thursday night schooling that Atlantic writer about how TV is funded, which is what question 3 is all about.
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Jet Jaguar posted:John Rogers (creator and showrunner of Leverage, among other things) had a couple of thoughts on the Veronica Mars Kickstarter and it's worth a read. Do you have a link to the original Atlantic article he's referring to?
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TheJoker138 posted:Do you have a link to the original Atlantic article he's referring to? I believe the article is this one. Kickstarter isn't about need for money, but want. At least according to this guy. (There's also a bunch of Twitter screaming from a lot of people starting March 13th, if you follow John Rogers on Twitter he starts out talking about the article and then ends up giving a class in how TV and movies are funded.)
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I hate to actually ask what twitter thinks but what have people been saying?
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What is the twitter word equivalent to "blogosphere"?
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'twitterverse' Why do I know that?
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DoctorPresident posted:"Pay for our drinks, you guys!" This is pretty dumb, but admittedly it's intended for a pretty small crowd. I can easily see a bunch of rich middle aged alum thinking this is cool. (it's also a total ripoff of Dartmouth's way better and more original idea) Also, Princeton Reunions loving rock. Best party in New Jersey. Foyes36 has a new favorite as of 18:07 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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Hero Monster Girl Quest posted:A short time ago, the idea came about to try to remake the old school RPG into something that gamers in today's high quality 3D gaming world would enjoy, but also keeping it to something that older RPG fans would also enjoy. We wanted to stick to old school RPG basics for us older gamers, with the classic text boxes, turn based battles, and a kind of anime feel, but we wanted to make it 3D with realtime gameplay and industry standard visuals so that younger gamers could enjoy it as well. So they want to make the game both real time and turn based? How is that gonna work out for them?
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Because anime monster titties. They don't need to have a playable game for it to sell to a good chunk of their support base, and the more idiotic and obscure the mechanics are the more the people wanking to it can go "Well obviously the game is just too deep for you".
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Mar 17, 2013 21:46
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Looks like Civitas cancelled their campaign because they found another source of funding. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-develop-and-manage-the-city-of-your-d/posts/430635
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Sid Vicious posted:So they want to make the game both real time and turn based? How is that gonna work out for them? Both X-Com:Apocalypse and Fallout:Tactics come to mind as games that do that. You can choose either mode and they both do mostly the same thing with real time just providing a set rate of AP regeneration for units.
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The MSJ posted:Looks like Civitas cancelled their campaign because they found another source of funding. Well that's loving fishy. With kickstarter, you're making money through, essentially, very early pre-sales of the finished product. Other sources of funding are going to be loans or selling equity in the company. If your kickstarter is going to be successful, I would think it would be the better choice. Or it could be that they preemptively stopped the campaign because they weren't, contrary to what they said, on track to reach the goal:  The announcement came right after they plateaued. Somewhere out there, an investor just got duped for $250k, probably on the basis of Kicktraq's faulty "trending toward" number and the one-time pledge rush caused by the Simcity fiasco. Now they're adding supporter backlash into the mix.
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Humphreys posted:I don't have a picture of the donators but two fans of that Homestuck thing decided donating $10 000 each to it was a good idea. For their troubles they got their own characters that were killed off straight away: That there is a $20,000 webcomic panel.
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To each their own I guess but, I don't really...get Homestuck. It's not that I actively dislike it's just whenever I open it up to see what the hubbub is about I can never get past the first few screens. Just seems like one big inside joke
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Alan Smithee posted:To each their own I guess but, I don't really...get Homestuck. It's not that I actively dislike it's just whenever I open it up to see what the hubbub is about I can never get past the first few screens. Just seems like one big inside joke For the creator, it is. And he makes crazy cash off people who don't get that he's basically insulting them.
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I doubt they're complaining, because everyone knew, how the whole tier level was worded, that they would be dead in a panel anyway. I believe there was a tier just above that the said their OG troll would at least be guaranteed to survive at two panels, meaning they'd be introduced, participate in some way like being in the background in the next panel, then get immediately killed off.
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Leal posted:For the creator, it is. And he makes crazy cash off people who don't get that he's basically insulting them.
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Orzo posted:I don't know too much about homestuck, but do you have evidence that this is true, that he's knowingly creating something he considers awful?  Okay, so this was made to make fun of one specific comic artist and then later used as a ironically bad comic made by one of the characters in the comic. In my opinion, what's happening is that most of the characters, especially the "trolls" share character traits common with terrible internet personalities maybe. I dunno. He's obviously putting poo poo loads of effort into a massive projects, and it can be entertaining. The characters themselves can be characteurs of certain internet people some time, or at least influenced by them. curse of flubber has a new favorite as of 15:37 on Mar 18, 2013 |
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edit: gently caress, wrong thread...
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Oh god why did I ever mention the Homestuck Kickstarter, trollchat has infected the thread.  The comic has been discussed at length in other parts of the forums, does anyone have any links to those threads if people have questions about the comic itself and not the Kickstarter about the comic?
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3444640 BSS thread. Homestucks can go there. Content: A Kickstarter for everyone to realize that this guy's name is not what people have been calling him you guys! I guess it's a somewhat clever parody, but really.
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That's so stupid I want to report it, but I apparently can't use "What the gently caress is this poo poo" for a report reason. You need to get on that, Kickstarter.
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Waffleman_ posted:That's so stupid I want to report it, but I apparently can't use "What the gently caress is this poo poo" for a report reason. Every single Kickstarter has already been looked at and approved by someone from Kickstarter, so reporting wouldn't change anything.
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Miss Kalle posted:Content: A Kickstarter for everyone to realize that this guy's name is not what people have been calling him you guys! I guess it's a somewhat clever parody, but really.
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Miss Kalle posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3444640 He's perpetuating the problem that I've been having Everyone keeps spelling my name as Cody instead of Kodie. What a dick.
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Megaspel posted:He's perpetuating the problem that I've been having Everyone keeps spelling my name as Cody instead of Kodie. Cody2013.
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Megaspel posted:He's perpetuating the problem that I've been having Everyone keeps spelling my name as Cody instead of Kodie. "Kodie" is a loving stupid name.
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Machai posted:Help this man publish his book on Amazon. quote:Pledge $25 or more Yeah because that wouldn't be really awkward. Although does anyone else feel bad when a Kickstarter for someone's thing that isn't like, a terrible idea and they just wanna get some support gets 0 backers?
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Noni posted:Well that's loving fishy. With kickstarter, you're making money through, essentially, very early pre-sales of the finished product. Other sources of funding are going to be loans or selling equity in the company. If your kickstarter is going to be successful, I would think it would be the better choice. Honestly, given how loving lovely these "gaming studio that makes games for gamers by gamers because we're gamers too and we listen to gamers" operations tend to be, I'm ready to put my microfunding behind someone who wants to start a giant faceless bureaucracy that has as few gamers working there as possible (but plenty of competent programers, marketers, artists, and a strong business underpinning).
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Orzo posted:How is this clever? I assume it's because it's taking the piss out of some of these types of Kickstarters? But it's still a dumb thing to put on there in the first place (hence the 'somewhat').
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