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Al Borland posted:The account is pretty old and I honestly get the feeling this may actually be Crazy Bob. It absolutely is. The kickstarter looks just like his previous "work" and has drawings of another one of his failed projects, the sD handheld.
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Dec 10, 2013 05:03
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Isn't this the same Bob who had like an insane meltdown and tried to lock himself in his room for a month straight after Nintendo refused to give him a free DS dev kit or some poo poo like that?
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Dec 10, 2013 05:24
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Iron Prince posted:Isn't this the same Bob who had like an insane meltdown and tried to lock himself in his room for a month straight after Nintendo refused to give him a free DS dev kit or some poo poo like that? Yeah, and it was 100 days or say they said in the Ouya thread
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Dec 10, 2013 05:40
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Xelkelvos posted:Yeah, and it was 100 days or say they said in the Ouya thread Well I can't think of a better person to entrust with my money. Can you?
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Dec 10, 2013 06:22
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Iron Prince posted:Isn't this the same Bob who had like an insane meltdown and tried to lock himself in his room for a month straight after Nintendo refused to give him a free DS dev kit or some poo poo like that? He lasted 30. If you believe he did it at all. 
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Dec 10, 2013 06:23
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TetsuoTW posted:Yeah he tried to lock himself in his room on a hunger strike for 100 days. He was "sleeping behind the camera."
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Dec 10, 2013 06:26
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's the indiegogo page: "For example, we're currently working on a beat detection feature that will rhythmically respond to moods." edit: I can't imagine why they would have fake funded a flexible funding campaign, but none of those donation levels seem plausible. 2 people gave 3k, 1 person gave 2k, 1 gave 1k, and 2 gave 700. Xandu has a new favorite as of 16:26 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Dec 10, 2013 16:22
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I wonder if someone could feasibly launder money through KS/IGG.
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Dec 10, 2013 17:57
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lol, the ridiculously named Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore crashed out with $204k out of $390k reached, so following the footsteps of illuminaries such as Black Isle and totally-not-Silicon Knights they've gone private crowdfunding! $30k and 727 backers already! e: and is it flexible funding?! You bet it's flexible funding!!!! No Dignity has a new favorite as of 18:31 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Dec 10, 2013 18:27
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Electric Bugaloo posted:I wonder if someone could feasibly launder money through KS/IGG. A la savewalterwhite.com? Probably yeah, but Kickstarter does require your Social Security number when you set up a kickstarter, supposedly to fight money laundering.
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Dec 10, 2013 18:49
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DStecks posted:Kickstarter does require your Social Security number when you set up a kickstarter, supposedly to fight money laundering. And probably fraud. Wait, does this mean non-Americans can't make Kickstarters?
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Dec 10, 2013 19:07
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Mortimer posted:And probably fraud. Wait, does this mean non-Americans can't make Kickstarters? Until recently, yes. They only just rolled out support for some Commonwealth countries; Canada, Australia, and New Zealand at least.
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Dec 10, 2013 19:48
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Mortimer posted:And probably fraud. Wait, does this mean non-Americans can't make Kickstarters? They asked for my Social Insurance Number, the Canadian equivalent.
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Dec 10, 2013 20:19
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DStecks posted:A la savewalterwhite.com? Probably yeah, but Kickstarter does require your Social Security number when you set up a kickstarter, supposedly to fight money laundering. I just meant in regards to stuff like this: Xandu posted:I can't imagine why they would have fake funded a flexible funding campaign, but none of those donation levels seem plausible. 2 people gave 3k, 1 person gave 2k, 1 gave 1k, and 2 gave 700. It might not be a particularly efficient method, but you could probably launder at least a couple grand through IGG by coming up with a total non-starter of a project and having your "family" donate to it.
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Dec 10, 2013 20:39
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A Steampunk Gent posted:lol, the ridiculously named Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore... Is there a tumblr name generator somewhere making all these terrible game titles? DeathForge: Chronicles of The Elvencaust FireSage: Doom Of The Dragonscrolls HammerFork: Knife of the SpoonBowl
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Dec 11, 2013 15:00
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joedevola posted:Is there a tumblr name generator somewhere making all these terrible game titles? Subtitles pretty much always poo poo up a game's title, especially if it's not a sequel. Spec Ops: The Line might have sold better if it didn't have a title like a 00's shovelware shooter.
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Dec 11, 2013 15:51
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joedevola posted:Is there a tumblr name generator somewhere making all these terrible game titles? I would play HammerFork: Knife of the SpoonBowl but only if it's a sequel to Chex Quest.
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Dec 11, 2013 15:56
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Noni posted:I would play HammerFork: Knife of the SpoonBowl but only if it's a sequel to Chex Quest. thank you for reminding me of the existence of chex quest
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Dec 11, 2013 18:09
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Put a Satanic Monument at OK Capitolquote:We, The Satanic Temple, an established New York City-based religious organization, seek to donate a public monument to Oklahoma’s Capitol Preservation Commission for display upon Oklahoma City’s capitol grounds. As an “homage” to Satan, the purpose of the monument is to complement and contrast the Ten Commandments monument that already resides on the North side of the building. Currently at $2,221 out of $20,000 with 38 days left and it's Flex funding. It'd probably be better than the PBR can Festivus pole in Florida.  gets you a bumper sticker, btw.
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Dec 11, 2013 18:44
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DStecks posted:Subtitles pretty much always poo poo up a game's title, especially if it's not a sequel. Spec Ops: The Line might have sold better if it didn't have a title like a 00's shovelware shooter. Spec Ops: The Line actually was a sequel to a series of early 00's shovelware shooters.
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Dec 11, 2013 18:58
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DStecks posted:Subtitles pretty much always poo poo up a game's title, especially if it's not a sequel. Spec Ops: The Line might have sold better if it didn't have a title like a 00's shovelware shooter. Video games just really have the worst names. The good ones are only okay. We only remember them because we play them so much and we get used to saying the same stupid poo poo over and over. Half of them are directly misnomers. The others just sound stupid. Who thought "King's Bounty: Armored Princess" would be a good name for a game? Seriously? "Armored Princess"? Who does that appeal to? Even Halo couldn't resist going by "Halo: Combat Evolved"
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Dec 11, 2013 19:05
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It's a pretty simple formula, really: Franchise: Subtitle X
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Dec 11, 2013 19:10
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Spec Ops: The Line actually was a sequel to a series of early 00's shovelware shooters. Because the massive fanbase for that completely justified giving the game a nonsensical mess of a title. They should have just called it The Line. Zaphod42 posted:Video games just really have the worst names. The good ones are only okay. We only remember them because we play them so much and we get used to saying the same stupid poo poo over and over. Half of them are directly misnomers. The others just sound stupid. To be fair, the Combat Evolved subtitle was publisher mandated, and Bungie has always hated it. Here's some games from the bottom of Steam's Metacritic sort function, illustrating the magic of colons: Ride to Hell: Retribution Infestation: Survivor Stories Takedown: Red Sabre Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops Orion: Dino Horde Global Ops: Commando Libya That's not even cherrypicked, those are all from the very fist page. There's actually even more games on that very page with colon names, but these are the ones that fit the "Noun: Stupid Subtitle" format.
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Dec 11, 2013 19:17
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I'm not saying it's a good title, I just thought it was kind of an ironic example to pick.
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Dec 11, 2013 19:23
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Pretty sure the guys with the rights to the "Spec Ops brand" wanted to refurbish it into a franchise like Cawadoodie. Fortunately the studio they gave it to had much cooler plans than to fart out another "Follow the guy with the 'follow' arrow over his head and shoot the towelheads" bro-shooter.
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Dec 11, 2013 20:59
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I have to say, after playing that game, now when I do play Desert Shooter 5: Call of Warfare 2: Sand Duty, it has me second-guessing everything, including my own character's motivations and decisions and maybe that wasn't actually fixed, maybe I could have done that "right" and maybe that guy should have died or maybe I should save him and and and
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Dec 11, 2013 21:02
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Otisburg posted:Pretty sure the guys with the rights to the "Spec Ops brand" wanted to refurbish it into a franchise like Cawadoodie. Fortunately the studio they gave it to had much cooler plans than to fart out another "Follow the guy with the 'follow' arrow over his head and shoot the towelheads" bro-shooter. Yeah, I suppose so. Still, if gaming ever gets an equivalent of the Criterion Collection, I can imagine that game being rereleased as just "The Line". Speaking of future rereleases of classic titles, one of my biggest pet peeves in gaming is designers who don't think about the future. Games made in the 90's can still be played today, in their entirety, with the right emulators. Now, with so much content being DLC and microtransactions, I fear we're entering a period where most of the games made now will have significant content completely lost to history.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:07
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DStecks posted:Yeah, I suppose so. Still, if gaming ever gets an equivalent of the Criterion Collection, I can imagine that game being rereleased as just "The Line". Gaming is now an extensively exploited capitalist industry and those guys don't give a gently caress about anything other than making a huge-rear end profit every six months, don't expect any mainstream developers or publishers to do anything significant outside of highly selective HD re-releases to preserve games for posterity because they literally couldn't care less if there isn't easy money in it.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:22
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A Steampunk Gent posted:Gaming is now an extensively exploited capitalist industry and those guys don't give a gently caress about anything other than making a huge-rear end profit "is now"? As opposed to, what, literally any point in the history of the gaming industry? 
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Dec 11, 2013 21:35
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I remember when gaming was art, man.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:"is now"? As opposed to, what, literally any point in the history of the gaming industry? I can count a number of studios that went under trying to make the "perfect game", not caring about the business side, 3D Realms being the most famous. vvvvv Tubgirl Cosplay posted:laffo, although mostly Can't say I majorly disagree at this point in time. It's important to remember that while games have been around since, technically, the 70's, games as we know them today have only really existed since the very late 80's / early 90's. Right now, we're at roughly the same place film was in the 1930's. Film in the 30's was still trying to find its feet, and not a whole lot of films from that era are still regarded as classics (largely because the bulk of them are lost). DStecks has a new favorite as of 21:46 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Dec 11, 2013 21:39
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DStecks posted:if gaming ever gets an equivalent of the Criterion Collection, I can imagine that game being rereleased laffo, although mostly DStecks posted:if gaming ever gets an equivalent of the Criterion Collection
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Dec 11, 2013 21:40
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DStecks posted:if gaming ever gets an equivalent of the Criterion Collection I will barf.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:44
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DStecks posted:Yeah, I suppose so. Still, if gaming ever gets an equivalent of the Criterion Collection, They'll just do like, lucasart point and click adventures and every David Cage game.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:47
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boom boom boom posted:and every David Cage game. David Cage games are the equivalent of super-early movies, where they were still figuring out that films aren't just plays committed to celluloid. In 50 years he will be long since forgotten.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:51
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...of SCIENCE! posted:"is now"? As opposed to, what, literally any point in the history of the gaming industry? I meant the industry used to be less monetised and more left to its own devices, I have no illusions about any Golden Age of the purity of gaming, but there was a time you could release something as huge as Baldur's Gate II without carving up half the content as a season pass or releasing Minsc as Day One DLC. Obviously the rise of high speed broadband has speed up the process but investors really getting their hooks into the industry and demanding their maximum return per dollar is probably the biggest culprit for all of the stuff we love to hate about AAA gaming.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:51
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DStecks posted:David Cage games are the equivalent of super-early movies, where they were still figuring out that films aren't just plays committed to celluloid. In 50 years he will be long since forgotten. i wasn't calling them good, i was insulting the criterion collection.
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Dec 11, 2013 21:56
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boom boom boom posted:i wasn't calling them good, i was insulting the criterion collection. I got that impression, I just never miss an opportunity to take a shot at David Cage.
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I always liked how Half-Life did Add-on names. Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Decay. All physics terms the same as Half-Life itself. Episode 1 and Episode 2 though...
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