Saguaro PI posted:

The suggestions of a friend

ProfessorCirno posted:

Ths just reminds me of when nerds got salty over the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer and went on to unironically applauded for this version.

I don't think it's entirely just because oh no it's not my bad white 80's metal, I think it's more that nerds are literally too shallow and too dumb to understand how music and visuals go together and just want MY MUSIC alongside MY IMAGES. Videos with fitting music? Uh, excuse me, have you considered playing entirely uncomplimentary music so long as it's the genre I approve of???

Auralsaurus Flex posted:

There's only one appropriate choice of song for Sci-Fi Vietnam.

Mendrian posted:

Honestly I have literally both of these songs on my jogging mix.

Lightning Lord posted:

Yeah, while I agree that flipping out over the song in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer is dumb (it's both a good song and appropriate for the trailer) Perturbator is the poo poo, so uh...

Zereth posted:

It's a great song which doesn't match the video at all.

Zereth posted:

It's a great song which doesn't match the video at all.

Comrade Gorbash posted:

The thing is, even though its a very good song, we also felt maybe it wasn't quite spot on for the trailer, and set out to find some alternate selections.

ProfessorCirno posted:

I don't think it's entirely just because oh no it's not my bad white 80's metal, I think it's more that nerds are literally too shallow and too dumb to understand how music and visuals go together and just want MY MUSIC alongside MY IMAGES. Videos with fitting music? Uh, excuse me, have you considered playing entirely uncomplimentary music so long as it's the genre I approve of???

Lightning Lord posted:

Why not look to Games Workshop themselves? D-Rok, the hottest band signed by Warhammer Records fits quite well.

(Man, the original trailer was great. Deathwing Company for life.)


It's not just that, it's having a very limited view of what is appropriate for a genre as well. Cyberpunk can only have synth, Terminators annihilating Genestealers can only have Gothic chants, superheroes can only have orchestral overtures, swordsmen running through dungeons can only have power metal, etc.

The Deleter posted:

I think that music owns and if GW advertised their stuff with more flavourful trailers like that then

Well, it wouldn't solve anything, but I think they could do a lot more with a product's advertising and/or score if they strayed away from orchestral/metal crap and went for more characterful styles sometimes. This could apply to a lot of things, mind.

ProfessorCirno posted:

Ths just reminds me of when nerds got salty over the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer and went on to unironically applauded for this version.

I don't think it's entirely just because oh no it's not my bad white 80's metal, I think it's more that nerds are literally too shallow and too dumb to understand how music and visuals go together and just want MY MUSIC alongside MY IMAGES. Videos with fitting music? Uh, excuse me, have you considered playing entirely uncomplimentary music so long as it's the genre I approve of???

Lightning Lord posted:

I watched the trailer again and lol, the song is absolutely perfect. A cybernetic fashion model murderer is getting shot as the lyrics say "bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky" as the camera pans up to the sky. In the end she is recruited by the police, and one of the refrains of the song is "personal responsibility". How the hell does anyone cry that it isn't synth????

Zereth posted:

It's a great song which doesn't match the video at all.

Tollymain posted:

Pretty sure they were

quote:

We are very sorry to inform that on February the 15th 2015 the remaining books of Eoris Essence will be destroyed. We simply do not have the resources to keep the books in storage anymore and have no alternate choice.

This is the last week to get a copy.

We love and appreciate those who followed us during these harsh years and apologise to those who could have gotten a book but will not be able to.

Sincerely,

Daniel Torres

quote:

Dear RPG community,

We are more than glad, ecstatic in fact, to tell you that as of now, Saturday the 14, 2015 you (yes, you) have saved the Eoris Essence Books from advent obliteration.

Despite our profound love and dedication to the project there were many reasons for which it had become impossible for us to do anything but send them to the shredder. All these reasons related to that gruesome lover we all share, money. Charities would not receive them, universities and schools would take only a pair each, lowering the price had become an impossibility and fixing the shipping problems to Canada and other places was a frustrating impossibility. Amazon charges monthly fees to keep the fulfilment system active, to keep the books ready to ship, to keep the site up and the rating system working and to have the books stored. Add to the equation the constant aggravation of having two and half jobs that barely make the cut and an undeserving city crawling with thieves hidden on every tier of the political structure, making the dark flow of a river of raw petroleum seem like the pristine streams pre-Columbian natives used to enjoy before industry came along, compared to the traffic jams we endure daily.

At heart, what I am trying to say is: things have been rough for the project. With little money there is little power of action. When the time came to pay nearly three million pesos to keep the books on storage for another six months, we had to make the hard choice of letting them go. With a heavy heart but a smile of satisfaction in our faces, after years of giving our best and trying hard and steadily to keep the project going, we called Amazon, quoted the costs of destruction versus sending the books elsewhere and cried a bit inside when the obvious choice was death for Eoris.

Alas, I sent you guys the letter on February the tenth at nine pm. It took us a while to notice your reaction. When we did see the forum again and read your comments our heart pumped like that of a virgin on her wedding night. We saw how tens, then thousands entered the forum, how hundreds spoke on our behalf and how your words were of nothing but concern for Eoris and love for what we did. It was then that we called our new administrator Augusto Ghimenti, a god’s soul if ever you meet one, and asked if there was any way to save the books.

Amazon held 619 books and charged approximately $1,600 USD to keep them in store for an extra semester plus the monthly fees, which amounted to $2,000 something USD. Out of every sold book we get to keep only $19 USD, which meant that we would have to sell more or less 85 books. In this week alone and thanks to your great response and drive to get a hold of the wounded creature before it went extinct, we sold thirty-two books (last I checked) and had sold another sixty-one books over the last year which pushed us high enough to make a sacrifice, pay the difference, and see the books through another term.

In essence, you guys saved our project and showed us we did not just create a meme rpg in the forever alone category but a book worthy of having and keeping. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you and thank you again.

Daniel Torres

P.S. I don’t have Augusto with me at the moment so the numbers may be off… we will give you the full detail soon enough.

ProfessorCirno posted:

The only thing I know about Eoris is it's hilarious character sheet.

Helical Nightmares posted:

I suppose we really can't have a conversation about Eoris without it can we.



It's like White Wolf meets Continuum meets Anima.

dwarf74 posted:

That's so insanely terrible! Who has time for that poo poo? What's with those big chart things?

Helical Nightmares posted:

Quarex posted:

Maybe some level of explaining its existence is tied into its Colombian roots.

Really Pants posted:

Is Eoris the Icelandic word for Calvinball?

Plague of Hats posted:

"Furry Final Fantasy?" I don't recall much about Eoris, but I could've sworn it was more dream-logic-y bullshit, like an extremely low-rent Nobilis plus lots of Anima. At least that's the impression I got when (I'm pretty sure) they talked about drawing influence from Winnie the Pooh and the Neverending Story, and playing, like, any character from children's fiction all in one big group. It sounded like a clusterfuck, but so does everything else about the game from top to bottom, including its development history.

inklesspen posted:

Worth noting forums poster hyphz did a review of Eoris Essence for the F&F thread.