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GreenMetalSun posted:Can we pre-mock a Kickstarter? Is that a thing? Buckley would be foolish to not factor loss.jpg into the kickstarter in a big way. Genetic Toaster posted:Another ridiculously ambitious game project with no hopes of ever achieving its ONE MILLION DOLLAR goal: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2009060720/history I like how he tweeted at Extra Credits asking for press. Extra Credits who, no less than a few weeks ago, did a video series on how to make your first game and how one's first game will be rough, extremely buggy, simple and not something you'll be able to sell. Oh, and to keep the scope extremely small. But man, a simulation of an entire universe? THATS EASY. 
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why? only goons care about it and it was like five loving years ago
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May 3, 2015 16:41
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Pick posted:why? only goons care about it and it was like five loving years ago goons were also the only people who cared about doobie, and look how that turned out
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May 3, 2015 17:17
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Pick posted:why? only goons care about it and it was like five loving years ago We have not moved passed it
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May 3, 2015 17:30
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GreenMetalSun posted:Can we pre-mock a Kickstarter? Is that a thing? This wont be an awful KS though? CAD might be terrible, but the book looks like a pretty legit product to sell to fans.
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May 3, 2015 17:40
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The General posted:This wont be an awful KS though? CAD might be terrible, but the book looks like a pretty legit product to sell to fans. Hush. As was evidenced by the Exploding Kittens game, goons can't stand it when someone makes a wildly successful kick-starter based on a pre-existing fan-base.
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The General posted:This wont be an awful KS though? CAD might be terrible, but the book looks like a pretty legit product to sell to fans. I'm sure Buckley will do fine. He has a lot more sense than most of the Kickstarters posted here, and I'm sure this omnibus is something his fans have wanted for a while. We laugh and say "ha ha, Buckley's making a Kickstarter!" but at least it makes sense. Compared to exploding kittens, this at least looks like some effort is going into it. Snuffman has a new favorite as of 17:51 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 17:48
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Mildly Amusing posted:goons were also the only people who cared about doobie, and look how that turned out Hey now, the dude's still in business! 'Christmas is cancelled, I donated the holiday fund to doobie, now gently caress off to your rooms wife and child' goon must be ecstatic.
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May 3, 2015 18:10
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flosofl posted:Hush. As was evidenced by the Exploding Kittens game, goons can't stand it when someone makes a wildly successful kick-starter based on a pre-existing fan-base. Expelling Ketones wasn't a book of Oatmeal cartoons, though? If it had been I think the goon response would have been more along the lines of "meh, I won't buy it but his fans will" - the same as Buckley's getting. EK got the stick because it was a terrible game put out to exploit a fanbase. And let's face it, EK deserved that stick. Today we've already seen a ripoff KS which is guaranteed to fail because it doesn't have a fanbase to exploit despite being exactly the same game but with better art. In fact, I'm absolutely certain the ripoff was created to make that precise point.
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I don't think EK is necessarily going to be as terrible as goon think. It is certainly going to be heavy on the luck but I can think of some ways strategy might come into play.
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flosofl posted:Hush. As was evidenced by the Exploding Kittens game, goons can't stand it when someone makes a wildly successful kick-starter based on a pre-existing fan-base. You know that whole "goons hate thing illogically" thing doesn't really work when the thing you're trying to use an example is legit terrible?
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The General posted:This wont be an awful KS though? CAD might be terrible, but the book looks like a pretty legit product to sell to fans. After the bullshit the Penny Arcade guys pulled with their Kickstarters it's downright refreshing to see a guy just trying to sell a book instead of just begging for handouts behind a thin veneer of irony and dad jokes.
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unpacked robinhood posted:What's with dumbasses and filming themselves in their car to put online ? I used to assume it was some transparent cool guy set up but maybe they're too loving dumb to sit at a table for 1 min. They live at home with their parents in a home that is clearly not theirs, so they film in their car out of shame and the only place they feel is their own
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Sleeveless posted:After the bullshit the Penny Arcade guys pulled with their Kickstarters it's downright refreshing to see a guy just trying to sell a book instead of just begging for handouts behind a thin veneer of irony and dad jokes. The P-A Kickstarter was extra ridiculous because it followed on the heels of quite a number of their comics making fun of Kickstarter projects that did the exact same things they eventually did with their own.
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Auto-playing video.quote:Watch This Homeowner Shoot Down a Drone Flying over His Property  Looks like this fellow's got a case of sour lemons  .
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Mercury Hat posted:Auto-playing video. I pulled a Brown Moses and did some geolocation. Operational remote range of that drone is something like 80m. The distance from where he's shooting to where the suspected operator was in the hill is something like 163m. So, yeah, this guy obviously shot his own drone down.
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May 3, 2015 23:19
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Maybe it's the start of an ARGs for his organic lemon business.
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Carecat posted:Maybe it's the start of an ARGs for his organic lemon business. Honestly, if someone was to make an ARG for a lemon business about government spies and poo poo, I would buy the hell out of those lemons.
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May 3, 2015 23:34
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Mercury Hat posted:Auto-playing video. I, too, watch Parks & Recreation. 
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May 3, 2015 23:41
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Organic lemon kickstarter false flag drone operation. I know what the individual words mean-
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Sleeveless posted:After the bullshit the Penny Arcade guys pulled with their Kickstarters it's downright refreshing to see a guy just trying to sell a book instead of just begging for handouts behind a thin veneer of irony and dad jokes. CAD is unironically a *much* better webcomic than the PA these days.
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Sleeveless posted:After the bullshit the Penny Arcade guys pulled with their Kickstarters it's downright refreshing to see a guy just trying to sell a book instead of just begging for handouts behind a thin veneer of irony and dad jokes. There will be people supporting the CAD Kickstarter ironically People that supported the Penny Arcade kickstarter are unironic idiots
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steinrokkan posted:CAD is unironically a *much* better webcomic than the PA these days. Or they're both equally terrible
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steinrokkan posted:CAD is unironically a *much* better webcomic than the PA these days. Saying one webcomic is better than another is like say you just had a *much* more solid dump than you had the day before.
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NESguerilla posted:Saying one webcomic is better than another is like say you just had a *much* more solid dump than you had the day before. a satisfying dump can be very rewarding, stench or no
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steinrokkan posted:CAD is unironically a *much* better webcomic than the PA these days.
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P-A has reached the phase that all long-running comics eventually get to: the creators have long since run out of ideas and are only keeping the comic going because they feel obligated to. They could just drop the three-panel format and do long-form instead, and seem to have the talent for it, but probably don't want to deal with the fallout that doing that would bring with it.
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Wow, you guys weren't kidding There's no joke here even by Penny Arcade standards, and the art is being overworked to the point where it's now getting worse instead of better.
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May 4, 2015 03:47
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He put some white dots on mottled purple for the first two panels but was too tuckered out to manage a background for panel 3.
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Great Rumbler posted:P-A has reached the phase that all long-running comics eventually get to: the creators have long since run out of ideas and are only keeping the comic going because they feel obligated to. They could just drop the three-panel format and do long-form instead, and seem to have the talent for it, but probably don't want to deal with the fallout that doing that would bring with it. They tried to branch out into other media but it was all more or less unsuccessful: their gaming news site shut down, their reality shows and attempt at doing a Channel Awesome-style video team fell apart, their videogames flopped, and their attempt to get into Hollywood amounted to a one-page comic getting optioned and then going nowhere. They've even had to distance themselves from their convention and
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The motion lines on Gabe's arm in the second panel are from his arm suddenly popping back into existence, note its absence in the first panel. This does not constitute endorsement of the CAD kickstarter, although good on Buckley for anticipating reasonable shipping costs. I listened to a podcast recently where a musician was describing the total costs of shipping, and I had no idea it was so expensive. The Penny Arcade guys cleverly got around the shipping cost problem by not offering any physical product or in fact any product at all in theirs.
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Bubble-T posted:the art is being overworked to the point where it's now getting worse instead of better. I've also noticed that they recently [as in, during the last few months] started shading their characters' noses a different color from the rest of their skin and it bothers me way more than it probably should.
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Young Freud posted:I pulled a Brown Moses and did some geolocation. Operational remote range of that drone is something like 80m. The distance from where he's shooting to where the suspected operator was in the hill is something like 163m. Bubble-T posted:Wow, you guys weren't kidding
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Since I was interested in Patreon as a funding platform, I decided to have a look at some of the others on offer. I happened across this one in my search for successful and unsuccessful campaigns to learn from. It has a trifecta of terrible: -Factually incorrect statements (Pac-man isn't a platformer) -Ridiculous reward tiers (more on that below) -Unrealistic expectations and stupid goals for the campaign. So, what do you get for your hard-earned cash? He has the answer! 'Rewards' posted:$1: I've omitted some of them, but as you can see, he believes the steam release is worth 400 dollars more than PC, Mac, and iOS put together.
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Great Rumbler posted:I've also noticed that they recently [as in, during the last few months] started shading their characters' noses a different color from the rest of their skin and it bothers me way more than it probably should. It's called "Tumblr Nose" and it's cropping up in a lot of webcomics. It's really weird. Next they'll have really shiny red knees and elbows. I think they've already lost their pupils.
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Bubble-T posted:Wow, you guys weren't kidding Those are MoJ mouths
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:It's called "Tumblr Nose" and it's cropping up in a lot of webcomics. It's really weird. Next they'll have really shiny red knees and elbows. I think they've already lost their pupils. In my day we called it Livejournal Nose! You drat kids. Seriously though it was a thing people were already doing way back when Livejournal was a huge thing, like 2004 or so. It's based on people learning the basic art class rule that noses and a few other parts of the body are a little bit redder and if you draw someone and make sure to intensify the color just a bit in your drawing it really helps to make it look lifelike. Then they assume "more emphasis = better" and eventually your drawings have bright red noses/cheeks/elbows/etc and they look like they lost a fight to a clown. Noyemi K posted:Since I was interested in Patreon as a funding platform, I decided to have a look at some of the others on offer. The latest Pac Man games have been a whole bunch of the most generic 3D platformers you've ever seen. Maybe he's young enough that that's what he's familiar with. Nintendo Kid has a new favorite as of 05:19 on May 4, 2015 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:In my day we called it Livejournal Nose! You drat kids. Seriously though it was a thing people were already doing way back when Livejournal was a huge thing, like 2004 or so. It's based on people learning the basic art class rule that noses and a few other parts of the body are a little bit redder and if you draw someone and make sure to intensify the color just a bit in your drawing it really helps to make it look lifelike. I saw one piece of Sherlock fanart where they went so overboard with the nose shading, it literally looked like the characters had holes in their faces where there noses should have been.
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Nintendo Kid posted:The latest Pac Man games have been a whole bunch of the most generic 3D platformers you've ever seen. Maybe he's young enough that that's what he's familiar with. The majority of the Pac Man series is a platformer, when you think about it. There's even Pac-Land.
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Cheez posted:There's that, and the fact he's using what has to be drone footage in his kickstarter video. TBH, that drone he shot down cost something like $50, so it's not like it's some super secret high-tech thing.
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