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VictorKordes posted:Better than NaCl, salt, salty, rekt, tyrannosauraus rekt, dumpstered or feawen likes this or "content" or "leaq" 
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vulvamancer posted:I've been enjoying Booda calling for reddit admins to definitely check the eve reddit for vote brigading. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. djent posted:is this what goon posting has become in the year of our lord 2015 VictorKordes posted:Better than NaCl, salt, salty, rekt, tyrannosauraus rekt, dumpstered or feawen likes this lol #wrekt #owned #salty #2wrekt2bestressed
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Shipping to my filthy European country would be an extra $30 for the paperback even if I was to back it, and I doubt it's going to get a physical release anywhere near me. However even though I don't like reading ebooks I might back at that tier just for all of the reddit drama this has caused.
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Berious posted:Yeah he's doing it for a paycheck. But still the lovely dead gaem could still benefit a lot if people got over their reflexive grr goons. That's kinda the rub. People who don't play eve are going to look at this book with the word Eve on it, and are likely going to not get it. They know they have no interest in Eve. People who have no idea what Eve is but know the author might read it and like it, but military fiction is not exactly a genre known for having a lot of readers that are video game players. The numbers of goldi locks readers who don't know what eve is, but are also interested in MMOs, and are the type of players who will stay past the free trial is pretty loving low.
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djent posted:is this what goon posting has become in the year of our lord 2015 Yeah slightly misquoting hamlet is way worse than saying the word cuck over and over again. Idiot. EDIT: You should have named the kickstarter "Finally a kickstarter about spaceships that might actually get off the ground."
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CainFortea posted:That's kinda the rub. People who don't play eve are going to look at this book with the word Eve on it, and are likely going to not get it. They know they have no interest in Eve. In my experience, readers of military fiction, especially military SF, are well known for being video game players. It's just quite often the case no-one else knows the games they're playing. There are even entire publishers specialised on publishing games where you have to calculate how many hexfelders you can push your T-42 Soviet tanks before they run out of sandwiches and moxitude gets to critical levels. 
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Libluini posted:In my experience, readers of military fiction, especially military SF, are well known for being video game players. It's just quite often the case no-one else knows the games they're playing. There are even entire publishers specialised on publishing games where you have to calculate how many hexfelders you can push your T-42 Soviet tanks before they run out of sandwiches and moxitude gets to critical levels. I knew very few people in the military that weren't into gaming in some form or another (and this isn't counting the Madden-ites).
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Rhymenoserous posted:EDIT: You should have named the kickstarter "Finally a kickstarter about spaceships that might actually get off the ground."
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vulvamancer posted:I've been enjoying Booda calling for reddit admins to definitely check the eve reddit for vote brigading. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. It's a pretty well known fact that dix has an organized vote brigade that was active back in Black Legion and is 99% still active today. It's like Clay Davis calling for an anti-corruption taskforce, shiiiiiiit. VictorKordes posted:Better than NaCl, salt, salty, rekt, tyrannosauraus rekt, dumpstered or feawen likes this Feawen can't like things anymore, because the reddit admins did in fact check in for vote brigading, and feawen got banned 
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ullerrm posted:Feawen can't like things anymore, because the reddit admins did in fact check in for vote brigading, and feawen got banned I wonder if they'll get all them assmad DIX guys
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VictorKordes posted:I wonder if they'll get all them assmad DIX guys like they are seriously contending against moa for the "most grr goons" tribe
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VictorKordes posted:I wonder if they'll get all them assmad DIX guys don't even know why they are mad, it's like a basic lesson in political reality. You don't walk up to the 800lb gorilla in the room and bite it then yell "What then?" in it's face. Maybe they need to watch the causality trailer from a billion years ago so they can finally realize that they aren't playing this game in a vacuum, obvious jokes aside.
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CainFortea posted:He isn't doing it for the community. He's doing it for a 100k paycheck for like, 2 or 3 months of work. I think writing a book takes a little bit longer than two or three months. But maybe I am just the slowest writer in the world.
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Bigbillthaboss posted:Dix and MOA need to form a coalition Moardix Coalition
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Bigbillthaboss posted:Dix and MOA need to form a coalition Dix doesn't play EVE, they play Reddit.
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I think a lot of people on reddit don't play EVE; they play reddit. What sucks about them going after Jeff Edwards is that if this kickstarter fails then it'll be really hard to get another decent author to look at doing fiction of EVE stories. No publishing houses will take the idea because of all the reasons people listed and even Jeff wanted a pretty substantial hedge before taking on the project. On the other hand watching them all freak out like for sure the book is going to come out (and be goonie propaganda) has been hilarious. Particularly the current threads of "we should attack goons!" which always turn into "YOU! should attack goons" and then" waaah goons should disband so we can win." Which, what the christ.
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ullerrm posted:Feawen can't like things anymore, because the reddit admins did in fact check in for vote brigading, and feawen got banned If anyone wants to keep the hate train going, they can point out that one of the Reddit admins was, in fact, a member of the Imperium.
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yogizh posted:Moardix Coalition This is great. "Now don't go getting dropped by moardix ok?" "I got tackled by moardix!"
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ullerrm posted:Feawen can't like things anymore, because the reddit admins did in fact check in for vote brigading, and feawen got banned yeah I don't think certain r/eve posters thought things through when they screamed for an investigation of how certain r/eve posts rise to the top in under an hour
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Mitsuo posted:If anyone wants to keep the hate train going, they can point out that one of the Reddit admins was, in fact, a member of the Imperium. They tried that yesterday, dude works in IT and has jack poo poo to do with eve, captaincommando or something
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Fix Lag posted:yeah I don't think certain r/eve posters thought things through when they screamed for an investigation of how certain r/eve posts rise to the top in under an hour Do they ever?
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honestly, the Imperium should just straight up vote brigade reddit. What are they gonna do, ban free accounts? just make more lmaoVictorKordes posted:They tried that yesterday, dude works in IT and has jack poo poo to do with eve, captaincommando or something  his name is cfcommando
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Fix Lag posted:yeah I don't think certain r/eve posters thought things through when they screamed for an investigation of how certain r/eve posts rise to the top in under an hour how oddly reminiscent of the fountain war era witch hunts
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Citizen Rat posted:I think writing a book takes a little bit longer than two or three months. But maybe I am just the slowest writer in the world. Not really, not to a novelist. A lot of writers, especially sci-fi, mystery, and erotic writers, turn novels over faster than poo poo through a goose. I know an erotic novelist who has a couple of best sellers who bangs out a novel in less than a week. By 2 to 3 months, I mean time spent total. Not like, he sits down on January 1st and is done on March 1st. He'll do some interviews, read some stuff, then write other books or things for a while. Stuff he doesn't have to publish right away. Then come back to the fountain book.
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VictorKordes posted:I wonder if they'll get all them assmad DIX guys  what's with the salt?
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LemonDrizzle posted:Elite: Dangerous did a kickstarter and is an actual game that exists and can be played. Weird how ED looked like the low effort "me too" kickstarter until the fleshed out the pitch a bit.
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CainFortea posted:Not really, not to a novelist. A lot of writers, especially sci-fi, mystery, and erotic writers, turn novels over faster than poo poo through a goose. I know an erotic novelist who has a couple of best sellers who bangs out a novel in less than a week. Well then there is the possibility that Jeff snowed a lot of people. I think he might also not have a good idea how long it actually takes him to write when he's not trying to do it around his day job. He's not a full-time writer, but then none of the writers that I know are. Wait, I know one. She's a hipster who lives on starvation wages in Brooklyn, so perhaps not representative either. Otherwise all the writers I know are academics and writing takes forever. Well, data collection, parsing the data, and then writing takes forever. Particularly when R insists on being a bitch. VV Oh gently caress, he did run a ton of cap fleets, didn't he? I think, in all fairness, that Elo taught him how to fc caps though. Not that it is particularly difficult, from what I remember, otherwise the silly thing wouldn't have been able to do it. Citizen Rat fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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Rhymenoserous posted:Good god that QA thread is filled with disinformation. Reddit: The world's biggest soapbox for the mentally ill. 
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Citizen Rat posted:I think writing a book takes a little bit longer than two or three months. But maybe I am just the slowest writer in the world. If a book has taken 2 to 3 months to write it's probably a poo poo book with no actual thought put into it.
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I messaged him about it, he was a waffe member and it's not a coincidence  VictorKordes posted:They tried that yesterday, dude works in IT and has jack poo poo to do with eve, captaincommando or something He was a developer, not IT; neither is community-facing. Not that it matters to the tinfoil crowd.
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CainFortea posted:Not really, not to a novelist. A lot of writers, especially sci-fi, mystery, and erotic writers, turn novels over faster than poo poo through a goose. I know an erotic novelist who has a couple of best sellers who bangs out a novel in less than a week. I remember back from working as a Page shelving books at the library some authors were just ridiculous. I seem to recall Nora Robters occupied what felt like half the romance section of the libary and had something like 200 books published. This was quite a few years ago, I'm sure she has more now. The lady must have been doing books in like under 2 months. I kind of doubt it was masterpiece literature though. I also doubt that the Eve novel would be masterpiece literature. If they have the right author it might at least be a fun read though.
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CainFortea posted:Not really, not to a novelist. A lot of writers, especially sci-fi, mystery, and erotic writers, turn novels over faster than poo poo through a goose. I know an erotic novelist who has a couple of best sellers who bangs out a novel in less than a week. If I recall right Brandon Sanderson said that a full time author can do around 600.000 words per year. which is a lot but then not really a lot when it comes to books.
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TheGreySpectre posted:I remember back from working as a Page shelving books at the library some authors were just ridiculous. I seem to recall Nora Robters occupied what felt like half the romance section of the libary and had something like 200 books published. This was quite a few years ago, I'm sure she has more now. The lady must have been doing books in like under 2 months. Nora Roberts basically writes the same book with the hair colours changed. .... not that I have ever read a Nora Roberts book. CainFortea posted:Even Robert Jordan could write the Fountain War book in less than 6 months. Even taking into his dead status. You are really determined on this point.
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