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Earwicker posted:disclaimer: i am not responsible for any decisions made by or within the Indanapolis Motor Speedway nor for any hotdog sales therein Do you chat about cheap hot snacks over the airwaves?
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Thursday Next posted:lol are you really so stupid / sheltered that you think saying "I work at Google (or Apple or Microsoft)" is going to make everyone think you have insider knowledge about everything that goes on there what a random thing to be mad about
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it would be weird if the dude decided that i we personally the reason something bad happened to them re: play store approval or whatever, and i wouldn't put it past him at this point
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also i'm totally going to make sure you see nothing but ads for bad kickstarters now you jerk!!!!!
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start a thread about your job it'll be difficult for you to become as revered as ron, but you seem to be cut from the same cloth. you've got what it takes, I believe in you
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Zereth posted:Kickstarter is littered with the graves of game studios who were sure they could pull this off, and turned out to be wrong. Hell, the graves of game studios who were sure they could pull it off, and who could credibly argue that.
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I'm seeing a lot of lame new posts here and no awesome French Revolution effort posts. Time to storm the Bastille!
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:I'm seeing a lot of lame new posts here and no awesome French Revolution effort posts. Time to storm the Bastille! but i am le tired
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Well, it's the weekend right now, so why not. The Revolution and what happened afterwards is kind of a big deal in Western political science--hell, our modern terminology of right-wing vs. left-wing comes from it--and so over the years a lot of people with very serious axes to grind have taken it on. I'm going to hew very closely to the two "orthodox" views you might get in an undergraduate course, both because they're what I'm most familiar with and because they happen to involve a lot of hilarious incompetence on everyone's behalf. 1. bad_with_money.jpeg.txt At the time of the Revolution, the King of France is Louis XVI. His family, the Bourbons, has been in charge of France for a long time (as you might guess by the fact that he's literally the sixteenth of his name). For most of that time, the cornerstone of Bourbon policy has been hostility towards the ruling house of Spain, the Habsburgs. The Habsburgs-controlled states of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire have been the biggest powers in Continental Europe for ages, and happen to surround France on both sides. This policy goes back at least to the not-actually-30-years-long Thirty Years' War of the 1600s, and the Catholic Cardinal Richelieu (yeah, the bad guy from the Three Musketeers) deciding to throw in with the various mostly-Protestant forces challenging the Catholic HRE. In the years since, it's resulted in a series of extremely messy and unproductive wars between France and various Habsburg states such as Spain and Austria. These wars, combined with a series of equally messy civil wars, meant that the Bourbons were pretty much always broke. The habit of building places like these probably didn't help, either.  By the mid 1700s, however, this policy has pretty much succeeded in reordering Europe. The Spanish Habsburgs, who are somehow even worse at money than the Bourbons (though coasting on a tidal wave of American silver) are mostly out of the picture. Plus, the rising power of Prussia under Frederick the Great--formally part of the Holy Roman Empire--has provided a convenient counterweight to traditional Austrian power. In the 1740s, the French and Prussians under Frederick the Great team up to stand in the way of Maria Theresa of Austria's ascension to the Habsburg throne, and in the process deal the deathblow to any pretense of Austria's leadership in Europe. Everything is going great. Naturally, it was time to throw that all overboard, ally with the Austrian Habsburgs, and get their rear end kicked by the rest of Europe. I'm being a little unfair here--the last bit presumably wasn't part of the original plan--but when Louis XV responded to a softening of relations between Britain and Prussia by throwing in with the Austrians, he mostly ended up dragging France into Austria's problems with no benefit. In 1754, the Austrians attempt to get some of their own back and invade Silesia, which they had lost to the Prussians back in the 1740s. The British pile in on the Prussian side, the French pile in on the Austrian side, and the Seven Years' War ensues. Those of us who attended high school in the United States know its American theatre as the French and Indian Wars. Long story short, the French ended up spending about eleventymillion livres (their currency of the time) on their navy and army, got pretty much the entire fleet sunk by the British, and pretty much the entire army trashed by the Prussians. Plus, they ended up losing Canada and their trans-Mississippi holdings in the bargain. Louis XV is not thrilled by this and--just when the throne's finances are already imploding--embarks on an elaborate and expensive military rebuilding program in an attempt to challenge the British and reverse his losses. Prussian-style discipline, uniforms, and drill were instituted as far as he could get away with. He finally gives the nod to the era's greatest artillerist, Jean-Baptiste Gribeauval, to build the finest artillery corps in Europe. There was a ridiculous shipbuilding program centered around a new, massive shipyard in Cherbourg. And he ordered the establishment of twelve military schools, predecessors to the legendary École Saint-Cyr. One at Brienne near modern Troyes was host to a hick seminary dropout from Corsica, with okay-ish grades but no social life and few prospects. We'll come back to Napoleoné Buonaparte a bit later. And hell, it pays off! Louis XV kicks the bucket in 1774, but his son is in good position to take advantage of British problems in their American territories. In 1776 Louis XVI begins funneling covert military aid to rebels in On 3 September 1782, the Treaty of Paris was signed, affirming the United States' independence and granting it significant territorial concessions at the cost of the British. Champagne and smiles all around. On 4 September 1782, Louis XVI's ministers woke up from a massive hangover and realize that they just spent another billion livre, financed at a ruinous cost, on a war from which they gained nothing. French attempts to roll back British influence in India came to nothing. The entire brand new, expensive, French fleet lasted just long enough to win the war for the Americans before sailing off to take a shot at Jamaica and getting embarrassingly sunk (again). And they didn't even come close to taking back Canada. They now have a basically unprecedented financial crisis on their hands. Incoming revenues are barely enough to pay interest on their loans, let alone actually let the kingdom function. They could raise taxes, but the French taxation system is completely buried in archaic exceptions and exemptions nobody actually understands. It will take real political skill, finesse, and financial acumen to pull the country from the brink. Next time: they do not demonstrate political skill, finesse, or financial acumen
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Good stuff but gotta nitpick: Louis XVI was actually Louis XV's grandson.
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You can also listen to a history of the French Revolution through a cool podcast here. The guy also did the American Revolution and English Civil War before that, and the Haitian Revolution after. He's in the middle of covering Simón Bolívar right now.
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Reiterpallasch posted:Well, it's the weekend right now, so why not.
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is this stickied so we can see it fail in real time?
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Romes128 posted:is this stickied so we can see it fail in real time? it's stickied so we don't miss out on those juicy screenies they promised
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Reiterpallasch posted:(Sick-rear end history post) AWW YEAH BOYEEEE
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Reiterpallasch posted:
 In all honesty though, tactical RPGs are fun and a ragtag band of misfits against a backdrop of the french revolution is an interesting setting. There's just, well, not much more to say about the game other than nitpicking fencing-related stuff until we see a working prototype. Crazy Achmed fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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GunnerJ posted:Good stuff but gotta nitpick: Louis XVI was actually Louis XV's grandson. also you don't have to be from the same dynasty to increment the ordinal so him being the XVI doesn't actually tell you anything about the longevity of the bourbons :jeanbaptistecolbert:
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28 December 2016 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 31 December 2016 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 3 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 5 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 6 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 7 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 8 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 9 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 10 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 11 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 12 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 13 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 14 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 15 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal _______________________________________________ Total increase in amount raised between 28 December 2016 to 15 January 2017 - $280 Total increase in number of backers between 28 December 2016 to 15 January 2017 - 3 _______________________________________________ No. of days left - 14 Shortfall between target and amount raised so far - $238,918.00 Average amount of new funds per day required to meet target - $17,065.57
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The kick starter posts are the main reason I check this thread daily, thank you JosephWongKS.
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weak wrists big dick posted:The kick starter posts are the main reason I check this thread daily, thank you JosephWongKS. 
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weak wrists big dick posted:The kick starter posts are the main reason I check this thread daily, thank you JosephWongKS. Please excuse the short memories of my fellow SA posters, hyperdevbox. You've already helpfully explained here that: quote:
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For the record, OP, I do like French Revolution-type anime like Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and your pitch is interesting if done well but you simply don't have enough to crowd fund this yet. Like other posters have said, your best bet is to take the suggestions that posters who are game devs have made and work on your project for a few months more before trying a renewed crowd funding campaign. If that's not like, feasible for your company you just have to accept that it's not the right time to make Thermidor and wait a while longer.
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And at least halve the target. Not that he can read this.
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Restrained Crown Posse posted:And at least halve the target. Oh please you know that there's no way he actually blocked anyone. He's too desperate for attention.
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The Crusher posted:Ron's name appears for qft.
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Buschmaki posted:IndieNoGo Slowbeef and Diabetus could get this project some serious exposure. Ron should email Retsupurae.
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28 December 2016 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 31 December 2016 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 3 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 5 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 6 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 7 January 2017 - $802 USD raised by 22 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 8 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 9 January 2017 - $1002 USD raised by 23 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 10 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 11 January 2017 - $1052 USD raised by 24 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 12 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 13 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 14 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 15 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal 16 January 2017 - $1082 USD raised by 25 backers / 0% of $240,000 fixed goal _______________________________________________ Total increase in amount raised between 28 December 2016 to 16 January 2017 - $280 Total increase in number of backers between 28 December 2016 to 16 January 2017 - 3 _______________________________________________ No. of days left - 13 Shortfall between target and amount raised so far - $238,918.00 Average amount of new funds per day required to meet target - $18,378.31
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As the OP seems to be absent again, this is now the Fructidor: Juicy Fruities OFFICIAL RELEASE THREAD! You can play the game here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tiyod8lil0bm81a/Fructidor.zip?dl=0 The game has 25 waves, after which you will learn a SECRET PASSWORD! The first 3 people to PM me said password will get any game of their choice below €10 on steam.
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A guy made an entire game, complete with real world prizes, before these devs finished their single bar shot.
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kukrunkarmaskin posted:As the OP seems to be absent again, this is now the Fructidor: Juicy Fruities OFFICIAL RELEASE THREAD! Geez, this game is hard. The meter seems to go down less if you guillotine the guys jumping on the conveyor belt 
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Much like Thermidor, Fructidor isn't working for me. I'm getting message failed to open descriptor file .../.../.../Fruidor.upproject' 
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kukrunkarmaskin posted:As the OP seems to be absent again, this is now the Fructidor: Juicy Fruities OFFICIAL RELEASE THREAD! Made it to wave 7, could not figure how to hurl cakes fast enough. 5/5, best game I've played today. 
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kukrunkarmaskin posted:As the OP seems to be absent again, this is now the Fructidor: Juicy Fruities OFFICIAL RELEASE THREAD! so uh can i count this im on wave 25 and this guy wont respond to fruits or bombs, he just stands there   still a better game than thermidor
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Fructidor is pretty stressful since it seems to be very all or nothing. The moment you fall behind on cakes once and people get onto your conveyor belt once, you'll be behind on cakes for the next wave and it's a very fast spiral of death with very little opportunity to catch up. Still had fun with it for the 15 waves I did though.
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yeah i only got to the end by hitting a string of red fruits speeding up the conveyor belt combined with great guillotine to just poo poo out cakes nonstop; actually started to lag a bit with how many fruit, cakes, and dudes were on the field
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Can the Mo-Mos please change the name of this thread to Fructidor - Tactical Guillotine Simulator?
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JosephWongKS posted:Can the Mo-Mos please change the name of this thread to Fructidor - Tactical Guillotine Simulator? Hahahahaah, get rekt hdb.
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