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Evil Mastermind posted:Misspent Youth is kickstarting a new edition/print run. MY is a short-campaign game about kids fighting back against The Man in the YA dystopia of your choice. I reviewed it for F&F a while ago, and Robert Bohl himself loved the review (he was so happy that I "got it" MY is really loving good, like, really good. I've had a campaign of that involve someone at the table actually tearing up a bit and also the group strapping roller skates to monkeys to crash a country club party.
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sexpig by night posted:MY is really loving good, like, really good. I've had a campaign of that involve someone at the table actually tearing up a bit and also the group strapping roller skates to monkeys to crash a country club party.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:With another CMON KS about to end its time to play a game of 'just how many pop culture jokes did they cram into the exclusive stretch goals'. So far we have I kind of got burned out on the exclusives on the modern Zombicide, but at least they make a little sense there. This time around, the majority of the exclusives are pretty bad and really don't fit in at all. Yet, the backers are raving about them.  I'll sell mine off on Ebay to the weirdos who want a Dwarf not-Wolverine and pay for the core game.
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berzerkmonkey posted:I kind of got burned out on the exclusives on the modern Zombicide, but at least they make a little sense there. This time around, the majority of the exclusives are pretty bad and really don't fit in at all. Yet, the backers are raving about them. Yeah, of the list I actually like The Stranger Things models since it's the kids dressed up like their DnD characters, Thulsa Doom, Lemmy and Bavmorda since they actually feel like they could be a part of the game. I imagine there's some lines the lawyers won't let them cross. It's a board game about an ork horde decimating the country side and not a single Warcraft model to be found.
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bandaid.friend posted:KS exclusives actually super stress me out. I don't like the concept, unless they're cosmetic, but it also really bothers me if I can't 'have everything' related to a board game I like. Fortunately most games with lots of KS exclusives are forgettable miniature games anyway "I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.” Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening. I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!” Happy Valentine’s Day." - Neil Gaiman
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Peas and Rice posted:I like how one "side" is just a dude in a Trump hat, and the other one is the ZOMG "PC POLICE." But yeah, totally unbiased game designed to promote dialogue without any ulterior agenda whatsoever amirite? The PC Police is crying a giant tear that says "that's racist". Holy crap.
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bandaid.friend posted:KS exclusives actually super stress me out. I don't like the concept, unless they're cosmetic, but it also really bothers me if I can't 'have everything' related to a board game I like. Fortunately most games with lots of KS exclusives are forgettable miniature games anyway I've commented on it before and I'll doubtlessly comment on it again but you can really set your watch by these sorts of "politically incorrect" tabletop game Kickstarters and their inevitable abject failure. I don't think I've ever seen a single one actually succeed. At least the second one cottoned onto the idea of offering a print and play version though it's far too late to do any good given that they're at some $800 of a $16,000 goal with 17 days to go and a whopping 10 comments.
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bandaid.friend posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/116597536/build-the-wall-the-politically-incorrect-board-gam/description
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FMguru posted:$484 pledged out of $50,000, with six days to go! $845 now. If it keeps doubling at this rate it will be one of the most successfull kickstarters of all time!
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Kai Tave posted:I don't think I've ever seen a single one actually succeed. I thought I saw one succeed because it was being used to launder money into a PAC or something
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NTRabbit posted:I thought I saw one succeed because it was being used to launder money into a PAC or something Do you have a link? I'm oddly fascinated by these sorts of Kickstarters because they all seem to spring from the same mold and all seem to run into the same problems.
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Kai Tave posted:Do you have a link? I'm oddly fascinated by these sorts of Kickstarters because they all seem to spring from the same mold and all seem to run into the same problems. You mean the problem that the people who would buy their products don't use Kickstarter? And that the people who do use Kickstarter would, as a group, never back these products?
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I think it's come up before, but why don't those anti-PC game maker wannabes use IndieGoGo? Then at least they'd get some money.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I think it's come up before, but why don't those anti-PC game maker wannabes use IndieGoGo? Then at least they'd get some money. Are we sure they don't? E.g., has anyone been scoping indieGoGo out for these kinds of projects? Also the obvious answer is that even the meager pledges they get would not happen without the normal KS setup of no payments unless the project funds.
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Kwyndig posted:You mean the problem that the people who would buy their products don't use Kickstarter? And that the people who do use Kickstarter would, as a group, never back these products? That's certainly one part of it. The other part is that projects of this sort invariably seem to be created by people who know nothing about how to market a tabletop game on Kickstarter. They have poor production values, no marketing outreach, no print and play copies, they make only the most cursory of efforts to build word of mouth, make no updates, etc. They're uniformly started by people who seem to be perpetually under the impression that contemporary crowdfunding is some magic money tree where you can toss any dumb thing onto Kickstarter and people will throw heir wallets at it just because. But I've noticed for a while now that people with an interest in pushing lovely agendas who are happy to spend plenty of time and effort doing so often seem to balk at spending their money to do so. When James Desborough was getting called out for being a goober with a fixation on shoehorning tasteless rape-centric content into his elfgames you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting someone eager to jump to his defense and decry his critics as pearl-clutching moralizers out to start up a second satanic panic. When James Desborough starts up a Patreon where true believers can help fund his game making efforts? He's lucky to get a hundred bucks a month.
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Requested my free PDF download of Right or Racist. I expect to be won over by their rigorous fact-checking and nuanced perspective to such a sensitive and complex subject. To be fair, as far as ideological games go, they're still probably better than Chutes 'n Ladders.
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senrath posted:I'm assuming the correct answer to all of the questions is "that's racist." It's pretty much "How to Lie With Statistics: the Game", so most of them are "That's right, but the conclusion you're drawing from it isn't, you loving rear end in a top hat." To be fair, some aren't racist. There's a good deal of homophobia and sexism, too.
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Kai Tave posted:I've commented on it before and I'll doubtlessly comment on it again but you can really set your watch by these sorts of "politically incorrect" tabletop game Kickstarters and their inevitable abject failure. I don't think I've ever seen a single one actually succeed. At least the second one cottoned onto the idea of offering a print and play version though it's far too late to do any good given that they're at some $800 of a $16,000 goal with 17 days to go and a whopping 10 comments. Here's kind of one that did succeed: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/alternative-facts-a-hilarious-card-game-by-frog-go
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Stickman posted:To be fair, some aren't racist. There's a good deal of homophobia and sexism, too. That's exactly the kind of thing a libtard cuck snowflake would say. (Please note sarcasm).
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In the realm of kickstarters that aren't by terrible people, Fragged Empire: Expanded has just over 48 hours left and has hit most of its stretch goals. US$22 gets you the core PDF and two of the expansions, $34 gets you the core and all three:
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Evil Mastermind posted:In the realm of kickstarters that aren't by terrible people, Fragged Empire: Expanded has just over 48 hours left and has hit most of its stretch goals. US$22 gets you the core PDF and two of the expansions, $34 gets you the core and all three: I definitely got in for all the PDFs. I'm really excited about all of this. Having a sci-fi RPG with grid-based combat rules that aren't garbage is basically my dream.
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sexpig by night posted:Like, it's just so obvious it was made by people who think 'haha yea I'm totally racist guys you got me' is the 'right' side there but they're too much of a bunch of wimps to actually say that's the side you want to be on in the scores. The "debate cards" are described as "subjective statements" but the ones they show ("Islam is dangerous", "BLM is a hate group") have one clear, obvious answer (no) and aren't subjective at all. I wonder why that is 
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Ettin posted:The "debate cards" are described as "subjective statements" but the ones they show ("Islam is dangerous", "BLM is a hate group") have one clear, obvious answer (no) and aren't subjective at all. I wonder why that is Seriously those debate cards rule. "IS BLM a hate group?" "Uh...no?" And then either someone outs themselves as insane and tries to say that actually #bluelivesmatter or whatever or yea everyone just nods. This is so obviously for and by CHUDs it almost makes me sad that they wimped out of making the 'racists' actually right in the right ratio.
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Ettin posted:The "debate cards" are described as "subjective statements" but the ones they show ("Islam is dangerous", "BLM is a hate group") have one clear, obvious answer (no) and aren't subjective at all. I wonder why that is Got access to the print-n-play doc. They're basically all just alt-right talking points stated outright, except for a few like "A hot dog, is a sandwich." Superfluous comma theirs. Other debate topics: "America should torture war criminals and terrorists." "America would be better off if the South had won the Civil War." "The United States should not elect an openly LGBT person for president, ever." "America should institute a flat tax so we can eliminate people leeching off of other people's hard work."
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It warms my heart that the people who are the audiences for these people promoting hate-speech are just as lazy as I am when it comes to actually shelling out for something that isn't free for a cause they believe in. Liking and sharing racist and spurious statements on Facebook? It's free so they'll do it. Weird online circlejerking? It's free so they'll do it. Pay weird racist figureheads money so their bad "edgy" game can get put out so they can play this with "friends"/people held hostage with the promise of fun? Well hold on now, that would require me to pay money out for a minimum of $10 and I wouldn't get my gratification immediately, so... e: also in better news, Mastermind's general exuberance for Fragged Empire has rubbed off on me a little and motivated an impulse investment on the "get the core and all three sourcebooks" level. Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:In the realm of kickstarters that aren't by terrible people, Fragged Empire: Expanded has just over 48 hours left and has hit most of its stretch goals. US$22 gets you the core PDF and two of the expansions, $34 gets you the core and all three: And backed. I was looking for an excuse to pick up all the core Fragged Empire PDFs anyway, now I get fantasy and pirates to go with it!
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Evil Mastermind posted:In the realm of kickstarters that aren't by terrible people, Fragged Empire: Expanded has just over 48 hours left and has hit most of its stretch goals. US$22 gets you the core PDF and two of the expansions, $34 gets you the core and all three: Fragged Empires is a fantastic game system and I'm really looking forward to running Fragged Seas. I 've backed Fragged Empire Kickstarters before and they do a top notch job on fulfillment too! Also, if you can afford it spring for the hardcopies. their books are absolutely gorgeous.
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JackMann posted:"America should institute a flat tax so we can eliminate people leeching off of other people's hard work." Isn't it just the perfect fit that the one topic they have that could lead to interesting discussion is worded in such a way to be as dickish as possible. Sure, a Flat Tax is almost certainly a bad idea, but it's a bad idea for non-obvious reasons so you can have an interesting debate over whether or not it would work and what alternatives would function better if one were to reform the tax code. But no, it's clearly just so that they can make fun of poor people.
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Hostile V posted:It warms my heart that the people who are the audiences for these people promoting hate-speech are just as lazy as I am when it comes to actually shelling out for something that isn't free for a cause they believe in. Liking and sharing racist and spurious statements on Facebook? It's free so they'll do it. Weird online circlejerking? It's free so they'll do it. Pay weird racist figureheads money so their bad "edgy" game can get put out so they can play this with "friends"/people held hostage with the promise of fun? Well hold on now, that would require me to pay money out for a minimum of $10 and I wouldn't get my gratification immediately, so... quote:e: also in better news, Mastermind's general exuberance for Fragged Empire has rubbed off on me a little and motivated an impulse investment on the "get the core and all three sourcebooks" level. 
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rydiafan posted:In less racist news, Deception: Murder in Hong Kong had an expansion Kickstarter ending in 7 hours. The game's a blast and the expansion stuff all looks good. They even have exclusives from the base game Kickstarter as an add-on if you missed it. Aww man, I'm a sucker for KS-only add-ons like someone else posted above. It bothers me on some level that my game will never be 'complete'.
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