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The funny thing is the comic source material is almost austere in its grim darkness. There's barely any dialogue, instead it uses the dramatically lit, tenebrist-like black and white art to convey the mood of the world. I also think an important element is the fact that the "hero" of the comic is this weak, frog-like looking dude, not some muscly barbarian. This? It's like someone took all the worst elements of the Conan universe and thought adding a bunch of "fucks" would make it better.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 03:09 |
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 02:43 |
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So if that's a ridiculous KS-only success, will their future games move even further towards "get it all on kickstarter, or get a few scraps of a game from a retailer eventually?"
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 08:45 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:I hate to keep being negative about the project, but jesus christ the tribes look exactly the same I don't know what you're talking about. Tribe Evil Pumpkin collects skulls. Tribe Vagina Dentata Mask collects skulls with the skin still on.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 13:51 |
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I’m loving this reddit thread with people describing their favourite board games in the CMON style.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 15:17 |
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Henker posted:The funny thing is the comic source material is almost austere in its grim darkness. There's barely any dialogue, instead it uses the dramatically lit, tenebrist-like black and white art to convey the mood of the world. I also think an important element is the fact that the "hero" of the comic is this weak, frog-like looking dude, not some muscly barbarian.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 16:06 |
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Sig, or "I Can't Believe It's Not Planescape", got its physical copy to my doorstop yesterday. Haven't had too much time to flip through it, but it's a successful thing.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 16:16 |
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Henker posted:This? It's like someone took all the worst elements of the Conan universe and thought adding a bunch of "fucks" would make it better. Conan would have an excellent chance of having the civilized people as cannibals, my friend.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 18:44 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Conan would have an excellent chance of having the civilized people as cannibals, my friend. When you remember that Howard grew up around 1920s Texas oil boom workers, that makes total sense. Who knows what grim debauchery occurs in darkest Chicago?
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 00:13 |
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Well it's true but he goes even farther than that. I mean Howard's beliefs are literally that civilization is as (or more) brutal than anything in the wilderness, with the added kicker of making people into weak decadent amoral shitbags. How he describes city guards facing Conan: piss scared that their weak fat asses will get owned quote:He knew, if the others were too stupid to know, the steel-trap muscles and blinding quickness of men raised beyond civilization's frontiers where life was a continual battle for existence, and he had no desire to loose the barbaric frenzy of the Cimmerian if it could be avoided. These cops, btw, are quick to beat the poo poo out of regular people for info (and enjoy doing it). quote:Posthumo slapped him terrifically first on one side of the face and then on the other, and continued the interrogation by flinging him to the floor and kicking him with vicious accuracy. His biggest self-insert character hates cops and authority. The fundamental reality of his universe is that civilization weakens people and exploits them. He's a libertarian doofus but I like him despite it all.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 00:53 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Well it's true but he goes even farther than that. I mean Howard's beliefs are literally that civilization is as (or more) brutal than anything in the wilderness, with the added kicker of making people into weak decadent amoral shitbags. This is true, but also an oversimplification, and Howard's personal views are not so clear. Despite his disdain for authority, Conan eventually wins a throne, and then fights to keep it. He fully recognizes the benefits of civilization, and desires some of them, even though his crown rests "upon a troubled brow." Howard never wrote an end to Conan's life, so we don't know if he intended to have Conan eventually reject civilization entirely, but I doubt that he intended to. Howard's Conan stories are not so much about promoting a libertarian viewpoint as "the correct answer;" it's more that he's countering the narrative of "civilization" as inherently or always superior, and also presenting his character as genuinely torn between his barbarous instincts and roots, and the allure and attraction of all the rewards civilized places have to offer. He was interested in the tension between savagery as a "pure" but unrelentingly harsh way to live, where a man's personal ethics and conduct are the only rules he has to live by, and the obvious rewards and benefits of civilization: wealth, learning, luxury, great achievements of architecture and science, etc. Conan openly disdains the corruption and greed of civilized lands, even while he can't bring himself to stay away from them. And remember that his 1920s and 30s audience had the horrific brutality of WWI in recent living memory, and were witnessing the rise of fascism. It wasn't necessarily clear to everyone at that point that civilization would survive the 20th century, or if it deserved to, and Howard was evoking those fears with his stories.
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 02:20 |
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The Moon Monster posted:It should be easy to tell them apart once you take the description of each tribe into account. They're all the tribe of "Um...Ok."
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# ? Jan 19, 2018 04:40 |
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Here’s an annoying KS for three different Japanese modular games. They could all be different Kickstarters, but nooooo.
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# ? Jan 20, 2018 04:54 |
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Anyone interested in Nemesis? I haven't heard anything about the company before, and I'm not sure if I like the Aliens-but-not-quite aesthetic. But it seems to be really taking off. Luebbi fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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Luebbi posted:Anyone interested in Nemesis? Well if the writing is any indication, it's made by a 14 year-olds. quote:"Jerry, big news! We’ve received the first transmission with some preliminary data. It seems it’s an auxotrophic, anaerobic, mineral-based trans-dimensional life form (what a mouthful). No DNA, XNA or anything else we could expect. Instead, a strange self-propagating crystalline structure. Outer skin layer? Pure Lonsdaleite! We've never seen more than few grains on Earth, and this thing is covered in it! Fifty percent tougher than diamond, go figure."
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# ? Jan 20, 2018 22:20 |
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Afriscipio posted:Well if the writing is any indication, it's made by a 14 year-olds. They're Polish. I've heard decent to good things about their other games, so I'm interested, though I wish I'd been paying attention when Lord of Hella was up.
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# ? Jan 20, 2018 22:49 |
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They also said in their FAQ that they'd hire professional english writers for the manual. I backed it now, will see what reviews say about it at release and then keep it or sell it on ebay.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 10:36 |
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Luebbi posted:Anyone interested in Nemesis? They did This War of Mine and Lords of Hellas. I'm getting both, and have heard amazing things for both. Good enough for me :V
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 16:22 |
If you want nerdy coffee table books, Tokaido's art is pretty drat great: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/funforge/the-art-of-tokaido
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 17:18 |
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PSC have this WW2 2 player strategy card game project going, no money to back it so haven't really looked into it in any detail
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 17:38 |
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GrandpaPants posted:If you want nerdy coffee table books that arrive in 2021, Tokaido's art is pretty drat great: Fixed that for you.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 18:19 |
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ADMIN of daShareZ0ne fame has put up a KS for a card game called the Devil's Level. To quote the page, ADMIN posted:THE DEVIL'S LEVEL IS A CARD GAME WHERE YOU CONTROLL YOUR DEPRESSION LEVEL, HORNY LEVEL AND GENIUS LEVEL TO GET LEVELS OF 6/6/6 "THE DEVIL'S LEVEL"
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 19:36 |
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BinaryDoubts posted:ADMIN of daShareZ0ne fame has put up a KS for a card game called the Devil's Level. I have never backed faster
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 19:48 |
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"I PROMISE IT WORK'S" --ADMIN
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 19:53 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:I have never backed faster
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 20:20 |
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I don’t get it.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 20:40 |
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The_Doctor posted:I don’t get it. "It" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, do you not get ShareZone? Or the card game? Or the irreverent style?
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 21:42 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:"It" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, do you not get ShareZone? Or the card game? Or the irreverent style? All of... <waves arms in that general direction> that. Card games I get, but not the wrappings in this case.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 21:49 |
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The_Doctor posted:All of... <waves arms in that general direction> that. Card games I get, but not the wrappings in this case. Here is the best way I have seen to describe daShareZ0ne: They (it's a group account AFAIK) follow everyone on Twitter who is named Jonathan Davis. If that doesn't help you, you're beyond helping.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 21:55 |
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So "Hip memes: The cardgame?"
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:09 |
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I love ironically backing a lovely game almost as much as I love playing ironically dumb games! Please pour more warmed over UNO clones down my throat.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:10 |
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@drilOPOLOY
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:11 |
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Evan Dorkin is working on this though?
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:19 |
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moths posted:Evan Dorkin is working on this though? How does that make it a good game?
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:20 |
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some loving LIAR posted:Here is the best way I have seen to describe daShareZ0ne: They (it's a group account AFAIK) follow everyone on Twitter who is named Jonathan Davis. If that doesn't help you, you're beyond helping. Oh, like @dril (also a group account, apparently). My boyfriend apparently gets this a lot more than I do. I showed him the KS and he's all for it.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:26 |
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Crackbone posted:So "Hip memes: The cardgame?" Is a horny skeleton with IBS a meme now? Or is it a mascot? Or is it just a character?
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 22:32 |
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Did everybody who backed it get a message?
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 23:34 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:Did everybody who backed it get a message? It was the best thing that happened to me today.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 01:20 |
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BinaryDoubts posted:ADMIN of daShareZ0ne fame has put up a KS for a card game called the Devil's Level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lffg88WDRg
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 02:41 |
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No one fund this loving thing. Christ.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 02:41 |
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Just because you can't monetize your unfunny gimmick doesn't mean you have to hate on other people who can, dog.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 02:46 |