Scruffpuff posted:

This will never not be fantastic to me. Sandi is so aggressively untalented that the movies she paid to be in (funding indies with backer cash) still left her on the cutting room floor and she gets told "thanks for the cash, fuckers. Now you get nothing in return." Laser-guided karma.

Scruffpuff posted:

This will never not be fantastic to me. Sandi is so aggressively untalented that the movies she paid to be in (funding indies with backer cash) still left her on the cutting room floor and she gets told "thanks for the cash, fuckers. Now you get nothing in return." Laser-guided karma.

Frog Act posted:

Someone please elucidate on her bad movie failures, what were they and how was she involved re: backer cash

Scruffpuff posted:

Sandi's tour-de-force in American Satan was one such tale of victory. CIG's cash was used to help fund this straight-to-landfill excremental disaster, which by that description you'd think would be perfect for Sandi. But although she was filmed "acting" in some scenes, the theatrical cut of the film had every one of her scenes cut 100%. She found out during the premiere screening she attended. The look on her face leaving the theater was absolutely amazing, I'm sure someone here has it - it was posted quite a bit.

I don't have the facts about their agreement with the producer, so I'm torn between two theories - the contract fine-print never mentioned the post-edited final cut, or they pulled a Chris Roberts and simply didn't honor the contract.

It was poetry.

Neltharak posted:

I dunno, between sandi and him surely they have had the sense to save backer money.

Mirificus posted:

SoftNum posted:

I'm fairly certain this is just goonhistory at this point. Amusing none the less.

And hey it worked, she's in that other movie.

Scruffpuff posted:

Sandi's tour-de-force in American Satan was one such tale of victory. CIG's cash was used to help fund this straight-to-landfill excremental disaster, which by that description you'd think would be perfect for Sandi. But although she was filmed "acting" in some scenes, the theatrical cut of the film had every one of her scenes cut 100%. She found out during the premiere screening she attended. The look on her face leaving the theater was absolutely amazing, I'm sure someone here has it - it was posted quite a bit.

I don't have the facts about their agreement with the producer, so I'm torn between two theories - the contract fine-print never mentioned the post-edited final cut, or they pulled a Chris Roberts and simply didn't honor the contract.

It was poetry.

Kosumo posted:

I don't think that is as true as you hope, I believe the photo of her and Chris leaving a movie was from another time. I call this Goon FUD (called!)

Kosumo posted:

I don't think that is as true as you hope, I believe the photo of her and Chris leaving a movie was from another time. I call this Goon FUD (called!)

Frog Act posted:

Someone please elucidate on her bad movie failures, what were they and how was she involved re: backer cash

G0RF posted:

It was from the American Satan premiere. I was watching a YouTube video about the premiere and did a double take on the flyby of Chris and Sandi. I dropped a link to it in thread but what none of us knew then was that she’d been cut from the film. Chris and Sandi knew, they’d just seen it, but we would have to wait until the wider release came to realize why she seemed displeased.

Somebody else has the pic but if need be I can find the link in my history.

Bootcha posted:

Just in case you missed G0RF's hint:

G0RF posted:

It was from the American Satan premiere. I was watching a YouTube video about the premiere and did a double take on the flyby of Chris and Sandi. I dropped a link to it in thread but what none of us knew then was that she’d been cut from the film. Chris and Sandi knew, they’d just seen it, but we would have to wait until the wider release came to realize why she seemed displeased.

Somebody else has the pic but if need be I can find the link in my history.

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:

What kills me is years ago during the MMO boom a buddy and I had the idea to announce a fake MMO and open forums for it with Google ads on them “to pay for bandwidth since we’re a small company.” Every now and then we’d pay an artist a few bucks and release some concept art or doctored screenshots and keep people posting in the forums and collect the money for years.

And yet this scam has been far surpassed.

Raskolnikov posted:

It Love Pledge going to release in 2018?

Two weeks?

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:

What kills me is years ago during the MMO boom a buddy and I had the idea to announce a fake MMO and open forums for it with Google ads on them “to pay for bandwidth since we’re a small company.” Every now and then we’d pay an artist a few bucks and release some concept art or doctored screenshots and keep people posting in the forums and collect the money for years.

And yet this scam has been far surpassed.

Cameroon_TLPC posted:

This is 100% what we are absolutely not doing. You have my word. We are producing a real game, just look at all of this artwork!

quote:

American Satan is the story of a young rock band who play a form of music that would offend anyone with a functioning set of ears who sell their souls to Malcom McDowell in exchange for Deathklok-like success.

American Satan is an artifact of the early 2000s. The creation of a man who is clearly pining for the bygone days of his early 20s, when he was wearing impossibly large Jncos, listening to Limp Bizkit, and awkwardly hitting on teenage girls outside of the local Hot Topic. A man whose only exposure to cinema came in the form of mallcore rock and roll vampire tale Queen of the Damned, the jump cut nightmare that was Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and possibly House of 1000 Corpses. Run these cinematic influences through the filter of a few too many episodes of Behind the Music and the short attention spans of the Ritalin generation and you’ve got this flick.

Put simply, American Satan is a dull, hyperactive, unwatchable mess. However, given the film’s pedigree, I don’t think making a good film was of primary concern to writer/director, and Sumerian Records founder, Ash Avildsen. It becomes abundantly clear shortly into the film that this was likely never intended to be an entertaining movie, but rather was intended to be an extended commercial for a bevy of bland Sumerian Records artists. In scene after scene, the background music (which mostly consists of bland nu metal revival tripe) is boosted so loud as to practically drown out the rest of the film’s audio. Almost as if to scream, “hey, don’t pay attention to that, pay attention to this instead.”

At least, I certainly hope this was intended to be a thinly veiled commercial. If it was intended as a serious film, then it is even worse. The story is paced like it was written by a 15-year-old with ADHD who was fed a steady diet of coffee spiked with methamphetamine. There are more jump cuts than a Youtube skeptic video. What’s even worse is the repeated uses of deus ex machina. Top this off with the characters being generally unlikeable rock and roll cliches who spout “edgelord” tripe masquerading as dialogue. This is what makes it exceptionally ridiculous when it seems like the filmmakers want the viewer to feel sorry for Johnny when he ODs, or when his girlfriend leaves him. If you want that to be the case, your characters have to have some redeeming qualities, don’t they? They can’t just be the living embodiment of every early 2000s metal forum troll who typed “LiKe tHiS.” This is, of course, to say nothing of the acting. No one in this movie puts in anything that could even be remotely confused for a passable performance. I wasn’t expecting much from Andy Biersack or Ben Bruce. Rock musicians, by and large, can’t act worth a drat. They work fine in small cameos, but I certainly would never want one to carry a film. Malcom McDowell, who I believe is the most seasoned actor out of the cast here, just seems checked out and on auto pilot until the cash is in his hand. This goes for Mark Boone Junior as well.

If one thing is abundantly clear from viewing American Satan, it is that the Sumerian Records crew need to stay far, far away from the cinema. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities to be found in this film. This is not even in the realm of so bad it’s good, this is just bad.

Cameroon_TLPC posted:

We're still in pre-alpha testing stages, but much like Cyberpunk 2077, we've recently hit a major milestone! You can now play the game completely one-handed. We've also removed some of the more extraneous shortcuts, like hitting ALT+LSHIFT+F11 to bring up the main menu. Our engineers are nothing short of amazing!

Our lore team also sent out an update today:
https://twitter.com/PledgeTeam/status/1037525988647694336

Mirificus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGgqWWAZWL0

Mirificus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGgqWWAZWL0

Hav posted:

Fake edit: holy poo poo elon musk, just stop.

Cameroon_TLPC posted:

We don't stop. Ever.
https://twitter.com/PledgeTeam/status/1037533423458385920

Gravity_Storm posted:

A jpeg that fine has to be worth at least $650 cash monies

Ghostlight posted:

lmbo even when I take a break from the UK's second biggest shitshow to catch up with America's biggest I can't escape the ouroboros of shitposting
https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/1037548777677234177

Foo Diddley posted:

CIG's next magic buzzword that will fix the networking will be called... *pulls scraps of paper out of a hat* Predictive Data Stream Balancing