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jesus christ if he really cares so much about making a setting rather than a story just contract with paizo for a bunch of erfworld splats for gently caress's sake.
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# ? May 24, 2019 21:35 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 19:27 |
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*Kickstarter stretch goal for givin me money* "I'll never ask for money like this again" *Pleasepleasepleaseohgodgivemethemoney* "Not that I'd ever go back on my word and do this exactly the same way again"
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# ? May 24, 2019 23:47 |
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He's literally selling...access to a 3D model on his web interface? Not like, to download and use or anything, just to look at on his proprietary viewer. This is fully grim.
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# ? May 28, 2019 09:42 |
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If the crypto thing was Rob getting his fans to make their own Kool-Aid, this is him getting them to buy the empty packets and sugar bags. Edit: Calling it now, the Venn diagram of ErfWorld supporters and Star Citizen supporters is a circle. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 10:02 on May 28, 2019 |
# ? May 28, 2019 09:47 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Calling it now, the Venn diagram of ErfWorld supporters and Star Citizen supporters is a circle. A 3D model is something more than a jpeg, at least.
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# ? May 28, 2019 10:41 |
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Android Blues posted:He's literally selling...access to a 3D model on his web interface? Not like, to download and use or anything, just to look at on his proprietary viewer. There's something magical about a webcomic developing a proprietary 3D model format so it can have a proprietary 3D model viewer so it can make its fans pay for something so as to finance the author's course in learning how to make 3D models. It's like the Rube-Goldberg of internet scams by way of webcomics.
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# ? May 28, 2019 11:20 |
The whipped cream and cherry on top of the whole poo poo sundae is that Erfworld got its initial boost from, and is still linked on the main page of, a comic made using stick figures because it’s author wasn’t an artist but wanted to make a comic anyway. Say what you will about OOtS, through all its trials and tribulations it never resorted to this.
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# ? May 28, 2019 12:13 |
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# ? May 28, 2019 16:38 |
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I was about to say "Jesus Christ, that was five years ago now", but it wasn't. It was seven. I feel old.
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# ? May 28, 2019 17:00 |
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Rob Balder posted:For the record, I have now wasted yet another hour when I could have been writing Erfworld. Someone should get on Twitter and reply that to every post of his that isn't a comic.
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# ? May 28, 2019 17:21 |
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Apparently the Erfworld subreddit just got locked. Presumably because, at this point, the only reason anyone was posting there was to try to point out what a bad idea all of this is.
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# ? May 29, 2019 02:15 |
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Apparently the Erfworld subreddit just got locked. Presumably because, at this point, the only reason anyone was posting there was to try to point out what a bad idea all of this is.
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# ? May 29, 2019 03:30 |
Otherkinsey Scale posted:Apparently the Erfworld subreddit just got locked. Presumably because, at this point, the only reason anyone was posting there was to try to point out what a bad idea all of this is. That's saddening. I actually liked that subreddit a lot.
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# ? May 29, 2019 04:12 |
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Apparently the Erfworld subreddit just got locked. Presumably because, at this point, the only reason anyone was posting there was to try to point out what a bad idea all of this is. Well. Did anyone save the good ones?
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# ? May 29, 2019 17:53 |
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mycot posted:Well. Did anyone save the good ones? Jason Baumgartner's Pushshift archive project caught some interesting stuff. See: https://api.pushshift.io/reddit/search/submission/?subreddit=Erfworld&size=500 for the most recent posts, or tinker with the search parameters to find whatever you had in mind specifically. I'll share this one though: Rob Balder on Reddit posted:
The dude sounds unhinged. Literally nuts at this point.
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# ? May 30, 2019 05:56 |
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quote:We're saved by Erfworld's readers, in every possible sense of the word. This is the greatest audience a webcomic has ever assembled. We're blessed and blessed, and blessed, thousands of times over with a sea of kind, generous, thoughtful, extraordinary people who make it worth carrying on. The stakes are obviously much lower, but he seriously sounds like a cult leader raging about how anyone who dissents is spoiling the love-in and trying to destroy The Special Thing We've Built Together.
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# ? May 30, 2019 10:31 |
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Rob Balder posted:For the record, I have now wasted yet another hour when I could have been writing Erfworld
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# ? May 30, 2019 11:26 |
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lol if true: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?566027-Erfworld-Thread-XI-Finally-it-s-HAMMER-TIME!/page26 quote:Heard a rumor from a friend who knows someone close to Rob. Not sure I believe it but it's interesting.
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# ? May 30, 2019 16:20 |
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...if that's true it's a whole new level of grift revealed.
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# ? May 30, 2019 16:49 |
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I'd believe it.
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# ? May 30, 2019 18:00 |
Cat Mattress posted:lol if true: If any artist I'd assume it was the art company after Xin took a hiatus. They left sort of oddly if I recall correctly. The guy who did the ABC book.
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# ? May 30, 2019 18:03 |
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You mean David Hanh? http://erfworld.com/blog/view/47103/david-is-leaving-erfworld It does sound like they parted very abruptly.
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# ? May 30, 2019 18:51 |
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I'm just... boggling at the idea that Rob might be trying to pass off him screwing over an artist and being forced to pay as somehow the equivalent of someone getting cancer. I mean, if someone told me Rob evaluated all things on the basis of 'does this get me any closer to Erfworld becoming an enduring nerd brand' rather than morality, I wouldn't be hugely shocked? But you'd think 'my wife has cancer' would be a bigger, more morally clear deal to him than 'I ripped off an artist and they managed to sue me for the money.' ...if this is in fact Bad Thing #2, then Erfworld has completed its evolution into r/legaladvice the
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# ? May 30, 2019 19:45 |
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Cat Mattress posted:lol if true: A rumor from a friend who knows one of Rob's friends? I wonder if this rumored friend's friend's uncle works at Nintendo. On the other hand, that Reddit post up there has Rob saying that he still hasn't given out the 3D shovels even though that Kickstarter ended two weeks ago, despite the fact that he said in the Kickstarter that the models were "ready to go" and "fulfillable in minutes".
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# ? May 30, 2019 19:55 |
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For what it's worth, a lot of this reads to me less as intentional scamming and more like someone who has been coming up short and kept kicking that can down the road thinking he really could come out of it and make it all add up in the end.
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# ? May 30, 2019 20:18 |
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Joe Slowboat posted:if this is in fact Bad Thing #2, then Erfworld has completed its evolution into r/legaladvice the Bruceski posted:For what it's worth, a lot of this reads to me less as intentional scamming and more like someone who has been coming up short and kept kicking that can down the road thinking he really could come out of it and make it all add up in the end.
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# ? May 30, 2019 20:24 |
John_A_Tallon posted:You mean David Hanh? Rob Balder posted:David was always the lead illustrator, backstopped by Periscope Studio. In actual fact, we never used Periscope Studio or paid anyone to draw Book 3 other than him. They are based in Seattle. At the start of this year, David moved halfway across the country. While in theory, Periscope Studio was there to back him up on inks or colors in a pinch, nobody other than David was ever trained to draw Erfworld (pencils). Going through the old update, that part could be the problem. Either Periscope or David suing, depending on the contract. And cutting David off 15-20 updates early without following the termination protocol in the contract... That's where I'd put my money at if the Nintendo Uncle source is right!
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# ? May 31, 2019 02:30 |
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holy poo poo rob is such a loving pissant. I have never ever seen someone destroy so much goodwill so fast and thoroughly
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# ? May 31, 2019 02:49 |
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He has been noticeably one for a long time. Pages would be delayed like crazy while he's raving about getting drunk at cons. I was actually following when they abruptly dropped that artist and I swear it's like literally in the middle of one of the book climaxes or something. I don't feel like checking back because it's kinda straight depressing when you realize it stopped being a webcomic years before you realized it.
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# ? Jun 3, 2019 04:20 |
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So, I was curious about the whole kickstarter thing, and...
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# ? Jun 19, 2019 17:11 |
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Hey anybody who feels down in the dumps about life just think you probably haven't burned eighty thousand dollars worth of goodwill in your life yet.
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# ? Jun 20, 2019 02:10 |
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reignofevil posted:Hey anybody who feels down in the dumps about life just think you probably haven't burned eighty thousand dollars worth of goodwill in your life yet. *looks at college years*...
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# ? Jun 20, 2019 03:30 |
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PMush Perfect posted:So, I was curious about the whole kickstarter thing, and... I'm surprised this wasn't flexible funding. Come to think of it, what's the point of having whole individual campaigns for each cgi tool instead of just selling them all the time?
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# ? Jun 20, 2019 06:21 |
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mycot posted:I'm surprised this wasn't flexible funding. Come to think of it, what's the point of having whole individual campaigns for each cgi tool instead of just selling them all the time? By having it as a kickstarter the reward is in the more nebulous future and stuff can go wrong. Just selling them requires you to have a decent thing to sell right now.
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# ? Jun 20, 2019 09:24 |
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reignofevil posted:
I don't recall there being a soundtrack album. Was it ever finished? The only thing about it I can find is on the Kickstarter page.
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# ? Jun 20, 2019 19:57 |
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DeadBonesBrook posted:I don't recall there being a soundtrack album. Was it ever finished? The only thing about it I can find is on the Kickstarter page. We've gotten to the point that there are kickstarters that I wasn't even aware of. I think that officially drops me off the 'fan' roster.
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 06:33 |
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Updating again. Also there's a new reddit at r/ErfworldAscending, if that's your sort of thing.
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# ? Jun 30, 2019 12:57 |
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Welcome to the new Erfworld
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 20:09 |
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jesus christ
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 20:56 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 19:27 |
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Honestly that Maggie(?) model is... well, I don't mind it. It's the background that gets me. Are those plants clipping through the ground? Edit: poo poo I didn't even notice the sword, that's terrible.
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# ? Jul 3, 2019 22:01 |