Alien Rope Burn posted:

This is a really bad place to be having this discussion, as others have pointed out. Everything is obviously still really raw and nothing is going to be resolved here. This is not where or how you're going to explain her actions, presuming that's what you're going for.

It's probably best to chill for awhile, wait until your friend gets home, and work out what the proper next step in dealing with this is.

Subjunctive posted:

This is going to save me a lot of money.

https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172257828473573377

Kai Tave posted:

This is extremely lovely for a variety of reasons which have been gone over in detail elsewhere. Firing people for trying to start a union is highly illegal but the legal enforcement surrounding this in the US are pretty toothless, Kickstarter knows they're doing wrong which is why the absolute pittance of a severance comes only if the fired employees sign NDAs, and on top of all this it puts a lot of creators in a bind because while other crowdfunding platforms exist none of them really have the cachet that Kickstarter does which means that anybody taking a principled stand is likely going to wind up unable to raise the funding they would otherwise be able to.

occamsnailfile posted:

Yeah the fact that creators will likely suffer for this is awful but Kickstarter absolutely can't be allowed to use them as a shield. They have some small pull with the company as well, since they are Kickstarter's product.

Golden Bee posted:

Hopefully people will rally around this. Patreon had a very clear answer “we are ripping you off!” Scandal last year, hopefully the besides the scenes nature kick starter and the union aspect won’t make people turn away.
Imagine the drama to amp up considerably if critical role steps in.

Nuns with Guns posted:

The thing is, the lesson Patron took away from that is they need to be more gradual about phasing in the ripoff stuff. They basically enacted it anyway but they let all accounts created before a certain cutoff date have the grandfathered pay rates. (And it's clear that they'll find ways to incentivize people to switch to the shittier rates over time, or maybe flat out roll everyone onto it when they think they can get away with it down the road.)

Critical Role has a very successful kickstarter for an animated special (#6 highest in funding right now, I believe?) but I don't see Kickstarter as a company caring if they come out as pro-union unless they plan on doing something else substantial like paying for some good employment lawyers for the three ex-employees or something.

Warthur posted:

Age of Uranus.

Sniggering about the name aside - the project owners are Italian and so probably didn't spot that - this (cancelled) project's pretty astonishing in terms of how the creators have convinced themselves that they're doing something stunningly artistically groundbreaking when they're pretty much just following the White Wolf playbook every step of the way.

Sage Genesis posted:

I can't find a single mention of it on RPG.net. Say what you want about Big Purple, but thousands of people visit it. You'd think they'd at least post a little announcement of their KS in the ads section. Like, do you want people to not hear about your project?

Warthur posted:

To be fair, if they're Italian-based they don't necessarily know where the major centres of English-language tabletop RPG discussion are... but on the other hand, you'd think that if you were going to do a bilingual game launch you'd investigate the market for the language you were going to translate the game into, at least to the extent of the five minutes of Googling it'd take to realise you should be promoting your RPG Kickstarter on RPG.net.

Sage Genesis posted:

Getting 14% in one week isn't even all that bad, considering it's a new studio which hadn't done any KS before. Maybe they realized that they were in over their heads or something.

Warthur posted:

To be fair, if they're Italian-based they don't necessarily know where the major centres of English-language tabletop RPG discussion are... but on the other hand, you'd think that if you were going to do a bilingual game launch you'd investigate the market for the language you were going to translate the game into, at least to the extent of the five minutes of Googling it'd take to realise you should be promoting your RPG Kickstarter on RPG.net.

demota posted:

I'm an editor on Kamigakari. I'm not sure how much I can say right now, but the statements made in the update Noelle posted are missing a lot of context, and that the conclusions drawn are inaccurate, and I expect the project to be fulfilled. Amy's been in the hospital.

slap me and kiss me posted:

Rpg.net is terrible for drive-by promoting - the subforum for ads and promo gets basically zero traffic, and posting about your *next big thing in rpgs* in a subforum that gets views and dialog is verboten. Unless you've taken the time to build an authentic presence as a member of the community, you're just pissing into the wind (which is true of most communities).

Warthur posted:

OTOH, that's an argument for making an effort to build an authentic community presence before you launch your big project, rather than tossing it out there and everyone turns around and goes "Who the gently caress are these people again?"

clockworkjoe posted:

https://twitter.com/ksr_united/status/1172511951282483200

https://twitter.com/ksr_united/status/1172521087923621888

slap me and kiss me posted:

Yeah, absolutely it is. Zero arguments from me on that count.

mllaneza posted:

Doing open playtesting by PBP on RPG forums would probably be very good publicity. People would get to see the rules in action, and you'd have proof that you really had playtested things.

LatwPIAT posted:

Erika has made more art and rules for Flying Circus: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/310174564/flying-circus-a-roleplaying-game-of-high-flying-ad/posts/2623603

LatwPIAT posted:

Erika has made more art and rules for Flying Circus: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/310174564/flying-circus-a-roleplaying-game-of-high-flying-ad/posts/2623603

FirstAidKite posted:

Captain Invictus posted:

yanno

I had actually...started to forget about all that MLP stuff. just for a little bit. I hadn't been constantly reminded of the existence of my little pony and/or bronies for a while now.

but it never dies, it just slinks back to the shadows, ready to leap out again when you least expect it

quote:

Pride

The greatest and most dangerous ingredient of disaster for a great nation.



This was the Roan Empires history.

A history of great strength and chivalry, one of pride and foolishness.

These ponies had not the wings of feather or leather.

They did not have the horn to harness magic.

Nor the wisdom and knowledge to know thyself better.

They were full of national pride, a dangerous pride that they wore as a badge of honor, and as a shield.

Yet shields wear away and shatter when not cared for, and a nationalistic pride, is certainly more harm then good.

The wheel of time would turn slowly for the Roans, allowing them to relish in their glory, but like all things, one good turn, deserves another, and a painful turn it was.

The Roans had finally overstepped their boundaries, their pride leading them to believe they had a right to more of the fertile land around them, including that of the Canidians, a generally peaceful land of mutts who enjoy cartography and exploration.

The brunt of the Roan cavalry quickly charged across a well know land bridge called the Wolfs Fang due to its shape, a glorious charge it was, their colors sailing high in the sky, a serenade of cannon fire pushing them on wards towards the Canidian front.



The Roan elite, so focused on their superior speed, would find themselves overwhelmed by a new addition to the Canidian armament. The simple creation of firearms, rifles, ballistics that can easily outdistance any Roan, no matter how fast they were.

The battle of Wolfs Fang was devastating, the Roan charge utterly decimated by the ordered firearms of the Canidians.



Roan, left without its fighting elite, would quickly find their territories threatened on all fronts by a joint force of Canidians and Gryphons. If not for their pride, Roan would have found help in the form of their old allies, but pride is a painful trait that turns even the best friends into enemies.

The future of Roan would be a grim one, filled with sorrow, as they worked away, indentured to the many countries they once looked down upon, and yet they would learn a great lesson in humility, and the curse that is pride.

The Roan Empire were given granted the worst Treaty in their time, with a debt so large that it not only broke their economy, but it brought most of the entire pony kingdom into indentured servitude or worse, slavery.

As they were only road ponies, so called because of the vast network of roads they helped establish, they were put into menial labor such as farming, mining, and of course low end conscripted soldiers.

For well over a hundred years this would progress, while the world around them advanced, leaving the poor roadies behind to suffer the vagaries of life and labor.

Elsewhere in the world, the dragons were finding themselves in anarchy, their own young rebelling back at them and demanding what they believed should be rightfully given to them, the right to the Aether streams.



The elders found themselves duking it out with the younger generation in intense aether staring contests. To any outside observer, it would see am rather primitive and silly, two drakes glaring at each other, because they would never see the intense amount of magic that is passing between the two.

The loser would find themselves completely obliterated in most cases, and though the elders had the strength, the youths had the numbers.

Soon enough this would lead to the cataclysmic Aether Wars.

More Roan History will be released, detailing the world, its ponies, and of course the other species that inhabit it.