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I mean, it says "We are not [yet] calling on creators to cancel projects" which is pretty meaningfully different from the "we are calling on creators NOT to cancel projects [yet]" that some people seem to be reading it as?
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Hey here's something else that happened. Lone Wolf Development, the company that appears to make Hero Lab and Army Builder, just had a round of layoffs. That in and of itself would be industry-worthy news except they also managed to screw some folks over who'd taken offered jobs with Lone Wolf and relocated as shortly as three months ago. https://twitter.com/Owen_Stephens/status/1178107459220754433 I don't know this guy or his work really, but apparently he left a position at Paizo to take on a position there along with his wife and they've both been laid off, no severance, nothing. You can read Lone Wolf's statement in the link in the twitter but it sounds, at a casual glance, like they should already have known that layoffs and project cancellations/reassignments were happening but went ahead and hired more people anyway only to then turn around and lay them off because ??????????????????????????????
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Realm Works has been sunk cost fallacy territory for literally years. I'm not surprised they're shutting it down. The three months thing is pure rear end in a top hat move, though. Somebody would have to really gently caress up the budget for that to even be vaguely necessary. Edit: Reading between the lines, "leveraging investment financing" that somehow ran out immediately after hiring people sounds an awful lot like somebody taking big loans they shouldn't have and assuming Hero Lab Online revenue would magically jump by enough to cover the payments. Kai Tave posted:I don't know this guy or his work really Roadie fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Reading the Lone Wolf post, their big announcements are support for the rapidly sinking Shadowrun 6e ship and a local competitor for virtual tabletop marketshare... that appears to lack the biggest features that make virtual tabletops desirable.
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Liquid Communism posted:Reading the Lone Wolf post, their big announcements are support for the rapidly sinking Shadowrun 6e ship and a local competitor for virtual tabletop marketshare... that appears to lack the biggest features that make virtual tabletops desirable. The "Campaign Theater" thing goes past what all VTT stuff I know of does by allowing for calculation of buffs, polymorph effects, etc, since it's the character engine hooked together with live updates across accounts. Of course, that still has the fundamental problems of it requiring an account for each user, the HL fanatic audience being long since trained to expect being able to use a single book license purchase for a whole group, and them still not having any bulk purchases for a whole gaming group at once. The promised integration with VTTs would fix the "entire group must have it" problem by allowing individual players or GMs to plug in their character sheets to VTT stat displays, but it took them literally years just to get the Content Market stuff working in Realm Works, so I find myself skeptical it will show up anytime soon. What they should have done was had some kind of basic, per-user integration in that regard as a high priority from the start of the service, so they could have come out the gate with an obvious upside for the always-online stuff, instead of it being treated as a side subject to the entirely-within-HLO group stuff.
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Roll20 scripting can do a lot of that now, and what it can't do paper never stopped working for. Theres nothing in the described feature set that is a selling point over free products, at least to me.
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Liquid Communism posted:Reading the Lone Wolf post, their big announcements are support for the rapidly sinking Shadowrun 6e ship and a local competitor for virtual tabletop marketshare... that appears to lack the biggest features that make virtual tabletops desirable.
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Warthur posted:I find it amusing that when you go to Catalyst's front page you get a big Shadowrun 6E advert with the tagline "Risk It All". You sure did, Catalyst, you sure did. If you click around shadowruntabletop.com is shows SR20A as the current version. Has for over a decade.
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Liquid Communism posted:If you click around shadowruntabletop.com is shows SR20A as the current version. Has for over a decade. where is the lie
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/30/games-workshop-and-marvel-comics-team-upgw-homepage-post-1/ Current GW continuing to make old GW look really stupid.
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PST posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/30/games-workshop-and-marvel-comics-team-upgw-homepage-post-1/ Games Workshop is getting comics published through a Disney subsidiary? That's going to make -gaters lose their minds
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Everything makes those dipshits lose their minds. They threatened to kill the children of the guy who wrote the childrens books.
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Finally the Buzz Lightyear: Space Marine crossover will be canon
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Slaanesh is one step closer to being a Disney Princess.
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Warthur posted:Slaanesh is one step closer to being a Disney Princess. Disney is already the manifestation of Slaanesh in our timeline.
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Can't wait for the MCU crossover where Tony's alcoholism makes him fall to Slaanesh and the Hulk is mistaken for an Ork.
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The Hulk would make a pretty good warboss...
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and then he turns into the biggest grot you've ever seeen
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Liquid Communism posted:The Hulk would make a pretty good warboss...
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Last I read it the current Hulk comic is leaning hard into Hulk Body Horror, Also Cthulkhu Exists I think Hulk may be a lot more Necron is what I'm saying, complete with over-reliance on crazy green energy effects
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Darwinism posted:Last I read it the current Hulk comic is leaning hard into Hulk Body Horror, Also Cthulkhu Exists In the Absolute Carnage series Bruce is now infected by the Carnage symbiote so yeah... Carhulkage is a thing too. Would be a fun Chaos demon model.
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quote:Discovering that #CriticalRole, a beacon of love and equality, had entered into a sponsorship with this slimy corporation to help push their ludicrous advertising campaign, absolutely horrified me.
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moths posted:Where the gently caress was this sentiment when they were cozied up to Mearls' own 5e? I mean, no ethical consumption, etc. Mearls is bad and I wouldn’t blame anyone for cutting ties with 5e, but I also don’t think these are identically poor stances. “Wendy’s is worse than Mearls” doesn’t seem like a ludicrous position to me.
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Critical Role has built up more than enough goodwill with me that I'm not going to cancel them for one advertising campaign for a lovely company, but I'm certainly disappointed and if they make a habit of it, I'll reassess. That assumes I ever catch up, though, I'm months behind.
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I mean, I've only ever known Critical Role as the advertising arm of 5E. v v
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Ultiville posted:I mean, no ethical consumption, etc. Mearls is bad and I wouldn’t blame anyone for cutting ties with 5e, but I also don’t think these are identically poor stances. “Wendy’s is worse than Mearls” doesn’t seem like a ludicrous position to me. Agreed, but calling Critical Role a beacon of love and equality as they're pocketing 5e money to promote 5e comes across as ill-informed at best.
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The only people calling Critical Role a beacon of love and equality are those who are ignorant of or willfully ignoring the criticism and harm they've done to the industry. I mean, just Matt Mercer alone. Oof.
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I don't know, it seems like Critical Roll is one of the best things that has every happened to the industry. Roleplaying seems way more mainstream than ever, and they are apparently one of the big things that made it happen. It might be pushing d&d, but at least it gets people in the hobby.
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moths posted:Where the gently caress was this sentiment when they were cozied up to Mearls' own 5e? Deflected largely by decrying what was perceived as bullying by fans. A lot of Satine Phoenix in there. A lot of "Ugh, just because we make a product you consume doesn't mean you get to tell us who we should and shouldn't be doing business with." And of course, they are big enough to have a stan army, so.
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Zurui posted:The only people calling Critical Role a beacon of love and equality are those who are ignorant of or willfully ignoring the criticism and harm they've done to the industry. What did Matt Mercer do? (Honest question ; I don't know him from Adam.)
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Huh, I didn't know about how terrible Wendy's was as a company.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:I don't know, it seems like Critical Roll is one of the best things that has every happened to the industry. Roleplaying seems way more mainstream than ever, and they are apparently one of the big things that made it happen. It gets some people into the hobby of 5th Edition DnD specifically. It's another Brand that people can rally behind and shutdown discussion of the bad parts because they like it. It's absolutely 100% a positive for 5e. I'm not convinced it's a positive for the industry.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:It gets some people into the hobby of 5th Edition DnD specifically. It's another Brand that people can rally behind and shutdown discussion of the bad parts because they like it. By contrast, The Adventure Zone actually is good for the industry. It started with the popular game, realized it wasn't working for them then moved onto something else that worked much better
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Admiral Joeslop posted:It gets some people into the hobby of 5th Edition DnD specifically. It's another Brand that people can rally behind and shutdown discussion of the bad parts because they like it. Exactly this. They do nothing to bring people into the larger world of tabletop gaming and the "community" is roughly as toxic and obnoxious as Rick & Morty's. The fans are absolutely rabid and will show up in droves to attack anyone who says anything even mildly unflattering about the show or D&D. Plus, Matt Mercer is every smarmy, smug, overbearing DM you've ever had rolled into one with the added bonus of being a minor celebrity so his ego is disastrously inflated.
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Zurui posted:Exactly this. They do nothing to bring people into the larger world of tabletop gaming Apart from the times they run non-D&D games, and promote other companies and products on their social media accounts. Could they do more, yes, should they do more, yes, but they still get a huge amount of people into gaming. That their first route is into D&D is because of D&D being the largest part of the hobby, and the game they play. My local store has absolutely seen more people in because of critical role, who start out with adventurer's league and many of which have gone on to other games. I do hope they start more non-D&D streams/games even as short-term things, their cthulhu one-shot broke Chaosium's website and led to them struggling to keep up with the demand. But it's not that they do nothing. PST fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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Didn't their recent Call of Cthulhu stream cause the company to co completely sell out of the book? And everything I've seen of Matt Mercer tells me that he's as far away from having an overinflated ego as you can get.
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