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Lemon-Lime posted:He's still in charge of the D&D franchise: Assuming that he didn't fail to put an end date on his LinkedIn, sure. My old boss is two jobs removed from when I worked for her, and she's still listed as the compliance officer of that job.
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In addition to the project manager shuffle, I've also see a fair share of worthless managers fill multiple seats and roles simultaneously specifically because they don't do anything. Sometimes people higher than them know it's just resume padding, other times they genuinely think that person is a dynamo who is specifically the reason anything gets done. So yeah it's really hard to read the tea leaves about Mearls and his positions. It really could range from WotC thinks he's a golden child that can do no wrong, to just parking him places because he has some marginal degree of utility and institutional knowledge and replacing it would cost more than paying him just for access to it and anything in between.
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My guess is that it's a combo of institutional inertia and Mearls not having done anything anyone at WotC or Hasbro actually find disagreeable while also having sufficient seniority to not be turfed out on a whim. Whatever the elfgame equivalent of tenure is, Mearls is sufficiently enough of an old boy to benefit from whatever old boy's network exists at WotC.
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Coolness Averted posted:Did IGG ever make its policies more backer friendly? I still only know them as "the place scummy creators went to after KS said 'you have to actually attempt to fufill your project, and can't just take the money and run,'" IGG specifically sprung up because they let projects keep all pledges even if the threshold to fully fund the project wasn't met. That's all they are in my mind, and I have to imagine there's some other consumers who have the same impression. Maybe since that was now almost a decade ago people have forgotten about it? I know this is an older post that was partially answered, but yeah Indiegogo has had the Kickstarter-style all or nothing funding threshold for a long time. It's just kind of dealt with the problem of always being in Kickstarter's shadow and that early funk of the "We'll take any money you give us and run!!" from its more notorious funding option. I wouldn't be surprised if Paypal antics also played a role in Indiegogo's bad rap. They used to use Paypal as a selling point because it's more widely accessible globally, but Paypal didn't like crowfunding schemas and I think now Indiegogo uses Stripe just like Kickstarter does. They also go for different audiences. Like the tabletop games on Kickstarter is something around 50% of the total funding on the platform. It makes smart sense to try to court some of that audience to move over to Indiegogo, especially the... well "indie" projects Kickstarter has been taking a lot of massive dumps on lately.
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Nuns with Guns posted:I know this is an older post that was partially answered, but yeah Indiegogo has had the Kickstarter-style all or nothing funding threshold for a long time. It's just kind of dealt with the problem of always being in Kickstarter's shadow and that early funk of the "We'll take any money you give us and run!!" from its more notorious funding option. I wouldn't be surprised if Paypal antics also played a role in Indiegogo's bad rap. They used to use Paypal as a selling point because it's more widely accessible globally, but Paypal didn't like crowfunding schemas and I think now Indiegogo uses Stripe just like Kickstarter does. Lately the big thing that's sort of soured Indiegogo's perception among some folks is that they were, and I think continue to be, the crowdfunding platform of choice for the comicsgate movement after Kickstarter dumped some comicsgate-affiliated project or another.
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Kai Tave posted:Lately the big thing that's sort of soured Indiegogo's perception among some folks is that they were, and I think continue to be, the crowdfunding platform of choice for the comicsgate movement after Kickstarter dumped some comicsgate-affiliated project or another. Is IGG more lax on things not being delivered than KS? If there's one thing ComicsGate things hate to do, it's deliver on what they promised, so I can see why they flocked there.
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Dawgstar posted:Is IGG more lax on things not being delivered than KS? If there's one thing ComicsGate things hate to do, it's deliver on what they promised, so I can see why they flocked there. I mean, I don't think any crowdfunding platform really gives a poo poo if creators fail to deliver or not. They all put the same boilerplate in their rules and conditions but realistically they have no reason to care, their end of the bargain is simply to act as a middleman, what happens after that is out of their hands.
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Kai Tave posted:I mean, I don't think any crowdfunding platform really gives a poo poo if creators fail to deliver or not. They all put the same boilerplate in their rules and conditions but realistically they have no reason to care, their end of the bargain is simply to act as a middleman, what happens after that is out of their hands. Going back about 7 years, but there was a bit of a row when KS stopped allowing people to fund literally impossible things -after that laser razor fiasco meanwhile IGG was allowing stuff like diving masks that let you breathe underwater. Oh an apparently even allowed the laser razor which at least as of 2021 still hadn't shipped. https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/13/9518163/laser-razor-kickstarter-banned-indiegogo So they still seem more skeezy than KS at a casual glance. I hope a bit of competition and people viewing IGG as a legit alternative to KS instead of just a haven for scammers and goblins that were exiled from KS makes both companies better.
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In related news, TopatoCo just opened their own crowdfunding platform aimed at artists. https://go.topatoco.com/blogs/news/topatogo-for-launch
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IGG's first impression was "that site where you go to get ripped off." Enough so that I'm still surprised whenever I hear anything legitimate happens there.
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Mors Rattus posted:In related news, TopatoCo just opened their own crowdfunding platform aimed at artists. Are those the ones that ripped Hussie off?
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Big Hubris posted:Are those the ones that ripped Hussie off? Nah, that was someone else.
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Did anyone ever actually cheat Hussie? I thought it was just a case of them mismanaging projects into bankruptcy then fans blaming whatever business partner was attached.
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Kai Tave posted:Lately the big thing that's sort of soured Indiegogo's perception among some folks is that they were, and I think continue to be, the crowdfunding platform of choice for the comicsgate movement after Kickstarter dumped some comicsgate-affiliated project or another. I don't remember which Comicsgate Kickstarter was kicked off the platform, but a lot of that also seems to be done at the discretion of the heads of the Comic division for Kickstarter itself. Lord knows we've seen a million sad attempts at alt-right tabletop games on Kickstarter, even if they almost all die on the vine. Also, in the category of news that is really more of a disappointing confirmation of what most everyone expected: https://twitter.com/joindicebreaker/status/1486700772154822662
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Well that's one way to evoke the grim hopelessness of Dark Souls.
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this could at the very least be a good route to implement some good fixes or variants to the system but they're going to go full  and pour all the resources into art and marketing and not design.
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At the.... very least they can't possibly run into thoughtless racism like lazily turning the Bard into the Black Ranger and the Monk into the Yellow Ranger like the bland reskinning the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers RPG has?
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Nuns with Guns posted:At the.... very least they can't possibly run into thoughtless racism like lazily turning the Bard into the Black Ranger and the Monk into the Yellow Ranger like the bland reskinning the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers RPG has?  They what?
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Kurieg posted:
I'm afraid so. My interest in Renegade's MMPR game has... woof. Tanked isn't even the right word.
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Kurieg posted:
There's an ongoing F&F that gets into it, but yup.
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As someone who hasn't seen Power Rangers in 20+ years, what am I missing? I thought they were all "monks."
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moths posted:As someone who hasn't seen Power Rangers in 20+ years, what am I missing? I thought they were all "monks." but you gotta have different classes if you're a 5e game, and you gotta make the yellow ranger the class that's got a long history of orientalism because you're either not thinking or don't care
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Nuns with Guns posted:At the.... very least they can't possibly run into thoughtless racism like lazily turning the Bard into the Black Ranger and the Monk into the Yellow Ranger like the bland reskinning the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers RPG has? It's kinda funny how everything Saban added to the sentai shows they licensed was garbage but they've been able to maneuver themselves to get a cut and credit for everything sentai related that gets a US release. Hell, they even bullied the devs of chroma squad into paying them for an official license/seal of approval despite the fact it's not a power rangers property at all.
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moths posted:As someone who hasn't seen Power Rangers in 20+ years, what am I missing? I thought they were all "monks." The Power Rangers are the American adaptions of a bunch of super sentai series. So as a premise, yes, it's usually about a bunch of teens and young adults punching kicking, shooting, or hitting things with various weapons, then normally capped off with a finisher move done against a monster using a large toyetic mecha. A Power Rangers tabletop RPG just recently came out and it's the most unadventerous port of 5th edition D&D rules you'd think you had fallen back in time to 2005 and were neck deep in the d20 shovelware bubble. The Power Ranger colors are the D&D classes: Black is Bard, Blue is Cleric, Green is Rogue, Pink is Ranger, Red is Fighter, Yellow is Monk, White is the Fighter Battlemaster subclass. A bunch of the abilities are just normal D&D magic that does not match up well with what Power Rangers do. The game is also using a lot of art and visuals from the original series, the Mighty Morphin Can you guess which of these actors played the Black Ranger and which one played the Yellow Ranger?   Coolness Averted posted:Look, by being racist and lazy, they're just being true to Saban's first Power Ranger series. Remember, this was the show where the black guy was the black ranger and asian girl was the yellow ranger, I think she was even into martial arts -but so were the red and green rangers. The black dude was sassy and could dance -in the urban way with a boombox and everything! It's funny but it's also on the same level of "You didn't even try to think this through." on top of it being the most unimpressive reskin possible. It also kind of picks at why they allocated the classes like this. Like the Red Ranger is usually the leader, shouldn't that one be the reskin of the a class with leader-y abilities and the party face? The "other" ranger who might be Green or White or whatever is usually a badass loner who can kick butt on their own or even match any given team member in a fight. Maybe that one should be the monk? In the original series the Red and Green/White guys were the big martial artist ones anyway, yeah. Why are any of them a monk class to begin with when they all do kung fu at baddies? Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Haim Saban is a great businessman and a terrible person, yes.
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Maybe I should have been reading the F&F, but I don't care about Power Rangers, but I do care about Transformers. Did I miss something? I thought they dropped 5E. https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news/power-rangers-rpg-essence20-system
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Nuns with Guns posted:A Power Rangers tabletop RPG just recently came out and it's the most unadventerous port of 5th edition D&D rules you'd think you had fallen back in time to 2005 and were neck deep in the d20 shovelware bubble. The Power Ranger colors are the D&D classes: Black is Bard, Blue is Cleric, Green is Rogue, Pink is Ranger, Red is Fighter, Yellow is Monk, White is the Fighter Battlemaster subclass. Also the ability to combine your weapons and zords is a fifth level Red Ranger ability, meaning you can't do it before 5th level, or at all if you don't have a red ranger.
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Nuns with Guns posted:
I can but it's really obvious because they're literally wearing colour coded shirts.
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This is probably the wrong topic, but how did East Asian stuff get associated with the color yellow in the first place?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This is probably the wrong topic, but how did East Asian stuff get associated with the color yellow in the first place? To some people, the complexions of East Asian people can be construed as 'yellow'.
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Hunter Noventa posted:To some people, the complexions of East Asian people can be construed as 'yellow'. Am I secretly color blind? Are they color blind? The only thing remotely yellow in is her shirt
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Nuns with Guns posted:I don't remember which Comicsgate Kickstarter was kicked off the platform, but a lot of that also seems to be done at the discretion of the heads of the Comic division for Kickstarter itself. Lord knows we've seen a million sad attempts at alt-right tabletop games on Kickstarter, even if they almost all die on the vine. This is actually a good fit except for the part where, in Dark Souls, simply coming at somebody with a sword involves making tactical decisions between different fighting moves and careful offense vs. defense resource management. Like, hit points, spell slots, hit-dice-as-Estus are all pretty easy translations, but you need to also make everyone a battlemaster fighter except you regenerate one or two of your dice every round and your maneuvers don't suck.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This is probably the wrong topic, but how did East Asian stuff get associated with the color yellow in the first place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_terminology_for_race quote:Categorization of racial groups by reference to skin color is common in classical antiquity.[7] For example, it is found in e.g. Physiognomica, a Greek treatise dated to c. 300 BC. quote:In the 1730s, Carl Linnaeus in his introduction of systematic taxonomy recognized four main human subspecies, termed Americanus (Americans), Europaeus (Europeans), Asiaticus (Asians) and Afer (Africans). The physical appearance of each type is briefly described, including colour adjectives referring to skin and hair colour: rufus "red" and pilis nigris "black hair" for Americans, albus "white" and pilis flavescentibus "yellowish hair" for Europeans, luridus "yellowish, sallow", pilis nigricantibus "swarthy hair" for Asians, and niger "black", pilis atris "coal-black hair" for Africans.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Am I secretly color blind? Are they color blind? The only thing remotely yellow in I mean it doesn't matter that it doesn't make sense. But that's what racists think/do.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This is probably the wrong topic, but how did East Asian stuff get associated with the color yellow in the first place? Europeans invented race and got really excited about its potential for justifying imperialism, slavery, and the like starting around the 16th century. Associating race with a color classification sorta related to skin color is an 18th century attempt to make the invention of race "scientific." It stuck.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This is probably the wrong topic, but how did East Asian stuff get associated with the color yellow in the first place? Racist bullshit aside, "yellow" was considered the main color in classical Chinese culture. (Sorta like how red is associated with Russia.) Maybe it's a holdover from that. Link
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Arivia posted:I can but it's really obvious because they're literally wearing colour coded shirts. It’s extremely obvious on a number of levels from the context of the convo up to that point and I wasn’t expecting anyone to be surprised or befuddled enough to not figure it out. CitizenKeen posted:Maybe I should have been reading the F&F, but I don't care about Power Rangers, but I do care about Transformers. Did I miss something? I thought they dropped 5E. The rules for this are about as far removed from this as d20 Modern is from 3e. Technically not 1 to 1, but you can see what pages they were cheating off of.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The rules for this are about as far removed from this as d20 Modern is from 3e. Technically not 1 to 1, but you can see what pages they were cheating off of. Ah, thanks. What color is "not surprised"?
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CitizenKeen posted:Ah, thanks. What color is "not surprised"? The Girl is Pink.
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