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Captain Invictus posted:Grandpa, what were the central days of the internet like?
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I'll take hiding goatse in things over cryptonazis, frankly.
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FirstAidKite posted:Can you explain to me what about that isn't able to be scaled out? I'm not asking because I don't believe you or anything, I believe you, I just know nothing about actual beekeeping and beekeeper hives short of what you'd see on a How It's Made type video so idk anything about the logistics involved with beekeeping. It's way too expensive first of all. Just one honey super (the box beekeepers take honey from) is over $400. Beehives will often have between 2 and 6 supers on them EACH. Most people maintain an apiary of a minimum of 2 hives and it isn't uncommon to have a dozen or more. Thats thousands of dollars for the flow hive, even if it did actually reduce work. To put that in perspective a full hive, with 2 brood boxes, 2 supers, the top and inner cover, bottom board, and a bunch of other stuff is around $200 or less on its own, and a wooden super and frames is more like $30-$60 each for a traditional one depending on some aesthetic and material choices you make. The other main problem is it's not actually helping or fixing anything. The whole selling point is that harvesting honey is now easy and you don't have to disturb the bees to get it. The truth of the matter, though, is that you still have to go in the hives all the time for health checks, to move frames around, to move supers around, to find the queen, etc. You also need to make sure the queen isn't laying in the supers or you'll end up with hundreds to thousands of bee pupae in your honey. Also, with this equipment, if you take honey without checking first you could end up taking all of their honey and just forcing your bees to starve. It's lazy beekeeping at its worse. FirstAidKite posted:Also, just picturing that this face is your face while you're looking at the kickstarter lol lol
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TG kickstarter thread 3: Shut up and take my honey
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Dec 13, 2018 09:08
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This is maybe only Kickstarter-adjacent but Erika Chappell's twitter (of Flying Circus) just went protected which is a bit disappointing because I periodically browse it to see the in-progress art and rules updates which come quicker than they do on the Kickstarter page itself. Did something lovely happen?
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Dec 13, 2018 11:22
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Kai Tave posted:This is maybe only Kickstarter-adjacent but Erika Chappell's twitter (of Flying Circus) just went protected which is a bit disappointing because I periodically browse it to see the in-progress art and rules updates which come quicker than they do on the Kickstarter page itself. Did something lovely happen? One of the replies is 'sorry about assholes' so probably, although obviously I can also only get one side of the conversation as well.
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Dec 13, 2018 14:57
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No clue what happened specifically, but Erika has been recovering from a nasty concussion recently. Hopefully everything smooths out for her.
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Dec 13, 2018 15:12
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Ok, so I know "stretch goals" in big money kickstarters are largely bogus and are mainly just rolled out to keep a campaign's buzz/momentum going, but when they part out content like this: Would they actually send out half a character, or a third of a campaign, or some other form of incomplete content if they miscalculate and that's where the funding ends up?
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Dec 13, 2018 23:41
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The Moon Monster posted:Ok, so I know "stretch goals" in big money kickstarters are largely bogus and are mainly just rolled out to keep a campaign's buzz/momentum going, but when they part out content like this: Perhaps the "upgrade" simply refers to the quality of the materials used to make the cards?
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Dec 13, 2018 23:59
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If they miscalculated a campaign that badly they would just cancel and restart it later.
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Dec 14, 2018 00:24
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nesbit37 posted:If they miscalculated a campaign that badly they would just cancel and restart it later. To be clear, those stretch goals are for an expansion. Still, I don't know how you would release an expansion with some of the characters only half finished. Awaken Realms has had a lot of trouble with Kickstarter in the past, so I'm not touching this project.
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The Moon Monster posted:Ok, so I know "stretch goals" in big money kickstarters are largely bogus and are mainly just rolled out to keep a campaign's buzz/momentum going, but when they part out content like this: Yeah, I've been kinda wondering that myself, but considering the momentum on that thing I don't think there's any chance of that being where the funding ends up.
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malkav11 posted:Yeah, I've been kinda wondering that myself, but considering the momentum on that thing I don't think there's any chance of that being where the funding ends up. Having been part of their last few kickstarters, they usually try to tailor it as they seem funding get close to the end, so that people get as much out of their money as possible.
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Dec 14, 2018 05:00
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Oh yeah, I think they generally look at the funding trends and plan things such that that doesn't happen. But if they screwed up would they just say "Welp, here's one quarter of a campaign for you to gaze at wistfully and ponder what might have been."
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Dec 14, 2018 13:06
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The Moon Monster posted:Oh yeah, I think they generally look at the funding trends and plan things such that that doesn't happen. But if they screwed up would they just say "Welp, here's one quarter of a campaign for you to gaze at wistfully and ponder what might have been."
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Dec 14, 2018 13:55
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Probably in this case they'd wait until like an hour before the KS ends and then cancel it, and make up some spurious reason for doing so. Then re-launch it later with 'adjusted goals' and the like.
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Zark the Damned posted:Probably in this case they'd wait until like an hour before the KS ends and then cancel it, and make up some spurious reason for doing so. Then re-launch it later with 'adjusted goals' and the like. You really think so? I feel like they'd be guaranteed to make less money on the relaunch if they pulled something like that. The options JazzFlight mentioned sound more likely to me.
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Dec 14, 2018 17:59
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They'll just up the price slightly on the reprint Kickstarter.
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Dec 14, 2018 18:39
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Silent Titans really slammed into their maximum pledge level limit fast. They were wise to limit it. I can’t imagine trying to fulfill twice the expected number of orders.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:56
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Kai Tave posted:This is maybe only Kickstarter-adjacent but Erika Chappell's twitter (of Flying Circus) just went protected which is a bit disappointing because I periodically browse it to see the in-progress art and rules updates which come quicker than they do on the Kickstarter page itself. Did something lovely happen? Erika's back to retweeting old anime and posting about game design now. Please be nice to her!
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LatwPIAT posted:Erika's back to retweeting old anime and posting about game design now. Sweet, thanks. Posting actual laid out pages as previews now which is pretty rad.
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Anyone got thoughts on the Tainted Grail KS? I've got a friend who wants to go halvsies on it, but I haven't really done the whole Big Money Kickstarter thing before. Any big warning signs on this one? No secret fascism hiding under the surface there that I didn't notice? Go RV! fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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Go RV! posted:Anyone got thoughts on the Tainted Grail KS? I've got a friend who wants to go halvsies on it, but I haven't really done the whole Big Money Kickstarter thing before. The English rulebooks for the publisher's prior games have sucked very badly, does not bear well for a story based game. I'd stay far away.
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Obviously they're not native English speakers but their FAQ says "We’re taking extra care writing and editing this game, and we use dedicated native proofreaders. The prototype was shown to many respected industry professionals and reviewers, and they thought the writing was excellent. But don’t take our word on it - you're welcome to review provided work-in-progress samples of the Rulebook and Exploration Journal yourself!" YMMV, but I certainly didn't notice any glaring issues in the sample rulebook.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/they-came-from-beneath-the-sea-a-tabletop-roleplay A 1950s B movie RPG put out by Onyx Path, using its system. Sounds interesting.
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Storypath is what the new Scion uses, right?
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Evil Mastermind posted:Storypath is what the new Scion uses, right? Yes.
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Torg Eternity: Nile Empire has about five hours left, with a bunch of digital stretch goals and previous books/box sets available as add-ons.
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Just thirty minutes left for the Nibiru RPG kickstarter  if you like hard sci-fi and themes of memory and identity... this is the game for you!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1459616119/nibiru-a-science-fiction-rpg-of-lost-memories
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Crud, I missed it, hopefully they do a BackerKit or something.
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Can someone explain to me what “The Fantasy Trip” is?
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DalaranJ posted:Can someone explain to me what “The Fantasy Trip” is? A very good design (GURPS is in a lot of ways an evolution of the system). I'm probably not backing the KS because...I still have all my books.
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The Moon Monster posted:Ok, so I know "stretch goals" in big money kickstarters are largely bogus and are mainly just rolled out to keep a campaign's buzz/momentum going, but when they part out content like this: They’re making so much money on that they’ll just release the complete thing I’m sure. They did that with Nemesis where the stretch goals got them a 20 page bonus campaign but they ended up providing an 80 page one anyway. Speaking of that I got Nemesis yesterday and it’s really well produced with quality components and the component trays are engineered to fit everything in the core set neatly after you punch out the counters. They also provided a bunch of free swag. The rule book has a few super minor issues that, quite honestly, a native speaker probably would have made too. The system seems pretty simple enough although brutal. I look forward to giving it a shot. As I said when I backed it, if nothing else I’ll adapt Task Force Games Intruder rules and have a gorgeous version of that. The minis are really, very nicely designed and produced, although they did have a mould issue with the Soldier and some have a bad sculpt (and mine is affected) but they sent out a proactive email about it and will be replacing them. Really, I’m very happy I backed this. I think Awakened Realms has handled it quite well.
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Doctor Zero posted:Speaking of that I got Nemesis yesterday and it’s really well produced with quality components and the component trays are engineered to fit everything in the core set neatly after you punch out the counters. They also provided a bunch of free swag. The rule book has a few super minor issues that, quite honestly, a native speaker probably would have made too. Nemesis is the only KS that I've regretted not backing. The somewhat sexist outfits of the female characters combined with their defense, "some women like to dress sexy...." pushed me away, but hearing how well they pulled off the Alien(s) experience has me hoping for a KS reprint, with revisions and stuff.
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Patrick Stuart's Silent Titans KS is wrapping up soon. In all honesty, I'm not totally sold on the setting (based on his blog posts about it), but backed anyway since everything else he's done has been gold (and he doesn't work with Z*c anymore, which is nice).
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BinaryDoubts posted:Patrick Stuart's Silent Titans KS is wrapping up soon. In all honesty, I'm not totally sold on the setting (based on his blog posts about it), but backed anyway since everything else he's done has been gold (and he doesn't work with Z*c anymore, which is nice). I backed the hell out of this once they revealed the very reasonable shipping rates to the UK. Can't wait to get this gorgeous hardcover in the post and not have to pay way over the odds for once!
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Bloody Pancreas posted:Nemesis is the only KS that I've regretted not backing. The somewhat sexist outfits of the female characters combined with their defense, "some women like to dress sexy...." pushed me away, but hearing how well they pulled off the Alien(s) experience has me hoping for a KS reprint, with revisions and stuff. PM me. I'm waiting on their "One-Wave shipping" or "wait til everything is produced and sent as one cargo container" - So I can still add another pledge to my cart (I just checked). I've helped out goons in the past for (essentially free), just as long as you can pay shipping from me to you when the pledges arrive.
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kinkouin posted:PM me. I'm waiting on their "One-Wave shipping" or "wait til everything is produced and sent as one cargo container" - So I can still add another pledge to my cart (I just checked). Haha I genuinely appreciate the offer, but I'll have to pass. I was just idly musing, I'm not really that upset passing it up. I have no doubt Nemesis will come back to KS with all the good press it's been getting and if it doesn't I won't be too miffed. Thanks though!
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FMguru posted:Early 1980s fantasy RPG, published by Metagaming, designed by Steve Jackson, been out of print for 35 years or so. If you want a very rules-light RPG and appreciate the "roll 3d6 under a number" style of game, look at TFT, it;'s what you want..
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