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FMguru posted:Ugh, I can't believe people are still falling for Fred Hicks's obvious scam of combining audience engagement with prompt and cheerful customer service. I know, right? I personally can't stand it when an RPG company actually tries to treat me like an actual human being instead of regarding me as a filthy peasant. But realtalk - streaming probably does a much better job giving people an actual point of reference for how to play the game as opposed to the 'how to play the game' section in RPG rulebooks that describe a scene.
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Slimnoid posted:If I can get an impression of how a game works without having to go to a convention full of sweaty neckbeards to play it then hell yeah I'm going to watch a stream of it. 
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Feb 19, 2018 23:34
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LuiCypher posted:I know, right? I personally can't stand it when an RPG company actually tries to treat me like an actual human being instead of regarding me as a filthy peasant. Its probably why I complain about 5e streams so much to be honest, give the smaller companies a chance to show their game and almost without fail it is a giant boon for sales.
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Also extremely few people watch streamers play RPGs out of any interest in the rules. They watch it to enjoy the actors and characters and drama and jokes and storylines and etc, etc, etc. You know, the reason most people watch anything. That they also kinda pick up how the game works is basically a nice side effect.
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kingcom posted:Its probably why I complain about 5e streams so much to be honest, give the smaller companies a chance to show their game and almost without fail it is a giant boon for sales. Interestingly I find you need something special for me to watch D&D 5E - like, sure, I'm watching Critical Role's second campaign but no others - but my absolutely favorite streams are for a FFG Star Wars game and a Savage Worlds Deadlands game. I'm certainly not saying there's only the one good 5E stream, but CR is the only one that I find interesting for whatever reason.
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Dawgstar posted:Interestingly I find you need something special for me to watch D&D 5E - like, sure, I'm watching Critical Role's second campaign but no others - but my absolutely favorite streams are for a FFG Star Wars game and a Savage Worlds Deadlands game. I'm certainly not saying there's only the one good 5E stream, but CR is the only one that I find interesting for whatever reason. Sell those other streams my man, what star wars and savage worlds are you watching? CR is a bunch of charismatic people who all have a similar sense of humour and click very well together so its easy to get behind their naive enthusiasm as they experience dnd stuff for the first time. It's pretty obvious why it's compelling to watch even if I would definitely dislike that style of game.
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kingcom posted:Sell those other streams my man, what star wars and savage worlds are you watching? Both are on Twitch - the channel Hyper RPG has Pencils and Paragons which is the Star Wars game. They also have this Battletech game called Death From Above which uses a unique system that mixes an RPG and miniatures (and it's not A Time Of War mixed with the actual miniatures game before somebody asks, but it was developed by some of the BT mucky-mucks). The other with the Deadlands show is SavingThrowShow, and both I think are worth one's time if they like the game already. I know of another one called Happy Jack's that plays, as I can recall, stuff like Savage Worlds RIFTS and the L5R beta but I haven't watched enough of it to form an opinion, but I do like seeing non-D&D games played so maybe check it out?
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As weirdly right-wing and libertarian as this industry can be, here's Fred Hicks with his Twitter display name set to "Ban the gun lobby". Hell, if I didn't already own MotW...
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Dawgstar posted:(and it's not A Time Of War mixed with the actual miniatures game before somebody asks, but it was developed by some of the BT mucky-mucks). Crisis averted. Nobody deserves to be subjected to Time of War lol.
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Twitter thread on running a TG business, from AFAIK the guy who did Baby Bestiary: https://twitter.com/MetalWeaveGames/status/967013937920258050
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There was an update on the One Shot podcast investigation: http://oneshotpodcast.com/uncategorized/harassment-investigation-stament/
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Well that's....certainly something.
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Lemon-Lime posted:There was an update on the One Shot podcast investigation: http://oneshotpodcast.com/uncategorized/harassment-investigation-stament/ That's a fantastic response. I'm impressed.
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Is it weird that there's a Tumblr consisting of nothing but unreasonable attacks on tos over this issue? That seems weird to me. When I say "unreasonable," I mean stuff like demanding a response after three days and implying that this is part of a pattern of behavior.
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That is some fantastic documentation and easily the best handling of that I have ever seen.
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James D'Amato owns.
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moths posted:Is it weird that there's a Tumblr consisting of nothing but unreasonable attacks on tos over this issue? That seems weird to me. Unfortunately, no, it's not weird at all.
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moths posted:Is it weird that there's a Tumblr consisting of nothing but unreasonable attacks on tos over this issue? That seems weird to me. Chapo Trap House got accused of being ableist for not having podcast transcripts. It happens.
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moths posted:Is it weird that there's a Tumblr consisting of nothing but unreasonable attacks on tos over this issue? That seems weird to me.
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I posted on the other thread that those dudes would try that sort of stuff. I warned ya!
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dwarf74 posted:I think that you'll find that alt-right trolls have more than enough time to do that. Plenty of sincere believers are happy to do it on their own too 
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At this point on tumblr, it is impossible to distinguish between lazy clicktivists who think trying to shame other liberals is "activism", people parodying those clicktivists, and alt-righters who think making parody accounts is "psyops". The only honest tumblrs are the ones about pornography.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Chapo Trap House got accused of being ableist for not having podcast transcripts. In a world where Nick Mullen exists this is shipping coal to Newcastle.
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Mr. Maltose posted:In a world where Nick Mullen exists this is shipping coal to Newcastle. what are they supposed to do, not have the DSA president as a friend?! Also yea, the One Shot peeps are good folks
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Lemon-Lime posted:There was an update on the One Shot podcast investigation: http://oneshotpodcast.com/uncategorized/harassment-investigation-stament/ Please repost/tweet this at Green Ronin and ask them how the timeline is coming along.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:42
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drat. I wanted the heroic taxi driver to be real.
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LuiCypher posted:Please repost/tweet this at Green Ronin and ask them how the timeline is coming along. hey come on they don't have the resources of *squint* a patreon supported podcast of improv dorks...
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Plutonis posted:I posted on the other thread that those dudes would try that sort of stuff. I warned ya! Still not a case of a victim of abuse documenting their own experience, but good going at being really hung up about women being honest about being molested as a Great Fear
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gradenko_2000 posted:Chapo Trap House got accused of being ableist for not having podcast transcripts.
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Yeah, it's tricky. I was working on some fan material for a game recently and realized my color-coding could be an issue (though, IMO, not a huge one) for the color-blind, but it's a question of whether or not I sit down and do two hours of work to fix that or... I do two hours of added actual content everybody will still be able to enjoy either way. I leaned towards the latter and will probably be fixing the former down the road, but it's a question of how far I go with something that's just an unpaid fanboy project. 
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Colorblind people are used to a little trouble anyway and won't come after you for being a Colour Hitler or anything. Just avoid putting bright green next to bright red and 90% of colorblind folk will thank you - it's a combo that can give red/greeners a really weird nausea response. (This, as you'd imagine, makes Christmas great fun!)
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Yeah, it's tricky. I was working on some fan material for a game recently and realized my color-coding could be an issue (though, IMO, not a huge one) for the color-blind, but it's a question of whether or not I sit down and do two hours of work to fix that or... I do two hours of added actual content everybody will still be able to enjoy either way. I leaned towards the latter and will probably be fixing the former down the road, but it's a question of how far I go with something that's just an unpaid fanboy project. If you are making ca 100k/month then having basic accessibility options is a reasonable request, but in your case most people would be fine if when problems are brought to light you try to avoid them on your next project, especially since most accessibility stuff is pretty easy and cheap if you do/consider them early.
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Loomer posted:Colorblind people are used to a little trouble anyway and won't come after you for being a Colour Hitler or anything. Just avoid putting bright green next to bright red and 90% of colorblind folk will thank you - it's a combo that can give red/greeners a really weird nausea response. (This, as you'd imagine, makes Christmas great fun!) Is blue/orange a problem? It contrasts just as sharply.
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A good trick I've seen is to marry your color choices with distinct symbols and visual designs so people with certain types of colorblindness could differentiate, like the star-shaped pieces do this and are red while the triangle pieces do this and are green.
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What the gently caress. Alt-right shitheads making false accusations of sexual misconduct at loving gamers over disputes about games? gently caress. That kind of poo poo is terrifying. Like, some rear end in a top hat could get mad that Strike! is inclusive and pull a stunt that threatens my actual career. It's insane. What is wrong with people?!
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Liquid Communism posted:Is blue/orange a problem? It contrasts just as sharply. I don't know. Blue-yellow colorblind is very different from red-green. The issue also isn't that the contrast is too much, but rather that very bright green and very bright red side by side start to sort of flash into each other while the brain tries to distinguish between the viable colour information it's getting (which is why the red and green are visible) and the scrambled or missing information (while the colours are visible, certain hues inside them are either not perceptible as a colour or misinterpreted depending on how the rods and cones are setup), and there's a lot of overlap between the wavelengths of light in the very bright reds and greens. Put them side by side and the brain basically flips out trying to work out what the colour where the line blurs (even if it's crisp) is, because both colours are simultaneously stimulating the brain with viable and non-viable information. Picture a rapidly changing gif of two blocks, or make one if you're afantasmic, one bright red and the other bright green, now make them flash back and forth so fast that they seem to be both at once. That's basically what happens with static colours. Presumably a similarly discomforting effect will happen with any set of high contrast colours flashing rapidly into each other, but the key difference lies in the defective vision causing those otherwise static, normal and fine colours to do the same thing because the info is being scrambled by the eye.
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Jimbozig posted:What the gently caress. Alt-right shitheads making false accusations of sexual misconduct at loving gamers over disputes about games? gently caress. That kind of poo poo is terrifying. Like, some rear end in a top hat could get mad that Strike! is inclusive and pull a stunt that threatens my actual career. It's insane. What is wrong with people?! Fortunately for us no one plays Strike, so we're in the clear
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Leperflesh posted:drat. I wanted the heroic taxi driver to be real. Hero taxi diver an indicator that the story was fake. The diver never gets defined as more than "the cab driver" when an actual person recalling a transpired event would use a he/she pronoun. If you read as a female driver, it's a believable woman "looking out for each other" moment. A male driver gives proof that #notallmen are lovely harassers. I have a hunch that the undefined secondary characters in STDH stories are for the audience to imagine as an insert for their best selves. Who we hope we'd be in that situation. Not necessarily the hero, but the person who frowns at the mean cashier or claps for the Christian grad student.
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Liquid Communism posted:Is blue/orange a problem? It contrasts just as sharply. If you're not sure, run it through a colorblindness simulator, of which there are many.
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Countblanc posted:Fortunately for us no one plays Strike, so we're in the clear If it makes you feel better it's one of the two TRPGs I paid money for this decade
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