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Seriously what is the four balls thing I've been reading these forums for so many years and I've never known (or cared, at all)
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It was just ouroboros but less cool
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Jul 6, 2023 13:43
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Imagine four balls at the end of a cliff E:// Dr. Kronomast, PHD posted:when FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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Jul 6, 2023 13:43
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FilthyImp posted:Imagine four balls at the end of a cliff time works the same way 
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Jul 6, 2023 13:47
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thanks seb for helping this guy get his account back because after the henry bullshit i was about to queue up a ban unless proof provided immediately
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Jul 6, 2023 13:51
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Magnus Manfist posted:Seriously what is the four balls thing The Zybourne Clock was some kind of time traveling device. I think they were trying (and failed) to visualize how time traveling would work in this world. There is also this thing, where using the clock created multiple timelines. No idea who Sylus was, probably some kind of villain character. 
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Jul 6, 2023 14:22
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quote:Plot according to this anyway: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M5yx4cTZOWSrkceNoi7G38pCSKk3pcdmGo_3rFwXwTA/edit
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Jul 6, 2023 14:28
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:according to this anyway: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M5yx4cTZOWSrkceNoi7G38pCSKk3pcdmGo_3rFwXwTA/edit this owns lol quote:Hello Games, your pal Occupy Japan here with a business propsal of sorts for you:
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Jul 6, 2023 15:03
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oh man quote:Currently, we have 6 or 7 characters completely written out, our plot finalized (and not abbreviated as it is here), a ton music composed (both MIDI and fully orchestrated), and quite a bit of concept art (some of which you've seen in this thread).
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On a final note, we're serious about this. We're making progress, but we want YOU to get involved. Please please please don't threadshit or post "HURRRR GOON PROJECTS NEVER WORK" or something. If you think this is a dumb idea, not posting and making GBS threads up the thread will still let you sleep at night with a smug smile of satisfaction on your face.
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Jul 6, 2023 15:05
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Thanks guys I've learned so much about balls
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Jul 6, 2023 15:25
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dervival posted:some indie game also made a johnny five-aces cameo
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Jul 6, 2023 15:31
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Croccers posted:We regret to inform you that one of the devs is racist and transphobic. Can we use the Zybourne Clock to jump to another timeline where this doesn't happen?
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Jul 6, 2023 15:34
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:thanks seb for helping this guy get his account back because after the henry bullshit i was about to queue up a ban unless proof provided immediately yeah it checked out.
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Jul 6, 2023 15:44
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quote:-A custom-made "reaction" dialogue system similar to Morrowind; ability to ask even "fodder" NPCs questions and get dynamic responses. morrowinds dialogue system wasnt really dynamic just walls and walls of text.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:Can we use the Zybourne Clock to jump to another timeline where this doesn't happen?
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TK8325 posted:morrowinds dialogue system wasnt really dynamic just walls and walls of text. i guess it was vaguely dynamic in the sense that if you wanted to know more detail about a topic you had to seek out an expert (e.g. scouts knew about geography, wizards knew about daedra) but yeah it was just static text that different npcs could spit out at you in differing amounts
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Jul 6, 2023 16:57
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TK8325 posted:morrowinds dialogue system wasnt really dynamic just walls and walls of text. N'wah!
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Croccers posted:We regret to inform you that one of the devs is racist and transphobic. god loving dammit, of course. can't have anything in this crapsack world Croccers posted:Imagine four transphobic racists on the edge of a cliff. Say a direct copy of the transphobic racist nearest the cliff starts a podcast..... and then the Courier shoots them all in the face and loots the special gun that's been spawned there. A Wild Wasteland icon pops up in the upper-left hand corner of the screen for a moment.
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Jul 6, 2023 18:05
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:according to this anyway: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M5yx4cTZOWSrkceNoi7G38pCSKk3pcdmGo_3rFwXwTA/edit Ah yes, I know this sort of thing. That initial rush of energy, where ambition seems like it's all that will be needed, that it will sustain itself and provide everything. The idea of taking what we loved experiencing and just adding More to it, sort of like what the Epic Meal Time channels would do with their absurd food creations. Also, the plot idea and four balls and 'stuff has already happened and been replaced' makes me think of Chuck Palahniuk's book Rant, as well as the fact that you never want to start out with time travel in a plot because no matter what you do, and even if you try to set down firm rules for what happens, eventually you will simply end up with a mess where the narrative orouboroses into itself and something is coming from nothing, Who Composed Beethoven's 5th style.
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Jul 7, 2023 00:35
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Woah. This started in BYOB?
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Gatto Grigio posted:Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff 
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Croccers posted:We regret to inform you that one of the devs is racist and transphobic. Blast. I wish I had known that before getting it. Who are they and what did they say/do?
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Escape From Noise posted:Woah. This started in BYOB? Indeed that’s where it started. FYAD caught wind of the project and had a field day, as I was formerly posting there. I remember there being some animosity between the two before I left. Doesn’t seem to exist any more.
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Rex Meteorite posted:Indeed that’s where it started. FYAD caught wind of the project and had a field day, as I was formerly posting there. I remember there being some animosity between the two before I left. Doesn’t seem to exist any more. FYAD still kind of quietly hates BYOB for various reasons, at least in a "Don't speak flatteringly of BYOB in my presence or I will take out my posting katana and carve you a new digital rear end in a top hat" type way, but a lot of the more, um, "aggressive" FYADers have since either left the site or stopped posting as much over the last couple of years in response to previous and occasionally ongoing acts of mod and admin boneheadery. BYOB on the other hand doesn't appear to give a poo poo about FYAD.
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nine-gear crow posted:FYAD still kind of quietly hates BYOB for various reasons, at least in a "Don't speak flatteringly of BYOB in my presence or I will take out my posting katana and carve you a new digital rear end in a top hat" type way, but a lot of the more, um, "aggressive" FYADers have since either left the site or stopped posting as much over the last couple of years in response to previous and occasionally ongoing acts of mod and admin boneheadery. I will say I remember the thread there being brutal. I was so embarrassed I literally unhooked my computer, put it in my closet and didn’t come back online for about a year. Dumb reaction to a thread on the internet but drat it stung back in the day.
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Rex Meteorite posted:I will say I remember the thread there being brutal. I was so embarrassed I literally unhooked my computer, put it in my closet and didn’t come back online for about a year. Dumb reaction to a thread on the internet but drat it stung back in the day. I mean, Lowtax once shut FYAD down for a couple of months and it was kinda funny, but then it turned out he did it based on a lie and the person who talked him into it was trying to honeytrap him into making her an admin and signing complete control over SA over to her and she got run out of town on a rail for being a con artist and then Lowtax killed himself (incident unrelated), so there's that. FYAD is still, somewhat justifiably, mad about it.
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean, Lowtax once shut FYAD down for a couple of months and it was kinda funny, but then it turned out he did it based on a lie and the person who talked him into it was trying to honeytrap him into making her an admin and signing complete control over SA over to her and she got run out of town on a rail for being a con artist and then Lowtax killed himself (incident unrelated), so there's that. FYAD is still, somewhat justifiably, mad about it. I read about that. He called them nazis and then tried to run back to them. So much respect for SA dumping that loving rear end in a top hat. I really wish I didn’t miss the revolt back when it happened because watching him get turfed out of here after all that would have been amazing.
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I think there just a bunch of tension over whether he was going to sell the site or just kill it out of spite back then. There was definitely an air of "where do we all go now?" about the place.
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Jul 9, 2023 07:46
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It's amazing just how intensely stupid in every imaginable direction it got, with multiple cases of staff pulling ridiculous schemes and getting exposed in the most clownish ways. The nazi discord spy saga I'll always remember.
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KM pulling off a coup and then... i guess skimming off the top so she could afford WakandaCon and a car with, like, floorboards? Going to Vice as the girl who tamed FyAD?
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Jul 9, 2023 08:00
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I could and would kick Johnny Five Aces's rear end
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nine-gear crow posted:FYAD still kind of quietly hates BYOB for various reasons lol
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I had no idea there was a Zybourne Clock thread happening, but then again I don't really post much on the forums these days. Hello, I'm Fuego Fish and I also have the dubious honour of having been a part of the tragedy that was Project Blue Ribbon Hog, aka "Zybourne Clock". I've got some old AIM logs from back in the day somewhere on my backup hard drive, I think. But I've also got some fond memories/weird trauma I can relate in a comical fashion.
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I was on the pixel art team for Zybourne Clock, except whoever ran the off-site forum where everything was managed thought it was a good idea to section off the different teams (concept art, writing, pixel art, etc) into their own subforums and give them no access to the other teams' posts. So the only direction me and OMG ITZ JAMES ever got for pixel art was "just make some monsters and stuff", but we had no idea what the setting of the game was or what kind of monsters there should be and I never made anything for it. The ironic part is "just make some monsters and stuff" is what I'm known for as an artist these days  That's my Zybourne Clock story deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Also it's worth noting that current day BYOB is not the BYOB that did Zybourne Clock. BYOB was shut down for a few years shortly after ZC and when it was brought back it had a completely different group of posters and vibe. New BYOB is better than old BYOB as a forum but doesn't have the great failures of oldBYOB like Zybourne Clock, the Chillaxe, RZNV, etc speaking of RZNV here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms_S3sd5JzU deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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deep dish peat moss posted:I was on the pixel art team for Zybourne Clock, except whoever ran the off-site forum where everything was managed thought it was a good idea to section off the different teams (concept art, writing, pixel art, etc) into their own subforums and give them no access to the other teams' posts. So the only direction me and OMG ITZ JAMES ever got for pixel art was "just make some monsters and stuff", but we had no idea what the setting of the game was or what kind of monsters there should be and I never made anything for it. I don’t remember having a specific divide between art, story, music etc especially one so strict. I do remember wanting the writing forum locked down but only because the drafts we had I wrote and knew were complete garbage. I was hoping we could somehow improve it before going public with any concepts but that turned out poorly.
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That might have been it, I just remember trying to view the other forums to pick up some info about what I was supposed to draw and I couldn't view them. What's funny is that the actual failure of Zybourne Clock wasn't much different from most other goon projects that failed, and it probably would have been an (ironic) hit if it came out. If you ever want to Kickstarter the reboot or whatever I'll do art  it could be a fun thing to revisit and make an actual tongue in cheek game out of.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I was on the pixel art team for Zybourne Clock, except whoever ran the off-site forum where everything was managed thought it was a good idea to section off the different teams (concept art, writing, pixel art, etc) into their own subforums and give them no access to the other teams' posts. So the only direction me and OMG ITZ JAMES ever got for pixel art was "just make some monsters and stuff", but we had no idea what the setting of the game was or what kind of monsters there should be and I never made anything for it. The level of mismanagement was the stuff of nightmares, I genuinely got yelled at because I hadn't supplied someone with enough information about whatever concept they were supposed to be "writing lore" about, except I barely had any clue that the vague idea I'd come up with a few days prior had been handed off to someone else. I'd signed on in the hopes of writing for the game (yeah, I know, I was young and stupid) and I never actually got to write anything. It was always delegated down to the latest Sub-Division Vice President of Bookworld Lore Development, or whatever. Everyone had their own weird idea for what the game should be (including me) and absolutely nobody was concerned with figuring out which one of them should be the one actually being worked on. Most of the FYAD parody stuff (the steam-hologram-robot assassin, the golden egg) is actually a lot more coherent than what was actually being worked on.
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