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Posted March 09, 2015
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Neonshuffler: And its only gotten worse.
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dragonbeast: wasteland 2 got 3 mil as well but then again I heard that that was far from a scam (heard nothing but praise for it). I actually have it but i haven't found the time to play it yet/

If you get 8 times your requested budget, i feel like you need to really deliver (a whole game).

But here's what i caught of all this: Tim puts game on kickstarter, gets 8 time the requested amount. Somehow he runs out of dosh and releases the first halve alone. Meanwhile Tim is making another game on early access, runs out of budget there as well and then just says "hey modders, here's an unfinished game. It's your problem now. Bye, i'm off to insult my audience and especially the minorities in it."

So we got 8 times the requested kickstarter budget, all that munie gone (with the wind) and 2 unfinished games with no budget to go on.

Something tell me he used the 1+1+40=50 formula when calculating his finances as well.
I can count maybe 3 or 4 games I have bought from kickstarter or early access that have been finished out of the like 20 or so I have backed.

The thing is Tim is not the only one and him copping shit for a practice that just about every dev uses on kickstarter is a bit strange when you praise one that does it and knock the other down (not saying you done it just been my experience with people with this view)

Out of all the people that have done it that deserves the most shit its sarkisian by far. She flat out conned people out of money least game devs give something back be it a joke 90% of the time.

To me kickstarter is great a tool that is being abused by ponzi scheme people. If Tim has done that fuck him. I saw someone sum it up perfectly

As a business model it's genius. You raise cash before its even completed, you invest less and you get an army of testers you don't need to pay/bribe, you get an idea of how much people will support it and if it will be successful, you can claim that everything people hate about it is just party of the alpha/beta and best/worst of all you can walk away with a fat stack of cash burning all your bridges and never completing it.

As a consumer its a fucking scam.
Posted March 09, 2015
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Wonder if behind-the-scenes Gamasutra let Leigh Alexander go. Probably dictates from up high. Did they lose too many readers (aka ad dollars)?
Posted March 09, 2015
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RWarehall: Wonder if behind-the-scenes Gamasutra let Leigh Alexander go. Probably dictates from up high. Did they lose too many readers (aka ad dollars)?
Probably. I doubt Leigh would leave Gamasutra all of a sudden to make a new gaming site for no reason. Those sites are losing readers like crazy nowadays because of how out of touch they are with their public. I mean, seriously, why would you piss on your consumer base like all those sites are doing (with the gamers are dead articles and the ones that followed) and expect to get away with it? It was pretty obvious from the very beggining that this wouldn't end well for them. Joystiq's demise was just the beggining. The high executives at Gamasutra are probablky trying to fix things up before they follow the same fate.
Posted March 09, 2015
Hello. I have been out of the forums for a while. Too many games to play, college, and daily Warframe grinding keep me bussy. Any current happenings progress or events? the latiest thing I saw was a video about Tim Schafer and his sock. Honestly he became a tear drinker.
Posted March 09, 2015
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LeonardoCornejo: Hello. I have been out of the forums for a while. Too many games to play, college, and daily Warframe grinding keep me bussy. Any current happenings progress or events? the latiest thing I saw was a video about Tim Schafer and his sock. Honestly he became a tear drinker.
Latest news is Leigh Alexander and her indoctrination website for hipsters.
Posted March 09, 2015
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Neobr10: And you know what's weird? Tim Schafer has been acting exactly like Peter Molyneux for years regarding his games: he's promising way more than what he can achieve and he's not delievering anything he has promised, yet the gaming press doesn't hold him accountable in any way, shape or form. But when Molyuneux does the same thing, he gets an offensive interviewer accusing him of being a pathological liar in a hit piece. Why doesn't Tim Schafer get the same treatment? Maybe because he's part ot the "clique", as shown by his last speech at GDC? Where are the prople who supported the RPS interview like htown? Where are you now? Double standards much?
I wasn't happy with the conduct and framing of the interview but he needed a wake up call to be sure. Tim does too by the looks of things.
Posted March 09, 2015
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HiPhish: My usual explanation is that it's a con-artist or profiteer, but what kind of money can you make by labelling bathrooms as "gender neutral"?
You can offer yourself to intimidated organizations as an expert-for-hire on the topic of which bathrooms need to be designated as gender-neutral.
Posted March 09, 2015
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HiPhish: BTW: I had to laugh when I read "gender-neutral" bathroom. If the bathroom is not gender-specific then it's just a plain bathroom. It's like they are trying so hard to be "not like those other guys", they don't even notice anymore how off they are. I used to think that SJWs are just dumb kids and people pretending on Tumbler for the lolz, but these are grown up people. Is the San Francisco water supply infested with some brain devouring parasites? What is going on here? My usual explanation is that it's a con-artist or profiteer, but what kind of money can you make by labelling bathrooms as "gender neutral"?
Here's what I don't get about bathrooms.

All humans poop. Sometimes they pee. Sometimes even both.

Is there something fundamentally different about how the sexes perform these two acts? Is there some biological imperative that is obfuscated when a person does not use a bathroom assigned to their gender? Does gender neutral poop stink less than cis white male poop?

Just have one big bathroom and stop acting like our shit is any different because is bloody isn't.
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Posted March 09, 2015
The excrements are the same, but the way they come out is not. Using that logic we shouldn't have segregated locker rooms and showers either. Some people simply feel uncomfortable naked around a person of the opposite sex.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are not there to break the segregation or anything, they exist to appease the idiots who think the binary gender division is an invention of The Patriarchy. That's what's BS.
Posted March 09, 2015
Kinda unrelated; but is Matt Pat from Game Theory working with The Escapist as well? Seems GT is listed in the weekly content timetable.
Posted March 09, 2015
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HiPhish: The excrements are the same, but the way they come out is not. Using that logic we shouldn't have segregated locker rooms and showers either. Some people simply feel uncomfortable naked around a person of the opposite sex.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are not there to break the segregation or anything, they exist to appease the idiots who think the binary gender division is an invention of The Patriarchy. That's what's BS.
The way they come is the same, holes.

I get people are uncomfortable. I'm just saying its for mostly silly reasons and we need to get over ourselves.

Though spot on about it being an appeasement for idiots. Idiots who apparently never picked up a biology book, or got laid for that matter, I could only imagine how that would play out; gasps! you mean that your gender is something you are born with and not some abstract concept by old white men? OMG I thought the mean old patriarchy invented penises to oppress women and minorities!
Posted March 09, 2015
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ScotchMonkey: Here's what I don't get about bathrooms.

All humans poop. Sometimes they pee. Sometimes even both.

Is there something fundamentally different about how the sexes perform these two acts? Is there some biological imperative that is obfuscated when a person does not use a bathroom assigned to their gender? Does gender neutral poop stink less than cis white male poop?

Just have one big bathroom and stop acting like our shit is any different because is bloody isn't.
Yes there is one difference for which they need to be separated: urinals.

men and women alike could be offended because of mildly exposed junk, but that's it.
in theory you could have a small urinal room and a bigger "anything else" room
Posted March 09, 2015
But gender neutral bathrooms just shows you how much they obsess about their ''ideals'' of ''minority liberation''. The fact that they scan media for stuff to be offended about but fail to do ANY good at all is just hypocrisy. AND its obvious they made the bathrooms gender neutral because one of the SJW mothershps' cronies can follow someone of REAL importance into the bathroom and claim rape.
Posted March 09, 2015
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dragonbeast: Yes there is one difference for which they need to be separated: urinals.

men and women alike could be offended because of mildly exposed junk, but that's it.
in theory you could have a small urinal room and a bigger "anything else" room
Some reading about doing away with that symbol of "Patriarchal oppression"

http://depantsing-queens.greatnow.com/should-males-be-required-to-pee-sitting-down.html

what's your take on this?
Post edited March 09, 2015 by Rusty_Gunn
Posted March 09, 2015
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dragonbeast: Yes there is one difference for which they need to be separated: urinals.

men and women alike could be offended because of mildly exposed junk, but that's it.
in theory you could have a small urinal room and a bigger "anything else" room
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Rusty_Gunn: Some reading about doing away with that symbol of "Patriarchal oppression"

http://depantsing-queens.greatnow.com/should-males-be-required-to-pee-sitting-down.html
Holy crap.
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