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Yeah, like I posted to Kir...There is certainly no denying EQ "hardcore" fans are a pretty nutty bunch. So that might be a reason we saw all these abnormal trends (And seriously, a lot of these trends were highly abnormal). But I'm not sure I'd put my money on it all being that; in the end, it...

Yep, if I were to give my post mortem opnion. I'd say a high quality version of this KS, with a good, solid campaign plan? Would have easily made it's goal. Just looking at the trends for how KS campaigns beyond certain funding thresholds typically finish. I'm pretty convinced it was quality...

Again though, 3k backers is a large amount when you look at KS as a whole (Even 10k$+ campaigns), and how many fails Brad went through. In papers written on KS, there are huge drop offs due to a lack of perceived quality and confidence. Brad nearly check listed off all those "bad signals"--the...

There isn't any solid evidence, true. But if you take a look at some of the journals about KS funding and statistics that actually use good regression models (The one I'm thinking of I just looked up, Dynamics of Crowd funding)? One of the things is that comes through is the "confidence" that...

Heck, most investors wouldn't even touch games with all that. Games just aren't good investments for equity rights in the producing the game, the risk is too high to offset the very small chance at possible gains. This is why publishers essentially require studios to sell their souls for any...

You're comparing these numbers to things like SC, or KC or other succesful large KS; that's not really a fair comparison for judging how much this raised. Those were huge aberrations. The fact is, the VAST majority of KS campaigns raise less than 10k. Only1.7%of ALL KS campaigns break 100k...

The game raised 450k (Well 400k really) despite being nothing more than a napkin covered in a splooge of random and unrefined ideas by a team of unemployed guys with only vague and nebulous claims of "hard core" and "99" thrown in. And you're somehow looking at that huge number, despite this...

The other thread has a gif of a guy shooting himself in the balls. It obviously was the peak of symbolism for that thread and anything after would have just drug the epic down. So it was sent to the great shaw in the sky and the afterbirth is here.

He's tough, later you can block him without a full stam drain and they are easy, or when you get really good at parries they are simple. But at the start they are hard because one fuck up and you're done, and you haven't got a "good feel" for parry times yet (Once you do, parrying because pretty...

Well, at the start, when they are finding out about Dora, Rust says "She sounds like she was tired, someone who was torn up and walking on her last legs. She was just an easy target for him." Then rust pulls that other file with a lady that had that spiral on her back, and it was the same story...

Missed this. I think what will see is just that Dora was set up specifically for the police to find (That's why they lit the field on fire). Heck, maybe it was specifically for Rust and Hart. If the cabal of powerful men goes all the way up to some high level bureaucrat, then maybe they had...

Yes, he said he was part of some Satanic group and they were hooked into some "good killing".

No, I agree with you. I pointed out earlier that if it WAS Hart, I wouldn't be shocked, because I'm half expecting this writer to troll the shit out of us because of how he comments on modern fiction with his writing. But, I think what we're going to end up seeing is Rust doggedly following...

Yeah, it would, but there are a lot of themes you can get from "True Detective". I don't think the actual title has meaning outside of the things it represents in the show. Every cop in the show talks about how the job changes people; but then Rust says "The job didn't change me, how I am made...

Yeah, as I said earlier, the name comes from a series of Pulp Stories with the name "True Detective". It was the first real foray into crime noir, based heavily on the "grim" and "gritty", which was a theme back during the depression (Not surprising we've readopted it.) However, I fail to see...

I don't know, I think they went in opposite emotional directions and both did it great. At the start, Rust is withdrawn and pretty much a mess being held together thinly. He's got this super pessimistic view of the world due to losing his kid, but he's not really sure of it; he even says when...

Then it's just about a couple cops. Don't put it in your pocket, that's your lucky quarter. Don't put it in your pocket or it will get mixed in with the others and become just a coin.............Which it is. That's the point of the post above the one you quoted. His whole meta...

You're viewing it as if the point of his actions was to protect himself from Cohle? But remember Cohle's first assessment of the murder? It's theatrical. It's from a "meta psychotic": Which means his intent was to affect the mind of someone else. That's literally the definition of a "meta...

Yes, hence the whole point about it needing to be an unreliable narrator for it to work...Because right now we take it as gospel, fuck it, I'll explain. (And note: I don't think this will happen, I'm just explaining the thought process I ran through when thinking about the possibility and why it...

Ouch, that sucks. I was under the impression it would be a big world, but with fluid servers. Like WoW is starting to use. So the "server" you're on, depends on who is around to populate your area. IE if 100 people go into a section of the game, then it will split you into 4 groups based on the...

The coincidences could from Hart not being involved directly, too. Like the dolls could even be just a subconscious thought of Hart's because it's "right under his nose". He says that a lot, so he could be alluding to the fact that his own children are involved and he missed it because he was...

It's not though. Death is a consequence we've developed by not being really observant. Off hand, in Dark Souls, I can count on one hand the number of times I was killed strictly due to things completely unforeseen and that I could legitimately say would have taken omniscience to avoid. Sometimes...

Disregard, mispost.

Oh my god that's awesome.

This reminds me more of a modern version of Sim Ant vs a true Town/City builder. Which is a good thing.

Yeah, but that's the problem, even just a month in it starts to really get inundated. 3+ Months post release? And it's all you'll see, because people who actually enjoy PvP are blitzing through to build their toon and won't stop for low level fleecing or they are just hacking builds. So the only...

Sal , your website says you have raised 425,000 dollars already. Was that an angel investor we've been seeing courted on Twitter ? Fucking LOOL Dahkoht

No one said that. They said it's a bad mechanic when it doesn't account for the various advantages invaders will naturally have. You keep plopping these straw men out, but they don't match the reality of the argument. In games that have allowed "wolves" to strictly hunt sheep and avoid other...

LOL, your understanding of PvP gets questioned and your first reaction isn't to go PvP, but find people you can grief. As funny, and sad, as that would be if you were sincere? You're playing the griefer "got casul?" mentality too close to the cliche, so I'm going to go with you trolling here.

LOL, build that strawman up a little more. No one said defenseless--they said there are big advantages toward building for PvP. Do you even dead angle bro? Grain ring? Roll Speed? Anything bro? There are big differences between effective PvE builds and someone who wants to min/max PvP...

Yes, if there is no "twist", this would be my guess. The girls got molested in school, maybe by Tuttle. Rust in his new investigations finds out and tells Cohle. They form their own "cult", whose primary objective is to hunt down everyone. Hart rises in the social ranks in the state to gather...

Yeah, except for some builds being radically better in PvP, vs a build that's functional in PvE. Or some weapons being radically better, which you need to build around. Or you know, the difference in environmental risk due to the defender being unable to select a clear area to fight invasions...

Awesome, thanks for the link. That's good news. The way they were talking in the interview I read it sounded like the designer took personal offense if you didn't want to fight a Dickwraith at level 10 because he designed it so well.

Yeah, I saw they swapped Estus from being your constant healing to be an emergency button and now a separate consumable restores health.

Have they? Because the last three interviews they were absolute emphatic that they don't want people avoiding PvP and it's part of the game. Exactly. Again though, I enjoy PvP: I just don't like it being so ridiculously weighted toward invaders sub SL 100. If you're invaded below SL40...

In the "real world" humans are actually gods, and paradise has gotten boring because there is no challenge. Essentially the real world is experiencing "The WoW Effect" where perfection and ease has left them pining for the days of hardcore. So the "immortal god humans" from the real world sign...

Says that, writes season finale for "The Killing." Edit: In all seriousness, he's included imagery in his scenes that makes us second guess things, like the dolls, or the circle on the wall or Rust's hallucinations. It's not just the audience being twisted that makes them believe there is a...

Yeah, I remembered it wrong. I could have sworn it was Hart saying Rust flanked, but it wasn't.

Well, the delusions too (Like the dolls)--but yes, essentially the entire story so far has a gap between reality and what others perceive. It's a big element in the story, a lot of it's structure is based on false perceptions. I mean Rust literally came from a life that was built on deceiving...

I thought it had a flaw in it, but yeah, as others have said, it was Rust who was talking about flanking, I thought it was Hart. But I understood the reason for the lie. Yes, I'm literally talking about the story they are telling vs real events and how reality is constructed through narration...