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I really like this cover. I wish more RPG books were this stark.
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If you had a PhD in blackmailing you'd never hear that.
Totally did research in the wrong area.
It's a special hell.
Are you trying for academia? Right now, for science any way, it's more or less a case of your boss has to hook you up to get a postdoc. Which is gash.
*puffs out chest*
The thesis involves you and your supervisor digging up as much dirt as you can about each other. If you can completely silence him, you get your degree.
Huh, I had not heard of this!
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Great, now even more people will look like complete tools talking to themselves.
Would be cool.
I'm intrigued by it but I just have a hard time believing the ones Google employees are field testing are anything like the video.
Join the club.
Well, the job hunting club, I'm hardly over qualified.
Maybe, but someone did a write-up and it mentioned it would actually be something you put over your glasses *groan*
EDIT: also the prototypes in use now look...weird
My issue is that the pdf is a bit pricey for what is a very simplistic game (to the point where there's a detailed reviews floating about that you can use instead of the rules pdf itself). I sort of regret spending money on it, I expected there to be a lot more in the pdf than I'd gleaned from hearing about it, and there really wasn't. $5 seems a fairer pricepoint (although looking at his website he's only asking $10 now, which isn't as bad).
Applying for every academic job I'm even vaguely qualified for, but I also need to eat and I stop getting paid end of this month, so just looking for anything that will give me a bit of cash. It sucks.
WE'RE QUEER
and i'm going to pax
anyone know of any good ones?
Obviously it's most likely different in the Arts, but in science if you can get your boss to apply on her behalf then you'll get an interview rather than being added to the hilarious large stack of CVs. An informal "Hey, I've got a new student about to finish who is hot shit" is worth twice the best cover letter and five years of directly relevant experience.
Boooo!!!
Not booing the queer thing...
Or the here thing...
Just totes jelly about PAX.
yeah but then you can see people's power levels
And hello.
It's for the best that CoH2 doesn't get funded. It'll get a release anyway and if he doesn't get his half mil of slush money he said he won't have time to cock about with things to make them "better", where his personal idea of better seems to be fairly ropey.
It's provided a bit of publicity for the company and hopefully they'll do more sales as a result. Kickstarter is just not the place for poorly defined nonsense like he was trying.
Honestly, I'm on board with what he wants to do he just didn't know how to present it at all.
New turn based CRPG.
For a Shadowrun game!!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns
The are the Stronghold series but I hear the last one was pretty shit and the old ones are ancient at this point.
The Guild could be another series I guess but I know very little about it.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns?ref=live
A New PC/tablet Shadowrun game, with a campaign creator.
That's cool. I don't begrudge anybody for enjoying getting an enormous box of silly nonsense with a game. I really don't. It's not for me, but some like it. But yeah, he completely screwed up the Kickstarter. It could have very easily been a success, if it were better presented.
During my current round of job hunting I was told I had the "worst educational background of anybody I've ever interviewed", "we only interview people with Master's degrees", but that I was "definitely qualified for the position I was interviewing for, and probably the position above that". It was a confusing interview.
Then I was told that they'd be interested in continuing the hire process, then like an hour later they told me that HR found a better candidate. My guess is they had a Master's degree. =/
Pretty much, after doublefine showed that it could be viable, a lot of developers are practically giddy with the idea of not needing to jump through the hoops that dealing with publishers usually involve and just making the game. So much so that I think they're choosing to ignore how fickle and demanding their customers will become now that they have 'invested' in a title.
If you thought they were entitled children before this....
I should do this
I have to do this
I hear that the doublefine support board is actually quite civil for the moment. This is a surprise and a shock to me. I thought it would be hell on earth as everybody battles to have their $15 of say in the game.