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Teim posted:Hey Ragingboner, got any plans for unclaimed shirts? I only have 1 unclaimed Large right now, but after everyone let's me know if they're in or out, I'll sell em pretty as you please. A couple people already have dibs on any potential unsold shirts: One XXL will go to Quarex, because he plans on going on a buttered cheese binge after he gets his degree and will need a larger shirt. One will go to mind the walrus (potentially that Large), because he forgot to sign up. Should I put you on the "dibs" list? Did you order a shirt? What is your mother's maiden name?
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I got the Amazon payment attachment to work once I saved the file to my hard drive and opened it manually. The shirts look great, and I see my name on there. 
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May 19, 2012 16:18
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CommissarMega posted:U.M. RagingBoner posted:One XXL will go to Quarex, because he plans on going on a buttered cheese binge after he gets his degree and will need a larger shirt.  (Say, are we talking about cheese?! Because I LOVE CHEESE! Ever tried putting peanut butter on cheddar cheese? Might think it sounds gross, but my friend, have I got NEWS for YOU!)
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May 19, 2012 17:07
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cullan posted:I got the Amazon payment attachment to work once I saved the file to my hard drive and opened it manually. This. Amazon payment sent, pretty sure I'm the only Icelander to order.
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May 19, 2012 17:22
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Quarex posted:Ummissar Moga. That is actually very similar to my real name 
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May 19, 2012 17:35
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CommissarMega posted:That is actually very similar to my real name Careful there, man. I can just check the names in all of the local anime magazines to find you.
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May 19, 2012 17:52
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The MSJ posted:Careful there, man. I can just check the names in all of the local anime magazines to find you. Right now there is a real Ummisar Moga that's behind his desk thinking o'poo poo.
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May 19, 2012 18:21
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Don't turn around (oh uh oh) Der Ummissar's in town (oh uh ooooh)
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May 19, 2012 20:16
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o/`  o/`YourAverageJoe posted:Amazon payment sent, pretty sure I'm the only Icelander to order. If you do not live in Reykjavík, I ... I just do not know what to do. CommissarMega posted:That is actually very similar to my real name
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May 19, 2012 21:04
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Quarex posted:I ... I just do not know what to do. Sorry.  I might still pop over to the town over a weekend or three, so who knows.
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May 19, 2012 21:17
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Quarex posted:It will be awesome when I go back to Iceland for one of my wedding anniversaries (my wife and I married in Reykjavík, because how else can you have a summer wedding in pleasant weather?) and we bump into each other both wearing our Wasteland 2 shirts. I'm sure your wife would love it.
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May 19, 2012 21:19
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I never got the Amazon link. All I keep getting is a bunch of shady porn that from the looks of it will probably infect my descendant's descendants computers if even open those links.
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May 20, 2012 05:44
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The MSJ posted:Careful there, man. I can just check the names in all of the local anime magazines to find you. Go ahead, I'm hidden behind seven pen names  Woebin posted:I think it's obvious what to do. You need to invite everyone in this thread to join you in Reykjavik and join your anniversary celebration. Wasteland 2 shirt mandatory, of course. Oh great, another $30 in postage 
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May 20, 2012 05:47
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RagingBoner posted:A few people gave me no address when they paid through PayPal ...
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May 20, 2012 06:08
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RagingBoner posted:A few people gave me no address when they paid through PayPal, so I guess they think I'm a psychic or something.
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VodeAndreas posted:Didn't get a follow up from you asking where I was but sent you a email with my delivery address anyway on the chance that you didn't divine it with your internet superpowers. When did you send the payment? Edit: Disregard, I am stupid. I got your email with your new address. Just letting everyone know I'm going to do my damnedest to get everyone's shirts shipped out on Tuesday, but that is going to be highly reliant on whether the post office has enough free envelopes on hand when I go there on Monday. So far I have 60/86 orders paid for and ready to ship. RagingBoner fucked around with this message at 11:48 on May 20, 2012 |
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May 20, 2012 11:44
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I'm assuming you got my information Boner, but if not let me know.
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Overemotional Robot posted:I'm assuming you got my information Boner, but if not let me know. I'm going to re-email everyone who I haven't been contacted by on Friday. If they don't respond by the following Tuesday, I'm going to consider their shirt vacated and will be selling to the secondary market that has developed. Does that sound fair to everyone?
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RagingBoner posted:Yep. That sounds fair, provided you've received all my emails and monies as should.
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RagingBoner posted:
Sorry my Paypal payment would have come from a different email address and details yeah... I don't really keep my paypal too up to date and it's a bit of a cross between internet me and real me.  But yeah, CM.
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Quarex posted:post-apopportunities I'd like you to know, I enjoyed this word. A fine word.
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SavageMessiah posted:I'd like you to know, I enjoyed this word. A fine word. Thanks! I think "making up new words" is the only thing I enjoyed both at age 5 and age however old I am now. 6? I am this many. In other news, this article was so good, and it made me so upset (as evidenced by my post at the bottom, where I realized just how true it is that people who loved Final Fantasy VII, not Ultima VII, are the ones designing all the mainstream CRPGs these days): http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/the-game-that-wasn%E2%80%99t-there/ Woebin posted:I think it's obvious what to do. You need to invite everyone in this thread to join you in Reykjavik and join your anniversary celebration. Wasteland 2 shirt mandatory, of course. As for Iceland, I cannot possibly recommend going there enough. Though Mr. Iceland up there might have a different opinion. Mr./Ms. Iceland.
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RagingBoner posted:12 hours into taking payments, 46 out of 86 people have stepped up. That's impressive. I just paid and realized I didn't put my address in, but you might still have it from the earlier emails where we were looking at international shipping.
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Quarex posted:In other news, this article was so good, and it made me so upset (as evidenced by my post at the bottom, where I realized just how true it is that people who loved Final Fantasy VII, not Ultima VII, are the ones designing all the mainstream CRPGs these days): This is what I'm hoping Kickstarter will help change; show developers that there is a market beyond what their 'market research' (read: pandering to the fandom) says.
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I will be sending you moneies with in the next couple of days depending on when a check clears.
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Quarex posted:In other news, this article was so good, and it made me so upset (as evidenced by my post at the bottom, where I realized just how true it is that people who loved Final Fantasy VII, not Ultima VII, are the ones designing all the mainstream CRPGs these days): I've said so before, but Final Fantasy VII was also a major pain to me as a person during my years trying to learn game design, because almost 90% of the student body quoted FF7 specifically as a reason to get into game development. Now, I'll admit that I didn't play Ultima VII, but I would at least have quoted Fallout or Neverwinter Nights as the moment where I thought "this is what I want to do" mostly because I didn't have a PC until these games came around. A sad realization came over me as I realized these people aspired to make that kind of game.
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Quarex posted:In other news, this article was so good, and it made me so upset (as evidenced by my post at the bottom, where I realized just how true it is that people who loved Final Fantasy VII, not Ultima VII, are the ones designing all the mainstream CRPGs these days): It also made me upset, but for completely different reasons: it gives me the impression that the guy writing it did not do the research. Bioware and Bethesda aren't making party-oriented, plot-driven, turn-based WRPGs anymore. No poo poo, really? Bethesda never did, and Bioware did only if you generously consider Baldur's Gate 2 turn-based - and that was 12 years ago. I don't see Id Software releasing dungeon crawlers or Valve releasing space 4Xes, but I'm too busy playing Legend of Grimrock and Endless Space to declare them dead genres on the basis of that. Instead of whining that two big names in the industry (who have never made such games) aren't making the style of game he prefers, perhaps he should be buying games from the developers that actually are, like Spiderweb. Or contributing to the Wasteland 2 kickstarter.
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I don't see where he says that Bethesda and Bioware used to make games like that but don't any more. It sounds more like he's saying that the genre used to be that way but those two companies have specifically moved away from it. That's why he's comparing Fallout 3 and Dragon Age to Wasteland and Wizardry rather than previous Bethesda or Bioware titles. Edit: I mean, here's the second sentence: quote:Specifically, a Western RPG as they used to be, before Bioware and Bethesda took up the reins of Western RPGdom.
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Armor-Piercing posted:It sounds more like he's saying that the genre used to be that way but those two companies have specifically moved away from it.
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ToxicFrog posted:Instead of whining that two big names in the industry (who have never made such games) aren't making the style of game he prefers, perhaps he should be buying games from the developers that actually are, like Spiderweb. Or contributing to the Wasteland 2 kickstarter. He probably is and probably did. Article's from 2010.
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Crosscontaminant posted:You can't move away from something you were never close to. Is moving from Adelaide to Canberra moving towards or away from Durham? It doesn't matter.
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May 21, 2012 16:57
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Your clarification ended up saying exactly what you were trying to argue it wasn't saying.
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May 21, 2012 16:59
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Missed the email, will send money when I get my next money in.
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May 21, 2012 17:02
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I'll send the money tomorrow. Just found the email under loads of spam.
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No no, everyone, it is fine; I realized that the original author was not quite thinking things through (kind of like ToxicFrog's point); some of the very games he thinks about, like Ultima VI, contain almost the same fundamental party-management (other than in size, which I am certainly on his side for) as the Japanese games. Ultima VI, for example, has a "pool of party members" that you can only have "so many of in your group at a time." I distinctly remember being mad that I could never decide whether to hold off from filling up my party until I reached Seggallion (Knights of Legend fanboy~!) or whether it was better to just have the full host earlier on to make things easier. And every character had their own backstory and interesting things to say, just like in the BioWare or Bethesda games of today, but with less voice acting and fewer lens flares. As Mordaedil pointed out, though, it probably is still the case that designers are more likely to be influenced by Final Fantasy VII, since I would assume that game had at least 10 times the fanbase (and probably more) of the average "Western" CRPG of the time. I mean, it was still a big deal for an RPG to sell 200,000 copies on MS-DOS/Windows, after all.
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Just mailed out order 1 of 86 to MC of Orlando, to test shipping rates and all that jazz. So far so good! Here is my order of operations: 1. Match payments to those who pre-ordered 2. Match addresses from the payments to each order (this is going to take the longest amount of time, BY FAR) 3. Package up each order 4. Mail the US orders 5. Take a gigantic drink of booze 6. Mail the International orders US Goons who have paid should get mailed out by next Wednesday. I am nervous about mailing out of country, as foreign address formats sometimes make absolutely no sense to me. Hopefully I can figure it out, though! (I just want you international guys to know that this is a learning process for me, but I hope to get everything ironed out soon, and the last international order should go out NO LATER than June 18th. Please be patient with me in the mean time.)
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Hey, I'll send the payment tomorrow too - it got caught in gmail's ever-vigilant spam filter. Thanks!
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Quarex posted:As for Iceland, I cannot possibly recommend going there enough. Though Mr. Iceland up there might have a different opinion. Mr./Ms. Iceland. All I have to say is, if you wanna go, go for the nature and extreme sports opportunities. Reykjavík is an interesting town for sure (it's also drat ugly), but it's not a town you can get acquainted with just by visiting over the weekend. Iceland's in such a weird part of the world it actually has 3 distinct climates and is volcanically active, so I'd definitely recommend taking a week to drive the main road around the island, just to see the stark contrasts in the mountains and plant life. RagingBoner posted:(I just want you international guys to know that this is a learning process for me, but I hope to get everything ironed out soon, and the last international order should go out NO LATER than June 18th. Please be patient with me in the mean time.) So long as all the info is there, usually the post offices can take care of the rest. If you're not sure if a particular bit of info is supposed to be there or not, just put it on anyway and hope for the best.
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YourAverageJoe posted:So long as all the info is there, usually the post offices can take care of the rest. If you're not sure if a particular bit of info is supposed to be there or not, just put it on anyway and hope for the best. Seriously. I've had to ship a handful of things over seas and to military addresses. They both appear to be formatted according to the ancient tongue of the eldar gods, but as long you put all the information you have on there the post office can usually figure it out. I was sure I completely cocked it up a couple times, but it still got there. Post office folk are fine folk.
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